The Camden journal. [volume] (Camden, S.C.) 1866-1891, 1871-03-23

oE eFbn citizen, remain WILD sshe II
hi6hesti regard, your obedieut serfads I
", ~ lzlTsJ ROBERTSON ss1
To Messtseg Il: Kershaw, NJ. C:Bdt-
Ter, H: Rion, 8. MeGewan.
,..a TILE CAMPAIGN OF 1879:
Wendell Phillips Acknowledges
that a Democrstie President is
Virtually Elected = -sS'. ~ I
A blow sometimes sstuns dfaakasd:
into sobttiety. Possibly the i1snitsof-
fered and the peril brought to the he:
publican party by the removal kof Dir.
Sumner may. Have this effect ons the.
nation Wsensayssee loYut;men 6fthe
+ North rally To the defenee OF ths Union.
sIfsHot; then there is butopething
for Congress- to detinsor der to signthe'4
death. warrant; 6f the Republican party,J
anu possibly ofthei Onion. sLesC Censs
| eress now tya ADJOURN without authorizing
martial law OF the: South. toonfb the
Ku.KluI, and they have assnred the
election of a Democrat to the Presden-
cy. Indeed, $ the mood aof w ashington
iu regard 10 tile anarchy of tho sohths
is such that ~saconsidef Ithe:mafter
about settled. The 'thirtysshree@ Re-
! publicans who last week removed :Ms.;
Sunni from his post releoted5a Demo.
cratic President f1r 1871 whether
| Grant wiif consent toiu6 onsa Democra.
ticticket IS Of scourseuBeeftaiu Probably
| he does not himself know yetei but
eyidcntly Butlers bill on the Ku- kaux
| is not 1iksly TO- becope ,aslaws The,
same subserviency thatsate dirtin tho
| Sumner matter staBds7ready TO defeat
that. Any substitute that sends South
ern 2assassins o2bc'. tried by.a jury of
fellow. .assassins is d mockery. Nothing
short of shooting half b dozen Soathern;
miliionaries atthe4druinhead: will awe
the KuK Kluxiin into submission. There
seems 10 likelihood Of such vigor Ell,
ther in CUngrcss oratthe White House:
| The SaGto Domingo Sollarou Senatorial
4 inecks shows that they beIengca to a
man who has entered on the coufse
where. Andrew johnson perishedb How
| fat he intends to'adgance on thatpath-
4 way be does not himself now knew
Bntlths descent is fatally seasy. We
4 did not expect much from sG neral
I Grant Bdt'when ha 40 unexpectedly
4 arose to The level Of statesmanshp i1
the matter of the fifteenth amend ament
Land OF The Indians, We smothered:slI
our doubts and gave him 4hrge corr
dence. The last few months, capped
] BY this insolent interference With Com
rtercss, reveals The man. ;Wepersisted
III believing thatabls. Motley was fsf
moved Tor adequate cause until Mr..
Secretary Fish s clumsy letter dispellsd
4 the illusion. That act,; seen 'iBthe
light efthis attack on Mr.. Sumnerywas
evidently dictated simply and solely BY
spite toward the great Massachusetts
senator. James the First, said, when
he came to London TO mount his sihrone
and found only .blundcring. oficinls,
"4hey have given ME secretary who
cganot write, ada a speaker who cannot
speak" Grant is understood tosbe IN
tile same afflictioD: And the Naasachu-
sctts renegade who helped Mr.. Nsi, 10
| his .bodsh rhetoric did his woik so
poorly that he betrayed the secret, and
let the world scethas, alters months
iucubstioh, ashe department eoaidunot
hatch a decent excise. Just as that
discreditable act was floating away into
oblivion CONES this usurpationj which
puts the present Executive Into the
coinpaBytof Jaoksen's bank intrigues
and JOHNSON attack on Stanton. The
| revelation it makes Of the scrvility Of
the Senate is 'dishcartehing to all lovers
Of free governments Every man knows
that each senator who voted for Mr.
Sumner 8 removal did so solHiy because
tho President 'liad.let lii,aiubderstaBd
that only on tliatS condition could he
| hope to- have any yinfueneer at the des
partments. In securing Office for his
friends We'tell only whatsis an open
secret at Washington. PoHticians1there,
] attitudiuiying on the floors of Congress,
use words In a PickWickiaa fsense:an
varnish base acts&ith 'eonety phrases
But itzis fit the people should knowthe
| plain truth. The President has bought
| of his opponents by refusing winter
| toflisten, inSthe matter offappeiutments,
to Tho recommendation Of any member
of Congress who voted with Mr. Sum. ;.
| ner. seThe only, excuse individual Con-
gressmea make for changing theirssotes
is that to be ignored atthe departments,
when asking offices for their supporters,
is death to their political hopes. If
Santo Domipgo is annexed, Grant se-
cures is threats and bribes. The
| poorest memory will need bptlittlol lef.
fort to ! reca1 the very embassy that
beughtadKeystons vote, the judgeship
whiehtswoua Wolveriue,f aud the her
ring post nthat7 made anothersepator
put; on theiD domingo collar. Ofcourse,
when party becomes merely q t'ring"
to divide, the spoils ititouches its down.
fall. Itis sadito think chat the power
ofa great party should have fallen into
fket hands Of such low, meroepary sol,