The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1869-07-17

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the party views, doctrine &
thrown out from TammaRt on q lle g
rious Fourth" are entitled TO special at
tention, foreshadowing, as they do. the
present position and future course Of the
irrepressibla Democracy. .....
First, then, after solemn, q very sol
emn ode from De Witt Van Buren-and
there is poet among the Van Burens,
as there have been statesmen, politicians,
wits and philosophers o poem
from Van Bureu. calling us to
Look where broken laws, neglected oaths and
shattered States proclaim
The triumph Of the hollow heart, the glory OF
it's shame,
Judge Garvin proceeded to the nomina
ton of Governor Hoffman as the Demo
cratic candidate for President in 1872,
and, OF the same time, defined his plat,
form. The learned Judge, in the course
of his remarks, said: "But the day will
come-when the soldier who now occu-
pies the White House, when his term of
Office shall expire-that we will send to
be President man from the city of New
York. by the aid of the votes of the peo-
pie Of this great country, who will do
honor to that position, and who will de-
mand atonement from England and from
Spain for the terrible outrages which
they have perpetrated upon this coun-
try" all of which was received with en-
H., 90 II, 4
tho ground for Governor Hoffman and
the assembled saohens, another step was
taken touching our domestic affairs in
foreshadowing the Democratic pro-
gramme for 1872.
Senator Stockton, of New Jersey. was
assigned to this important duty, and dis
charged it with the ability of regular
old time Democratic constitutional ex-
FOUNDER. He took the ground that from
the mode adopted by Congress of en-
forcing upon the late rebel States the
condition precedent to the adoption of
the fifteenth constitutional amendment,
establishing universal manhood suffrage
of all colors, the ratification of this
amendment will be null and void, "and
the attempt to enforce it revolution" "
Speaking of the States required by law
to adopt it, Mr.. Stockton said: ssThese
States are deprived of free vote. They
are to be coerced to vote that alters the
constitutions of the United States and
of Now Jersey fundamentally" and "I
pronounce it violence and revolution. "
He further said, that ''the question OF
who votes and who does not vote sinks
into insignificance compared with the
fundamental alteration of our system OF
government which is proposed, and the
fraud and violence Ivy which our home
born liberties are to be wrested from u.s. ~
This is plain and strong speaking; but
where do these opinions of Mr.. Stockton
stop? They carry US back to 1860. They
cover not only the fifteenth amendment,
establishing universal negro suffrage. but
the fourteenth, in reference to civil
rights, the national debt, the rebel debt,
etc., and the thirteenth, abolishing
slavery; for they were all carried by an
enforced ratification upon the unrecon-
structed Southern States. We know,
too, that it was Gen. Frank Blair's let
ter, declaring all these reconstruction
proceedings Unconstitutional, revolu-
tionary, null and void" that killed last
years Tammany Presidential ticket OF
Seymour and Blair from the start And
that ought to be the last OF this ques-
ton.
But there is still another point and in
cident in Mr.. Stockton's speech deserv-
ing of notice. In his reference to a
recent decision of Chief Justice Chase,
leaning towards the Jeffersonian dogma
of State sovereignty. our reporter as
sures us that there was spontaneous
outbreak of applause in Tammany among
the small and the "big Indians, which
was the special incident of the days pro-
ceedings. From this we infer that Mr.
Chase, as strong and thoroughly ac-
ceptable candidate for the Democracy,
has gained hold among the rank and
file of the party which places him to-day
far ahead of all other competitors, not
excepting Governor Hoffman.
Mayor Hall followed the regular orator
of the day, Mr.. Stockton, in one of his
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