The Columbia daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1865, 1865-06-19

remain unemployea-fn out, with all
speed, what it is in our capacity 10 do,
and do it without asking what our neigh
Dor thinks of US, and whether pride will
turn away from US in scorn or not. We
baxe had af1uence which has possessed US
with demonie appetites and tastes. until
We have almost become united for anv
prope. human toll or struggle. Our inflrm-
tiles have grown of this too rapidly ac.
quired affluence, under circumstances
Which can scarcely happen again, unless,
perhaps. in California. 1t may be that,
some sixty years hence. there shall grow
up, along the banks of the Gila, or other
golden waters-perhaps in some of our
own colonies of Sonora-a pet and fortu.
nate community. It shall be favorite
community, under the special smili ne of
that capricious goddess whom all men
seek, called Fortune" Wonderful shall
be their prosperity. They shall become
as gods in their own conceit, till they shah
finally forget God. They shall constitute
what will there be styled "the aristo-
cracy." or 'the fashionabes." They will
dine from plates Of gold, drink from
golden vessels-revel in halls of marble
feast from shrines Of silver-will only
marry with one another-and they will be
acknowledged as lords in the land Your
grandson will probably discover among
these people the grand children of per-
sons who, in the old States-here in Caro-
lina-were not held worthy to loose the
latchets of your shoes. Yet, on the Gila
in their golden palaces of Sonora-wh a t
airs will they take onl How they will
swell-how swagger-how yearn aft er the
foreign-how despise the less fortunate oe
their own race. who must still labor ia the
common Offices of trade and industry-snd
how, on q sudden, even as with us, the
fate will pouuce down upon them in the
midst of their grandeur and insolence, and
blast their fortunes, and shame their pride,
and strip from them the feathers of their
vanity, and cay to them, as in the very
first law of God. Hence, and earn thy
bread by the sweat Of thy brow" They
will thus realize only common history.
FThey viii! dcspise the very regions and
tolls from which their fathers drew their
bread and made their fortunes, and from
which, indeed, they still draw their re
sources. They will curse the country bv
neglect of duty. by absenteeism, by the
introduction of false gods false tastes.
artificial and affected manners, and ener.
waiting fashions. They will see nothing in
the intrinsic virtues Of home; will turn up
their puppy noses at every argument
which seeks to prove to them the supe.
riority of their native treasures And it
will not be easy to cure this insanity in
persons who are far gone with it.. Have
we not seen too many hundreds-nav.
thousands-of these miserables amone!our-
selves. who, even now, while our world is
rocking in confusion-the very earth reel
ing beneath our feet-are still perpatually
reminding you that their blood and social
position were of sort to insarc them a
peculiar immunity from the common dan
ger, and who appear to intimate that Pro.
vidence has been forgetful of its most
sacred trusts in yielding them mp to the
common spoiler. There certainly, as thew
seem to intimate, should have been some
exceptions in behalf of certain familiesl
There is no help for such people-po
cure. But if possible. dear readers, let
US keep these children. IT, younger gene
rations,' from being inoculated with this
blood ana brain poison of vanity. We
give you two propositions to brood
upon. They involve the horns of the
dilemma. A region should always be
represented by the race. The latter
should take their tone and color from its
elemental aspects. They should be fash.
ioned morally and mentally by it's climate
and necessities. These will snit no other
people half so WELL The other is like
unto it. No individual, however eminent,
is superior to his race. He is, in fact.
when eminent, its typical embodiment. He