The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1870-04-21
COLUMBIA, S. g.
Thursdty morning. April 81, 1870.
Tho Reviewer Revicwed---Tho Prcss
Confsronce--Nos. 3 und 4.

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Confsroncc--Nos. 3 und 4. =
In article No, 3, the author OF the re-
view objects to our admission of political
rights to the colored man, because, as
be holds, social equality flows therefrom.
We do not assent to this proposition.
That the tendency may exist, we do not
deny. But weihold. that social equality
does not necessarily follow. In oil coun-
tries and amongst oil classes, it is taste
that regulates social equality and indi-
vidualt association. We acknowledge
that whites and blacks stand nike before
the august tribunal Of Goa. The white
man md the colored man may commune
together, and side by side engage in re-
liglous rites, and yet, with perfect con-
sistency and in Christian charity, after
leaving the church, each seeks those hu-
man associations that nre mutually agree
able. Sos may white aud black stand
equal before country, side by side vote.
side by side legislate, and still it does
not follow, no moro in o political than
in q religious way, That. social equality
must: follow from. political and legal
equality at s:l, i5}l;i i;j}:i.''
God. in his providence, made men Of
different races. The white man and the
negro are of different races. Let each
preserve,the integrity of his race. We
iars afkaSa gratihed tog5And q man tena-
nsiof' his :racelH Weaheard, Senator
Beverly Nash say once or saw that he
onde wrote-.s.that he was proud OF the
blood ofsthe negro that flowed in his
veins it was dearer to him than all
the blood of all.the Howards- y We ad-
inired this in Nash. Let him entertain
the sentiment. It will make him better
and purer because of his faith And in
this, he,rises head and shoulders above
Messrs. tRainey and Wimbush, brother
Senators; ;iwho, according to Representa-
tive Jones, IRE .'colored folks, in South
CarolinnSbut Spaniards in Washington
Rainey and Wim6ush here-but there,
..'Don Rodrigo" and "Don Alphonso. "
And let the white man also be proud Of
his white blood. Let him never forget
his race. Let each be what God made him,
and become what he can make himself.
It is the rivalry of races and the pride of
nationalities that make up the incentives
to human rivalry. In the aggregate, the
progress of humanity is accelerated. and
the ways of God are vindicated to man.
It is thus that we answer the reviewer
of the press resolutions, in his third pro-
position.
In article No. 1, the reviewer of the
press conference resolutions asks what
is meant by subjecting the right of the
colored man to Office to the test of ''per-
sonal qualification and fitness" This
we take it, is easily answered. 1t means
that if we freely admit that we must no
longer deny the claims of the colored
I: man to Office because Of his color, then,
also, we must insist that because of his
color, lie is not to be exempt from the
usual tests Of personal qualification and
fitness" This is but fair. If there be
few colored men qualified to hold Office,
then they should not be elevated to Of
fees that they are not competent to fill.
If Mr.. Justice Wright and Mr.. Codifer
Whipper, US instanced by the reviewer,
have been raised to positions for which
they are untitled, this shows that in those
cases, ut least, premium was set upon
their color. but there is involved no dis.
count upon the fair compromise indicated
in the resolutions of tho conference.
Reasonable View.
a Democratic newspaper, published at
Concord, New Hampshire, and called
The People, takes a sensible view of the