The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1866-06-19
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Tuesday Morning, June 10. 1895.
-"HuIt-d Like Parsriases."

lPa.E a.EReposiiery, in which she asserts
that the prominent radicals In Wash
instcn are IN constant receipt of most
touching appeals from theioyalists.of
the Sonths whose dwellingsare burned
and 'who are hunted like partridges
by the triumphant rebels" She says,
further, that "these appeals would be
much nnore frequent but for the fear
of discovery; these suffering loyal
people, white and black, are held in
mortal fear, like children. who are
beasen by nurses and threatened by
worse if they complain.
We are not informed whether this
sniabIe and vivacious writer knows
anything about childmn on her own
hook; If she does, we venture to say
her children have been both beaten
and threatened any number of times
Bnt the extract we desire to call at
tention to is the following:
"A, Congressman who received one
Of these appeals from a loyalist in
South Carolina, whose dwelling had
been burned and he and his family
driven to the woods, where they are
now skulking, went to Secretary
Stanton to ask transportation for
outraged people to some place of
safety. Mr.. Stanton read the letter
carefully, then remarked:
Il regret that there is no law au-
thorazlng me to interfere. Such ap-
peais are coming up from oil parts of
the South. I have no authority to
help these people"
"And is it so. Mr.. Secretary?' in-
CURED the applicant, ''that after
spending three thousand millions of
money and two hundred thousand
lives, the men we have been fighting
are triumphant, our friends left to
their mercy, and the Government
powerless to protect them?"
ut is even sou was the emphatic
answer OF Edwin M. Stanton.
Then, Mr.. Stanton, to what are
we coming?"
I'VE are coming to another war!'
said the Secretary of War, "and that
soon; and it is my consolation, in
this view of the case, that the next
war Will not end, as the last did, in a
mock trial for traitors. Wien oar men
go dozen there me.cttinae, they qcW tru n,ad
ereca1e traitors uith tile 6ayonet !''
That there may have been applica-
tions from this State for transporta-
ton for women, children and the
destitute TO go North, is doubtless
true but that there arc any '1oyal-
lists" skulking in the woods in South
Carolina, from fear of the late rebels.
there is not a man, woman or child in
the State but who knows that such an
allegation is untrue. Many citizens
OK Northern birth, seeing the city de-
stroyed, left for their old homes, with
General Sherman's army; but quite
number of these have since returned
and resumed trade and business
among us, without molestation, or
without any apprehension OF beiug
troubled III any way. Indeed, there
are instances of persons formerly at
tached to the Federal army, who have
settled not only in this State. but
throughout the South, in different
employments and avocations; but We
have never heard of any of them
being treated otherwise than every
other citizen around them.
The doings in Tennessee and Mis-
souri, show that tho boot is on the
other leg-that it is the Late Confede-
rates who are persecutcd in those
States. AS to the conversation pur-
porting to be held with NJ. Stanton.
we can scarcely credit the truth It
is one OF the many fabrication. sent
on to the North to sustain and justify
the course of Stevens and his follow
ers towards the Southern people, and
to keep alive spirit of sectional
hatred and strife, which every good
and true citizen must condemn, and
endeavor to rebut and crush out the
malevolent efforts Of these scribblers
to Keep alive animosity among the
people.
On the other side of the ouestion