The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1869-03-16
IFrom the Anti-slavery STANDARD,

We have felt and said that the course of
General Grant was open to grave criticism.
always allowing that he meant all he said and
would do all he promised. We propose the
same rule in time to come. We shall take his
words ns earnestly meant, and we shall wait for
action before we critlcIse him IN his new Office
Thus far we have only thanks to give him. For
three things in his inaugural we desire to give
him credit. With full heart and most earnest
", we thank him for his frank, prompt and
hearty Endorsement Of the constitutional
amendment. The words in which he refers to
it show that his heart is in he right place and
1t emancipation made Lincoln the slaves Presi-
dent these precious and statesmenllke words
make Grant the aegro's President. We hail
With similar feeling his assertion that his policy
him cover the Indian with this shield and give
HIM, for the present at least, o department. in
the Cabinet which shall watch his rights, aud
President Grant will have met these two great
problems OF race with q brave nnd wise as
woll as just statesmanshlp.
The third pledge Of his inaugural we hail is
execution of law. We trust that hel his words
mean literally all they say, and only wish they
had been more decisive aud unequivocal. Our
complaint OF Grant hitherto has been that he
held power without using 1t; that he has sat
and seen Union men murdered unavenged.
Some of his friends excused him on the ground
that President johnson crippled the general.
At last the Ku-Klux have left the White House.
Those midnight towards need only half o dog
en- summary executions in as many States to
disappear forever. If we were in the Senate
we would confirm no man for any Office from
any Southern State, Kentucky included lnot
even Holt), till life was as safe there as in Yer
mont. shoot and hang first; nominate and
confirm afterward.
gural contains about public credit and payment
N gold. But there is debt just as sacred as
the bonds the debt we owe to the Southern
10y aiist. black and " hite. This debt is their
foNt nNn$n ~slL
ls entitled to precedence this comes first in
obligation and importance. This is to be paid
IN blood long before the other ls paid in ooin.
these other creditors every hour Of danger and
agony cut short is an ndescrbable gain. The
governments faith with the bondnelder has
never been broken. Toward this otA r credi-
to! tor the government has been perjured and
faithiess for four bitter years. We beseech
Grant to send men South whose very names
shall mean vengeance, deep. territle, and most
ors and paltering officials, and give us the
peace" which is sure to follow the drawn
sword in the hands of prompt honest man.
Ihe bondhoider paid will give us credit to
Promptly paid will render another rebellion
impossible. 1t will q ,od the South with oap1-
tel and bralns, the two enemies against, which
ehe rebeiled. and which her maduess and
Johnson's nave been striving to get along
without. ldSia J. el
Copgress cannot reconstruct the Eouth-law
eau. safety TOR mon and money Tll. Such g.
man as Butler IN New Orleans is worth now
moro than mule load OF laws. Hang twenty
assssslns in every Southern capital slx Aeu.s
afeer th0y are arrested, and you will empty half
the bank vaults OF Christendom into the South:
You will light up all its torges and crowd it's
exchanges with business men. This is the
way, sodlsr Of the Wilderness, to '.hammer'
the rebellion to pieces. Make your vengeance
SO swift, sure and terrible that the mere name
of "Unioa mau" may be- as ample projection
even on the Dol NOrtc ID that of o Roman
citlHon" was to St. Paul at Jerusalem. !.
The Cabinet gives no Indication Of the Presi-
dents plans 1t rather shows that he mas none.
for 1T means nothing. Massachusetts, furu1sh-
es nll the hrSt-rate brains it contains.
Thomas Campbell made q selection from Che
English poets. ON the piau Of excuding every
plece any other previous compiler had taken.
O9 course, they. the arat comsrs, had, taken
sne best. and aocording!y q! oa,ppbeirs p,eces
are second-rate. Grants Cabinet follows this
copy. He exc cudes every one that anybody
ever thought Of. OF course he takes the teav-
ings: But this only means that the people are,
as hitherto, to do the work. N. I'd h sI
Press the Constitutional amendment. Push
the Executive for strong arm Of resoiute law
throughout the South. II the South loves
b ood, let ner sup tuil Oft. only let 1t be the
blood Of assasslns., Sheath no sword un I'll hon
est Union men, black and white, native and
foreign, aione, and in companies, on lonely
pralrleS and in clty streets, SIT each under his
own yiue and Ag tree--the stars and str pes
with none to moleSt or mako them afraid.
'f WNNDEIII, PHILLIPS.