The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1866-02-17

issue IS made up, aud we wait with
patience the result in the future. Wei
must not yield our better Judgment
ito professed friendly papers publish
Jed at the North III our behalf. TheseI
|shrewd and money-making papers are|
Epandering to the prejudices of South
|ern people, and hoping to keep up anI
Interest in themselves by pretending
Ia wonderful courage and zeal in ourl
behalf. Strange rs it may appear,
the fiimsy and apparent device isl
much more successful than such char
|latanism deserves. We receive every
day some evidence or other Of the
Igullibility of our neighbors; and not
Iunfrequently we are twitted by some|
Isimple-minded friend with, "Whyl
don't you write like the AAetropolila,.
Recor2s"
Let us not be deceived. We mustI
||go tework. In Columbia, and through
the whole track of Shermans s march,
the devastation was Complete. Co.
1lumbia probably lost between twelve
|and fifteen hundred buildings, on the
might of the 18th of February, 1865 i
the houses were plundered, the in-
mates of these houses cast abroad,
yet, since then, there are indomitable
and cheering evidences of the reso-
lutte will of her people. To this reso-
lutte will-to the determined action of
her peoples to be attributed all
that Columbia can depend on in the
future.
Thus far, with limited means, and
with very depressed feelings, and
with very gloomy prospect in future,
the merchants and real estate owners
in our city have done we'll About
two hundred buildings have replaced
those destroyed, and, as a gentleman
remarked to us yesterday, before five
years, the city of Columbia will re-
assert her rights and be one of the
most beautiful and attractive cities in|
|the United States.
A contemporary respectfully asks,
who of us does not admire the Chris
|tian hero who bears the cross with
out groaning, and gazes at the world
with a smile through his tears? Who
OF US does not turn with disgust from
the desperate who attempts to catch
fortune by the throat and wrest by|
violence from her hands the things
which she has taken from him? We
have no rights, except by sufferarcc.
We see every day how >powerless we
3are.. IF +t:cse OF us who are without
restraints and responsibilities were
the only members of society involved
IN the ruin of indiscretion, we might
! go our way and do as we please, and
share together a common ruin. But
there are thousands of women and
little ones left to our keeping, whose
Interests are directly enlisted in all
! our actions, and no man is a true sol
dier and gentleman who fails to-
cherish them near his heart and
mind. Moreover, we have a great
land and a great future. If we realize
them and tend them with half the
zeal we served the idols which de-
4luded us, we shall yet be rich, pros
porous and happy We should not
|glve one moment of this goldenI
future, for all the dregs of the past;
and for its sake, let lis bear the!
present.
10 the people Of Columbia, on this
the anniversary of the destruction of !
their beautiful and cherished city, wei !
offer our sincere tribute OF condo
lence. We earnestly and sincerely
hope. that, before another return of k
The day, we will be able to congratu-
late them on the return of the pros
perity they deserve
A bill for the education of negroes
has been introduced in the Lepisla-
ture OF Florida. It proposes to tax 1
negroes themselves to the amount
required, the sum to be- paid into the
State Treasury to be disbursed by the s
State and county officers. The CO.
7ernor endorsed the plan, and asked !