The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1866-05-23
On this correspondence,

On this correspondence, the
Charleston Courier remarks:
Although in writing upon this
topic we prefer to base our remaks on
the official report of the Commission,
when 1t shall appear, yet we do not
he&tate to form conclusions from the
account as given by the Herald's cor
respondent, inssmuch as his intimate
connection with the Commission
leads us to believe that his views are
q reflex of the opinions of the two
| Generals. He represents affairs on
the Sea Islands to be in an unfavora-
ble condition, and as the chief cause
OF 1t refers to the regime of Gen. Sax
ton, which he intimates was replete
with demoralizing results. The freed
men became imbued with the notion
that the property was their own, and
that nothing remained for them to do
but to live life of ease aud pleasure,
and rely on the Freedmen's Bureau
for the necessaries of life.
''Dy dint of great effort OF the part
OF Gen. Saxton's successor, and other
prominent officers and individuals.
the erroneous impression conceived
by the freedmen ispartially dispelled,
and although this change effected an
improvement in the condition of the
lands, it is yet apparent that the field
for further progress in the same di-
rection is very wide. The cores
Pondent says, ''too much of the
F'reedmen's Bureau is one of the
causes of the drawbacks to prosperi-
ty in this State. We infer from this
remark that Gems. Steedman and
Fullerton will incorporate in their re-
port recommendation that the du-
ties now devolving on the officers of
the Bureau should be performed by
commandants of troops. A great
want of capital is also noted as another
drawback to advancement in agricul-
ture. OF this we are all of us we'll
aware. 1t is Il fact undeniable. We
have repeatedly asked the attention
of capitalists to this subject.
! 1HE COLORADO SwINDLE.-
once, the radicals have been utterly
sllcnced and confounded. The mes
sage Of the President, returning to
the Senate with his objections, the
bill erecting Colorado into State.
so completely exposes the scandalous
character of this particular radical
scheme for perpetuating power in
their own party, that no reply to it is
found possible. In the Senate, the
message WAS put aside with delibe-
rate msolence; the radical press prints
! it and makes no signs.
Bnt the failure of this nefarious at
tempt to foist q factitous common
wealth upon the Union for the sake
OF getting three more radical votes
into Congress, does not make the at
tempt itself less nefarious, nor ought
1T to be suffered to pass out of mems
memories without leaving there its
/ lesson of the reckless and unprinci
lled temper of those who conceived
1t. carried 1t successfully through
both Houses, and. but for the cour-
age and the patriotism of the Presi-
dent, would have consummated it, by
welcoming the representatives of a
( fabricated State to the halls from
which they shamelessly exclude the
constitutional delegates of three mil
hans of free-born Americans. But as
1t Is. this latest assault of the radicals
upon what they themselves denomi.
nate the life Of the nation,' is no
worse than scores of other acts done
by them in the past, tending all in
one direction. 1t has been defeated.
happily for us all, by the President.
aud We ask every honest man, who
still hesitates between the policy of
the President, and that of the Presi-
dents enemies in the Senate and the
House. to contrast this veto message
OF Andrew johnson, boldly defend
ing principles essential to our national
existence, with the attitude of the
men who have been crushed by that
message into IL silence which is the
most eloquent confession that could
I possibly be made of their conscious
guilt III the transaction thus brought
to nothing. g.-Nen York Herald
CooLrE LABOR. The subject of
Coollc labor for the rice fields of the
South continues to attract consider
able attention among the Southern,
and lO1OaJ fbn No~&Lo,