The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1865-08-26

1870 1870 iV''9o1'ooe 3t.Oa 3,"sS'o4s 3i4i
lS4o Il, 195,695 34.13 2,S73,75S 23.4l
1850. la,553:OGS 1914 3,C3s,7c2 2s.61
1860 26,975,575 3.97 4.41, ,73u 22O7
Their employment as soldiers in war
has not increased their longevity-has
not tended to make them more pro
lltlc. Our calculation is that the dmi-
mutton of the black ace,tluring the
vicissitudes of the last four years. will
be at least one million. In .;saother
year, famine, irregularity of ibod and
life, excess OF all sorts, rlmentionable
diseases immedicable, or lackins medi-
Cal AID, will do the work more ttftctu-
ally even than war And what if the
caprlccs, impatience, desperation of
the negroes, shall precipitatc that con-
f1ict which Justice Chase and his
c>'yreres, perhaps, only looking for, in
convenient progress of time lie
whites of the South, with their hands
tied behind them, may perish; there
may be more general wreck and ruin
even than prevails now--annihilation
may follow *rcck-but how will the
conqucring blacks be permitted to
survive? The North, as 4 whole, will
then avelH5e upon. u faction, those tel<
rble crimes, and that ruin of States
and Empires, which, bus for the
one iacheSSe, would never have been
suffered to possess any capacity fo:.
harm.
We learn, by letters from Washing
ton, that President johnson will not
succumb to the insolence of the radicals
much longer, and that, while his Ca
binet is not exactly what Andrew
Jackson required his to be. 'ex,s u,ait,"
Their differences Of "-ct and opinion
viii net make him bud9e oae step
iron the resolution h,, iias .AAen, on
the subject Of reconstruction Briefly,
ne will no5 surrender the South 10
the tender 81 crcies OF the Abolition
faction. who, not content with taking
the negro c!t Of bondage, would en-
dow him with powers, insGovernnlent
and society. to which tits nero imper-
tinence TO hold him equal, and for the
proper exercise Of which, on She part
of any people, there requires tho social
training of more than hundred years.
of an individual exercise and exoe-
rience in q state Mt least of COMPARE
tive civilization. We take for granted,
that, in order to maintain himself in
the course be has adopted, the Presi-
deut will need not merely the recon-
struction Of the Union, but th. recon
struction Of his own Cabinet. That has
been sufficiently indulged, hitherto,
but we greatly mistake the man if he
submits to dictation one hour longer
than an obvious policy requires You
may look for changes in the political
moon, which shall subject hungry po-
litcians to cloudy skies and weeping
eyes, especially arnong the wise men
OF the East. The agitation upon which
New England has kept herself alive,
and been fed, for thirty years, will
not be suffered much longer to tax the
cor ntl.y with constant strife and irri-
taton sand the danger of perpetual
change and war They have brought
about all. the mischief of the past
will they. be suffered to SOW the seeds
~ 1A.SSSSGInC luGuIG CQSCCTuSI
We note: that Governor Perry pres
ence IS eagerly and freely called for,
IN various portions of the State, and
his approaching arrival even an
nounccd, loading to frequent disap-
pointment iii certain sections. But
the Governor, for obxious reasons, has
made GreenviIe, his own residence,
his Headquarters, and therc letters
and visitors may reach him with little
more {, cost and difficulty than if thsy
sought him Ii Columbia. The re-
sources OF the Provisional Governor of
this or any other State, at present,
will not suffice to enable him to wA.
der 1NI,era he ,y;u SoS sx1- 4,