The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1866-10-25
FSeJ,clliOns.

!hc Richmond Tines, in its pithy
style, thus comments ON ''rebellions:"
There are, it appears, two ''rebel-
lions" going on i'll the world, which
are never destined to ceasc-the one
the Chinese ''rebellion;" tie other,
''so-callcd, raging ut present, accord
ing 10 Ben. Butler and Forney, in
the late Confederate States. As long
as one mandarin in China can get
hold Of another, and convert him
into mince-meat with an improved
sausage chopper, the rebellion is GER
tainiy not going TO stop there; so
long as Ben Butler, Forney, ct id
onaae genus, want office, it will most
assuredly continue i'll the Southern
States. For years past, the news
from the East has come freightcd
with accounts of disturbances in the
Celestial Empire, and we much fear
that, for years to come, the rat-eaters
OF China Will have the same cause of
complaint about intelligence from
their antipodes, the United States.
The Chinese rebellion reminds us of
a vast coal-bed on fire, which keeps
burning for ages, and, though smo-
thered and put out in one place,
almost instantaneously breaks out in
another. ..
The amiablc spoon-stealer from
Lowell, who must earn an honest
living by the sweat of his brow, and
Col. Forney, of the Forree' divorce
case notorietv, would have he South
furnish during their natural lives.
and to their heirs and heiresses in
remainder, another illustration of a
rebellion that cannot be put down, a
fire that cannot be quenched. But
a stranger, a foreigner, travelling
through the South at present, cannot
| fully realize the awful calamity which
the nation is now ergoing-does
not appreciate the revolt that is going
on III the country. He sees every
where her people quiet and orderly,
and attending to their own business.
He finds the United States authority
! Ill us full force over the South as that
of Austria over Hungary. or Russia
over Poland. There is no idea of re-
sis5nnce to the Federal laws among
the people; everything is peaceablc.
y stray Yankee, who had come
down for the purpose of investigating
matters for himself, and forming an
honest and correct opinion, went
back to New England. the other day,
in despair at finding the Southern
I people would not talk politics; they
were moro interested in corn, wheat
and tobacco. He wrote quite a sen
sible letter, giving an account of his
trip, to the New York Times, and said
that what the South wanted was rest
and peace. This is exactly what the
radicals are determined we shall not
have if they can help it, and for that
purpose are keeping up rebellion
on paper, IN spite of the actual state
of affairs. They want office, they
want money, and hence the Ameri-
can rebellion" so-called, bids fair
to rival the one in China. Day after
day are tlse Kew York TI6uae and
Forney's paper filled with accounts
Of the rebellion in the South, of the
acts OF ''rehel> III the country
/ districts i'll the Northern States. these
are read and persistcntlv believed,
for it is astonishing, in times Of fac
ton. what Il wonderful faculty the
public possesses for swallowing the
most monstron> and improbable
falsehoods. Greeley and Forney
know this well, and for their own
base purposes are practicing on the
credlllty Of the people.