The Columbia daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1865, 1865-07-18

Their rights, 1t is not less proper, nor
perhaps less requisite, that the other
class should appeal to the Executive.
There are certain evils which belong
to all great social changes and dis
placements. These must be expected;
and wisdom requires that they should
be endured without vain repinings and
unmanly murmurs. But it is permit.
ted to desire, and by peaceful mea-
sures secure, the removal of such evils
as are unnecessary, and as bear preju-
dlcialy upon the interests of certain
classes. In cases of this kind, redress
can be confidently anticipated from the
Administration which will extend equal
justice to ALL
The abolition of slavery has dis
solved the obligations previously sub
sisting between master and slave. The
slaves may have constituted the whole
property of the owner, who may now
be reduced to hopeless penury by the
loss Of them-who may be helpless
ward, or widow, or infrrn aud aged
man. For special cases of this sort, it
is not pretended that the Emancipation
Act makes or can make any provi-
sion. 1t does not require the negro to
support the helpless white, who was
formerly his master. Neither can it
require the white man, whose able
bodied servants have left him. to sup
port the infirm and helpless negroes
who remain. They have no claim
upon him whatever; they have no
light to demand, and none have
right, ia their name, to require, that he
shall be crushed by this burden.
And how can the former owner
pledge himself to certain unvarving
and high rates Of moneyed compensa-
tion for menial labor-to an indefinite
provision of medical relief, supply of
food, clothing. and quarters, without
any reduction for al health and bad
weathcr-when he has not the money,
has no cotton growing to bring it, and
is at his wits end to know where it is
to come from; when the precise kind
Of labor we have in view, which was
never characterized by industry and
intelligence, has been deprecialed,by a
sense Of responsibility, by vague
ideas of freedom from menial toll,
aud by the general relaxation Of au-
thority; and when not a few Of the
Write laborers are willing to toll for
bare ration dayl
We notice that farmers meetings in
Virginia, which fixed the rates vt
compensation and made regulations
for the employment of labor. have.
been forbidden by Post Commanders.
OF course no objection would be made
TO meeting Of citizens for the purpose
Of considering the difficulties now at
tendant upon the employment of labor,
and of respectfully memorializing the
Executive upon the vital subject.
Again: consideration of the uues-
ton of rents is advisable. 1t is by
rents las we remarked yesterday that
our waht Of money is partially to be
supplied. And on the other hand,
houses and stores, which are now
rented for brief periods, arc needed
for the resumption Of business. In
many instances competition has dou.
bled and trebled the value of business
stands, Of houses, and Of separate
ROOMS. The. owner has the right Of
availing himself Of any advantage
arising from the perpetual variations
Of supply and demand, Of enjoying
the use or realizing the increasing
value of his property. Under such
circumstances there is a grievance in
orders requiring that rents shall not be
raised beyond the terms demanded
when there was no trade and the