The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1866-05-23
COLUMBIA.
Wednesday Morning, May %, 1856.

Wednesday Morning, May %, 1856.
Honoring our Gallant Dead.
It is known to our readers, that on
the 26th April the ladies of the South
determined to do honor to the dead
Confederate soldiers, buried at Diff
ferent points throughout the South,
by decorating their graves with gar
lands Of flowers. The New York
Ne,0s very justly says:
"There scarcely can be conceived
q more touching spectacle than this.
These women, orphaned of their
treasures-for where is there, at the
South, woman who has not been
called on to sacrifice to country o
father, or brother, or husband, or
son?-decking, with tear-bedewed
wreaths, the humble tombs of the la
mented dead; this quiet, unostenta-
tious sorrow, these tender regrets,
this homage of whole people to the
memory of those whose gallantry,
lofty patriotism and heroic devotion
posterity will embalm in song and
story, make up picture that no one
with a spark of generous feeling can
contemplate without emotions of
sympathy and tender pity.
"But there are people who have so
little heart, and the motives for
whose actions are so thoroughly
gross and sordid, that the possibility
OF an act being suggested by any
motive but self-interest never occurs
to them. Such people have neither
sense enough to see, nor feeling
enough to understand, that the right
or the wrong of the cause for which
the Confederates fought and died has
nothing whatever to do with the SEN
timent that prompted the women of
the South to decorate the graves of
their dead kindred; that they honor
the memory of the dead because they
exhibited many great and noble quail
ties; they weep bitter tears over their
untlmely graves because they were
near and dear to them, and because
clnging affection of woman follows
Its object beyond the grave.
when the negroes of Richmond.
at the suggestion, doubtless, of the
agents of the Freedmen's Bureau,
stole the flowers that the loving hands
OF the Confederate women had strew-
ed upon the graves of their honored
dead, and transferred them to the
graves of the Northern soldiers, many
Republican journals published the
fact, not only without censure, but
with an implication of praise, as
though it were, upon the whole,
rather clever performance. And
when the attempt of parcel Of
Northern school-mistresses, at Angus
ia, Georgia, who inspired q motley
crowd of negroes and mulattoes to
>yesty the oblation to the Confede-
dead, In the cemetery of that
was. put down by the civil au-
thorities, Republican journals raised
a howl of pious and patriotic indigna-
tlon over Southern insults to the
graves of Union soldiers"
We noticed this outrage at the
time, and were pleased to see the po-
sition which Generals Brannon and
Iallson took, in excluding from the
cemetery those had purposely gone
there to insult the noble women who
were paying the only tribute they
could to the brave men who had
fallen In cause they deemed to be
patriotic. This howlng of the radi-
cal press, and its endeavor to distort
this simple mode Of testifying their
love and regard for their dead sons
and brothers, by the women of the
South, into an insult to the fallen
soldiers is so puerile and contempti-
ble as to show that the party is in
srtren'is-in its dying throes.
THE FARMERS OF THE FREHDMEN's s
BuRRAU.-The President, says For
ney's Chronicle, has issued an order
for the arrest of all officers of the
freedmen's Bureau interested, di-
rectly or indirectly, in the cultivation
OF farms in the Southern States. We
are undoubtedly on the eve of great
revelations as to this mammoth cor
porat: nd g2od reason, we think,
6eshoTn1 Why its officers have
cen SO loud in their declarations
lat its presence was absolutely ne