The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1866-07-20

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We referrga, ysstsrdsy mornngs
to ssmendasious correspondent of the
New Yorks 7sares, who indnlged hia.
selfin insulting the women of the,
South. We now turn with pleasure
to the letter Of another correspond
ent Of that paper. Mr.. u. G.. Truman,
who has been travelling in company
with Generals Steednan and Fuller
ton. Mf. Truman writes from
Charleston:
- II have not been in Sout,, Carolina
long enough, may be, to get correct
t6ese sf The people. Bat from what
I have seen of the people at the
hotels, and on the streets, and at
other public places, do not hesitate
to declare that they are as loyal as
the great body OF Southerners to be
found in any Of the seeded States
Although they are not strictly a
Yankee-loving people, yet they obey
all laws, pay their taxes, and have
forever renounced all hopes, if not
all inclinations, indeed, of separate
nationality. These people can be
trusted-there is no mistake about
them. If our politicians and editors
Of malicious stripe, and theirs ditto,
would cease war, we would be as
strongly united in feeling as we are
by law-the latter of which there is,
of course, no question"
It is evident that this writer was
long enough in the State to form a.
correct opinion OF the position and
sentiments Of her people. His i'm
pressions are exactly right, and very
truly photograph the views entertain
ed by the mass Of the people of South
Carolina He says that the authors
of those innumerable letters from the
South, who charge the Southern poo
pie as disloyal, are chad, schemine
characters, with no fear of God in
their hearts, or humanity in their
compositions" and asserts that all
their statements are ''unmitiested
falsehoods.
He says the writer's of these letters
are:
NfTeedmon's Bureau officers, who
have got good thing, and want TO
keep it; officers Of colored regiments,
who dislike the idea of going back t.,
tape measuring; purchasers Of pro
perty at the direct tax sales, sutler'.
clerks aud Others. But what is most
strange, is the fact that many Of our
people believe these storios, all of
which arc base falsehoods, and con
cocted Tor base purposes; most of the
authors of whom are heartless adyen-
turers. who exc out nefarioua exist
ence by gouging the freedmen and
misrepresenting the whites"
1t IS refreshing in these times,
when the press of Stevens party is
SO very much prostitutel to party
ends, to tnrn to the record OF a truth
ful writer, whose very utterances
and language carry with them the
convictions Of fairness and truth.
The honesty of this writer cannot be
doubted, for he admits that he takes
his views from republican stand
point, and acknowledges that he WAS
one 'who sloried in the destruction
of slavery, and the whipping of the
Southern people" but he emphati-
cauy says that lie has failed to disco
yer that uniform disloyalty' and
those ''nest Of traitors" so much
spoken of by Treasury agents, alias
cotton thieves That is right; lec
persons as well as things be called by
their proper names.
CoNFEDERATE DEAD. A corYcs-
pondent OF the Charleston Co,t,iey.
furnishes that paper with list of
Confederate dead of this and adioin
ing States buried at Edgehill Gene
terry, near Charlestown, Va. The fol-
lowing are from this State:
Clark, Capt. J. b., Gn Episcopal