The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1872-06-29
S. G.
Saturday Morning. June 20, 1872.
Hope Tor the State.


in our wretohed State Government is
attainable only through the Republican
party. The leaders must be Republi-
cans, the movement must originate in
that party, and be clearly Republican in
all it's essentials. The reason of this,
briefly, is the prejudice Of the black
people against. the Democratic party.
and the fear and distrust which has been
instilled into their minds against their
former owners on all questions of po-
itical action. Tho false and poisonous
doctrine whispered into their ears by
crafty men, that tho white people are
their political enemies, has taken firm
hold Of their hearts. With this convic-
ton, aud being, as general thing, una
BILE to reason like intelligent people,
they make arbitrary and irrational rules
Of political conduct for themselves, the
leading one OF which is never to favor
any project lead or controlled by the
white people. 1t is pity that this is
80. Did the black people in the exer-
else of their newly acquired rights of
citizenship display the same independ-
ence and determine their party afilia-
tions by the same intelligent oonsidera-
lions as the generality OF white people
do, it would prove no lesa beneficial to
them than to the country. Their blind
adherence in solid mass to any one po-
litical party cannot but tell against them
in the end. Their party cannot always
be in the ascendant, and if they continue
to array themselves, without any notice
able exceptions, against all that is COM
mendable in government, and choose dis
honest men for their representatives.
who plunder the communities in which
they live, it may not be we'll for them in
the day that their minority shall come.
Inrshort, We do not think it wise for
the colored people to. stake their rights
and privileges upon the success OF any
one political party. as they now are
doing. Still they Will do it, and there
fore it is that we,canl hope for no ameli-
oration of our State affairs, except
through the party to which they have
chosen to ally themselves, body and soul.
I'VE have waited and suffered and been
plnndered long while: The present
State officials would have been hurled
from Office under normal condition of
affairs two years ago; yes, and sent to the
penitentiary to expiate their manifold
frauds and populations. Indeed NO peo-
pie of average education and intelli-
gence would ever have entrusted such
men with public offices at all. The bulk
of them have thief stamped on their
very faces. But here they have been,
for four long, cruel years, like demons,
dealing destruction on all around and
laughing ut the ruin they made. We are
glad to believe that the day of deliver
ance draws nigh. That struggle within
the Republican ranks to which only We
may look for immediate help has already
commenced; at least we believe 80. sAt
Republican meeting in Abbeville, a few
days ago, Orr, after repeating the sense
leus TRADE which he INDUCED in here
about Grants loveliness and the Ku Klux
denominations, launched out in terrible
crusade against Scott, Moses, Neagle,
Parker, and the State Government gene
rally. He declared war against them,
and there were none bold enough to take
up their defence. Earle, of Greenville,
who is the most able and respectable Re-
publican in that County, We learn, has
joined the standard of revolt against the
corruptions and the infamies of the
ring. Mackey is to lead the columns
from the Northeastern section of the
State, and in the low country wide
spread disafection has long been mani
fest.
The chief cause of hope, however, is
that Grant and the Republican authori-
ties at Washington have pushed forward
and will sustain the opposition to Scott
& Go. This, we have reliable authority
for stating, is the case, It stands to