The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1866-08-03
COLUMBIA.
Friday Morning, August 8, 1866.
The Beginning OF the End.


we fear, but the precursor of others
of like character. A fearful condi-
ton have the baneful efforts of the
Abolitionists and radicals brought
this country into; nothing less may
be apprehended than war between
the races, unless the conservatism of
the country arises in its might and
power to put an end to tho destroyers
of their liberties.
It is fearful thing to contemplate
what evil the bad passions of human
nature can infict upon such land
as this, with its millions of intelli-
gent citizens, its fertile lands and
teeming fields and meadows, it's rich
mineral resources, and, in short,
every element of prosperity known
to man. The wicked legislation of
the radical party in Congress is re-
sponsible for all the horrors which
may follow such war. Their ever
lasting canting about the negro, their
civil rights bills, negro suffrage
measures, and all the other agencies
they have set at work to ruin the
Southern people, may be, for a time,
successful in their appointed ends,
but the final is not doubtful.
Nor will their own section escape.
The spirit of riot, disorder and lawless-
hess, when once aroused is not easily
satiated, and grows more ravenous
and blood-thirsty with each succeed
ing carnival that it holds. Idleness
begets vice and crime, and some Of
the cities of the South are realizing
this fact, almost for the first time, on
an extended scale. A laboring popu-
lation, formerly quiet and orderly,
and contributing by their industry to
the wealth and greatness of the coun-
try, have had their social position SO
suddenly changed that many of them
wero utterly unfit for that change;
that they conceived the highest de-
gree OF freedom was the privilege of
doing nothing. Hence, id1eness,
vice and crime are stalking abroad in
this once happy and prosperous sec
ton.
In the city of Richmond, the freed
men organized military companies,
and drill publicly on the streets.
This was permitted by the military
authorities, Notwithstanding the re-
monstrances of the press and the peo-
pie, until these ominous proceedings
arrived to such pitch, backed pro-
badly by the fearful news from New
Orleans, and moro probably by the
direct orders of the President. Gen.
Terry has issued an order suppress
ing all such organizations, and prohi-
biting the formation of any others,
unless organized by or under the au
thority of the Governor of the State.
That eminently conservative jour
nal, the National AleNigenee,', in COM
menting on the New Orleans disturb
ances, says:
owe cannot see the use of troops
in the South for the avowed purpose
of preventing this very thing of col
lisions between the two races, with
ont their exercising their power to
prevent the bloody connections that
the narrowest foresight should antici-
pate, from the effort to initiate in the
State new form of authority recoe
nizing the entire political equality Of
the negro with whites. To undertake
such thing in Northern cities would
be replete with danger to peace, law
and order. Some of the military
commanders seem to be willing enough
to interfere in very small matters
affecting the negro injuriously; but
here is one Of stupendous proportion,
replete with horrors
The latest intelligence is, that, by
direction of the President, General
Baird has declared martial law in the
city, and that quiet had been re-
stored. But are we to have no quiet
in our Southern cities, except through
the instrumentality of force? We are
thankful that this force is among us
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