The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1866-06-13
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Wednesday Morning, June Is, 1855.

Wednesday Morning, June Is, 1885.
=: ,NortItcrn Men at tho South.
The Southern people have ever
been pleased to receive among them
the honest, industrious and energetic
citizen Of any Of the Northern States
Of the Union. In no instance, with
,ip onr knowledge. even at the COM
.mencement of the late civil war, did
Morthern man receive anything but
kind treatment at the hands of the
: Southern people, so long as he con-
. ducted himself with propriety, and
discharged the duties incident to
other citizens around him, Northern
or Southern. And now, at this par
ticular juncture of our affairs, with
shattered fortunes and demoralized
labor, will the people of the South
welcome among their emigrants from
any cline or latitude; capitalists with
i. their, means, artizans with their skill,
farmers with their industry and ex-
perience, and, in short, any class that
brings with them those elements
which constitute what is ordinarily
: termed ga good Citizen
But if we can divine the intents of
the radicals at the present time, with
their test oaths and other disabling
measures, directed against Southern
citizens, it may be well to consider
the end proposed. The third section
of the new reconstruction programme
cuts off nine out of every ten citizens
Of the South from holding any Office
whatever under the Government.
This prohibitory rule, by the direc-
tions of some of the heads of the de-
partments at Washington, Secretary
McCulloch and Postmaster General
Dennison. is even now being put in
force in this and all the other South
ern States, 80 that every office under
the revenue or excise laws, and every
post Office must be filed with North
ern men, Southern recreants, or men
who can swallow the test oath with
out any qualms of conscience.
Such is our situation at the present
time. Of course the same prohibi-
tory measures will extend to the mem
bers of Congress the Southern
people may choose to elect, and thus
will they be compelled to send to the
National Legislature men from the
North, or recreants from their own
section, which no honest man would
trust. This is neither just, right or
proper, but it is one Of the schemes
going hand in hand with negro suf-
frage, by which the radical faction
seek to perpetuate their power to alb
solutely govern the country. North
ern men with radical principles, and
Southerners recreant to their section,
are the sort of ofice-holders and con-
gressional representatives they desire
to have. Both are alike acceptable
to them.
Just at this point, it is very apropos
to cite the radicals to the opinion of
their late President on this subject.
1t will be found in the following note
addressed, during the second year of
the war, to the Military Governor of
louisiana
EXECUTIVE MANSION,
WASHINGTON, Nov. 21, 1862.
DEAR SIR: DIR. Kennedy, bearer
Of this, has some apprehension that
Federal officers, not citizens of Lou
isiana, may be set up as candidates
for Congress in that State. In my
view, there could be no possible
object in such an election. We do
not particularly need members of
Congress from those States to enable
us to get along with legislation here.
What we DO want is the conclusive
evidence that respectable citizens of
Louisiana are willing to be members
of Congress, and to swear to support
the Constitution, and that other re-
spectacle citizens there are willing to
vote for them and send them. To
send a parcel Of Northern men here as
Representatives, elected, as acould be IN
derStood, (a'd perhaps really so,) at