The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1872-10-26

A BID FOR DAYoNErs -Wo haze con-
stantly stated our belief thut tho Radical
scheme for tho South Was fraud, first :;
fniliDg that, force. Their programme o
was to stir up race hostility to that ex-
teut that, patient and long suffering as
the whites had been, their forbearaucc
would at last give way. The first occa-
sion was to be seized, and tho prentend-
ed offending State was to bc bound in
gives once more, and then prodded to
the polls with Grnnts bayoncts.
How the trick was to bs worked we
have seen here. in our own State, and
notably III Georgia. In both States the
RAIDS
On Horace and HE, in q way despise"
But the forbearance of tho whites of
tho South was moro constant quality
than her Radical oppressors believed !:
and Its stern continuance had grounds in
nobler and higher hopo than they could
comprehend. Trusting to the truth aud
common-sense Of the honest men of the
North, they have. with ono accord, re-
solved to bear any and all inhctions Of
tyranny, devilry aud mennness, rather
thnn by one hasty act to jeopardy their
novel possibility for just and honest go.
vernment. So the ''small game, he did
not understand" was not worked by the
heather UIyss. The whites Of tue South
have stood contumely and insult now, as
they have stood robbery and oppression
Tor years. They have held themselves
ready to defend themselves, il need be:
but they have passed many and strong
provocations by that, in the North,
would have set the cities all ablnze
There has been during this campaign,
there Is to-day. no excuse for forcing
martial law upon our people, Even the
GRANTEES regretfully own this, as O
Washington special to the Missouri Re.
publican thus states:
WASHINGTON, October 17.-It is un-
derstood that portion of the admins.
tratlon committee here had conference
with the President, to-day, in which
they asked OF him to issne O proclsma
ton warning the voters in the Southern
States from creating any disturbance on
election day. The committee urged the
Importance OF the above scheme, but the
President informed them that it was in
expediont and unnecessary. The al
legged gross Ku Klux outrages were then
recited, but the President still refused,
knowing by the advice Of counsel that it
WAS outside of his prerogstive. The
President, however, stated that if any
trouble took place in the South, he
would ask in his message to Congress
that searching investigation be made.
Iho committee have arranged to have
even this bit Of information published
and sent broadcast over the North, but
not allowing it to be sent South, hoping
to keep tho voters there in ignorance
and to profit by the dropping system
when they arc defeated fairly.
We advise our contemporaries every
where to give these committee gentle
men the free advertisement they do not
desire. And we point them also to the
fact that this despatch has its sting in its
tail. We must watch this dropping"
game closely. We must be careful not
only to avoid all violence Oh election
day, In every town and in every precinct
of the South, bnt we must also guard,
by we'll aud clearly proven records,
against all possible charges of fraud. in
timidation and tho other points by which
alone the dropping" game can be made
to win.
Furewarned is forearmed; and if we
are careful on these minor points, there
will be no possible excuse for counting
out the vote OF single precinct.
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