The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1872-09-26
For President Of the United States.
HORACE GREELEY. OF New York.
For Vice President
B. GRATZ BROWN. OF Missouri.
Peaoe or Prolonged Bayonet Rule.

Inc chlef issue between the partlsans
OF Gen. Grants reelection and those
who favor Mr.. Greeley as President. is as
regards harmony between the divided
sections Of the country, and it's perma-
nent and wholesome paoifiostion. A
good man, with any soul in his body, in
the situation of President Grant, could
do much towards effeoting reconciliation,
notwithstanding the clamor of the CAL
lous and cold-blooded crew who sur,
round him. But he lifts not finger, he
says not word, in favor of that peace
which he hypocriticaliy invoked four
years ago. When called upon by Gerritt
Smith. for decency's sake, to aba.e the
nuisance, and hush the scandal of the
imprisonment of old, suffering and in
nocent men, convicted under the Ku
klux Acts, he sent detective to spy out
the state of their minds first, in order to
get report which would serve as cam
paign paper, and justify his refusal to
grant the clemency. Recently, through
his Attorney General, he has declined TO
entertain similar request, made by Mr..
Stephens, Of Georgia, upon the prepos-
ferrous ground, that if granted, there
would be danger Of revival Of Ku Klux
disturbances, as consequence, in those
fabulous and unknown) localities where
the Ku KIux organizations are said to
exist. His Secretary of the Treasury.
Boutwell,, in speech in North Carolina.
strenuously opposed closing up the
bloody chasm left by war, and the Con-
vention of soldiers and sailors, which
but few days ago met in Pittsburg,
were animated by the same spirit. In
order to subserve Grants interests, they
sought to revive the animosities and re-
kindle the bitterness and hatred which
were dying out of the hearts of men.
They and Grants supporters generally
hold that the time has not yet come for
reconciliation. They shrieked, let there
be no olasping of hands, but rather q
shaking of fists, over the bloody chasm.
They wish to resurrect issues which were
settled by the bullet seven years ago, and
which, being dead, but for them, would
be forgotten. Wendell Phillips is in an
ecstacy of Joy at finding party that
will go the whole length of his frantic
demands.
steThe reason why I support the Re-
publican party" he says, sis that, to my
utter surprise, to my nnutterable sur
prise, to my indescribable delight, to my
relief, have at last found party that
is willing to execute all the laws that are
given them. It is for that reason that I
say, 'Long live Ulysses Grant! May he
continue to be President of the United
States aa.is every ~hi.s nan over forty
years OF age, who lives South of Mason
and Di1on's line. has been forever put
into the ground"
Phillips and Butler are sworn friends,
and both apostles of hate. They fulmi-
nate the orders. they promulge the
doctrines, which are transmitted and re-
peated all along the lines of their fol-
lowers. One is boon prophet of evil
and vengeance. Under show of fervor
and zeal as friend of humanity, he
hides, and when he thinks it fit occa-
sion. let's go the most extreme and blood
thirsty propositions. As his party takes
in one scheme, he coolly announces
another still more advanced and startling.
he is ever moving and beckoning his
followers on. Buffers slogan is bitter.
unrelenting, vindictive hate. The perse-
cution of the weak, the traducer of wo-
man, the betrayer of party, the despised
and contemned of all men, he owes a
debt of revenge which he assiduously
endeavors to pay with interest.
What a contrast have the writings of
Horace Greeley, for long time past,
presented to the rabid and shocking
utterances Of the GRANTEES! The one
seem strains from heaven. the other
shSiaksj from hell At all the points
where Greeley has spoken, in his pro.
gress West, how touching his pleadings
for peace. how earnest his appeals for
genuine friendship and final settlement
and burial OF all differences upon the