The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1872-07-09
COLUMBIA. s. C.
Tuesday Morning. July 8, 1879.
the Convention To-Day.

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will give the finishing touch to the Pre-.
sidential campaign. That body will de-
termine who is to be Grants competitor;
and after their diotum is announced, the
race will fairly commence. There is now
no doubt what that dictum will be- The
people and the press, North, South, East
and West-all who are opposed to the
further continuance of Grants military
rale-have, We may say, with unbroken
accord demanded the honest, able and
kindly old man of Cheppaqua as their
standard.bearer, and the Convention
will OF course obey the voice Of the peo-
pie. There is no better nun who can be
had as candidate, nor do we believe it
possible to put forth stronger antago-
mist to Grant. For two months now his
name has been before the people. The
Radical organs and orators have hurled
their spears OF envy and hate thick and
fast upon him, but they have struck upon
the FURNISHED shield OF his honesty and
fallen shattered, pointless and harmless
to the ground. They have done their
very worst, yet he stands now, after eight
,weeks ofntheir fercest attacks, perfectly
unssathed. He may be safely considered
as invulnerable. His enemies can find
nothing against him. Both GRANTEES
and. Bourbon Democrats have tried and
.ingloriously failed. The truth is that
Horace Greeley fits the time and the oo.
casion as no other, man can do.
The pesvading and prominent idea of
this Presidential campaign is reconoilia-
tion between the North and South and
o restoration Of the. Southern States to
their full legal and moral status in the
Union. The South must no longer be
treated as a half alien nor the North be
regarded as conqueror. Such state
of things is. utterly ,repugnant to every
principle of free Republican Govern
ment. as ours is. in theory, at least. The
time has come. the full time. if eyer it is
to come. that the Union should be re-
stored in spirit as well as in deed. Now
to effect this, to htiy represent this idea
OF reconciliation, we must have some
middle man. No section loving, South
hating Radical will do, for the South has
some self-respect left, and she will turn
her back upon him.. No bull-headed
Bourbon Democrat will do, for the North
will be afraid to trust him. There needs
some Northern man of unquestioned
devotion to the Union, known to be
sound on the negro question, and whose
patriotism can extend South as we'll as
North Of Mason and Dixon's line, and
who, while he would prevent wrong to
the black man, will not, with blind
fanatioism. ignore the claims OF his own
race and blood; a man who can rise from
the sordia service Of party to the nobler
allegiance Of his country and his fellow
man. That man is Horace Greeley
His country needs him. The people
call for him, and they will elect him
President.
Grant can run no race against him.
The man who has made South Carolina,
Mississippi and LouisianasVhat they are,
the mere prey OF thieves and robbers,
and who tried to do the same for Geor-
gia, Florida, Alabama. Tennessee, North
Carolina and Virginia, and did succeed
for time in tying the hands of thei,
honest people till they were robbed Of
upwards of 5000. 900. 900. suoh man as
that surely can never be President of
these United States again. We do not
mean to say that Grant desired that these
States should be 80 plundered, or that
he had the least share in the spoils.
But he was President of the United
States, with an overpowering majority
in Congress. when these States were put
in process of reconstruction. Every
thing was done az he and his administra-
tion willed and enacted, and the Govern
ment Of South Carolina to-day is what
Grant made it. and nothing else. He
and his administration must be held re-.
sponsible for the legitimate consequences
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