The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1870-02-08
THE REJECTION BEG UN.
Aggressive Measurcs-R n ical Vindic-
tiyeness SatisGed-What the Ultra
Radicals Sny-DnnGer of u Lct-Up to
the Party OrSanization-IIallu
tion OF the North-RcactIon.

A Washington letter Of the 4th instant to
the Baltimore Gazette says:
I havdeakcn some pains ID ascertain the Sta
tins ofmcmbcrs Of the Senate and House upon
the question ofrurther aggressive measures by
the Ratlic;,l leaders and am able to state that
the majority in the House Of Representatives
and Il minority of considerable and increasing
strength in the Senate are disposed, at last, To
pause before takin. another step in the direc-
ton of civil revolution. The negro has been
set at liberty. He has been accorded the bal
lot (whcn millions of whites have been dis
franchiscd3 he has been put In the jury box;
allowed to testify in courts in cases civil and
criminal, where whites alone were concerned;
the children of his race have been provided,
at the public expense, with ample means or
education, and his equality enforced by law in
all public conveyanccS, theatres, houses OF en-
tertainmcnt and public cdiiiccs; and, finally,
lie has been lifted to the highest positions In
the govcrnmcnt-cNcculive and legislative.
Corrcspondingly the whites have been de-
graded.
Itwould be difficult, indeed, for the dominant
party to 90 further on in the direction OF Gle
vutin@ the negro or expressing the white race
Yet it is felt by many astulc Radical leaders
that to pause l0r an instant, in this respcct,
would he death to their organization. Ihls az
gllment (unqlIcstionably sonnd) has lhiis llr
uIuHnCu uOur lllilIy uHN lIiiS o'N',,
served TO swell their Congressional maJ0rlllcS::
But I am now assured, by many in whom
have the utmost condolences, that even the ccr-
tain ACKNOWLEDGMENT of the Republican party
will not induce an effective majority IN Con-
orcss (rvcn as at present organZed) TO follow
Sumner and Butler an inch further in their
road TO inevitable and final ruin.
The negro. whoever may say to the contrary,
has all along been the shcet-anchor OF the Rad
.icil party Upon no other question could it
llavc been made q unit under The lash of New
England The halucnatiOn of the Northern
mind upon this one point Is the most marvel
lous phenomenon the world ever witnessed.
AZ this moment many Northern voters (who
know nothing at all of the race) would not
hesitate to go the length of its dedication.
Hitherto every other question has been made
sllbservient to this one idea. Even hatred OF
secession and vengeance against secessionlsts
owe much, if not all, of their dcm0nacal ma
lgnity to the perfect madness possessing the
popular mind upon this subject, constantly eX-
cited, as it has been, by the lies of purchased
and unscrnpulons press. The end or inc
tether has at last been reached. "Othellos
occupations gone"
No one can exaggerate the importance ol
tic reaction thai has taken place in the past
few days. Freed from the incubus which
weighed so heavily upon members, and from
caucus diclalon, its acknowledged effect, the
great questions of the tariff, currency, taxes,
&c., may now be discussed and voted upon
with respect alone to the interest of the coun-
try ut large. If Western and Southern mein-