The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1866-06-26
Southern vs.. Northern Journals.

'Iuhns Poppe, Anderson G. II.
Il. Southern VS.. Northern Journals.
It has ever seemed to us very
sJrange-passing strange-ttiilatt tile
people of the South display such a
perfect mania for periodicals like the
New York Ledger, Hmper's IVeeAlv,
hrdak Leslie's sIU,tstraled, and others
OF kindred ilk, and must confess, in
All: earnestness, that it looks very
little like that independence which
ahould characterize n people. to say
the least of it. It is true, we admit.
that We OF the South do not get ND a
style OF literary journals so flashy
and dazzling as the ones mentioned.
bnt we thought that pride would have
prevented us from ever allowing our
passon--we can call it nothing else
to carry ns so far as to click the foot
that sparned u.s.
During the late war in which we
were engaged, these periodicals above
spoken of were not sparing in their
abuse OF everything Southern, and
large aud gaudv illustrations adorned
their pages in display of the igno-
rance, barbarisn and complete
worthlessness" Of the people Of the
South. Penny-a-line writer's found
IN their columns a source through
which to give vent to their slang and
vituperation against people who
possessed, in their eyes, not a single
attribute Of responsibility. Our Wo-
nen-of whom any country might be
!, Justly prond-have been vilhfied aud
slandsred in their many historical
stories OF the war;" until, did one be-
lieve the ''half OF what was said" it
would be thought there was not lady
South OF Mason and Dixon's line. ex-
ceptlng the school-marms from Nan
keedom, and q sufficient number of
tories, out OF whom to make he
rolnes. Our soldiers-to whose gal
liant deeds and noble daring history
will give her brightest page-were
portrayed by these Journals of civil
aZation as worse than robbers. cnt-
throats and demons. No enormities.
no cr1me, was too great for them to
commit Davis, Lee, Johnston, and
noses OF other pure patriots, were
placed side by side with Benedict Ar
mold and John A. Murrell, because
they were of and with the South.
we might continue the "strino of
sianders which has been heaped
upon the South by these fawnine.
nypocratlcal vampires, until the Cline
would stretch out to the crack of
doom, but it is useless; our people
know full as well as we do what these
sanctimonions, puritanical 'scribblers
nave done to make infamous and de
graded IN the eyes OF the world 0rr
best men and women.
We had hoped for an exhibition Of
more proud and independent spirit;
we had hoped that the Ronner's,
Harpers and Leslie's had received
sheir last dollar Of Southern money.
and that not another of their vile
sheets would be allowed to, cross the
threshold OF a Southern home
1alasl '
4 1--WE saw it but moment
~ But we cannot see it now
I, While journals and periodicals pub.
hshed In the South languish and die
for sustaining patronage, the Golfers
ofasnr enemies are filled to overflow
ing by the people who should be the
last on earth to give them a cent
Where is your pride? What has be.
come OF the memory of the past?
have you forgotten the insults heaped
upon Your fallen heroes whose bones
are scattered from the Potomac to
the Rio Grande, by these same men.
who, now that the war is over. "bend
5sa s.lppliant hinges Of the knee that
uri!t may follow fawning;" having
made ah the money they can from
Northern fanatics by their wholesale
abnse and SANDER of the South. tIev
would now rob yon by fattery and
the smile of the sycophant? Oh
how little of tie old fire burns within
your bosom and how small and dim
must be that spark of pride and reso- |
luton which sustained you through
the perils and dangers OF the recent
revolution. Be men and women AZ
OF old, and show to the world that
your proud spirits are yet uncrushed
and unbroken, and that you will not
give to such despicable wretches that
which gives them power and strength
TO destroy you, ,-Kosciusko Star.