The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1872-07-20
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tho PRESIDENTIAL contest, we would warn
our people not to forget another struggle
OF at least equal Importance, not alone
to each particular State, but to the whole
country. North as we'll as South. That
struggle is the one for possession of the
next Congress of the United States; and
1t WILL require the more earnest and un-
remitting work for the reason that much
OF it will come in detail between this
armies decide the victory in November
next. Coming thus, at intervals and at
localities far distant from each other,
this contest for supremacy may lose its
vital import to our eyes before the con-
centratel lights brought to bear upon
the Presidential issue. And coming
thus, and being, moreover, exposed to
the intrusion of personal prejudices and
of abstract local issues, the Congress
sional canvass will demand even more
delicacy, constancy and tact than it's
twin contest this year.
Glancing at the present situation, we
find that the terms of twenty-four
Senator's expire on the 4th day OF next
March. These are: Spencer, of Ala
bama; Rioe. of Arkansas; Cole, of Cali
fornia; Ferry, of CONGRATULATIONS
history is too we'll known to be repeated
here; Osborne, of Florida; Hill, of
Georgia; Trumbull, of Illinois; Morton,
of Indiana; Harlan, of Iowa; Pomeroy,
of Kansas; Davis, of Kentucky; Kel-
logg, of Louisiana; Vickers, of Mary
land; Blair. of Missouri; Nye, of Ne
vada; Patterson. of New Hampshire;
Conkling, of New York; Pool, of North
Carolina; Thurman, of Ohio; Cameron,
of Pennsylvania; Sawyer, of South Ca
rolina; Morrill,, of Vermont; and Howe,
of Wisconsin.
For the most part these Senatorships
will be filed by the Legislatures to be
elected before the 1st OF next December;
and, in cases. the choice for them will be
influenced by the action Of their States
| upon questions of State policy, even
more than by their action upon national
questions. Not that we propose, for
one instant, to separate the two in the
minds Of our people; for we hold them
| as twin causes, that add strength and
vitality each to the other. The men who
believe in and mean to do real work
| for true reform and honest administra-
| ton OF the Government. in its lowest
branches even, will see that perfect unity
and perfect concert alone can bring
these the happy issue we long for aud
| expect. Else we had not placed the
names of Horace Greeley and Thos. II.
Herndon together at our masthead.
But, while the whole South rises with
one impulse and shouts the names of
Greeley and Brown with one triumphant
| voice, let us also remember that to mako
their triumph sure-to leave aught but a
barren sceptre in the peoples grasp,
when we have once more proclaimed the
people king-we must not separate those
who stand upon two great issues, insep-
arabic and indivisible. Those issues are
reform and honesty. They move with
even pace beside the State tickets and
beside the national: and in securing the
separate triumph of the former alone
can we make that of the latter as effect.
i've as it is already brilliant and assured.
That Horace Greeley will be the next
President Of the United States we be-
lleve to be certain as any mundane
thing may be. But to make his Presi-
dency all-powerfnl for the perfect re-
form for which the people cry aloud and
with one voice. from Maine to the Gulf,
that people must hold up his hands by
giving him a Congress pledged to the
same policy and fully advised of its su-
preme will.
We have heard more than one thought.
| Ill OcuooEhb 8tVeS aS one reason IOr sup
porting Mr.. Greeley. rather than any
straight-out and tried leader of our own
party, that the latter could, in any possi-
BILE contingency, only be elected with q
Congress divided against itself and op-
posed to him; whereas the popular cur
rent in favor of the Liberal movement
could not only elect it's candidate, but
utterly change the color of the Congress
chosen with him. Whether or not We
agree with the deductions these Demo
Gratis have made from this fact, yet the
fact itself is one no thoughtful man will
gainsay. Nor is the question one that
we can afford to lose sight of for one
moment. It demands, as we have said,
careful and constant thought; constant
impressing upon the people,; perfect or
ganization and concert of action; and it
demands, in an eminent degree, courage,
delicacy and tact.
| For these reasons. we have written
these words of reminder. The Senate is
open to the people of this country
open to each and every voter who pre-
fers honesty to corruption, and who be-
lieves in the peoples right to govern
themselves-to entirely remodel. But
the House is in their hands to make new
| from it's yery foundation or tha Sanata