The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1870-07-10
Ge)IFd JM BI AZ, S. 20.
Sunday Morning, July 10. 1870.
Tho Executive Committees Address
Points in Connection Thcrewiti.

As. respects the points made in the
address of the Executive Committee
of the Union Reform party, on the
extravaganza and corruption Of our
State regime, on the question OF suf-
frage, and on the duty of our people
to support the nominees of the late
convention, we give our assent. Fur
ther, in this connection, it is due to our
selves to declare that now, as ever. we
maintain that the reconstruction Acts of
Congress acre Unconstitutional and
revolutionary" and an outrage upon the
white people Of che South. We denounced
them then. and we denounce them now,
not because they secured the negro in
his freedom, but because they were de-
nial of the rights and showing to which
the whites we're, entitled. We accept
With, cheerful acquiesoence the suffrage
fixed by law; bnt we maintain that uni
versal amnesty ought to go with it, and
that the saving and conserving principle
OF. proportional representation should as
soon as possible be linked with univer-
Hal suffrage from one end Of this broad
land to the other. Nor do we regard the
great principle of local self-gouernment as
q matter to be abandoned in this country.
We do not accept tile consolidation of
the government. Serious and grievous
wounds have been inflicted upon the
government of this country by the hands
of a ruthless party; but it does not de-
volye upon us to surrender vital prin-
ciple of self-government. 1t has been
we'll said, as respects the policy of the
South: "With her it was grand and
mighty policy to spread abroad over the
earth the great leading principles of the
Constitution of the United States. al
general interests, under one common 60
Uernnaent, ana all local or sectional inte-
rests aOids The States or sections TO qchom
they belonged" This is still the policy OF
the country-this is still the suggestion
of broad statesmanship-this now,
more than ever, is essential to the peace
and liberty Of the numerous States that
compose the American Union. Whilst,
therefore, we do favor the reform move
ment in this State, and in good faith de-
sire to see carried out the propositions
contained in the platform, we never
shall lose sight of those essential and
vital elements that enter into our politi-
cal creed. We are ready to meet the
future, but we cherish all that is valua-
bic and honorable in the past. We are
for progress, but we demand that it be
genuine and steady.
We accept the general suffrage forced
upon US, but we desire it linked with
general amnesty and proportional rep
resentation. We advise obedience to
the laws of the land, but we shall seek
to right what we deem wrong-to up
hold the truth and strike down the
wrong. We ackno Wedge that the rights
of the States have over and over again
been leveled in the dust, but we hold
that local self-government is an immor-
tai principle and cannot be annihilated,
and we contend that this is govern
ment where the executive, the legisla-
tive and the judicial ought to be co-equal
and coordinate departments.
We know that, the South has in the
past maintained State rights with logic
and rhetoric. but we contend that it
must henceforth be done with the wea-
pom of industrial agencies.
And whilst we advise our people, in
good faith and on high. open grounds, to
press this reform movement to it's best
results and to victorious end, at the
same time we urge them not to close
their eyes to the great work of fostering
industry and encouraging immigration.
We must put in play triune force. We
must win the State from the plunderer
and pilferer, must press the work of &C.
tive industry, and we must clear the
way for the streams of Northern and
European immigration.
IMMIGRATION Abiding to the efforts
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