The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1866-07-19
COLUMBIA.
Thursday Morning, July 10, 1856.
New Kind Of Political .Eag,.a..

Some ScrlODlef toF tuS NEW 1Ofk
Times, who has been loating around
Hollywood and Oakwood Cemeteries,
near Richmond, and perhaps wit
messed the ceremonies of decorating
the graves of the deceased soldiers.
writes to that paper that these ,"n,c,
mortal associations" are ''potent po-
itical engines" among the Southern
people, and that "these memorial
days have become painfully fire.
quent."
The country is in danger, to mo-
raj certainty, from the plottings of
the women Of the South! These me-
mortal gatherings, according to these
sleuth-hounds of the radical press,
are mere sham-they are political,
and perhaps treason, meetings in fc-
minine disguise, for, according to
this writer, at every one of these
meetings, recruits are gathered to
the democratic banner.
In the name of ell that is truthful,
virtuous and patriotic, why are these
mendacious absurdities written and
printed? What object, what motive
can prompt to such development of
native malgnity of heart, as to pro-
duce such lying statements as the
letter containing the above sentences
embraces? Having overwhelmed the
armies of the South, and the South
having recognized and accepted her
defeat in the knightliest sense of the
word, would these panderers to ma
hgnant fanaticism turn upon the
women with the only weapon they
have ever had the courage to han
dle-the pen of the slanderer-and
insult them? The brave men from
the North, the true soldiers from that
section, who fought under and for the
flag of the Union, we have no doubt,
read these efusions of hired penny
a-livers with supreme disgust.
The women of the South have not
now, nor ever had, anything to do
with politics, and this, the writer of
the above must know as we'll any
body. During the struggle for indie
pendence, they were true-true to the
now ''lost cause"-but never did they
mlngle in party politics. But why
seek to defend, where no defence is
necessary ?-to defend the noble and
the pure from the per- of scribbler,
who, not one in thousand of his
own set would believe. Let him
drivel on in his dcpravity; lie is Not
worth the pen and ink spent on him.
But besides this fellow, who would
make our noble women democrutic
recruiting officers OF drivers of dan
gerous political engines" there are
other manifestations that the solemn
and loving ceremonies of showing
our love and respect for the gallant
dead, are distateful to SOM parties,
who ought to know full we'll that
neither treason nor disaffection
skulks in these mournful demonstra-
tions. Political haranguers may de-
claim about them even in the halls of
Congress, as they have done-the
paid letterwriters for radical Journals
may smell treason among the flowers
and garlands strewed over and around
the graves of the lost loved ones. and
the mischief-makers among lis, who
may even unite in the ceremonies thew
denounce rs reasonable, may fawn-
lngly sound the alarm; but the noble
the true and the brave throughout
the land know and feel that these
beautiful tributes to the memory of
the dead spring alone frc,a pure affec
tion, and are the innocent but heart
felt evidences of an appreciation of
the noble deeds of those who fell in
cause they considered Just. The
whole country may rest assured, and
be comforted by the assurance, that
neither treason nor party politics have
anything to do with these memorial
associations; both are dead at the