The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1870-05-19

paper OF tho 14th instant, justly sum-
mons the peopleIof the State 'tto. grapple
boldly with thesproblem before u.s." to
"work whilst It'll day." 'to clear away
the mists about us" and cause "the dawn
of our new life, to widen into clear and
glorious day." All this is good advice;
but cannot acquiesce in your assump-
ton as to the manner in which it is to be
applied in execution.
Our disease being 7irulent one, and
the patient lying Mt deaths door. ms from
your editorials it may be assumed, you
will admit, it follows that we must not
expect to accomplish too much all at once
With an exhausted patient, not only
medicine, but time, patience and perse-
verance, are essential. And in such cases,
the skill or cure" prescription should
never be resorted to till every other has
been tried. Too much is at stake to
hazard everything upon single election,
and that when the odds is fearfully
against us, to the tune of about 80, 900
majority for our opponents, all of whom,
under the policy you recommend, will
be welded into solid mass Of voters.
You say: "We know now who the radi-
cal nominee for Governor will be- It is
the present incumbent" With oil de-
ference, we would inquire, how do you
know this? Remember how uncertain
are politics. In my humble opinion, you
could not more positively discrcdit your
claim to being o safe counsellor in the
present crisis, than by asserting rs you
have, weeks in advance of the meeting
OF the convention, that any given person
ls Surc of The nomination. But if he is
nominated, or anybody else, by the Re-
publican party, and the June Conven-
tion (of tho opposition) should put for
wardn nomination of its own, the Re.
publican nominees will bo elected in
spite Of evory effort that may bo made
no matter by what name the new party
may be known, nor of whom it may be
composed, nor who may be its nominees
If the opposition party nominate n
ticket, Of course they would vote for it.
That would absorb nearly the whole of
what is ut present the conservative in
fuence of the State. But lot the June
convention frankly declare what it is
useless to deny or attempt to disguise,
that the Republican party are masters of
the sltuation-that they, the opposition,
decline to engage in hopeless contest,
prefer1ing to reserve their influence and
votes to be alsed as occasion, in thei, j,t17-
naent, may justify and make erpediem for
tie good Of The STATE. Do this, and you ut
once have 10000 votes that may be safely
counted by any gubernatorial aspirant of
the Republican party, who will lead Il
conservative wing of TINT party Rest
assured, Gov. Scott is not the only Re-
publican who would like to be Governor;
nor is he the only man whom the party
consider qualified and worthy. If our
case is ns bad as your editorials and tho
generally accepted belief would imply,
any check to ultraism would ut present
be victory for us. And, under this
view. even Il change of our rulers would
benefit us. Nothing more than this can
we accomplish in the coming election;
but this we can do, if we wili-wo can
do this if we will but reserve our sup
port for some conservative Republican,
instead Of throwing it away upon some
fossil representative of dead issues. I'm
der the policy you recommend, there will
not be any incentive to the development
Of conservative element in tho Repnbl-
can party. Under your programme. the
only chance of success to any candidate
for State Office is, in being ultra, aud
ont-Heru;ling Herod. But let the oppo-
sition party, at their convention in June,
have the disintcrestedness, the courage,
the wisdom, to lay the SpoHs of office
upon the altto of country, proclaim them
selves u balance of power party, not seek
ing Office, but seeking only San honest
and economical governments, and they
will become, to radicalism, "tclrible as
an army with banners" The support
of this party would at once become an
object to many now in the Republican
party, who would then see some chance
of standing up successfully for "au Aoaesl
and economical gorcrament, arhicA SA.M
maintain Tie rights IF labor, encourage tic
intluc Of c"pital, uM represent with .G,lclily
and justice uH classes Of our people,"
TO extricatc ourselves from our present
deplorable condition requires moro than
n aspasmodic effort. common sense, rather
than rhetoric-logic, rather than indig-
Acknowledgment, rather than scniimcn!
and ,ctsdom, us 'reN as pluch.
RANK AND FILE.
MIR. EDITOR: Is there not enough
energy among the young men Of Colum-
bia to organize Literary Society? l
make this inquiry, knowing that such
an institution would In fho courco III