The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1870-12-21
COLUMBIAN s. e G.
Wednesday Morning; December 81. 10
Political Rats.

Political Rats.
There are still some desperate politi
cal rats DESERVING the sinking ship oi
Radicalism and looking about for safe
and dry footing in ''new party" based
on one of the recognized principles OF
the Democratic party, to wit: Revenue
Beform," or free trade. The nature OF
the new party was we'll defined. as one
in which the ''bursted" Radicals were to
furnish the candidates and tho Demo.
Gratis the voters. Democrats had no oc-
>casion to go into any such equitable ar-
rangement as this, in order to give ,leir
support to free trade, fer that VII, nd
always has been fighting plank in tueir
own platform, nor were they tempted to
dt by the dosire to crafty the Logans,
Trnmhn!!s, et a., who were looking for
soft place to fall upon out of the ''gone
up" Radical balloon. The movement
has proved failure. We give some ex-
tracts, from various Democratic sources,
to show how tho proposition is received
in Democratic circles. The st. Louis
Republican, one of the ablest Democratic
papers in the West, says:
s.No Democrat is to bo deceived by
the talk in Republican journals about u
Reorganization OF parties. There is
no reason for reorganization amongst
Democrats; there is no schism in their
party; there are no differences in their
councils. They arc unit against pro-
t3ective tariffs, Acknowledgement, military
domination IN the South, Federal iuva-
sion of the legitimate domain Of the
States, land grunts to chartered corpora
tions. and Congressional usurpations Of
the rights of the judiciary. On these
and all other questions of national inter
est. Democrats are heartily agreed.
Such is the voice and the sentiment of
the West. The very intelligent Wash
ington correspondent of the Baltimore
Gazette, in giving history of this new
movement to completely mongrelize the
Democratic party, says:
II give this news because it is mpor-
tant, and because I believe it is impor-
tant the Democratic party should be
posted in regard to the manmnvres now
going on here to force it upon plat
form, in the coming election for Presi-
dent, which shall ignore everything con-
uected with the Radical legislation in
Congress, by which large proportion
of the citizens of the country have been
tiisfrauchised, humiliated, disgraced.
The issue upon which the States of
Maryland, Delaware, Kentucky, Missou-
ri, land why not add Florida, Alabama,
Arkansas, North Carolina, Indiana, etc. p
were triumphantly carried in the recent
'election-that this is white mans Co.
vernment, and that it must bo ruled by
white men-is to be ignored"
Referring to these and similar expires
aions from the Democratic press all over
Fthe country, the New York D.y Book
says:
''This is undoubtedly the milk in the
cocoanut of the new party movement.
1t is clearly forcseen thnt the business of
negro voting is doomed Mt no distant
day, and it is to save this darling little
pet OF mongrelism that a new party is
desired, which shall break the now pret-
ty solid front of the Democratic party
on this subject Thus fur the number Of
mongrel politicians who have shown
hand i'll the cunning dodge does not
amount to half-a-dozen, all told; and
the number of that stripe who could be
brought into it would not amount to one
sor every Thousand of true Democrats
who would refuse to 60 to the polls to
join in such an Infamous bargain to
prop one of the crumbling pillars of
mongrclism."
ST. DoMINGo.-The Washington cor
respondent of the New York Herald
says:
'"The friends OF the st. Domingo &C.
QUESTION are not pleased with the re-
election of Senator Robertson, of South
Carolina, whose hostility to the ratifioa-