The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1870-03-18
COLUMBIA, S. c..
Tuesday Morning. March 1S. 1870.
A General Anti. i.RaaicaI Movement Pro-
posed.

A General Anti. Radical Movement Pro-
posed.
At the anti-radical press conference,
held in this oity on the 10th inst, the
following resolutions were unanimously
adopted:
1. Resolued, That this conference re-
cognizes the legal right of all citizens of
the State, irrespective of color, to suf-
frage.
2. Resolred. That this conference re-
cognizes the legal right of all the citi-
zens of the State, irrespective of color
or former condition, to Office, subject
alone to personal qualification and
fitness
8. Resolued, That, in the judgment of
this conference, q convention of the peo-
pie of the State, opposed to radicalism
and in favor of good and honest 90
vernment, should be held in the city of
Columbia, at some convenient time, for
the purpose of nominating q State
ticket, which, while assuring equal and
exact justice to all, will afford some de-
gree of security, prosperity, and good
government.
4. ResolUed, That this conference re-
specially suggest to the people of the
State Wednesday, the 18th of June
ensuing, as suitable time for holding
said convention.
1t will be seen that the editorial con-
ference undertake neither to make plat
form nor to unmake one. The resolutions
express the sense of the conference. It
is believed that they will meet with the
approval of all anti-radicalists in the
State, including Democrats and Re-
publicans, whites and blacks-in fine, of
all opposed to the misrule, corruption
and ineficiency of the present regime.
The conference also invite convention
to be held in this city on the 18th June
next. We have expressed the opinion
that later period would be wiser, but
for controlling reasons, we believe the
time suggested the proper period, and
hope that the proposition for the con-
vention, as we'll as the time selected. may
be regarded acceptable.
AS respects the formal acknowledge
ment of the colored mans status, we
presume that there can be but one
opinion with wise and progressive men.
When in the convention of April, 1868.
the colored man was recognized as a
member of the body polite, we took
that ground of which our present ac-
acknowledgement is the logical sequence.
This acknowledgment we have already
made in these columns, and we are
pleased to find them concurred in by the
press conference. It is our manifest
duty to utilize, to recognize and to ele-
vate the negro labor as we'll as the negro
vote. We need the one for our material
progress and the other to help on our
political reforms South Carolina is oc-
cupied by two races. Whilst, in our
judgment, we should by all means en-
courage white accessions to our popula-
tion by liberal encouragement of
settlers from Europe and the North, it
is also our policy to adjust with harmony
and fairness the relations between the
white and black man living within our
State borders.
AS DEMOCRATIC JOURNAL, we concur
in the propositions of the conference,
and we do invite and urge in the ap-
prosching State canvass generous and
general rally in behalf of good, honest
and economical government in South
Carolina. The Augean stables of the
State absolutely reek with corruption.
1t is our duty to turn the waters in and
to cleanse them out. And this is the
duty OF our people and of all our peo-
pie without regard to party preferences
or associations, and without regard to
race.
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