The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1866-01-16
The True Heroic Spirit.


speaks thus of the manner in which
the people of that section have met
the results of the war:
Our young men have gone to work
in earnest. We gre proud to see
them engaged in teaching, plough
ing, wagoning, keeping grocery
stores, in short, doing anything, and
doing it cheerfully. A general, who
bore no mean part in the war, has
been living in hut on the coast,
supporting his family by fishing.
Another general has been cutting
wood on shares. Ours is poverty
of which no one is ashamed, and Of
! which very few complain. We are
willing to bear it, and its universally
makes it more tolerable. We know
that the most refined and intelligent
women in the State, deserted by their
deluded servants, are doing all kinds
of house work-sweeping, dusting,
making beds, and even in some cases
cooking and washing. Innumerable
widows, orphans and single women,
whose property WAS in Confederate
bonds, are penniless, and are seeking
employment of some kind for bread.
On the whole, our people are bear
ing their trials bravely and cheer
fully.
This, certainly, is exhibiting true,
heroic spirit. This is the way in
which all brave people in by-gone
days, who have set their hearts upon
gaining a cause, and lost their all in
the attempt, have conducted them
selves. Instead of sitting down and
repining at that which has been lost,
our people painfully face the stern
realities which confront them on every
side, and cheerfully work on for the
future
A people who conduct themselves
in such a commendable manner are
worthy of, and should invariably re-
celve, the confidence and encourage
ment of the successful party Vic
tors can ever afford to be generous.
They lose nothing by pursuing lib
eral policy towards those they have
overpowered. The history of the
past proves this. The experience of
the present day, as far as tried, cor
roborates the lessons of by-gone days.
The conservative men of the Sou4h
appear to be fully impressed with
these truths. They are doing all in
their power to support the President.
May they succeed in bringing shame
and confusion upon the radicals and
their leaders. May they put to COM
plete discontinue and rout the
hordes of political vampires and
demagogues who care nothing for
their common country but who show
by their acts that their great desire is
to grow rich off the South, by inau-
gurating policy that would be as
r. shing In its effects as that of Rus
sla has been IN unfortunate Poland.
Let us of the South so conduct our
selves, that everything that we do will
tend to support the President in the
position he has taken.
The TARIFF AND THE SoUTH.
are glad to find views in the Louis
vile Journal upon the tariff which
confirm those already expressed in
these columns. Mr.. Sprague, of
Rhode Island, q rich manufacturer,
has recently moved the Senate to in
crease the duty upon the goods he
makes; and as it is alleged that he is
already making hundred per centum
profit, his motion has called forth
violent philippics against the manu-
facturers. The Louisville Journal
wisely suggests that the best way to
attack the manufacturers is to initiate
them, and establish manufactures of
our own. If they grow rich by manu-
featuring, we can do the same. If
they have the advantage of a greater
population, they got the population
by establishing manufactures, and
the workmen came. They would
come to us of the South for similar
reason. Slavery, which formerly
kept them away, exists no longer,
and if we furnish them congenial oc-
cupation, and hold out to them the
prospect of competence, they will
come. If New England has power to
keep up tariff upon domestic manu-
factures, we can get the benefit of it
by establishing manufactures of the
articles taxed. This is the surest
kind Of protection.
Richmond Dispatch.
WHEN THE EMANCIPATION PRocLA-
NATION Took EFFECT. learn tha
the Hon. B. W. Gray decided in the
Lamar County District Court that