The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1872-08-11

NORTH CARoLINA.-The doubt that
hangs over the election OF Governor Of
North Carolina does not deprive the
Conservatives of the honor and the
moral force OF great victory there.
Though the corrupt Caldwe;l-the pet
of the Grant administration-be elected,
that cannot rob the Independent people
of North Carolina of the credit due them
for glorious struggle against the fear
full odds of the power and the money Of
the Federal Administration. They have
carried the Legislature, which gives q
Conservative United States Senator, and
they have elected five out of eight mem
bers of Congress. These achievements
are vastly preferable to the election of
the Governor, while if the Radicals have
elected that officer, it is by such small
majority that it looks very like defeat,
and is, we are convinced, but premo-
nitory of their great dofeat in November.
Never before in this country has there
been such interference with State cleo
tions by the Federal Government.
Through the Ku Klux prosecutions
1900 or 1,500 persons were deprived of
their votes. and some 1900 young mon
were driven from the State by the ''reign
of terror" established there. Caldwell's
majority will not exceed half the number
of those who were thus driven from the
polls. What sort of victory would that
be? A victory through an intolerable,
and vicious, and sordid tyranny, that
cannot fail to excite the indignation of
good people everywhere-a tyranny over
the Constitution and laws as we'll as the
rights and liberties of the citizen.
PoL1rIoAL DoTTINos George Greek,
q German Republican, and the first man
in the town of Newstead, Erie County,
that volunteered in the late war, is now
the President of Greeley and Brown
club in that town.
The Boston Courier remarks, on an
assumed resemblance between the moon
and the countenance of Mr.. Greeley,
that "the moon and Horace have also
another popularity in common; they
both have extraordinary attractive qua
lities, and the rising tide in favor OF
Greeley shows that he has as much influ-
fuenoe over the people as the moon has
over the ocean,"
Occasionally-perhaps once in three
days-the Grant organs publish para
graph with the stunning headline,
''Another Democrat for Grant" We
read and find it recorded that one Will
liam Patterson or Samuel Smith, o
"life.long Democrat" (always,) living in
Wildcat township, in Kansas, has de-
clared that, as true Democrat, he must
repudiate the action of the Democratic
party, and throw his tremendous infu-
ence in the scale of the party of the
bayonet law, land-grab jobbery, nepo-
tism, Wholesale corruption and centrali-
zatiou. Usually, Patterson's. or Smiths.
detection affords the Union material for
a most convincing article on the STAN
pede Of Democrats to Grant.
Hon. Jerry Black, of Pennsylvania,
We understand, has written letter in
which. after running contrast between
the two presidential candidates, Greeley
and Grant, he declares in favor Of sup
porting the former in the present con-
test.
MIR. EDITOR: The Union, in speaking
Of South Carolina. calls it "their State"
don't think there is true South Caro-
Hnian who is Republican. So the Re-
publicans ought not call it Meir State, be-
cause they are paupers depending on OUR
STATE for a liptng.
A SOUTH CAROLINIAN.
GENERAL JOSEPH e. JOHNSTON FOR
GREELEY.-The st. Louis Times, of the
4th, publishes the following letter from
General Joseph E. Johnston, dated