The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1872-04-20
COLUMBIA. S. G.
Saturday Morning. April 20, 1872.
The Party OF Hate

columns OF tne organ par excellence Of
Grant Republicanism, the New York
Times, to be convinced that the con.
trolling sentiment that shapes the policy
of that wing of the Republican party ia
hatred of the South, and desire to
crafty narrow-minded sectional preju-
dice, which WAS the prime cause in the
chain of causes that led to our late
bloody civil strife. Amid the ashes of q
war that ended seven years ago, the
Times is found industriously and in
oessantly raking for what few sparks of
fire may still be found, and Justify blows
from day to day, in its diabolical effort
to kindle afresh the flame of resentment
in the Northern mind against the South.
Grants military record is paraded as q
complete set-off to whatever civil short
comings he may have manifested. The
people of the South are still "rebels,"
and the chief ground of censure which
is urged against The liberal Republicans
is the feeling of friendship they exhibit
for the oppressed South, and the CRATE
full sympathy with which their action
is 80 generally endorsed by our people.
The fact that Mr.. Greeley. in that
kindness of heart for which he has a.
ways been noted, assisted in the release
of Mr.. Jefferson Davis from cruel con-
sfnement that was wearing his life away,
and the fact that on his passage through
Memphis he took occasion to call upon
the man he had befriended, are brought
up now by the Times as objectionable
. sins. The speech of Mr.. Davis, last
spring, at Atlanta, Georgia, in which.
predicting just such schism in the Re-
publican party as that which has oc-
Cured, he advised the Southern people
to wait quietly for that event, and then
give their undivided support to the
party which guarantees return to con-
stitutional government and restoration
of the rights of the States, is rehnshed;
and thus the damning truth, according
to the Times, is disclosed, that the poll
tical movement in which Mr.. Greeley
has taken active part is just the very
thing that the "rebels" desire. No mat
ter how worthy the objects may be-
no matter what abuses exist under the
present re9ime-no matter what putrid
corruptions are oankering Mt the heart
OF Grants administration-no matter
what evils imperil the future freedom of
Americana effort for reform and puri-
fics ton that meets the appreciation of
the "rebels" should be countenanced by
the "truly loil."
That is what the Times means, if it
means anything at oil. We are glad to
see the Grant organ thus frank, at least.
To all such white men of the South rs
have imagined or profcssed TO entertain
the belief that the interests of our sec
ton would be best consulted by support
ing Grant and his Radical adhercnts,
these enunciations of the New York
Times, that manifest tho animus of it's
party, must be particularly pleasing.
There arc always TO be found men who,
like ours, are pusiilnnim ons enough to lick
of our people havo not yet lost their
sclf-respcct; and when they contrast the
spirit of envenomed hate that marks the
course and even the declarations Of the
Grant party, with the noble, manly and
apprcciativo sympathy of Greeley,
Schurz and Trumbull, their contemptu-
Gus disdain of the ono cannot DO more
sincere than their hearty admiration of
the other. Self-intorest, patlio.isin and
the preservation Of republican liberty
alike demand an honest, sincere recon
ciliation, and tho cultivation Of mutual
friendship and esteem, for time to come,
between the two sections Of what is
nominally, common country. God
knows it is the earnest desire Of the pco-
pie of the South. They havo drank to
the bitter dregs the cup of humiliation
and oppression. They have beon taunt-
ed, slandered, often insultcd; they have
been deprived of the management of