The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1869-09-25

The Third Party Movement in Ken.
tutky-s-What SOME ofjtfic Papers say.
st; There areCsou,e attempts being made
ja The South tEto fogm 81 new. Dalitipal
party out ut the conservative elements of
all the other parties. Tie late triumphs
in Virginiai and Tennessee Have given All
impetusbto fths uioveuent and there is
sonel vitality Ait. s. Weis shall not object
to the geody peni Of; all parties uniting
under one common. standard and march
ing in one solid phalanx against the
coih7aon' etemyAthe party in power
bnt we do not see tEa: = is necessary to
under which so many battles have been
fought and won, in order to do this
thing. Perhaps it may become neces-
sary to recognize the forces and
strengthen the weak points along the
-DemoefaticI Line, but we desire to make
: the fighSand wip,,the victory under the
Democratic name. I ..,
:, We are free to confess that the Demo
cratic organization, North and South. is
not in full accord. The situation is very
different, and hence the issues in the
contest are not alike. In the North,
they have q free ballot, aud the Demo
cracy can make the fight on an equal
footing with their radical opponents; and
hence, they oppose the adoption of the
hfteenth amendment, favor reduction
OF the taxes, oppose class legislation, and
contend Tor an equal distribution of the
burdens OF the Government. In the
south, they are making the struggle for
the ballot which has been taken from
them. This is the leading idea with
them, and hence it is all their energies
tend in this direction, and for the pre-
sent they are holding in abeyance the
distinctive issues that go to make up the
canvass in the North. In short time.
We are inclined to believe, these diff.
ferences will be happily adjusted. and
the Democratic party North and South.
disencumbered Of some obsolete ideas.
will march steadily on to victory.
-3H ~ DanoiRe Adcocake.
The persistent effort of our very able
radical contemporary at the capital to
mlsunderstand the position of the Cou-
,ier Is strange. The Courier has never
advocated :'a new party" or the aban-
donment of the old Democracy. In the
article referred to, welcommented upon
the effort OF leading papers to form ''a
new party" for alleged causes, md en-
tered our protest against the ..new
party" part Of their programme, but en-.
couraged the desire Of vitalizipg the De-
mocracy. The impartial reader could
but have seen that our motive was to
consolidate all and every element of
anti-radicalism, in order to the certain
success Of Democratic principles, and
the disintegration and overthrow of the
radical and not the Democratic party.
We demanded a live party-one that can
grapple with. the practical issues of the
day, and give some promise of victory.
Heretofore, when our leaders sought to
expose the radical party, its gross cor
ruptions, its wild expenditures, and ter
rible misnanagement of the Govern
rnent, yoir party, had only to answer us
With the cry Of ".nigger, d; 'rebel. and
such' terms, and our defeat was certain.
It is our desire to relieve the Democratic
party OF any necessity to discuss these
questions-they are dead issues-and
their discussion of no use except to
arouse local prejudices to subserFe the
purposes Of dernagognes In devotion
to the principles OF the Democratic
party, we suffer none to excel US, and in
the very article referred to, used the
strongest lahgnage at our command 20
express this fealty; and as to the neces.
sity OF, ,existance OF d "new party" said,
$50 long as, there Shall be o distinction
between a, honarchial and republican
form of government, that long will there
be Deinocfatic party in spirit if not in
name. "2--Hictman Courier. ID
~. The ,.Stateso,qn has solid column on
the death of the Democracy, and we con-
fess that the wfanglings OF some Demo
cratic papers have given Just cause for
i. outside barbarians, like the Statesman, to
think that the seeds Of death were dis
seminated Throughout the party, But q
more egregious error was never enter
.tained. The Demo ocracy are neither dead
nor -sleepeth, and the differences which
appear among its numbers are super
j, fetal and transitory, while the great car
;, dinal doctrines which bind it together
are. indissoluble. These minor differ
ences, indeed. are the Strongest evidence
Of its vitality. Is the church of Christ in
danger Of dissolution because the editor
Of the Statesman, a bright Christian,
takes Professor ATilligan, another 'disci-
pie, to task for what he thinks hereti-
cal notion in regard to the operation of
the spirit? These lights Of the Christian
church may wrangle their lives away,
and still the church will flourish in ui,-
diminished vigor. Protestants have been