The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1873-09-23
!, In this connection, the Richmond
DisDafch thus speRks:

In this connection, the Richmond
Dispatch thus speaks:
"The Republican party has been kept
together by constantly warning upon the
South. The leaders have played upon
the credulity OF the Northern voters as
nurses Tighten children by telling them
of demons that never had existence, and
the unsuspecting voters have been mis-
led by this shnllow strategy. Even now,
the adroit candidate Of the Republican
party in this State for Governor repeats
in all his speeches his accusations that
the Conservatives are still lighting the
Government. His only regret is that
the assertion ia not true. He wishes
that we we're fighting the Government.
It would help him all the moro, If not
with the people of Virginia, certainly
with the Government at Washington
an importnnt point. But the outcry
against the South since the war-the
charges that the Southern people were
insubordinate-were all false. They are
as true to the Government as any peo-
pie in the Union, aud are. indeed, law-
abiding, Government-sustainin people;
and the people everywhere are begin-
ming not only to ess this. but to see how
the Sonthernera have been cruelty mis-
represented, oruelly wronged, in order
that the Republican leaders might keep
their. places, and Republican corrup-
tions. under the pressure of elections,
las Governor Bullock. of Massachusetts,
said, might not be Investigated. But
this sort of strategy of the corrupt poll
ticians who dread to give up their hold
upon the public treasury is growing
feeble. and will finnlly be universally
regarded as contemptible RS it is disho-
most. It has only tended to the per-
sonal advantage of the agitators. ut The
expense of the country-sowing the
seed of discord and inlamipg the Hec-
tional passions. to the lasting injury of
the nation. The signs that the people
are getting tired of this abomination are
plentiful. The party leaders perceive
It. But they see more than this-they
see that their own interests require that
they should cense their sectional crusade
and look to the general welfare Of the
nation, as the best means of winning
their way to high position. It is en-.
phaticalIy impressed upon public pro-
ceedings that party discipline is not 30
much respected and obeyed ns recently,
and the haokneyed sectional phrases and
sectional denunoiations are not q feature
OF party proclamations, as formerly.
Need we point to the neglect Of late in
framing Republican preambles and re-
solutions to incorporate in them inflated
puHs of the President aud his brilliant
administration? Is not that sign Of
consequence? Are not the aspirants to
the Presidency looking to their own
prospects, and plainly showing disin
clination towards hestowing praise upon
General Grant? The awarding of eclat
and glory to him might strengthen his
prospects for third term, to the seri-
GUS discomfort of the prominent Re.
publican leaders. Massachusetts has
plainly declared that when tho Republi-
can party is merely used as means for
acquiring Office and making money, it
has ceased to be public good and will
be abandoned. That State has but
pointed to public discomfort which is
widespread. The oorrnptions and
abuses of the var party, that party
whose mission was ended with the war,
will not be covered up under the press
ure of another election; and the firing
up OF the public mind by arousing SEQ.
tional hate will not likely again bs sue
cessfully employed by INSCRIPTIONS and
dishonest partiaans.
The colored people OF Mississippi
have begun to pack off the carpet. bag
gers. The Rev. E. Tucker, of Indiana,
who has been paid for teaching q. 60.
lored school at Reymand, Hind.
County, but has spent the greater por
ton of his time teaching politics anG
presiding over Grant club, is on hi
way homo. After the late convention
his negro admirers soured on him
broke up the Grant club, and indicated
to Mr.. Tucker that AIississippian.
could teach Mississippi children and at
tend to Mississippi politics.
General Grant was pa sscnger on I
train on the Pennsylvania Central. or
the l7th instant, which was wrecked
but he escaped without injury. He wa
on his way to join tho Army Of the Re
public at Pittsburg. a matter Of les.