The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1866-06-13
From C0lu1hbia.

"A Pungent ana witty writer In this
city sends the following to the New
York Metropolitan Record:
ssHe was born when the crab was
ascending, and ALI, his. affairs 20
backward"
SO will our thoughts sometimes.
Prior to the first American Reyo-
luton, when the colonies were poll
tically Independent Of each other,
being neither united by contract or
Federal bonds, nor 'spinned together
by bayonets," it was declared by
them ''that they were neither actu-
ally nor virtually represented in the
British Parliament; and that if their
property might be taken from them
without their consent. there would
be no limit to the expressions which
might be exercised over them"
Prior to the days of Stevens, Sum
ner, Phillips, Greely, &C., an Eng
hshman, royalist, asserted in the
House of Commons the same doc
trine, and said, "Three millions of
our fellow-subjects, so lost to every
sense of virtue rs to tamely give up
their liberties, would be fit instru-
ments to make slaves of the rest
Before radicalisn, Us represented
in the present rump Congress, had
elaborated and defined liberty. al
English lord declared taxation and
representation are inseparable
Whatever is mans own is absolute
ly his own; no man has right to
take it from him without his consent.
Whoever attempts to do it, attempts
an injury: whoever does it, commits
a robbery"
The so-calied patriots of New
York erected a statue in honor of that
man. and so did Charleston; bnt she
has been taught to repent her error
sitting in ''sackcloth and ashes"
Before tho Harpers' ''.jomnM Of
GrILzniion' had remodelled the
national morals, expounded holi-
ness. and given us the true type of
christian charity, the colony of
Massachusetts, for maintaining this
American rebeilious and insurrection-
ary doctrine, was punished by the
British Crown by depriving it of the
selection of its important officers, by
the trial of its citizens in. another
colony or in Great Britain, by closing
the port Of Boston, by quartering
troops upon them, by refusing to
allow any royal officer to he tried for
offences committed against the laws
OF the colony, and sending them to
England for trial. Simple, untu-
torel, having only the Bible without
the Harper notes; with no Beecher.
no Stowe. no Tying, no Butler; mis-
icd by the prevailing opinions as
enunciated by Livingston, Crugcr
Rutledge, Gadsden. Hancock, Adams,
Henry, and the like turbulent soces-
slonlSts. the other colonies sympa-
thlZed with Massachusetts,, and sent
to It's suffering, starving people, rice,
Hour, corn and money.
Before It WAS known that States
could commit treason, and that their
treason made traitors of all their
citizens, when Massachusetts called
Tor help in the maintenance of these
now reasonable and most damnahle
ideas of Otis, Gadsden and Franklin.
Sonth Carolina responded with sncll
zeal and alacrity, that a great O.
Northern man said, Massachusetts
sounded the trumpet. but to South
'Carollna ls- it owing that it was at
tended to. Had it not been for South
Carolina, no Congress would then
have happened" Verify, so i'm
pressed with this fact was a certain
Nor1hefn writer, named Bancroft,
that ne issued an historical decree in
The following language:
lie Il remembered, That the bless
ing of Union is due to the warm
heartcdness OF South Carolina. O.
She was all alive, and felt at every
pore; and when We count up those
who. above all others, contributed to
the great result, we are to name the
inspired mu'olun James Otis, and
the great <hnesnaYso, the muy,4uni-
m""S. nnr"ceyin9, fipthleSs hre,' 1fhis
co",'hW, Christopher Gadsden.
But, tempo1u, mu"ntt7', etc. We
learn from experience. Our revolu-
tionarv fathers were simpletons, and
we 'repudiatc" their foiiies; for we
know that the 0rgu,ne1lf'tna buculin,tm
is most efficacious in eradicating any
such hcresics. Might is right, and
the Republic has the might I'iire III
Re1nubiiyue'
Leeks are good-tlcy are radical.
Loyalty has no shame. why should it
ever blush? We have a civil rights
bill; now Let us have a social rights
bill, a strong one, an unquestionable
leveller; one that will make penal all