The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1866-03-20
Reports OF tho Feeling Of the South
crn People.

Reports OF tho Feeling Of the SOUTH
crn People.
The country has been led to believe
by various radical organs and their
correspondents, that the failure of
the star-chamber committee to report,
after three months of revolutionary
and disunion -incubatioh, arose from
the neglect or refusal of the Presi-
dent to furnish information, as re-
quired by resolution, ,cpncerning the
feeling of the people pf the South
towards the Governmen int. It is as
obvious that such information could
not be procured in a day as tits that
the inquiry of the committee was in
spired by desire to pjotract action,
rather than to obtain TIE information
suggested. For, befde receipt of
facts, they report resolution for the
admission of Tennessee, in which it
is stated that the ssRople of that
State, by q large popullr vote, adopt
and ratify q Constitute tn of govern
ment, Republican in prm, and not
inconsistent with the Cbnstitution of
the United States, and o State Go
vernment organized unAer the provi-
sions thereof, which SAID provisions,
and the laws passed in pursuance
thereof, proclaim and denote loyalty
to the Union; and theEeople of Ten
nessee are found to bein condition
to exercise the functiups of State
within this Unionr'
Yet the same committee that makes
the above record are euilty of the
infamy of incorporating into the pre-
tended enabling act tfh whole plat
form of radical ideas, which are, of
course, offensive surplusage, for the
parpose of preventingDe Democrats and
conservatives from voing for it, and
also of challenging vote.
If we had not the record evidence
of the factious and revolutionary star
chamber committee Itself as to the
good feeling OF the people of Ten
nessee, we have that Of Gen. Thomas
as to the status there, pf whose testi-
mony the New York Ecening Post
gives resume, as follows:
In his opinion, the troops ought
not yet to be withdrawn. He has
now 5000 men in the State. The
hobeds corpus ought not yet to be re-
stored. The operations of the Freed
mems Bureau ought to be continued; :;
in its present form, it works so well,
he says, that in ayear the whites and
the freshmen will be living peaceably
together. And, finally, the Tennes-
see Congressional delegation, all of
whom can take the testoath, ought to
be admitted at once, in order to en-
courage other districts and States to
elect men to Congress who can take
the oath, and as an acknowledgment
Of the good sense of the Tennessee
people.
The soldiers should be retained in
Tennessee, he says, because the laws
are not yet faithfully or vigilantly
executed there There is much bitter
feeling between Union men and Sc
cessionists, which has not had time
to die out. For the same reason, we
suppose, because the. laws are not
riSidly enforced by their Civ IL admin
istrators he thinks the hubeds corpus
should be withheld for some time
longer. AS for the Freedmen's Bu-
reau, General Thomas does not appear
to think it requires amendment. He
said:
The condition of the freedmen in
Tennessee is very favorable at this
time; very great improvement has
taken place in their condition, and if
the affairs of the Freedmen's Bureau
can be administered for another year
in the way they have been for the last
SIX months, mutual confidence would
be restored between the whites and
blacks, and I am very much in hopes
that the freedmen could be left to the
protection of the civil authorities of
the State.
The Post then remarks:
1t appears to, us that this is sensi-
BILE view of the whole question of re-
construction; and as the President
has, on his par, withheld the ha6eas
corpus, continued martial law, and
kept the needed troops in the South
ern States, wehope Congress will do
its share by admitting at once all the
Southern members who can take the
oath.
Now, in respect to the feeling of
the people in other Southern States.
This was reported at length in our
Congressional columns, yesterday, as
it came from the star chamber con-
clave itself; and we are free to say,
upon perusal Of it, that the people of
tho cO11ptyxyhwil1 ha op,o1o1 OF flo