The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1866-12-11
The South.

Ihe South.
In IN able discussion on the situa-
ton, as it affects the South, the New
York ErpresShmakes thefollowing per
Neutrality-suspicious.:
After long struggle, the South
foresaw her doom and final overthrow
as g slave power. She first saw it in
the accession of free territory and
free States as an acquisition from
Mexico and of the war. She then saw
it under the operation Of the compro-
misses in 1884, and sought to retrieve
what she had lost twenty-four years
before; and this effort to recover her
political power precipit&ted her fall
it brought the repcal-and the strug-
gio iii hansits Wis but lighthouse,
showing that we were plunged into
the sea of revolution in which we are
still acallo'cing and ,Hou,dering, unable
to return to that haven Of security we
once left, while the fowls of the air
and the birds of prey are chanting
their wild orgies and screams to dim
our joys and to make night hideous.
The North elected its own president;
the South then sought to gain its
equilibrium in compromise The
North said the day Of compromise is
past-not that the South had been
perfidious-the North had offered the
compromise in 1920, and each section
had changed position in 1S54-so we
had rendered the compromise in the
Constitution worthless for the recove-
ry of slaves; and how, then, could we
throw stones against the windows
of our neishbcp? All these things
had flown out of the hea.t of Aboli-
tlonism, its struggle with our organ
isns rs o nation, and, finally, the
South sought to separate from us and
become State of itself; that act we
called rebellion, and unjusti6able dis
ruption Of the Government. War
came, and the South failed, because i,
aras not atnited. Now its subjugated,
overthrown, and statesmen tell us
that 1t is no longer States-no longer
societies with sovereign law-it has
no rights which we are bound to re-
spect. Such is the final conclusion
Of the out and out radical
But the end is not yet States,
governments, societies and men will
decay and perish. BUT when That
history will answer; and yet justice
will yet retrieve herself in the bosoms
of men. The men Of free States have
never been tramplcd upon, but they
would rise again 10 shake off despo-
tism and tyrants. History teaches
us that, and we may disregard her
admonitions until it is too late to
save the Republic further contention.
There is u God IN Israel, and men shall
not al,cdys tromple on his la7os.
This sounds to our ears as the very
voice of prophecy. We are convinced
that, unless the contentious that di-
vide the sections of this country are
qnieted by the exhibition of proper
disposition on the part of the North,
this country will either be converted
into despotism, or Will be split
asunder during the next two years.
Free people cannot be enslaved. Jus
tlce cannot be trampled on with i'm
punity. "Nations are lost when they
follow the apostles of dissension ano
hate"
Let the mad partisans of the North
take heed Of the warning which al
human history echoes from nature
The brave can only be subjugated
and held subject to al unjust power
for a time-right at last will prevail
over wrong.
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