The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1872-06-11
COLUMBIA, s. C.
Tuesday Morning June IL. 1879.
What South CaroIin4 Can Do for MIR.
Greeley.

WhAt South Carolin4 Gan Do for mr..
Greeley.
We had entertained the hope at the
inauguration Of the Liberal Republican
movement that it might be instrumental
In effecting political union between the
property holders of South Carolina and
the colored voters, which is 30 much to
be desired, and which only can ever
assure to our misruled State a, govern
ment administered with economy and in
the true interests of the people. As
long as universal suffrage holds, and race
determines party affiliations, and the
negroes who are in such o large majority
remain ignorant and destitute of pro-
perty, just 80 long will they continue to
be the dupes OF unscrupulous Office.
seekers, aud the people of South Caro-
lima be Cursed with corrupt and profit
gate government. How this state Of
things will end, we do not know. That it
must end in some way or other, we are
morally certain. A government whcso
sole work is to plunder, whose moral
turpitude is regarded with loathing by
all good men, which has neither strength
nor oomeliness, nor any other attribute
to inspire fear or command respect, must
fall. It is for the oolored people to say
whether they will strike the blow them
selves and destroy the noisome structure.
or are content to risk their newly ao-
quired rights and privileges in its totter-
ing ruins.
AS we have said, we we're inclined to
hope that the Cincinnati Convention
would aid in redeeming our State, by
providing platform and naming candi-
dates upon which the whites and blacks
could unite. Horace Greeley. whose
honesty and kindly sympathy commends
him to the white people. and whose life
long advocacy Of freedom and unswerv-
ing friendship to the black man, it was
reasonable to suppose, made him liked
by them, seemed in every way the most
suitable man who could have been se-
leoted for this purpose. We must ad-
NIT, however, that there has not been
any marked manifestation Of an molina
ton on the part OF the oolored people to
remember the services of their old and
long-tried friend as yet. What may be
developed during the campaign, and
what effect canvass Of the State by Mr..
Sumner and other Northern Republicans
favorable to Mr.. Greeley might have. to
burst the shackles Of the political slavery
which now bind the unconscious colored
voter hand and foot, we do not know.
We would be glad to see the effort made,
for if successful, il would have an imme-
diately ameliorating effect in our State
Government. Our own white people,
though, cannot do much for Uncle
Horace in this State. But there is q
work for them, or part of them. which,
IL earnestly and vigorously performed,
will do more to advance the cause of
Greeley and Brown, which is reconcilia-
tion and renewed friendship between
the North end South. than if they were
to poll the entire vote of South Carolina
for them in November. Let such of
South Carolina's trusty SONS as Kershaw,
Butler, Burt. Porter, MoGowan. You
mans and Aldrioh go and canvass the
Northern States.
Grants trump card is the war, and the
animosities and distrust engendered by
it. It was upon the war feeling that he
was elected in 1868, and upon that he
and the ultra Radicals mainly depend
now. They mako all manner of misrep.
resentations Of the people of the South
and their condition. They arouse the
too ready suspicious OF the masses against
us, and persuade them that We are still
unfriendly to the Government, and only
kept quiet by the strong hand Of power.
They talk Of peace, but they evidently
do not desire it. for they pursue just
that course which stirs up bad blood.
Tho Northern man who, in a political
speech, villiHes Mr.. Davis. whom the