The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1865-10-01
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Sunday Morning, October 1, 1865.
Popular Elections and the Objects OF
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p0 Cno"AepCC' e1uu Slet1t1y SCIupu-
lous in the choice of their Legislators,
such now. is the great necessity of the
Southern people, and especially the
people Of South Carolina No mere
commonplace representatives should
serve-no mere peanut-eaters-men
only good as make-weights and tail
pieces Of leader, and to sing. out
yea and nay, according to the will Of
a ben-wether. Even comm. On sense,
though most sterling quality in law
making, will only suffice in degree.
1t IS uncommon sense that we now
require. There must, if possible, be
brought forward those who possess
forethought, and who can cast their
minds far forward into the future,
anticipating the novel necessity and
guarding against the birth and growth
of unexpected vicissitudes.. The first
difficulties to be met, will arise from
our financial embarrassments-the
necessity 9kmeeting, out of our own
resources, Mot merely the absolute
expenses of Government, but, in
very ry.considerable degree, the exigen-
cles OF our society. We have got to
provide ways and means, without
making taxation too great weight
Tor people SO impoverished to bear.
We have need for this, to consider
and provide means for the recupera-
ton of our population. This will re-
quire a legislation which shall tend to
encourage and stimulate the diversi-
tication of our pursuits. We have
need to hold forth encouragement to
foreign people to colonize among us.
This.wiu need that we extend every
possible countenance to the manufac-
turing and industrial arts, to all the
arts, to machine shops, and every
variety and kind of artisan labor.
The fatal error in our previous legis-
lation, which naturally kept down the
growth of our population, was in the
concentration of all our favor upon
the one pursuit of agriculture, to the
almost total exclusion from care or
consideration of the mechanical and
manufacturing arts. We are to learn
that all the arts work together, and
are required to work together, con-
spontaneously, if we calculate upon a
social progress to fortune, improve
ment and permanency of state and
condition. Our schools and colleges
Will need such representation, as will
SET o1eaziy before the eyes of the
student, that they are to labor-that
labor is not inconsistent with the
grace and dignity of the gentle
man-that it is no longer the po-
Icy of the State, if it ever was,
to train up race of spoutcrs,
lawyers, doctors and parsons, ire
spective of their natural endow-
ments; and that, failing in marked
natural gifts of the highest order, the
pupil can only be rightly placed. and
made duly successful in life, by sink
ing into the ranks Of ordinary labor,
and working out his deliverance by
the sweat of his brow. We should
encourage especially such schools as
will combine physical labor, SO many
hours of each day, with mental
studies, during a corresponding num-
Der Of hours. BY this process, we
shall reconcile the minds of our young
to the performance of duties which,
hitherto, they have been too much,
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