Year: 1867

has the Southern delusion OF the restora ton O


their old Bourbon dynasty been dispelled by
the recent decisive action Of Congress. The
fallacies and foolish promises revived by Presi-
dent Johnsons policy and the last lingering
hopes resting upon Southern mastery mac
tivity" are all gone. The severe logic Of stub.
born facts has suddenly opened the eyes Of
Southern politicians to their manifest destiny
and from Virginia to Texas they are waking up
to their manifest policy-the policy of imme-
diate and systematic action in meeting the con-
ditions laid down by Congresses the conse-
quences Of revolutionizing rebellion from
which there is no escape.


On the new Southern tripod Of Liberty
Equality and Fraternity" there was the other
day most impressive initial meeting Of whites
and blacks at Columbia, South Carolina, al
which General Wade Hampton Cthe very pink
of the chivalry of that Southern Confedsracy
which was set up on the corner stone Of negro
slavery) stood between two black men. OK
pounding the new idea and the new epoch OF
equal rights. We published yesterday . special
report Of an interesting mass meeting of whites
and blacks held the day before at Charleston
at which Judge Moore (white) presided. and E
j. Adams (colored) acted as secretary. The
object of this meeting was to form an associa.
ton to be known as the Union Republican
party Of South Carolina" while that at Colum.
bia was to initiate movement for new and
independent Southern party, embracing a po-
litical fusion of the land owning whites and the
laboring blacks upon the broad ground Of
common interests, political and social, local and
national.


Thus South Carolina, the pioneer and prime
mover in the late rebellion, very properly
takes the lead in this work of submission to
the issues of war of her making, and in this
important business Of reorganization of parties
upon the new ideas, facts and established prin-
ciples of this new era in our national history.
through radical and sweeping revolution of
hundred years of peace. Excepting the
revolutionary consequences of that terri
BILE French convulsion which first startl ed
the world in 1889, there is nothing in the
onward m arch of any nation to compare with
VIC kCVOAutiOn Auouk ulotcu ia tuC OultCQ OtutcS
with the secession of South Carolina in De-
cember, 1860. That act was limited to dozen
lines, declaring the Union dissolved and South
Carolina an Independent sovereignty; but it
decreed the slaughter of six hundred thousand
men, the emancipation from chattel slavery of
four millions of tho African race, and with
their elevation to citizenship and civil and
political equality the blotting out Of all the
political excrescences and accessories of
slavery and all its legal and social atrocities.


The new departure thus devolving upon the
Southern States is q change from the world
before to the world after the delnge. The de-
lays Of restoration resulting from President
Johnson's policy have, in this view, served
good purpose in gradually preparing the
Southern mind for this great change. From
the movem ents of leading Southern politicians
in different p laces remote from each other, all
tending in the same direction, it Is evident that
they have been watching the course Of events
and preparing for the ultimatum that has come
upon them, while hoping for better things.
They now know what they have to
do, and in following tho example
of Wade Hampton they have their
future in their own hands. By meeting
promptly and fairly the conditions Of Congress,
and by harmonizing in good faith with the
blacks, the ruling white class of the South may
take the game Of reconstruction out Of the
hands Of Secretary Slant on and the Northern
radicals and build up the future dominant
party Of the South upon the balance Of power
held by the blacks. This may be done in sea-
son to secure the readmission into Congress of
all the excluded States next winter, which will
give them ample time to play deliberate part
in the approaching Presidential election.


In this connection we hold to the idea that
the ticket of Grant and Lee IS the ticket for
the projected new Independent party OF the
South, because it will operate to fuse Unionists
and rebels, whites and blacks, all under the
same political banner. Grant and Cameron
would be an excellent ticket for the North; for
Cameron in the field Of politics is as hard
to beat as Grant in the strategy and tactics Of
war. If Grant stands as the victor over Buck
ner, Sidney Johnston, Beauregard, Pemberton,
Bragg, 10 Johnston, Lee, &C., Cameron has
also beaten host Of opposing leaders, includ-
ing Forney, Governor Curtin. and " Old Thad
Stevens" In any event, the next Presidential


contest lies open to the South, and in the work


Of reconstruction the Southern planters and


their white allies around them may, If they
will, in the names OF Grant and Lee, build up


Southern political balance Of power on the
black vote-solid, selfsustaining and enduring
The Fifth Avenue Meeting.


II occurs to us that the property owners on
Fifth avenue, who held meeting on Thursday
nicht tn protest against the hill charterng the