The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1865-11-30
Brazi1-The Charm Broken.

hraz1--Vho Charm Broken.
If a statement we find in the Free
mans Journal, an able Catholic news
paper. is correct, says the Richmond
Whig, those of our Southern fellow
citizens who are revolving schemes of
emigration to that country, are reck-
oning without their host. The eli
mate of portions of Brazil is all that
could be desired; indeed, that coun-
try, in the main, presents the most
alluring attractions in its almost in
comparable advantages of climate and
soil. The Emperor, if Professor
Agasslz, now on visit to Brazil, may
be credited, is both gentleman and
a scholar. Such, indeed are his
scientific attainments that Professor
Agassiz, after spending day with
him in the Royal Observatory in
making observations of an eclipse,
declared that he was the first monarch
he had seen, after enjoying interviews
with those of Europe, for whose
scientific attainments he felt sincere
respect The inducements held out
by this cultivated monarch to emf
grants are very attractive. But there
is one great difficulty, according to
the Freeman's Journal, which pro-
fesses to derive its information from
credible sources in Brazil, and which
is thus stated by that journal: care
they (the proposed Southern emi-
grants) aware that the cabinet, or
ministry, of the Emperor, is chiefly
composed of negroes? Do they know
it sometimes happens that there is
not one man of pure white blood in
the ministry under the Emperor? Do
they know that the judges that pre-
side in the courts, before which they
will have to appear, in civil or crimi-
nal suits, are as often, or oftener,
negroes, as white men?'
These are surprising facts, if true,
and are known, we presume, to but
few, if any, of those who contem-
plate emigrating to Brazil, iu conse-
quence of their attachment to the
institution of slavery. There is one
more important fact which such per-
sons should we'll consider. While it
is true that African slavery is law of
that Empire, there are causes now at
work that will, no doubt, accomplish
the downfall of that institution, GER
tainly within lifetime The En-
peror is, himself, an advocate of
emancipation.
With these facts established, there
will be, we opine, an end put to these
Southern schemes of emigration-to
Brazil, at least. Instead Of white
emigrants to Brazil, there should be
a strong tide of negro emigration to
that country. The climate certainly
suits the negro, and the political and
social advantages of which the F1'ee-
mans Journal speaks, would place
them in that position there which
their leaders so much covet, but can
never gain, in this country-that of
equality with the whites.
The New York correspondent of the
Cincinnati Commercial, says that at
Mrs. John Woods theatre they have
actually gotten up, and are perform
ing, burlesque melange Of over an
hour in length, devoted to Bennett, of
the Herald, the great black mailer.
One scene is laid in purgatory-the
other in James Gordon's editorial
sanctum. In one appears the devil
and his imps-in the other the editor
of the Herald, with goggles on, and
his imps. The pith and point of the
whole thing seems to be, that the
prince of darkness and his cohorts are
taxing their ingenuity to devise some
plan by which they can gather Ben
nett within their fold. They feel that
he is too wary for them, and, indeed,
he does battle their efforts for some
time, and goes on in his career of
wickedness, but finally is circumvent-
ed, and falls into the hands of Satan,
who, amidst a glare of red lights,
hastens him down to the Internal
regions, and thus he expires in a blaze