The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1872-06-01
S. G.
Saturday Morning. June l. 1872.
UnseasonabIo O.viling.

Unscnsonablo CavilinE.
We have proper and even high re-
spect for the opinions and the advice Of
the Hon. D. w. Voorhees,, of Indiana.
We glance today at his position as the
leading North Western Democratic op.
ponent OF the confirmation by the Balti-
more Convention OF the nomination of
Mr.. Greeley for President by the Gin
oinnati Convention. In speech lately
delivered OF Terre Haute. in that State,
he complained OF the Cincinnati Conven-
tiop, that it failed to nominate for Presi-
dent with refert ace to the Democratic
party. He denounced the Administra-
tion as one OF the worst ever known in
American history, but thinks the combi-
nation necessary to overthrow it cannot
be made upon Mr.. Greeley as the cand;-
date. We need hardly say that we have
an equal. or even higher, respect for the
utterances of Hon. A. H. Stephens, of
Georgia, who. so far, is the head and
front Of the opposition to Mr.. Greeley
in the South. These gentlemen take the
ground that Mr.. Greeley's record is
fatally against him; that he is the en-
bodiment ofseverything that is objec-
tionable to the Democratic party, and to
the principles it has ever held dear.
especially in the South. The New York
World has teemed with objections of the
same sort, and with every other sort, Cor
the last month, put forth with greater
energy. and with such pressing zeal and
vindiotiye fervor. as 10 have Ts;scd scs-'
pioions Of the ainoerity OF it's motives; in
view OF tho position it held before the
Cincinnati Convention met, and of the
arguments it then advanced in favor OF
coalition between the Demgcrsts and the
Liberal Republicans, in case the Cinoin-
natl platform should be made accepta-
BILE. 1t is curious to compare with these
high authorities, apparently 30 settled
In their convictions, q bugle blast which
has just been blown by Wendell Phillips,
who is admitted. to be the brains of the
extreme Radical faction in the Republi-
can party. We must bear in mind that
all these parties-the World, Mr.. Ste
phens, MIR. Voorhees, and Mr.. Phillips
have been pre-eminent in their denunoi-
atoms of President Grant and his admi-
nistration-Mr. Phillips, of course, upon
other grounds than those whose names
we have associated with his. The coun-
try has rung with their allegations of it's
corruption. its stupidity. its weakness,
its tendency to military usurpation, and
to Capitalization. Their structures have
amounted to an Indictment of the most
sweeping character, affecting alike the
management of affairs, both at home and
abroad. and not leaving untouched and
unscathed the personal honor Of the
President himself, and that of many OF
his appointees to Office. Hear the blast
OF Wendell Phillips, intended to wake
the echoes far and near, and to fan the
flame of Northern hatred once more
against our unhappy land Of the South:
II consider Greeley accession candi-
date. I believe the plot to nominate
him was hatched by Southern white
rebels more than year ago. and has
been mainly nursed by them.
No negro san vote for Greeley who values
his life or property, or cares for his race.
If, by a frown OF Providence, he is
elected. I shall advise every Southern
loyalist to load the revolvers that Grants
arrest Of North Carolina >Ku Klux has
allowed to be laid aside. II he is elected,
let the negroes live in squads of Fifty,
whom no coward will dare shoot down.
For loyal administration to
protect the negro. awe the rebel. and
give the working-men a chance, Grants
little finger is worth a-baker's dozen of
Greeley's."
Now We despair Of ever being able to
agree. in opinion or principle. or har-
monize in feeling with man whose
blood-thirsty propensities have not been
appeased by the hecatombs sacrificed in
the late war. The passions of that civil
strife have long ago died out in the
bosoms OF all generous Northern men
They survive in the breasts OF Phillips,