The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1866-11-01
COLUMBIA.
Thursday Morning, November l, 1866
Politics at the South.

please. The Richmond Times says
that this apathy seems to be giving
some Northern journals great con
Germ. They want us to rip, roar. bel
low and swear just as they do; but
because we pursue dignified course,
and mind our own business, they are
of opiniou that cit is a most unfor-
tunate thing that SO large a body of
the American people should settle
down into Indifference on the vital
political matters of the day And
yet, if we were the noisy politicians
which they pretend to desire us, they
would make even that ground OF
complaint, and point to us as set of
''loud:mouthed pestilent traitors, :"
who were about to pull down the Go
vernment about their ears.
1t is very true, that we have good
deal to excite us; but with commend
able forbearance, are minding our
own business, and are trying to make
this. to be Il very Objectionable world !;
but as we do not think we can sur
pass Omnipotence to aid in pulling
it to pieces for the purpose Of put
ting up another, we are not disposed
to unite with our neighbors in trying
such an experiment. We wish to be
as far us possible from the explosion
of that magazine which radical engi-
neerlng is preparing. We shrink
from none OF the responsibilities
which legitimately pertain to us in
our present anomalous political con-
dition; but we feel ourselves perfect
ly justified in wishing to have no
participation in the general social,
political and financial smash-up
which the radical mad-dog politicians
of the North seem to be so diligently
seeking to 'consummate.
When we receive Northern ex-
changes expressing surprise that we
are so calm and undisturbed, while
every loyal State boils like caul-
dron: we feel amazed, and we ask our
Northern neighbors what are we to
be disturbed about? Our misfortunes
have made us so eminently utilita-
rian, and as we fail to see how we are
to profit by politics, we have ceased
to be politicians. AS we are not ad-
mitted to Congress, and receive no
share of the loaves and fishes, in the
shape of fat Offices, we have no in
centive to that deep and dangerous
interest which seems to be taken in
the affairs of this country, North Of
the Potomac. We are reconciled to
our exclusion from participation in
the affairs of the Government, by the
reflection that we will have none of
the odium to bear which will Justly
attach to those who, in their insane
rage, are courting conflict with the
land and naval forces of the United
States. Our experience, which has
been a sad and costly one, inclines us
to peace and peaceful pursuits.
We have never favored that political
sqnabbling, and we wish, now, to set
our ''so-called" neighbors a model of
political propriety under difficulties
which they would do we'll to initiate.
If the people of the North choose to
butt their brains out against one
another, we hope that it will not be
necessary for either side to call upon
rs for help. We will wear Grape on
our hats, and serve as mourners, not
with very long faces, it is true, but
still will endeavor to do it decently
and in order.
General Zachariah Taylor once
said he wished to be cat peace with
ali the world and the rest of man
kind" That is just the condition of
the South at the present time ''Let
rs alone is all the meek and long
suffering people of the South desire
or ask; if they do this, they may
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