The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1872-07-20

In every District, in every County,
and in every beat. we implore our peo-
pie to ponder upon these facts-to
which we shall recur again in greater
detail. And when they have pondered,
let them not sleep upon them; but rather
act like men of action, in holding prompt
conference, and laying at once those de-
tailed plans upon which they will rest
when the hour comes to be up and
doing. Mobile Register.
Principles, NOT MEMS there on
earth one Republican who objects to the
Cincinnati platform? Is there any one
who holds it not full, terse, forciblo,
convincing statement of fundamental
Republican doctrine? Who has ever
contended that believer iii that plat
form is not Republican, Who an
swers these questions in the negative?
Does any one doubt that Greeley anu
Brown are sincere, hearty adherents to
that platform? Have not all their lives
been given to the commendation and
defence of the great truths therein set
forth? Is there o fool so foolish as to
fancy that they have just reiterated their
assent to these truths only to betray and
subvert them?
"Ah! but the Democrats also profess
to believe them"
Very we'll! What reason have you to
believe them insinoere? Did not G. L.
Vallandigham, more than year ago, in.
sist that this "New Departure must be
taken-not in pretense. but in verify? z?
Had not Storey, of Chicago, said the
same thing more than year before.
Did not all discerning persons perceive
even earlier still that this new departure
was only question of time? The De.
mocratic National Convention, you say,
had to adopt Greeley and Brown, in
order to defeat Grant. Well, they might
have done this without endorsing the
Cincinnati platform. The Republicans
OF this city supported John T. Hoffman
for Recorder not long ago, but they did
not adopt Democratic platform. They
had given their last vote years before to
elect Daniel F. Tiemann Mayor over
Fernando Wood. So in other cases.
But no one ever suggested that they
could not do this without adopting q
Democratic platform.
The late Democratic National Conven-
tion might have endorsed Greeley and
Brown without limiting at any change OF
platform. Men Of all parties vote for
VI OtuoE D1EtlG6 WITHOUT
adopting their principles. No one ever
said "you must not vote for our candi.
date unless You adopt our principles. ~
All are glad to obtain votes from men
who reject their creed. But the Demo.
to adopt substantially Republican plat.
form. They have said, as plainly as
words can soy it, that they accept the
al fua oil
specting slavery and negroes ns forever
closed. What reason has any one for
asserting that they do not mean what
they say? What conceivable motive had
they for saying this, if they did not
mean it? DO You say that they have
hitherto held adverse opinions? How
many have not2 How long is it since
Connecticut, and New York. and Wis
supporting the Republican ticket, voted
may change Oh this point, why not
Democrats? If you said it was dark last
night, must you persist in that assertion
ct noon to-day?
The adoption Of the Cincinnati plat.
form at Baltimore is an immense fact.
We are too near it to have it's full sig.
niicance popularity appreciated. The
result Of our approaching Presidential
contest is of secondary consequences.
For this time. We presume, most of the
blacks will be drilled up by the Union
Leagues to vote for Grant and Wilson.
But Greeley and Brown will be elected,
and then the blacks will perceive that
the bugaboo tales of rebel prescription
and Ku Klux vengeance that were to be
visited on them, as fruits of this triumph,
were false. Thenceforth whites and
blacks will alike divide on public ques-
tlons as individual convictions, not as
color. may dictate. The planter, the
overseer, the field.hand npd the house.
servants, will take counsel of each other
as friends, and will vote with or against
each other ga their raanaokiua conuio.