Beaufort Republican. [volume] (Beaufort, S.C.) 1871-1873, 1871-11-16

A correspondent of the ~ T. Times has
been seeing the noted orator, WENDELL
PHILIPS, and here is portion of what the
great thinker thinks:
| THE GRANT ADMINISTRATION
Seated in the library, after some desulto1
ry conversation respecting Massachusetts,
politics and the growing strength in Europe
and America of the labor movement, your
correspondent turned the discourse upon
national affairs, the policy of the admins
tratlon respecting the Southern States, SO
bite .ly assailed by the conservative Press,
&C.
CoRREspoNDENT-What do you think of
President GRANTS chances of renomina-
ton to the Presidency in 1872?
Mr.. PuILLIps-On the whole, good.
Within another year-within few months,
probably-we will see GRANT add anotherto
his already strong chances Of success. lie
has now four great points in his favor: The
Fifteenth Amendment, the Ku Klux, re-
| duction of the national debt ard the assault
on the citadel Of mormonism Let him add
a fifth strand to the ,abor-and his
position will be impregnable. Whoever
carries the most radical banner wins the
next Presidency Let GRANT raise it, and.
with his past popularity yet essentially re-
tanned, his nomination and reelection are
reduced to Il certainty North and South
alike, recruits in ,at number will he added
TO his stanlanl Tie labor vote thrown in
the next Presidential election VIII not be
less than two hunlred thousand. Let
| GRANT, as i'll the Indications point that he
will, attract this va>t clement of strength to
his side by a generous espousal of the cause
| Of The working al, and he will ride into
power on wave oi popularity greater than
thatwhich gave him his first election. All the
earacstness and magnifcence Of strength
put forth by SUMNER in the East or by
CARL SHURz in the West, in that cast, will
be powerless to avert it. The people will
sustain him. In the hollow of his hand, by
the melting out or Withholding of justice,
he holds his success or his failure.
| THE FUTURE or THE REPUBLICAN PARTY.
CoRREsroNDENT-W the Republican
Party remain the dominant political party
of the nation beyond the next Presidency?
! Mr.. PH!LLIps-That depends upon its
own ouickness of apprehension and resolute-
ness of retention of the higher principles.
| assume as granted that in the nigh-at-
hand November election the State of New
York, whatever may be the result in the
Metropolis, will be added to the long list of
Republican victories The Empire State,
wrested from the Democracy, will leave
them without stronghold, almost without
nucleus whcreupon to work for Presiden-
tial candidate A ''new departure" great
er than that which NALLANDIGHAM at
tempted to inaugurate, is in that case inev-
liable. What the programme is likely to be
is already foreshadowed by the speeches
and editorials of Western politicians and
! journalists. The struggles will bewithin the
Republican Party i disintegrating pro-
cess, which may be fatal to the organization
or strengthening and purifying, will be the
consequences In such a warfare, bitter
and protracted, perhaps, beyond any which
this country has yet witnessed-the new
party being sure to draw off thousands of
Conservative Republican votes-only in the
adoption of the most aggressive radical pol
icy can the Republican Party, in such an
emergency, preserve its existence. The
fasco of the last Democratic Convention
which failed to nominate CHASE when he
stood ready to make the plunge into the
depth of infamy-is not likely again to oc-
cur to party thirsting for share of the
spoils of the National Government. Only
by building anew upon the cornerstone Of
justice, and by the fullest recognition of the
sacred rights of humanity can the Republi-
can Party hone to retain its lease of power