The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1866-10-17
The Future of Radicalism.


and its bitter end:
There is no more melancholy sign
Of the decadence of our republican
virtues than that fierce intolerance
which characterizes the revolutionary
faction Of the North. Inspired with
diabolical hate and fury, it can brook
10 difference of opinion, howeve,
pure and honest, and, defiant in it's
turbulence, it would set at defiance
all the laws of God and man. As we'll
might we reason with mad bulls and
wild beasts; as efficient would appeals
of Justice and mercy be, if addressed
to granite walls and alamantine
rocks, as to the political fends now
riding the popular storm of passion
and excitement. Like ravenous
wolves, fired by the taste and smell
of blood, neither the shouts of the
hunters nor the baying of the dogs
can drive them from their prey As
long as there remains bono of the
carcass of American liberty, to be
picked and gnawed, these wolves,
vultures and hyenas will continue at
their disgusting work, and our coun-
try will only find repose when her
epltaph shall have been written. Like
a huge anaconda or boa-constrictor,
radicalism has wound its cold and
scaly form around the Constitution,
and now, with fiery breath and enve-
nomed fang, it both strikes and
brushes the prostrate form. of free
dom.
The Jacobinical spirit which now
surges throughout the North sets at
naught the warnings of the past, the
voices of the present, and the pro-
misses of the future. Does the Con
stltutlon of the country stand in its
way? 1t is at once tomahawked with
an amendment, and scalped by a
''ioint resolution of Congress" or ere
port from its central directory. Do
the precepts of Holy Writ, the truths
of the eternal Word of God, stand in
the path of the fanatic host? They.
too, are impiously swept away like
cob-wcbs, and in the estimation of
the radicals, there are none now so
foul, treacherous and vile as those
who stand by their country and their
God, like the old-time patriots and
Christians?
When bad men have successfully
combined for wicked and unholy pur-
poses; when a band of thieves is ope-
rating, In whose councils unanimity
prevails for time, the community
suffering from their lawless and felo-
NOUS acts have but one hope for
safety when the law is impotent for
protection. 1t is this: that when the
rogues have gathered and accumu-
lated their plumber, they will ulti-
mately quarrel over the distribution
of their ill-gotten gains. The proba-
bility that all organized thieves and
robbers will ultimately cut each
others throat is q reflection which
inspires US with hope, and causes
our minds to be possessed with pa
tience, even while we sigh and groan
at the calamities, present and pro-
spectlve, which threaten our destruc-
ton. The strong arm and vigilance
of the law often cements and pre-
serves by its action organization at
war with society, by its very efforts
to destroy them. The pressure of
justice and the dangers of dissensions
and divisions in their conclaves, fire.
quently unite villains and make them
keep he peace for their common Sc
curity. But let all pursuit and oppo-
sition be removed, let crime and vio-
lence run wild and unchecked, and
these unhailowed agents of perdition
fall upon and destroy one another,
and, like n nest of writhing vipers,
perish from the mutual venom of re-
ciprocal stings.
These consideration encourage us
in the belief that the vile and infa-
nous party, now wrecking our desti-
MES, will never be so near destruc-
tlon as when it has hurled from its
course ali opposition and resistance.
1t will then perish from the seeds of
decay which it has ever borne in its
polluted bosom, and, i'll It's desperate
frenzy, 1t will become suicidal in its
action. AS soon as this unscrupulous
party no longer feels the restraints
which its conservative adversaries
have put upon it, it will become fu
rlously centrifugal, and go spinning
down to ruin. AS soon as its gall,
bitterness and poison cannot be put
upon others, it will die from excess of
virus, as snakes and mad-dogs do,
and will perish miserably from the
extent and magnitude of its own cor
ruption.
BRAZIL. The Emperor of Brazil,