The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1866-05-13
TERMS-IN ADVANCE
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The Mobile -4dreuiSe,' and Reals
ter, in "a small little talk with our
Northern brethren. thus lays the
case before them:
We know very well that there can
be no more war made upon us-that
we cannot be reduced to the perma-
nent condition Of conquered pro-
vinces or territories, and that hence
forward we take our chances of poll
tical happiness or misery with the
rest of the States, North, East and
West. Shape your Government rs
you will, gentlemen of the North
make it a republic, a monarchy, an
oligarchy-we are in the same boat
with you, and we sink or swim toge-
ther Remember that. If you wish
to destroy the life of the South, poll
tically, commercially and socially, all
we can say is, You are great fools,
and you will hereafter pray in sack
clock and ashes to be delivered from
this body of death" which you have
hung about you. When You come to
carry out your menacing boast of set
ting ar rearges with Queen Victoria,
and of kicking Napoleon and his
'squatter sovereignty out of Mexico,
you will probably wish that you had
not emasculated eleven States whose
soils and institutions have proven pro
life of that sort of men which, accor-
ding to n lofty English statesmen and
poet, constitute State
The truth is, brethren of The
Union, you cannot very well do with
out us ''rebs" We area pretty large
spoke in the general wheel, though
we do not pretend to be the club. y
We yield that to "Bosting." And
when to our wooings to get back to
the family "bed and board" you
show us the mitten, we make due al
lowances for the coyness of virgin
courtship, and persist in believing
that you really want and mean to take
MS at last, after duly going through
the bushes and task pas, which are
so becoming to modest maiden ma
lures like yours. For, if you didn' t
want us, what in the deuce did you
fight us SO hard for? 1t wasn't to
kick US out of the Union that you
raised three millions of men and made
the whole land bristle with steel and
flame with fire, because that object
was attainable at far less cost. 1t was
to keep us in, and now do you want
to make lis believe that after you have
pulled caps, torn out your hair, and
taken laudanum in the anguish of
your regret ut having to lose us, and
having won us back, that you dom
mean to have us? No woman was
ever SO tickle and arrant a jilt as that.
No, You mean to have us, and we
mean to have you You have broken
up our plans of gle-blessedness,
and refused to let us retire from youl
amatory embraces in q nunnery.
AnG now we must take you 'fol
better Oh tcr worse; and albeit the
nuptials will not be warmer at first
than those the Doge of Venice was
wont to celebrate with the Adriatic,
the bans are published, and we mas
be we'd again. SO pray make Sum.
ner and Stevens, and those othe,
lunatics, quit their stage tricks and
all their "demnition" nonsense, and
walk up to the altar and be done
with. We are match not to he de-
spised. We have a ''bully" dover to
settle on some happy partner-th
Lord knows how many rich acres and
how many annual hundred millions
of gold c0"om, which will be highly
convenient in arranging certain little
financial difficulties and foreign ba
lances incurred during the ardol
(cannon balls) and sharpness (swords
and bayonets) of your courtship; and
then, if anybody thrusts his fist il
your face, we can pitch in" for yol
in style Illustrated by the grey jack
cts on many splendid field Of valor
The fact is, we are Irresistible, ,
and you mean to have us. Why not
then, leave off fooling and conniver
ing, and name the happy day at once
1t would be our silver wedding, and
we could invite the whole family, ano
have jolly, royal, roaring froGc
apples from Yankee land, and mint
d. AAnsn Aur