The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1865-11-19

they may, their duties rs citizens.
None here had any part in producing
the convulsion. The right of seces-
sion, i'll understood, was generally
regarded es chimerical, end the aot:o:,
of the South as void of sufficient
cause and i1-advised. As the subject
came to be studied, the sympathy of
large numbers was given to the South
in some cases, from conviction that
they had right on their side; in others,
from admiration of their gallant
spirits and glorious achievements,
with many from that feeling which is
part of our nature, leaning to the
other side. But as none endeavored
to provoke the catastrophe, so none
will attempt by word or pen to impede
the return of concord. This, how
ever, must not prohibit the frank ex-
preston of opinion on great public
events, whether as regards their past
history or their probable influence on
the future.
In contemplating Union restored
by force, we cannot forget what has
been so often exempGfed-the power
of a peoples traditions and their
tenacity of life. The Union had no
stronger bond than it's hist Dry. Its
progress and renown, its great pres
ent and unbounded future, its prin-
ciples and its flag, were common to
all, and gloried in alike by North and
South. Between the two people there
had ever been much discordance,
which time had widened; but they
had fought on the same fields, shared
the same misfortunes, rejoiced in the
same triumphs. In the place of this
strong connecting link, history for
the future will be a centrifugal force
Through all time to come there will
be two histories, widely different; and
If the press of the South be ever free,
it will have literature of it's own. It
viii have its own memories, its own
heroes, its own tears, its own dead.
Under these traditions, sons will grow
to manhood, and lessons sink deep that
are learned from widowed mothers.
Numbers of Northern people will
doubtless settle in the country, but
there is a well known tendency in
these to become accimated in spirit;
nor is it easy to dislodge i've million
Of people. Hence, the prospect most
apparent in the future is that of
proud people chatting under the bitter
ness of injustice, and the remem-
brance of defeat
And the extinction of slavery pro-
duces a new danger to the Union. 1t
enforced that cohesion of the North
ern States, which they do not natu-
rally possess, and which has given
them their present triumph With
the fall of slavery this disappears, and
the alliance of the South and West,
hitherto superficial, may eventually
become thorough. This is the first
civil war of the race on the continent.
It would be difficult to find an in
stance of a Republic whose first civil
war was its last. But the terrible
cost of this struggle will long be re-
membered, and, with such experience,
if it should prove that any large sec
ton of the American people again
desire to exercise Mr.. Lincoln's ''most
valuable and most sacred right that
of possessing II Government of their
own, we trust the spectacle will be
exhibited which Mr. Seward once de-
scribed-that of a great people re-
arranging its Government to common
advantage, peacefully, and with the
approval of the world
SECRETARY STATIONS GUARD.-A
Washington correspondent of the
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