The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1866-05-30

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exist 3ig nature and aevercali Ii prac-
tIee. Foiks we're not created free
and equaa.> Si1ass .MsJ be .theoret;-
cal truth, But it's always been prac-
tical Sie There's grades Of society
every where. 4 There's men give the
sidewalk to,~ and, there's men that
gives 1t be me. There's men that I
vote, and men that vote me, and the
grades go up, up, up, step by step,
from my sort to Mr.. Davis and Mr..
Stephens, and Gen. Lee, and Howell
Cobb, snd Ben. Hill, and their sort,
for they are the highest in the nation;
and. then, again, it goes from me
down, down, down, to. the niggers,
md the Republicans and the radicals,
and that's as low as they run. There
amt no equality, and you can't make
ono. Wen vote the niggers certain.
Phi vote Tip, and Tips a head
center He'll vote about forty, and
the first thing you know we'll elect
seven big, black, greasy niggers TO
Congress Wen do it certain-seyen
of 'em eighteen carats strong, with
African musk. The other rebel States
will do the same thing, and you'll
have about fifty of 'em to draw seats
with, and you can all stick your legs
upon your desks together, and swap
hes and yermin, and be shampoed at
the same shop, and the fair sexes can
set together In the galleries, and mix
odors and fan their scent about pro
miscuous. Well give you fun bene-
fit Of your civil rights, bib, see if we
don't You go on-play yohr cards.
We are bidin our time. We are payin
your taxes and your duties and back
rations for 1854, aud licenses, ant,
your Internal revenue, and obeyin
your laws without havin any hand in
maxim 'em, and we are cut off from
pensions and public lands; and you
sold n poor mans still in my County,
the other day, because he couldn't
pay your tax on some peach brandy
he stilled for his neighbor two years
ago; and soon you'll he sellin the
land for the land tax, and you re
tryin your best to play the devil gene
rally; but you'll catch it in the long
run. See if you don't. Talk about
Fenians. When the good men of the
North and the South all get together,
they'll walk over the track so fast
that you won't have time to get out
OF the way. You'll subside into OBJ
security, and your children will deny
that their daddies ever belonged to
such q party. Excuse me, gentle
men, but I'm little excited. Five
cents q pound on cotton will excite
anybody that makes it. Tax on in
dustry-on sweat and toll. Protec-
ton tariffs for Pennsylvania and five
cents pound tax on Southern cot
ton--half its average worth-and
your folks will manage some way or
other to steal the other half Ny adj
vice to You is to quit this foolisllness
and begin to travel the only road to
peace"
Old Blow couldn't keep up with
his garbled extracts.
what makes the President so
popular at the South?''
''Contrast, Sir-contrast The more
he amt like your party. the more
popular he is. He would treat us
about right, L reckon, if you would
~ 1AAAA e@AoiAS, Ouo y ou k'ClACN1l ll1u1 SO,
that sometimes he don't understand
himself. l don't think he knew for
while whether his peace proclama-
ton restored the writ of haJeIs corpus
or not. But do you go on and I'M
peach him, and that will bring mat
ters to n focus. I'll bet you'd be in
Fort Delaware in week, and the
Southern members be here in their
seats, and they'll look round Mt the
political wreck and ruin and plumber
and stealage that's been goingc and
they might exclaim, in the l.. ..age
of the poet,
who's pin here since rsh pin sonc?"
"Alr. Arp, suppose we should have
a war with England OF France. what
would the rebels do?'
"They'd follow Gen. Lee, and Gen.
Johnson, and Longstrcct, and Bragg
and old Bory. My opinion is, that
Gen. Lee would head the Union
army, and (ien. Grant would be his
chief of staff, and Gen. Buell. would
rank mighty high, and -
What would you DO with General
Shcrman?'
Sorry you mentioned him. We'd
have to hire him. reckon, as a camp
tilller, and make him sing "HuH
E"innadiu" by iire-light, as u warnin
to the boys how mean it is to burn
cities aud towns and make war upon