Spirit of Jefferson. [volume] (Charles Town, Va. [W. Va.]) 1844-1948, 1869-07-27
WENDELL PHILLIPS DIsSATIS-
FLED.

has ever been from six to twelve months in
advance, cutting out and stitching up work
for his party. He is by no means pleased
with the result of the late election in Viz
GINA, and takes advantage of it to administer
o few words of wholesome advice to our per-
ambulating President Heis willing, he says,
to try Grant for six months, having accorded
to Johnson an equal opportunity to redeem
himself. He is determined, however, not to
keep silent, and warns Ulysses that if he
expects favor at his hands he must change
his course. Here is tho style in which he
lectures the President:
We gave johnson six months trial. and are
willing to wait as long for Grant We mean,
therefore, to express now only our serious
fears, not our settled distrust. When Grant,
SO absurdly and without consultation, flung
an administration at the country, we trembled
at such proof OF his fitness for the great place.
And every hours experience with that adj
ninistraton has increased our fears. What
we demand Of the timid aud thOughtless men
who made mere camp captain our President,
is that they save us FROM the consequences of
their mistake by surrounding him with men
who comprehend the hour and are brave
enough to meet it. Gen. Grant has all the
physical courage that the Virginia campaign
of 1865 demanded. He has shown himself
too weak and irresolute to conduct the fIr-
GINA campaign of go. 4 soldiers courage
is one thing. General Grant has it. a states
mau's courage is q totally distinct quality
Hitherto Grant has given no evidence of
possessing it. In the camp one Of his chief
merits was that he knew how TO choose his
agents admirably In civil affairs he has
blundered IN his choice like child
Until Georgia admits colored men to their
Legislative seats, Fill every other office in the
State with blacks, to make the rebels under
stand the government and keep the balance
even. Throw the whole weight Of the National
Government into the scale in Tennessee, Mis-
si,sppi and Texas which will give loyal men
the rue-Ioya men sustained by education,
political rights, and by business SO tostered
and protected that it will remodel the State.
The nation gropes and feels round for a
government-and grasps only air. Mr. Pres
show your hand. Rebeldom is doing great
things illegally. Your administration is doing
nothing, strictly according to law.
The pilot who sleeps at his helm is as guilty
as he who deliberately runs tho ship upon
Gibraltar. The blood of the murdered loyalists
Of Georgia is on the skirts Of the administra-
ton. | would rather be Lee at Appomattox
no, not Lee, the executioner and assassin Of
Libby prison-be any knave rather than Lee
but would rather be Pemberton, surren-
deriag at Nicksburg, than Grant successfully
dctied at the White House.
tI;pLo iS
evident that Wendell is seriously alarmed for
the perpetuity Of his party. Although he
has given Grant six months grace, he knows
in his heart that he will never toe his mark,
and that despite all that may he done the
South will, by force of circumstances, in the
very order of things, be free from Radical
rule and tyranny. The material progress of
the country, the rapid recuperation of the
Southern States, the fast-fading influence
and power of New England, and the wonder
full growth Of the West, promising in the near
future to give to that section the preponder-
ance Of POLITICAL power-all these great agen-
cies are at work in the emancipation of the
still subject States. Phillips may scod and
rant and fumo, but he has now to deal with
the inevitable and his power for evil is at an
end. In other words Radicaism is played
out, aud the nomination Of Grant was an alb
solute necessity to postpone the day Of dis
solution of doomed party. OF what use is
it to talk of Grants physical courage in face
of the fact that the man is, as Andrew John
son said, both morally and intellectually
coward. He has already swamped his party
in Pennsylvania and New York, and Ohio in
the coming fall elections will pronounce de-
c;sively against his administration by again
returning to the Democratic fold. The a6>
vice given by Phillips as to Georgia will only
hasten the catastrophe. The great majority
Of the Northern people are sick of the negro,
and his proposal to hand over every other of,
fee in the State, will have its full effect on
public opinion in that section. 1t won't do,
Wendell. Yourself and your party have at
last reached the end Of your tether, and all
your fnespun theories, all your shrewdly .arFan-
ged plans will come to uaught. Rebellion"
you say, lis doing great things Illegally
We are glad to hear it, and on such good au
thority, but there is much more to be done
before the old spirit of treason" which
wrested the colonies from the mother country,
again trumphs. Instead of putting black
nigGers into power, we have to drive white
niggers from Office. We have to undo much
of the dcvilish work of the last eight years.