The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1866-10-20

classes, and look over the roll of their
late gallant officers, where will they
find the men to represent them, either
in Congress or the Legislature of the
State; and how many will be found
to fill State Offices, from the highest
and most responsible to the lowest
and pettiest i'll the gift of the APP
pointing powers of the State? This
is the question we earnestly commend
to the grave consideration of the peo-
pie of South Carolina. Must the
officers, State and Federal, be i'm
ported from the so-called s'loyal'
STATES of the North, or VIII they be
chosen from that motley '.orde
dubbed Southern loyalists?" May
God preserve the State from such a
destiny, and keep the people in their
right mind.
But we have too much faith in. the
virtue and integrity of the people of
the State, to believe that any in
ducement or temptation could posi-
bly, cause them to disgrace them
selves by an act that would exclude
the men they have always delighted
to honor, and who were always their
most cherished leaders in the field
and in the forum. They dare not do
tiff, in a moment of political aber-
ration, they should think of it; they
dare not do it, by the memory of
their fallen and gallant dead; they
dare not do it, from the eminent
qualification in honor, virtue and
State pride, which adorn the chaluc-
ters of their equally gallantsurvivors.
The shades of Gregg, Means, Jen-
kins, GLADDEN. and host of others,
if they could be present at any as
semblage which thought of volunt;-
rily ratifying the amendment, would
effectually put a stop to that action J;
and as regards the living, they would
surely forsake the State that would
thus extinguish all the manhood and
talents she now possesses.
Another consideration, and we
have done. The State would, by
such action, abandon the policy of
President johnson, which her Con
vention and Legislature have So
lemnly resolved to support. He is
bitterly opposed to this amendment,
and we do not believe that the radi-
calls themselves expected that the
Southern States would ratify it. If
they should do so, they abandon our
worthy Chief Magistrate to their ten
der mercies
This article is longer than we in
tended, but it is a grave and impor-
tant question to the people of this
State, involving all that is honorable,
virtuous and patriotic; and although
the cloud is now no larger than 4.
mans hand, it might gradually in
crease until it overwhelmed the State
with disgrace.
FoRNEY THE AUTHOR OF THE LED
GER CANARD. D.-Commenting on the
LeIger's explanation Of how it came
by the recent sensation Washington
which so excited the money
market and shocked the nerves of
the Herald says:
Our own explanation of the canu7M
is very different from that of the Leu
ger, but is more generally accepted as
correct According to our version,
the false information originally came
from Washington to New York, hav-
ing been sent by Flint, or somebody
of the same calibre, and was tele-
graphed from this city to Philadel-
phia by the New York Bohemians,
who were envious of the reputation
the Ledger had acquired for soberness
and correctness, and were anxious to
use it for gold gambling purposes. A
variation of this hypothesis, also cur
rent in Wall street, is that Forney
was the author of the original de
spatch, and as Forney is no more re-
liable than Flint, we are not indis-
posed to accept that amendment.
On THE WAY TO FORT DELAWARE.