The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1870-02-03
"PAR7YES IN VIRGINIA.


paper takes tho view already ssggested
in these columns, to wit: that the issue
ID the political field must, after oil, be
narrowed down to a contest between the
radical and the Democratic party. 1t
expresses the opinion that the Demo
cratic party will control that State, and
states that it is absolutely certain that
the Democratic party will reflect the
temper of at least three-fourths of the
whites of tho State. On the subject OF
dissemination with the radical party, the
Enquirer says:
cit would be simply impossible for
any respectable number of the whites of
Virginia to fraternize with the radical
party. That would imply that the peo-
pie of Virginia were incapable of appre-
ciating those insults and injuries which
ordinarily work men up to the fercest
resentment. 1t would imply either that,
as people, we had attained such sub
limated standard Of christianity as to
lick the heavy boot which had stamped
upon our PROSTATE bodies, or that we
possessed such an internal depravity of
nature that we could accept u money
Sohl POhonuAOb AOk thO pun uhu hO ohoiuO
which we have suffered.
"The very pith and marrow of the Re-
publican party is its conquest Of tie South.
Its brief history is the history of the
crusade of the past ten years TO break
the power of the South, and to run the
plough share over our demolishe ed institu-
tions You take tho heart out of Repub.
licanism or radicalism when you elimi-
nate the war upon the South-thc con-
fict in the Wilderness-.the bloody
heights of Gettysburg fall Of
Vicksburg--the defeat at Atlanta-the
flight from Petersburg-the Emancipa-
tion Proclamation-the 18th amendment
to the Federal Constitution-the 14th
amendment-the Sherman-Shellabarge
bill--the partition of Virginia--the
Bayne- U Underwood Convention-the rule
of Terry and Canby-the career of
Butler--tho Drake Amendments--thc
| iron-clad oath-the sweeping rem oval of
| all our State oflicers-the story of Ten
| nessec-the broken faith with Georgia
the plundcr of North and South Caro-
lina-the treatment of Mississippi with
her Senator ReveD-and the awful, pitia-
bic humiliation of the Southern States
of negro legislat say nothing OF
the Jurnings, the pilldgc, the derastaion
of the wnr-tho march of Sherman
and the ride of Sheridan. This is an
cpitome of tho history Of the Republican
party Outside of that they may have
run up an enormous debt-they may
have destroyed the national shipping
they may have doubled the prices Of the
nccessaries of life-they may have wrung
in one year from Virginia alone nearly
$3, OOO,O 900 on her tobacco; but it is the
| arar-record and the record
of the Republican party that constitutes
nine-tcnths of its biography. 1t is this
war record and this reconstruction record
that stands out in any conception of the
party just rs the Inquisition, aud the
war in the Low Countries, and the Duke
of Alva are the chief images III any
idea We have OF Philip the Second of
Spain.
"Obviously then, again, there is some
thing absolutely shocking in one of us
hero taking up Republicanism Us fiiM.
It would be as if the family of poor
Mumforl should become the greatest
admirers of Gen. Butler. 1t would be as
ii the women of New Orleans had stepped
forward to WOO his foul embraces 1t
murdered lords requiem, by the grim
and CORY hunchback.
"Tho proposition is, that re, sitting
amid the smoking ruins of our homes,
and by the fallen columns and crumbling
arches of our temples, shall raise the
standard Of our invaders and conquerors,
and rebuild our dwelling-places, chaunt-
ing Meir songs of triumph, and clanking
our Chains to the airs they taught us.
ut is our opinion. that if we 'cW sing
their songs. and wear their livery, they
will pay us fair wages. But we believe
that the people of Virginia will spurn
their bribes, and work out of their diff
culties without compromising their inte-
grity-without doing anything that will
flush their faces with shame, when it is
remembered.
"Are there any of the gallant Wings
of Virginia who have such bitter memo
ries of the 0ld-time contests with the De-
mocratic party as that they would rather
band themselves with the negroes of the
State and cut loose from the whites, than
to see the Republican party sustain de-
feat at the hands of the Democrats? who
Suould ro tb ar ap1iat I1n6ar the cOlora Of