The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1866-01-12

cial, has, with considerable enter
: prise, furnished his paper with the
following document. It is an excel
lent burlesque. He introduces it in
this fashion:
REPORT OF THE SPECIAL COMMITTEE.
''The Special Radical Committee
on reconstruction intend, it is said,
to visit the Southern States, to in
vestigate their condition, and report
whether they are fit for admission
into full communion in the sisterhood
of Union. AS most of TIE gentlemen
composing the Committee have alrea-
dy made up their minds on the subject,
l don't see the use of the contempla-
ted tour; especially as their report
has been agreed upon. AS the docu-
ment will be looked for with con-
siderable interest, have procured a
copy of it, for the publication of
which I trust will not be accused of
a breach of good faith. Here it is:
WASHINGTON, January, 1866 10
the honorable Senate and House of
Representatives: Your Committee,
appointed to visit the States lately
In rebellion, and investigate and re-
port upon the condition as to loyalty
and fitness for re-admission into the
Union, have performed the duty
assigned to them, and beg leave to
make the following report:
Naturally, the first place visited
by your Committee, was Richmond,
Virginia, the Capital of the late Con
federacy. Our coming had been
heralded in the newspapers there,
and the demonstration at the railroad
depot on our arrival may be taken as,
In some degree, indicative OF the
popular sentiment in that city We
found large concourse of citizens of
African descent awaiting us, and as
we disembarked from the cars, they
hailed us with shouts of welcome,
mingled with This way to the
Spotswood House, Here's yer buss
for the Continel,' Here's yer cab for
any part of the city, Baggage to the
hotel, gents, etc. 1t was grateful to
the heart of loyal men to be thus well
coined in a city SO lately the head
quarters Of rebellion, while at the
same time we began to feel convinced
already that the only truly loyal peo-
pie of the South were of the colored
race: We could not decline the hos
pitalities so generously rendered us,
and accordingly we selected two car
riages from the large number placed
ut our disposal. We were driven to
the Spotswood by our hospitable
friends, who charged us two dollars
apiece and half-a-dollar extra for
baggage. After so much kindness
from the colored race, we were un-
prepared for the harsh treatment we
subsequently received from the white
oligarch of Richmond The proprie-
tors of the Spotswood gave us rooms
In the fifth story, back, saying to his
clerk, as we have been informed by
faithful African who BACKED our
boots for a quarter pair, that they
were good enough for Yankee radi-
calls. The same spirit of disloyal hate
was manifested to us in the dining
room, where, in response to our re-
peated call for Goldfish and pumpkin
pie, we were served with nothing but
bacon and hot cakes. We asked why
this was done, and were told by a
&pyal waiter, to whom we had lust
H. ven postal half-dollar, that Mr..
Potswood said he didn't keep hotel
r. the accommodation of Yankees,
sad, therefore, persistently excluded
Goldfish and pumpkin-pie from the
bill of fare. Your Committee 90 not
deem it necessary to dwell upon this
evidence of smouldering disioyalty,
nor to compare it with the hastily
formed opinion of General Grant re-
specting Southern sentiment. Our
object was to get beneath the surface
of things in the South, to find the
true character of the sub-stratum.
We remained in Richmond a few
days, to study the character of the
neoIr'c. On all hands we found evi-
iences of distinctions OH account of
color, except In freedman's colony,
where the blacks received the whites
on an equal footing with themselves
We also noticed disloyal disposition
to speak of Stonewall jackson and
General Lee in terms of praise and
commentator, while Gen. Buffers
Same was only mentioned in con-
Eemptuous connection with silver
Spoons, and occasionally little plated
WARE, and he himself seemed 70 be
better known as the Bottle Imp. of
Bermuda Hundred, than in any other
ny.