The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1872-05-14
s. G.
Tuesday Morning. May IA, 1879.

Tuesday Morning. May IA, 1879.
Frightening Prospect for the South.
It is comforting to know that whatever
may be the result of the approaching
Presidential campaign; whatever shape
the present confused political mass may
assume; whether Greeley, or Grant, or
somebody else, be the next President,
tho attitude OF the General Government
one OF more or lesa justice and concilia-
sion. There are many complaints against
Grant's administration, many errors and
: abuses, which loudly call for reotification
and relief: His shameless use Of the
power and; patronage of his high Office
to advance the private fortunes of his
relations, by appointing them to lucra-
tive positions, and for which. too, many
Of them were totally unified, the Gus
tom House frauds in New York, the
Santo Domingo job. the miserable bun
g2e.Hhioh has been made in the diplo.
matio negotiations with England, in re-
gard to the Geneva arbitration, and the
undignitied and notifying position in
which this country has been placed. All
these things have combined to render
Grant and his administration unpopular,
and would, If Grant were civilian, and
had to depend upon his management OF
the Government since 1868 to determine
his claims for reelection, be sufficient to
ensure his defeat. But that which has
more than anything else aroused the
disaffection Of the people of the North
towards the Administration, is the policy
OF hate that has been pursued towards
the South, the high-handed unoonstitu-
tional measures that have been adopted,
the trampling upon the sacred rights of
the States, and upon the personal liber-
ties of the people in the unlawful sus-
pension of the writ OF habeas corpus. If
all this had ended we'll, it might have
been winked at and allowed to pass.
If the usurpations of Congress and
the despotic acts Of President Grant had
been exercised in the interests of good
government and to the advancement OF
the material welfare OF the oppressed
section, the unwarrantable means used
would probably have been excused on
account of the good ends which were
effected. But when, after all, it is made
manifest that reconstruction is failure;
when all the power Of tho General Go
vernment has been used to sustain the
most corrupt and worthless State officials
that ever cursed any country, and who
could never have secured their oppor-
tunities Of fraud and plunder bnt for the
sympathy and direct aid of tho central
power at Washington; when. after oil
the violations of the Constitution, and
the extraordinary and oppressive Acts Of
Congress, there resulted nothing but
mis-government, public thefts, financial
ruin and industrial prostration at the
South-the people of the North, rs the
truth becomes known to them, turn in
horror and indignation from the wreck
that has been wrought. and demand an
immediate change in the policy Of the
Government. The keynote of the Libe-
raj movement has been the wretched and
alarming condition into which Radical
reconstruction has placed the South, aud
its looks to reconciliation to bring relief.
It was this feeling that created the
"gronnd swell" which gave such mighty
impulse to the Cincinnati Convention.
It is the perception of this feeling, the
recognition OF this spirit OF friendship
and sympathy for our suffering people,
which has brought forth such hearty
response from the South in favor of
Greeley and Brown. Again, at the
North, tho grateful acknowledgement
which VIC have made of the kindly inten-
lions expressed for us at Cincinnati, both
m the platform and in the candidates,
has reacted upon the people there, and
hence we see the rapid progress which
Greeley and Brown are making in public
esteem.
The leaders OF the Grant faction have
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