The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1866-11-11
The Next Session of Congress.

elapse before the unscrupulous lead
ers of the Jacobin party will again
assemble in what they cali the Con
gress of the United States. They
will go there full of arrogance and
exultation over their successes in the
fall elections, and they will claim that
these results justify them in the exc
cution of any policy they may see
proper to adopt towards the South,
no matter how extreme and ruinous.
They know that the President is
helpless in the presence of their over
whelming majority in both Houses,
and can oppose no obstacles to their
nefarious plans. They are exaspe-
rated at the opposition they encoun-
tered in the late election, and are
maddencd with the knowledge that
they barely escaped defeat; that their
majorities were everywhere cut down,
and that the popular vote shows a
heavy falling off in their strength
both East and West This is to them
the handwriting on the wall, and
while it causes their knees to knock
together, and their miserable souls
to quake, it at the same time infames
them with rage, and gives venom to
Their tongues and fresh malignity to
their hearts. We may, therefore,
confidently look for wilder and more
unreasonable displays of fanaticism
than any the country has yet seen.
No possible good can be hoped from
such a body Of men. No idea of
craftsmanship guides their legisla-
| ton, nor sense of decency restrains.
Rloting in power which they feel and
know is slipping from their hands,
they disgrace the seats they occupy,
| and sacreligiously defle the holy
trusts committed to their charge.
Thank God, the session is a short
one, and they have but shout ninety
days in which to perpetrate their
enormlties. The hope is that they
will have so many villainous schemes
| that will conflict with each other,
that they may fail to perfect any.
This is not impossible.
New England's interests must be
attended to. She must have her in
famous tariff bill, concocted at the
last session, but laid over until this,
and she will not longer tolerate the
further postponement Of her supe-
rior claims; and much as she detests
the South, much as she would de-
light in pursuing the work of torture
of that down-trodden and impove-
rished people, she must have the
tariff so arranged that all sections
shall be tributary to her Right here
will come a struggle among the Jaco-
bins themselves. The Western mem
bers will not dare to sacrifice their
constituencies to the all-grasping
avarice of New England. Dreading
a split, however, which would de-
prlve them of tho rich repast OF graft
fed malice and fanaticism in the
South for which they are so eagerly
preparing, they Will endeavor to com
promise and temporize with the
Yankee States upon the tariff ques-
ton. But those States, we predict,
will be unyielding. Their motto is,
"a bird in the hand is worth two in
the bush," and they have another
motto, that ''it is better to rob two
men than one." The tariff will
enable them to rob the whole coun-
| w, Viz oSCI1OA1 VI WdlCli ycU I1Cu,
while the plunder of the South would
give them chance at but one sec
ton, and that already cleaned of it's
wealth. She has heard of the fable of
the dog who dropped the bone to get
heshadow in the water This startling
difficulty, which is now staring the
amiable Jacobins in the face, may
prove the salvation of the country,
by preventing legislation against the
South. If it does, it will be the first
time in American history that the
sordid meanness and grasping ava
rice OF New England has ever been of
service to the country.
There is no doubt that, if the bill
is passed, the President will veto it,
and then there will be muddle, for
no two-thirds vote can be had in that
Congress to carry it over his head.
We are well satisfied, from all the
signs, that Yankeeism is about to re-
ceive check-LouiSUiNe Courier.
The whole civilized world seems to
be raging with the fever of radical
ism. The din and roar of the reform
movement in England almost browns