The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1872-05-22
ENoREE PLANTATION, s. O.,
May IT, 1872.

affairs of nations and peoples as we'll as
Of individuals, and happy are those who
possess the ssgacity to discern and take
advantage of it. We have been swept
over by disastrous war of four years
duration, followed for seven years more
by the lashed and maddened waves OF
misiudgment and miarule, which has
shaken the country from centre to cir
oumferenoe. both socially and politically.
The stormy pillows of passion and hate,
engendered by the late war, have COM
menced to subside in the North, and her
best men are now surveying the situation
and taking their latitude and departure
President Grant, during the late war,
saved the territorial integrity of the Re-
public, and for it he deserved we'll of the
North. This debt they have paid to the
full, by elevating him to the Chief Ma
gistracy Of the Republic-the highest
position in the gift of the American peo-
pie. We cherished the hope when he
was elected that he would inaugurate his
administration by calling to his counsel
the pnrest and ablest men in the entire
country-men who. by long experience
in public affairs, understood the needs of
the country and the working of our
governmental system, and would spare
no effort to re-adjust in all its parts this
once great and happy Republic, and re-
store that general good feeling which
once pervaded the land. That he did
not do 30 was his own fault, for no one
was over before surrounded by crcnm-
stances 80 auspicious for good. That he
ignored the best and ablest men in the
entire country, and snubbed the best
men IN his own party, and surrendered
to the Radical faction, was his own act.
That he is especially to blame for the dis.
astrous and perilous condition of the
country, in both her domestic and foreign
affairs, l opine no one will gainsay.
During the war the North manifested o
singular sagacity in sending to the rear
her generals as soon aa victory failed to
perch upon their banners. Grant stands
stood as general upon the disastrous
field of Bull Run-confused, defeated,
routed. If We are to Judge the future
by the past, let him prepare to got to the
rear, for such is his fate. The war has
ended and freedom is now permanently
established, slavery having been torn up,
oloven in the very roots, out of the Con
stitution, leaving not fibre to tell where
it once was. We are now moving for
ward and battling for the next station
upon the great thighway-the purifcation
of the Government and the paci6cation
of the country. The great moral power
Of the North and West hns spoken, and
they have reached out their hands in
anxiety to US and have invited US to unite
with them in the great contest. They
have put forth as their standard bearers
in the fight Horace Greeley and Gratz
Brown. It is not to be expected that
those to whom we have heretofore looked
to for counsel will move up promptly to
the support of Mr.. Greeley, with whom
they have for lifetime been in mortal
combat But will the rising manhood
OF the State daily by the waysids and
wait for Mr.. Belmont to come up with
his little truck cart, before they decide
what they will do? We hope not.
Should we wait. and the Democratic
party put into the field straight out
ticket, not only will the furnace in the
North again glow to red heat, and the
elections in the South be carried by the
military power, but all the chances are
Grant will be reelected, and men, more
radical than those now oeated into power,
will be returned to the next Federal Con-
gress. Should the rising generation,
however, everywhere move up promptly,
and the Democratic party confirm the
nomination of Greeley and Brown, not
only will they be triumphantly elected.
but better men everywhere than those
now in Office will be run upon their
ticket and lifted into places OF power and
trust There will be vast change for
the better in every department, both
State and Federal, of our great oom.
pound system Of government. The diff
ferent sections of the country will again
begin to understand each other, and a
kindly feeling will spring mp between
them. Capital and labor will pour down
with rushing tide into our beautiful
State, so tenderly loved in provincial
days by Shaftesbury and Locke. Your
beautiful city, which now numbers about
10000 people, will, in few years, with
her magnificent water-power, number
90, 600 or 100, 900; all the hills for miles
around will be dotted with cottages and
covered with teeming and merry po-
pulation, and on and on will she move,
increasing in numbers, prosperity and
power until she rivals the great manu-