The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1871-03-18
THE cAMeA1aN OF 1879.
Wendell PhkIlips Acknowledges that n
Democratic President is Virtually
Elected.

wendell Phillips in thlS weeks Satfonal stand
A blow sometimes stuns drunksrq into So
hfiety. Possibly dhe insult offered and the
peril brought t6tbe Republican party by the
removal Of Mr. s,rrpner may have this effect
on tfse nation NE may see the loyal men, CT
the North rally to the defence Of the Unlo1.
If not, there. ls:but one ling more for
Congress to do in order 10 sign the death war
rant OF the Republican party, and possihlysot
the Union. Let Congress now adjourn with
out authorizing martial law ct the South to
cutt the Ku-Klux, and they have assured the
election of Democrat 10 the Presidency,
Indeed, the mood of Washington Ia regard
TO the anarchy OF the South Is. sach
that we consfrfer- the matter about set
tfed. 7.-The thirty-shrea Republicans who last
week removed Mr. Sumner from his post elect
ed a Democratic President for 1872. Whether
Grant will consent to run on q Democratic
ticket y of course uneertai4. Probably he
tdoes not himself know Yet But evidently
Butler,s bill oBthe Ku-Klux is not Rksly to be-
come law. The same suhseryiency that ate
dirt in-the Sumner matter stands ready TO de-
feat that. Any substitute that sends Southern
as.assins to be tried by jury Of fellow-assas-
sins il o mockery. Nothing short Of shooting
half q, dozen Southern millionaires at the DRUM
head Will. awe the Ku-Klux into submission.
There seems no likelihood Of such vlgor either
in-Congress or at the White House. The Sauto
Domingo collar on Senatorial necks shows
that they belong TO man whe has entered on
the eour1e where Andrew johnson ,perished.
How far he intends to aavauce on that path
way he does not himself now know. But the
descent is fatally easy. We did. not expect
much from General Grant. BUT when he 80
unexpectedly arose to the level Of statesman
ship In the matter of the fifteenth amend
mert and of the Indians, we smothered
all our doubts and gave hit large con
fidence. The last iew months, capped oy
this insolent interference with Congress, re-
veals the man. We persisted in believing that
Mr. Motley was removed for adequate cause
until Mr.. Secretary Fish's chrmsy letter dis
PEELED the illusion. That act, seen IN the
hight of this attack on Mr.. Sumner was evil
IDENTIFY dictated simply and solely by spite TO-
ward the great Massachusetts senator. James
the First said, when he came to London to
mount bis. throne and found only laundering
officials, "they have given me secretary VINO
cannot write, and speaker who cannot
speak," Grant is understood to be In the. same
affaictfoD And the Massschusetts renegade
who helped Mr.. Fish to his .bogish rhetoric did
his work 80 poorly thar he betrayed the secret.
and let the world see thar, after six months
incubation. the department could not hatch o
decent excuse. Just as that discredta01e act
was floating away into obliyen comes TINS
usurpation. which puts The present Executive
Into the company Of Jacksons BANK intrlgues
and Joiinson's attack on Stanton. The reveia-
tion it makes OF the serVillty OF me senate Is
| disheartening to all lovers of free government:
Every msn knows that each senatOr'who voted
for Mr. Summers removal did SO solely because
tire President had let him: understand thai only
on that condition could he hope to have any
influence at the departments IN securing ONCE
iof his friends. We tell only what Is an open
secreI.at Washington. Politicians there, at
titudini5ing on the. floors Of CONGRESS, use
words In a Plckwickian sense anu Varnlsh base
acts with comely phrases. But it Is Ito the
people should know the plain truth. Tne
President has bought of his opponents oy re-
tusing all winter to listen, in the matter OF ap-
poiHments, 10 the Recommendation o1 any
member OF Congress who voted with Nr. SUM
Rer. The only excuse individual congressman
make for changing their votes is that to ee ~
nored at the departments, when asking oAceS
for their supporters is death to their pollllcal
hopes. If Santo Domingo is annexed, Grant
secures it by threats and bribes. The poorest
| memory will need but little effort TO recall
the very embassy that bought Keystone
vote. the ipdgeship which won Wolverine,
and the herrln. post that made another sena-
tor put on the Domingo collar OF course,
when o party becomes merely ring to
divide the spoils it touches its downfall. 1t is
sad'to think that the power Of q great party
should have fallen into the hands OF such low,
mercenary selflshness. II is sud that we can
oppose to outlaw assassins at the South, band
ed together. mercilessly and at every sacrifice.
1r at least great object -secession-that We
can oppose to them only a gang OF Swiss,
shamelessiy exhibiting themselves for sale to
the highest bidder. And so cheated OF, hail
Our gains, betrayed In the house OF our
1 friends, we must rally for another such fight as
that which crushed Davis and balked Johnson.
Ye prevent the choice Of Democratic Presi-
dent may be Impossible. But Our effort must
| 60 deeper than that: We must begin to edu-
cate the people into the determination that if,
l.encouraged 10y a rebel President, secessio n
ever lifls Its head again at the South, the North
destruction, and leaveit no ruler but the sword
| until every now living white man Is In his
| grovo WENDELL PHILLIPS.