The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1872-06-08
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Saturday Morning, June 8, 1872.
Tho Philadelphia Dress Parade.

Tho Philadelphia Dress Parade.
The Radical offioe.holders and military
subordinates have met and performed
the role required OF them by their COM
mander, Grant. It was very soldierly,
or, rather, slavish meeting. No doubts.
no differences of opinion, no hesitation
was allowed. The roll was gone through
and each State, as it's name was called,
under pain of instant communication,
was constrained to cry Grant. What
car:cature OF convention Of free Ame-
rican citizensl It would be faroicsl if it
were not fraught with 80 much danger to
the country. There seemed to be little
if any enthusiasm, except among the
colored delegates--who really were the
only persons that had any heart in the
work. One of these grew eostatio as he
heard the "sperrit" Of Mr.. Lincoln
whispering sit is not time to swap
horses" Unfortunately this spiritual
visitation did not make the desired i'm
preston, and the swap was nado-Col-
fax was traded off for Wilson. This. We
presume, was about an even swnp.
Neither one OF them are OF any conse-
quepce. Neither one OF them would add
or detract anything from the strength OF
the ticket. Grant is the "bull purp" of
the concern, and Wilson will get just
such votes as Grant will give the ticket
no more and no less. The platform, if
our telegraphic report of it be correct. is
q string of platitudes, contradictions and
antiquities. The party pronouuces its
own condemnation by urging the per-
tormance Of those very things which it
has so stubbornly refused to carry out
during its administration of the Govern
ment. After their experience Of the
last four years, the people will hardly
depend upon an administration with
the great nepotist and gift-taker at the
head of it to reform the rotten OWL
service. Neither will they attach much
importance to O resolution declaring that
the public lands should not be given to
corporations, when it is made by tho
party which has already oorruptly squan-
dered hundreds OF millions OF acres of
the peoples lands in that way.
I, Though in ambiguous terms. We take
it that the resolutions referring to the
tariff strongly favor protection, So
called. The producer is to be pampered
at the expense of the communicable
rich made richer and the poor poorer.
for that is what protection means The
most beautifully ambiguous proposition
in the platform is, "that the relations OF
labor and capital should be recognized
and protected" One of the far-famed
Philadelphia lawyers must have inserted
that plank. It will require four or five
OF that fraternity, at any rate, to explain
it. It means anything, and it means
nothing. It is as perspicuous as dab
of mud.
The whole concludes with the follow
ing farcical tribute to the Grand Mognl:
..Con6denoe is expressed in the modest
patriotism. earnest purposes. sound iudg-
ment and wisdom of us Grant" This is
q charming specimen Of the lucus a non
lucendo principle. The modest patriot
ism consists in his forcing his nomina-
tior for the second time upon the people
for the highest Office in their gift; hia
earnest purposes, in accumulating wealth
for himself and all of his and his wife's
relations. at the expense of the public;
his sound judgment was displayed in the
Santo Domingo scheme. and his practi-
cal wisdom in his back-down to Great
Britain, and his general conduct of the
Gereva arbitration. No knave or fool
in the country need ever despair OF se-
curing the heart felt gratitude Of his fel-
lcw-citizens after this high encomiun 10
Grant. Next thing, we will hear of o
statue being erected to the memory Of
John Brown and placed alongside Of
Washington's. Truly, wonders will never
cease.