The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1866-03-18
COLUMBIA.
Sunday Morning, March 1s, 1865.
Stand by Your Country.

Mexico nor Brazil offer such rewards
of industry as may be found at home,
to say nothing of the drawbacks to
happiness and contentment which
arise from a difference of language,
customs, laws, religion and manners.
But there is one kind Of emigration
we do not hesitate to recommend to
young men. It is to emigrate from
the cities and towns to the country,
and instead of seeking positions as
clerks in business houses, to rent land
enough in the rural districts to give
them occupation, or to seek employ
ment at the hands of the farmers.
who complain so much of the want
of labor. More money can be made
in this way out of the soil than they
can obtain in the cities. They can
become producers instead of being
consumers. Let them answer the
cry of the interior country for labor,
and they will increase their individual
wealth and the wealth of the South.
The public opinion of the South
ought to be arrayed against all drones
and idlers, who lounge their lives
away in cities and villages, when
labor is so much needed and offers
such rich rewards. What i, there
degrading in labor? It is not half so
degrading as lazy dependence There
is nothing even in hiring themselves
out to work on farms which is less
compatible with personal dignity
than hiring themselves to work in
stores, counting-rooms, or Offices,
for the city employers. Those of our
young men who, in the late war, en-
rolled themselves as privates, and
placed themselves under the direction
of officers of companies, whose supe-
riority in civil life they would never
lave recognized, will find nothing as
menial in the duties of a farm as they
had to perform in camp-no such sa-
crifce of dignity and independence,
no such hardship and toll. Why is
it less honorable to occupy the station
of private in peace than in war, espe-
cially when successful campaign
will fill the pockets, and enable the
laborer Of this year to be the pro-
prietor of next?
The New York News, speaking of
the schemes of the policy of the
radical party, says that it is not SIM
ply the qualification of sectional anti
pathy, nor yet even the desire to make
partisan capital by conferring political
power upon the freedmen, that in
duces them to make war upon the
Presidents policy of reconstruction.
They have an object beyond these,
and we regret to see that it is being
partially accomplished. That object
is to SO far disgust md discourage the
more influential classes of the South
as to provoke them to sef-expatri-
alton. The demagogues who rule in
Congress have cunning enough to be
aware that systematic course of in
justice and insult toward a sensitive
and high-toned race, born to freedom,
and kindly appreciative of it's loss,
will leave them no acceptable alter
native but to seek shelter in other
lands from the tyrrnny that weighs
upon them in their own. The close
OF the war left the Southern peoplei in
great depression of spirits, afflicted
with domestic misfortunes, and crush
ed beneath load of poverty and sor-
row. This burden of suffering ma
turally occasioned a mental and moral
prostration that intensified the sus-
ceptlblllty to indignity and outrage.
There is no lack Of manhood in the
Southern States. History does not
record a more sublime display of
moral courage than our vanquished
countrymen have shown in their ac-
ceptance of the consequences of dis
comfiture. When the great political
fabric that they reared was dashed
from its foundations and crumbled
over their heads +ba1, c+ooI o,,;1 4l>o