The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1874-11-10
COLUMBIA. s. G..
Tuesday Morning. Hoivv;., 10. 1874.
The DomocratIo Party and tho Colored
People.

1Uob1ay AVIuAuSs MVVs Az 4osSs
The DOnocratiO Party and tho ooloretl
People.
The question of treatment of the
colored race is one of the most i'm.
portant which the grand success oi
the Democratic party will devolve
upop it. The defeated and disoom.
aled Republicans will. of course, en-.
deavor to stem the tide OF this success,
by reviving as many OF the war cries
and reconstruction policies as they
can. They will represent that the
liberty Of the newly enfranohised people
can oAly be oonsummated and placed
beyond contingency by those who have
claimed to be par e:rceAence their pecu.
liar friends. We shall expect to ses
inaammatory appeals in their behalf.
They will pretend that their civil
rights, their privilege of the suffrage,
their manhood itself, will be all jeo-
pardized unless they continue in the
position OF their protectors. But we
expect to live to see them routed from
even this position. and their absurd
Claims in this regard contested. The
world moves and il moving ra-
pidly in this country. The CO.
lored people are not stationary.
They are becoming enlightened as to
the false attitude in which circum-
stances and the interested designs of
bad men have placed them. They arc
beginning to feel the responsibilities of
good citizenship, and naturally dis
trust those who have imposed upon
them, by using them aa tools to ad-
vance their own ends, and by placing
them in opposition to the peace, ad-
vancement and prosperity of the
States where their lot has been cast.
They will just as naturally be careful
about the formation OF now alliances.
There Will be remnant of the old an
iipathy to Dem ,crats to be surmonnt-
ed. Bat surmounted it will be-, and
those considerations OF interes.. olicy,
coed feeling, good government, which
can only be promoted in the end by
ooNlsal understanding between the
two races, will assert their proper
sway. We look, therefore, to see in
no great while the Democratic white
man and the hitherto Radical black
man banded tegethe. n political ao-
tion. We find our thoughts upon this
.ubieotso we'll conveyed in ON editorial
article in the New York Herald,
that we transfer it maiuly to our
columns. with our unqualified endorse
ment Of its soundness. good sense. and
spirit Of justice. A high duty is now
imposed upon our people in the South,
and, accepting with thanks the oompli-
mentary language of the Herald to the
organizing faculty aud talents for con-
trol of Democratic politicians, North
and South, We must, at the same time,
be heedful Of it's suggestions in our
NSaha6 Viva lhO oouoItlSo INOt.u. 4t
Is great thing to regain political con-
troll. It will be the solution of our
own troubles, and the restoration to
us of our jnst political power. We
must be on our guard that we do not
forfeit by any rash or i'll alteration, any
element which tends to the achieve
ment OF the great result Our safety,
oar escape, lies in forming into line
with the grent Democratic movement
which is sweeping the country. Our
duty and our policy blend in the deter
mination to make friends Of the colored
people, and in the cordial recognition
and enforcement Of thei. f.!i rights.
Bot, as We said, the whole problem
has been 30 we'll discussed by the
Herald, that We forbear any further re.
marks OF our own, and ask the atten-
tion OF our readers to its just OBJ. erva-
hons:
I'VE have no doubt. it says. "that
the rights of the negroes will b. more
secnre in Democratic than in Republl.
Can hands. II il the tendency and
effect OF the Republican policy to
array the negroes in hostility to the
t~.,, al - l.