The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1872-05-30

Gen. D. n. Hill, editor OF the South
ern Home. published at Charlotte, N. o.,
says.
We give. to-day, the letter Of accept.
ance Of Hon. Horace Greeley. There
are some expressions which we would
like to see strlok out. But, on the
whole, it is liberal, catholic, frank, gene
rous and manly. We think that the
Baltimore Convention can safely accept
him with this letter and the platform
upon which lie stands. He has come
more than half way, with extended hand,
to meet the estranged and oppressed
South, and we can consistently, with our
ideas Of honor and chivalry, step for
wnrd to welcome him.
1t Is simply proposterous to say that
this is an abandonment of principle, or
stultihcation of our previous action.
The true men Of the South rejected the
fourteenth amendment with scorn; it
was calling upon them to ban their most
trusted sons, whom they had put for
ward to be leaders in their sacred cause
They could not have sanctioned this
measure without incurring the reproba-
ton of oil honorable men, aud without
fanny. The South rejected the fifteenth
amendment. She was prepared to grant
equality before the law in tho court
house, but she knew that unlimited suf.
frage among the negroes would make
them the dupes OF designing knaves and
result In carpet-bag rule, roguery and
ruin. If the true men Of the South bad
to vote on these wicked measures to-
morrow, they would reject them with the
same scorn and indignation. But diaap.
proving thing before it becomes a law,
and submitting to it afterwards, are very
different matters. The nobiest spirits OF
the South resisted for four years tho
yoke OF the North; but when the Irish
and Germans in the Yankee army proved
too powerful for them they submitted,
in good faith, and have been the most
law-abidiug citizens ot tho whole United
States. Tue landed property OF Great
Britain goes no further back than the
Norman conquest. It was then acquired
by fraud and violence, but the title to
that property is now held to be indis-
putable. would be a greater wrong to
attempt to right the wrong than to let it
alone
Tho Liberal Republicans have forced
Grant to abandon the fourteenth amend.
ment, and we could not. il we would.
disturb the rights acquired under the
fifteenth without agitating the whole
country and destroying the peace of so
ciety. Let it pass. It is not our sin.
Let an era Of good feeling be inaugu-
rated by the election of Mr.. Greeley.
We must get rid of this thievish bayonet
rule, else the South will become desert.
The Democracy of the North cannot un-
derstand our position, for they know
nothing about it. They do not see daily
arrests Of our best citizens upon the tes-
timony of british negroes or more
british whites. They do not see officers
education, playing bum -bailiffs to crafty
Marshals. They do not see the Industry
farms abandoned, homasteads deserted,
and poverty, and ruin staring in the faces
of thousands. They do not hear the
cries of wives and mothers, when their
loved ones are hurried Off 10 folons' cells
them, and they accuse the South of boing
ready to accept Mr.. Greeley. We know
SSt coidiJ luot bhc ClCCLlOu vi IL. SEAuL
means robbery, Outrage and oppression.
We believe that the election of Horace
Greeley will bring relief. We are in no
condition to try experiments. 1t is pos
sible that Democrat can be elected, but
it is not probable. Property. life and
liberty are at stake with US. We cannot
afford to take any risk, and we ought to
say t" the Northern Democracy that zoe
,ciN not take any!
We believe that it ia better for the
South to keep away from Baltimore
The Northern Democracy would then
aee the hopelessness of putting up CAN
ditlate of their own. But if Southern
delegates must 60 there, let them go re-
solved to win.
Seldom are thoughts Of such pregnant
meaning conveyed in words so few and
terso as those ne quote below. taken
frnp0 holl To-