The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1866-06-05
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The Richmond Ecaminer has the
tfoliewiRs<pertinent remarks: -
F. Where nfo those Northern men who
tsoncesso stoutly held that Americans
should rule Anerica? The slow pro-
cess by which an intelligent foreign
white lfittn- gradually grew into 8
voting. citizen under tho naturaliza-
tlon laws was not slow. enough for
these native patriots They wished
the tcrna Of probstion extended to at
least. twenty -one years for tito alien,
and TO have ham excluded forever
from alt Offices. Have those super
fine Americans SO apostatined from
she faitlt that -theyecars now Join IN
the new cry that africans shall nile
Anlericag IF foreigners Of cur own
ancestral blood were not fit to parti-
pate in the goyerpInent Of the coun-
trySs how is r. TINT negro oes5 have SO
suddenly become worthy OF the trust !?
We call upon The natives to recollect
their jealous principles. aud to inter
pose So Ear at least as 10 saye us from
the negro. It might take twenty one
years to properly naturalize the irish
man or German, but two centuries
have been ineffcctnai in nat,,ra1izine
the wild African, who is capable only
at characterization. AMI who, rerniuctl
to his former liberty, viii strely re-
lapse into his normal condition Of
hnrbarism. Tliise is q truth, and not
prejudice; and time, which tries MI
things, will verify what we maintain.
All foreign. born citizens OF the
United States should recall the fact
thatt State OF Virginia saved them
from ,hsIranchisemcnt and ineliri-
biiity for office. Whom native Amfri
cani>m was in the fhlt tide of q
triumph unr reeedehtc.l'~ in onr poll
ties. it VAS IN Virginia that it met
with resistance that not only stayed
the iloe,l, but Turned II back forever.
If onr natnralizel fellow citizens have
n" srsttitnle for tho people who res
c"e.l them in the hour OF peril, then,
lndced, are they unfit for those. priv
ieges which tue generosity and Justice
"i Virginia secured to them
Here are two classes Of our North
crll neiglhol's that are bound to ioi,,
us III our opposition to uce,ro su fl'rlec;
the one class hound hy its avow,I
principles. the other by gl.ltit,l.le.
These, reinforced by all moderate
meh, will drive ra,licalism into 4 cor
nor, and let it stiu" itself Ia death in
1T, lnpotent rage.
AN IMPORTANT DECISION. The New
Orleans Crescent says, upon 4 hear-
ing, the Supreme Court rendered II
decision affirming 4 decree of the
conrt, made III December last, in the
case OF George. Schmidt vs.. Jacob
Barber, appealed from the Sixth Dis
trirt Court. The statement is as fol
lows:
Plaintiff was lepositorin defend
ants hunk. the Bank of Commerce,
from january II to April |, 1862.
\ balance was lnc him of 800. This.
subsequent tn the occupation OF the
city by the F.drr.ls, plaintiff de-
m',nded IN legal tender, which de
fcnlant refused. and Offered Confede-
rate money. 1t w:,s in proof that the
business of the hank, ut the time
plaintiff kept an account with it, was
conducted with Confederate money;
and npon his bank book was inscribed
the following notifications: ''De
posts IN this bank are received only
on condition that the amount is to
be drawn in Confederate money"
The opinion Of the court now re-
affirmed, was, in brief, that Confede-
rate money having, upon the face Of
1t, been issued TO make war upon the
Government Of the United States,
parties voluntarily dealing in it, us
was the case with both plaintiff and
defendant, were cnlpable gniltv OF
I'm immoral act and the court could
not lend itself to the enforcement IF
contracts entered into in contempt of
law. Declaring this contract, there
fore, null and void. the decision of
the lower court, which was i'm favor
oi the defendant. was ordered to be
reversed
WHAT THE HKESlpFSr THINKS or
THE NEw PROPOSED AMESDMENr.--l
The Senatorial programme is play
for the radical name under a now
lead. The radicals have resorted to