The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1866-07-26
COLUMBIA
Thursday Morning, July %, 1865.
Ke-UnafOIl.

Times, as having been extracted from
II Goldsboro paper:
There IS no trying to conceal it
the Northern and Southern people
don't like each other ntuch-whether
they ever will, we arc not able to pre-
dict. Whether they ever ought, We
are scarcely enough of a moralist to
say. Much has been said-and tho
prattle still goes on-about recon
struction, rehabilitation, reconcilia
ton, &C., but we can't see what
interest the down-trodden South has
i'll any of them, for the present at
least. Her duty is to be silent and
mind her own business. What is it
to the lately rebellious States, whe-
ther they have seventy or seven, or
no representatives i'll the present radi-
cal Congress?
''Why then manifest SO much
anxiety to be restored to the friend
ship of a people who only hate us
and speak of us as barbarians. There
are nc. feelings IN common, social, po-
Htitul or religious, det,ceen tire peopie (,f
the North and the South.
We extract the above for the pur-
pose Of expr assing our diss mt there
from. Such utterances and senti-
ments we thought had been laid
aside, ut the close of the war, and, if
the Southern people have III reality
accepted the result of the arbitra-
ment to which they appealed. such
paragraphs as the above can ou!y he
calculated to do harm. Especially at
this time, when the Executive of the
country and the conservative men of
all sections are SO heartily engaged in
The great work or restoring peace and
harmony, such language as this falls
with peculiar discord on our ears.
The Southern States have been in
vlted to meet their friends in conven-
ton, for the express purpose Of de-
Sising means to rc-cstablish friendly
relations between the sections. and
to restore these States to their former
full relations with the Government.
and we take the ground that, having
to bear their share of the heavy
taxation, it does make considerable
difference whether they are repre-
sented by seventy or seven. Had they
been fully represented, much of the
evil legislation with which the coun-
try is now afflicted would have Leen
uverted, and the faction which has
now such a clear working majority
would have been unable to pass their
unconstitutional Acts, such as the
civil rights. Freedmen's 3 Bureau bills.
&c
Nor can We perceive that, in any
sense, would it be humiliation tu
the Southern people to unite in the
accomplishment Of the patriotic end
IN view. Every Southern State has
elected her Senators and Representa-
tives, and if they did not desire rep
resentation in Congress, why did they
choose them? If they still wanted to
be separate people, it certainly was,
not dignitied to elect their rcprcsen
tativcs to the United States Congress.
The large majority of the people have
taken the amnesty oath Of allegiance
to the Government, and if they do
not aid i'll restoring that Govern
lnent to its former position, they are
wanting III their duty us good and
loyal citizens This is the true posi-
ton of every Southern man who has
taken the oath to support the Go
vernment, and the dirty imposed 10y
that obligation requires him to sus-
tain the President and the Constit,l-
ton. now being sought to be over
ridden and subvertcd by the enemies
"f onr common country.
We can see 40 good, but much pro.
bnhle harm, in giving expression to
,nese sentiments. 1t is playing into
the hands of the radical party, who
will use them and their utterancc
With great effect. We hope, for the
good Of the common cause-that o!
restoring peace to the country the
Southern people will be as II unit il
defence of the Constitution against