The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1866-01-31

dent are doing the best he can and
Mr.. Ethridge oughtent to be rakin up
his record.
Well, the war come on, and show
enuf Logan and Cushin and Meier
nand and Butler and Company
buzzed around awhile like bumble-
bees, till they were brought up and
then they Lit over on the other side.
They got their reward and thew are
welcome to it SO far rs am con-
cerned.
81 How Is it now, Mr.. Happy? They
conquered us by the sword, but they
havnt convinced us of nuthin much
that I know Of All is lost save
honor, and that they cant steal from
us nor tarnish.
If they had held out the hand of
fellowship, we would have made
friends and buried the hatchet. But
the very minnit they whipped MS
they began to holler treason from one
end of the country to the other, lust
Ike they had made y bran new dis
kovery. It seemed to strike um all
at once like an Xpost fakto law, and
they wanted to go into q general
hangin bisness, and keep it up as
long as they could find rope and
timber.
Now the idea of several millions of
American freemen bein guilty of
treason at once. The idea of apply
ing such q crime to eleven great
suvreen States, which met in solemn
convention, and in the light of day
dissolved Union they had created,
and which have been disunion for
twenty years! The idea of applyin
treason to the Old Dominion, the
muther of States and of Washington
and Jefferson and Madison and Mar
shall and Patrick Henry and all the
Lees, and who have give away all the
territory in the northwest for nuthin!
Is she to be scandalized by these new
light christians who are compounded
from all the skum of creation, and
think that Paul and Peter and all the
Revelations hev been for 900 years
making special arrangements for re-
ceivin their sanktifed souls in Para
disc. Treason the dickens! Where's
your dictionary? Where's Danl Web
ster? Where's the history of the
Amerikin revolution?
No it amt treason or reason-but
its devish Internal inhuman hate.
What do they keep MI. Davis in Jail
for? hear sum say that it amt Mr..
Johnson's voluntary doings; but the
tremengious pressure OF surrounding
circumstances Durn the circum-
stances. Amt Mr.. Davis great and
good man? If Andy johnson amt an
infidel, woodent he swap chances for
heven with him and give all his
earthly estate to boot? If Mr.. Davis
honor and integrity, and patriotism,
and courage were weighed in a
balance against Sumner and Stevens,
and all of his enemies, woudent he
outweigh EN- all? Wont his conduct
in Mexico and in the late war, and
his nobility of character live long and
grow bright in history, while the
memory of the howns that are bayin
him in his dungeon will sink into
oblivion? I think so-thats what I
say, and I'll bet on it, and Charles
OConner and all the women in this
country will go my halves
Rrt there amt no particular point
in all this, Mr.. Happy. It's onl y my
opinion, that's all. 1 may be q tarnal
fool, and I sometimes feel like I am
q fool about every thing and don't
know nuthin. I'm tryin my best,
however, to take things just as they
come, and my principal business for
the last two months has been weanin
niggers to make EN- feel free I put
EN- all to take care of themselves, but
they keep comm back to me, and it
keeps me workin day and night to
provide for en-. I've been willin o
long time for EN- to be free if they
could take care of themselves, and I
don't know what Thad Stevens is n
fussin about, unless he is just mad
because our boys burnt his iron
works. If that's all, we can plead
the ruins of various similar establish
ments in these regions, and get q
Judgment against him.
But I'm about through, Mr.. Happy,
with what had to say. Only this
If there ever was an afflikted people
that needed friends its us. If we've
got any friends anywhere I want EN-
to show their hands and stand by us
in our trouble. I feel like reachin
out to the five points of the compass
in search of sympathy, and if there is
an honest statesman or brave soldier
north of the line who loves his fellow
men, let him open his, heart and meet
us on halfway ground. We aint
afeered of beasts or varmints-
devils or demons-of Stevens or