The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1866-06-12

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AGENTS
=. P. Kinard, Newbcrry.
Samuel Drouthitt, Greenvine C. II.
: -Wm. Moore, Abbeville G.. II.
julius Poppe, Anderson c. H.
Discourse on Loyalty.
The following article on the term
loyal" is from the pen of a Wash
ington correspondent of the ST.
Louis Republican. 1t is good:
Until tho accession of. the black
dynasty in 1861, the use Of the word
loyalty, as applicable to political re-
lations or duties in this country. was
wholly unknown. We often read in
the newspapers royal and imperial
speeches and proclamations from
foreign monarchs, to their loyal sub
-jects; but since the day when George
III ceased to address to our ancestors
such paternai language, it had been
expunged from our republican voca-
bulary, AS wholly obsolete in its po-
litical application. The dictionaries
define its meaning to be "idelity to
prince or sovereign" and rs no
such dlgnitary, since l776, could
claim our allegiance, there seemed to
be no propriety in adheripg to this
dead formality of royal grace and
power. We fondly supposed that
under the new order of things es-
tabGshed by our fathers, the people
were sovereign, and that the Gov
az al.
rulers they elected, were but the in
struments and servants of the will
not their masters. It seems, how
ever, in the advancing light of the
new era which dawned on us five
years ago, that we were mistaken;
and that among the many invaluable
reforms accomplished by the wise and
exemplary patriots who have reigned
during the period, is the re-inaugura-
ton Of the idea SO obstinately main
tanned by King George and by royalty
generally, that the ruler is the sove-
reign; and that the people who elect
him are his subjects, and owe him
fealty-must yield submissive and
sinquestioning obedience to his will.
The revival of this ancient and
kingly doctrine among us has very
naturally caused a return to its ap-
propriate forms of expression; and
hence this almost forgotten word,
loyalty, has suddenly become the
most conspicuous and indispensable
representative of the Northern idea,
whose dissemination and universal
acceptance is now a public necessity,
as 1T Is of course a supreme public
blessing. We now have loyal States,
loyal people, loyal citizens, loyal
men, loyal merchants, loyal doctors,
loyal preachers, loyal churches, loval
courts, loyal judges, loyal leagues, in
short, everything and every person
wlthout'a loyal prefix is tainted with
treason, and ought at once to apply
for pardon or be hung.
Nor is it enough that you support
and defend the Constitution and the
Union; unless you also hate every
thing and everybody South of the
hne $3.50, and pray fervently that
JEFF. Davis and his adherents should
be ''shut up in the penitentiary of
bell, and kept there by bayonets;"
unless yon love New England, are q
member of her mutual admiration
society, and accept her teachings,
political, social and religious, as a
divine inspirations; unless you think
that the cotton. gold watches, plate,
lewelry, pianos, wardrobes, &c, of
Southern rebels are the lawful prize
Of her soldiers and christian mission
aries; unless you heartily rejoice
over the plunder and desolation of
Southern homes, the burning and
sacking of Southern cities, the de-
struction of their public buildings
and archives, their churches, seats of
learning and asylums; unless you
accept Butler as true type of hero
ism, honesty and humanity, and
Cheever and Brownlow as saints: nn-
less you are willing for the colored
brethren to ride with you in the cars,
vote with you at the polls, oe. and
sleep with you at hotels, sit beside
You at theatres, concerts and lectures,
dance with you at balls and represent
you in the halls of Congress, State
Legislatures, and in all public agen-
cies; unless you favor negro equality,
social and political, IN general, and
negro domination over the Southern
States in particular; and, in fine