The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1869-09-03


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john Qpipg Adams speech, sdaepti6E
The De6ocrstic nominat tion Tor Goyernas
of siassachdsetts: ~ Il,
Il DEAD ISSUES. S.
And first OF all. upon matters of nd;
tional policies. although they do not
enter this debate, yet it is proper for us
to propose what wa deem the wisest
course to steer. In my judment, our
defeat in the last election substantially
settled the reconstruction and negro
suffrage controversy-much as we may
dislike the decision. There is no way
short of revolution by which it can be
reversed certainly for fonr-and, consi-
deriDg the complexion of the Senate of
the United States, now the effective go
vernment OF the country-probably not
for ten years, at lenst. This insures, at
any rate. fair trial of universal, unqua.
lifted suffrage at the South; and even
when its failure is asoestained, it is pro-
bable that oil moderate mon will agree
that no sweeping hessures of disfran-
chisement would be expediept. The
barbarian ballot then should be regarded
by wise party as no longer legitimate
subject Of discuss:cn. II has passed
from the realm of debatable questions,
and should not be cihssed In the cate
CORY OF facts. Arguments for and
against its adoption were admissible last
autumn; but now they arc ont OF place.
We cannot advocate or help it. We
must accept it as oEs of the elements in
the profile offered for our solution, and
address ourselves to that as affected by
this inseparable modification. %
THE COURSE OF TRUE WISDOM
AS things actually stand to-day, what
measures will best serve the general vel
fare? This, gentlemen, with great defer
ence to difference Of opinion, seems to
me the only course open to lis. To act
otherwise would resemble the wisdom of
a general who was beaten in battle
which he had joined, in order to cover
certain points should, after the victori-
GUS passage OF his opponents and occu-
patton of the disputed territory, rally
his army anew, on the same battlefield,
and there fight m imaginary foe, while
he leaves all behind him to the unop-
posed progress of his antagonist Let
us leave such strategists to bang off their
big guns at empty woods aud waste their
ammunition upon the debris of battle
fields, while We press on to assume q
new position full in tho enemy's front,
where, when We have restored our lines
and reunited our ranks, successful bat
tie may yet be fought and redeeming
victory won. In this spirit, we would
soy to our former fellow citizens in the
excluded provinces: Come into the
Union; stand not upon the order of
your coming, but come at once; when
you are in, and we can act as fellow -citi-
zens once more, we will meet together
and consult upon future measures. -
This, gentlemen, in brief. is the spirit
which, as it seems to me, should animate
our action upon past issues; for the pre-
sent and the future are very important
in these days, and will allow us scant
time even to celebrate the funeral rites
over our dead past. Eternal activity is
the price of party life, and the road be-
hind is strewn with carcases of tho fac
tions which could not see that in politics
dead princip pie is mere prejudice,
tion upon natural rights or wrongs,
"hAtC VI OIhChs 1CuhlC VI OLlltT-
wise. no longer delights people that is
being gradually taxed out of house and
home. The man who finds it daily more
difficult to find his children bread, will
relax his anguish that the negro has a
vote; the most passionate lover of his
colored kind may recognize fellow
creature in Southern planter, if they
both agree that the price of coal is an
outrage, the duty on iron swindle, and
the tariff nn abomination to be abolished
In truth, it is high time that, after some
twenty years of refreshing season for
the national soul, we should take short
term of attention to the public body
which needs it badly enough.
To BE EDUCATED AS A JOURNALIST. -
We learn that the Faculty of Washington
College, Virginia, of which General Lee
is President. has determined to give free
education at that institution to number
of young men, who intend adopting the
profession of journalism. Every Typo
graphical Union in the South will be al