The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1865-12-02
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take the odious test oath, are ex-
cluded from seats in Congress, the
States thereby left without repre-
sentation, will have their remedy in
the future, and their revenge, if re-
venge be agreeable, in the reflection
that the verdict of mankind and the
judgment of history will fix the seal
of condemnation on those who, in
the hour of triumph, allow unma11ly
resentments to usurp the place which
In nobler natures is given to magnani-
nifty, and who employ the brute force
of numbers against right, reason and
the obligations of the Constitution.
The picture of a fully restored Union,
and complete pacification, which
would be exhibited by the occupation
of every seat in Congress, is one
which every real friend of the Re-
public should be eager and proud to
present to the world. But if short
sighted, factious and malignant policy
is to prevail, the excluded States have
been sufficiently schooled in the ex-
perience of disappointment and injus-
tice, to bear with equanimity new
attempt at wrong
Napoleon, when q prisoner on the
rock of st. Helena, observed to DR..
OMeara that, although he had many
and powerful enemies, nobody ever
injured him bat himself. That OBJ
servation might be made of general
application. 1t is very seldom that
any man is ever injured by another,
If he only remain true to himself.
Let the Southern people so conduct
themselves as to afford not the shadow
of pretext to their enemies for far
ther oppression. They are watched
with a malignant vigilance that knows
no sleep day or night. They are
environed by spies sent for their
especial destruction, and instructed
to suppress everything that may tend
to their disadvantage. Reporters out
OF number are scattered over the land
with directions as to what they shall
report made out for them before they
leave New York and Boston. The
lies they circulate are numerous and
black enough to sink whole race to
perdition. And those who print them
never allow them to be contradicted,
so that they pass for gospel truths
with the general population of the
North
What, then, is to be done? The
| answer is obvious. Let the people
of the South, in the first place, set
about repairing their fortunes, broken
by the disasters of long and unfor-
tunate war. Let them rebuild their
ruined houses, and re-inclose their
fenceless fields Let them develope
the immense resources of their coun-
try, which thus far have been of
little more service than if they had
never existed. Let them reduce the
size Of their large plantations, and
introduce hardy, healthy, active
tenantry, reducing the cultivation of
lands to system, and causing three
blades of grass to grow in every spot
where one grew before. Let them
fill up the country with hardy set
OF intelligent farmers and laborers,
who shall know the value of liberty,
and the requirements it exacts from
those who are blessed with it.
It is by such agencies that South
ern States are to be deprived of their
rights that, after having fought four
years to restore the Union, those who
succeeded are determined still to keep
it asunder. In such q situation, it
becomes the Southern people to be
doubly watchful over their conduct.
Let them SO act that all reports to
their disadvantage shall be so many
lies-apparent as such-and so that
the most prying malice shall not be
able to record anything against them.
The war which the South for four
years sustained, against odds unpre-
cedented in the history of any other
country, is already the admiration
and the amazement of mankind. Let
those who maintained so stoutly the
unequal contest, show that they are