The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1865-09-17

~hat IL DecrecG1 for Us.
The old maxim of the free people is in
our ease reversed. 1t is not as we will. but
as. the winds will. Our condition denies us a
Will. We must submit to decree. and
adopt it as our will, and the only question
with us is US to the performance that is re-
quired at our hands. On our compliance
with this decree, without humming or
having, we are to be accorded certain pri-
vileges of life, certain toleration in COM
parative civilization, which is supposed to
guaranty the right 10 live, TO n.Dor, aud pay
taxes. We are, at the same time, to partake
of the pride and satisfaction of being a part
of a great empire, spreading from sea- to
sea, and destined, in process of time, ac-
corthng to the faith of all democratic per
fectionists, to ascend to eminences of fame
and power infinitely beyond .,,nythirg ever
known to Roman, Greek and British
achievement All of which is very delight
full to contemplate. The question occurs,
what are we to do in order to secure this
condition of mendane felicity and state? {?
The answer to this question is one which
WE have noed to know without any unneces-
safy delay, since the promises of fortune
and authority do not often wait upon tardy
Footsteps, and our h1c1AeSse may incur Il for
felturc of the good things of the future,
which, hereafter, We may bitterly regret
We assume that our public have concluded
to submit to the acquisitions made upon
them, and only need to know what these
acquisitions are. We give, accordingly. a
series of short chapters, from the National
I"teaige1ce', which seem, more fully than
anything we have seen before, to emhody
the substance OF the decree to which we are
counselled to submit, with the reasons
which prompt the requisition and justify it,
and an array Of the advantages to thcSouth
OF speedy compliance with them. Tie
I''teAtge>tce', we are told, is that organ of
opinion at Washington which, more than
any other, commands the respect and conf
dence OF President Johnson. This being
the case, the publication has sort of official
character, which entities it to special con-
slderatlon, and we commend it to the care
full perusal OF onr readers, as weal as to those
who now preside in judgment upon the
~>N'oNANAN" VI S'eA
another column, segregated into six short
chapters, the perusal of which may we'll
prepare the mind for it's Sunday medita-
tons, all Of WHICH should be well grounded
In the one emphatic text which counsels
humility. as the first beginning of. all wig
dom. Upon our knees, and with prayer
TO- be lifted up, we may persuade ourselves
that we are on the threshold Of enlighten-
ment, if not deliverance
The REMOVAL OF RESTRICTIONS ON TRADE
IN THE SOUTHERN STATES. Es.-The Secretary
of the Treasury to-day promulgated the
Presidents proclamation of the 29th ult:,
for the information and guidance of officers
of the Treasury Department, and says:
In conformity with its TERMS articles
heretofore regarded as prohibited may be-
transported to places in States heretofoye,
declared in insurrection. without any re
striction, except guns; pistols and'an11nu-
milton. Applications for sthe shipment of
these should be made in writing to the pro
per officers OF customs, who will forward
them to the department for its decision, ac-
companied with such Recommendations as
they may be disposed to make.
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