The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1866-12-06
OUR ADVISERS.


story, very amusing to the little folks, about
q miller and his son, who werc-taking an
ass to market. AS the fable is familiar, We
need not repeat it. We all know the moral,
VIZ: Self-reliance; hear everybody's advice (if
you must), but follow your own judgment. For
some time, particularly during the past two
months, every paper in the North has been
teeming with advice to the people Of the South
Many of the writer's on the other side of the
Atlantic even, have given US q fgurative pat on
the back, and counselled us about our conduct
in the present aspect Of political affairs Those
homilies are Of course varied in their character.
according to the source whence they emanate.
Some doubtless are given with the best inten-
tons Others, pretending to equally laudable
motives, exhibit an offensive assumption Of
superiority, and a pity, akin to contempt, for
our misfortunes.
Others still make no concealment of the ma
hgnant hatred that inspires their thought,
speech and action, whenever the word South
or Southern is named. The Radical leaders in
Congress are the representatives of this latter
class. To them, and the people who send them,
it is not sufficient that slavery-the Moloch 50
long assaulted by these godly knights-has
been overthrown. They are not content with
the desolation Of the whole Southern land, in
committed during the latter part Of the war.
That our labor is disorganized, our capital
gone, without any visible means of recupera-
ton; that our crops have failed, and many of
our people are suffering for the wherewithal to
live; that our society is in most undesirable
state OF transition these, and many other
considerations we could enumerate cannot
touch them, steeled as they are against reason,
by blind fanaticism and unreasoning preiu-
dice They, one and all, seem to be afflicted
with austropho6ia. Congress met on Monday,
and the very first thing done by these zealots
is to launch forth their enyenoned shafts
against, not formidable enemy in @belliger-
ent attitude, but against q vanquished foe.
Surely this is rare magnanimity.
But to return to ,ir advisers. We have had
advice from the President of the United States
and from the Secretary Of State; from Secretary
BROWNING and Senator DooL1rrLE from Mr..
RAYMOND and Mr.. GREELEY; from the World,
the Neaos, and the Evening Post, and daily
homilies by the yard from the great preacher
Of the Herald. We have had advice also from
BUTLER, BINGHAM, STEVENS and WILSON: from
GERR1TT SMITH and WENDELL PHILIPS: from
WILLIAM TEcUMsEH SHERMAN and Mr.. N1CHors
his right hand man. Our friends must not
think hard Of us, if, amid such an enbayra.s
derichesses, we should sometimes be confused
and be at loss to know, on the spur Of the
moment, what course opursue This difficulty
becomes greater when the adviser counsels one
course one day, and another on the next; and
it is superfuous to indicate that several of the
eounsellors enumerated above have placed us
in this unenviable predicament.
To add still more to this perplexity, we have
had number Of advisers from within the limits
| Of the Southern States We have had books.
speeches and letters from "Southern Loyalists. =
:. {. JOHN Minor Boris, Fl. s. FoorE. W. q.
BRowNLow, JACK HAMILTON, etc. and we have
had letters from good Southern mcn, really
entitled to give advice in the present uncertain
and perplexing attitude Of affairs Many Of
us have read al these, and also have watched
intently the progress Of our determined and
aggressive enemies.
| The purpose of the Radicals is no longer con
! cealed. Already have resolutions been offered
| in Congress to reduce us to the position ~
territories, and there is good reason to fear