The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1866-10-09
BarbarIsall.


cent murder ,on the Chicago race
track:
"There needs no visit to the far
distant islands if one would see the
outburst of barbarism III human ma
ture. 1t is unnecessary for radical
philanthropists to search the South
ern States from end to end for in
stances of depravity, nor is it at all
worth their while to manufacture
stories to prove that there are bad
men, and crowds of bad men, even to
mobs of bad men, in this country
Chicago furnishes terrible picture of
American civilization. We do not re-
member, in the books of travel which
describe the most savage NATIONS,
anything more thoroughly barbarous
than the accounts we read III Chicago
papers of an occurrence ut Il Chicago
horsc-race q few days ago.
''The excitement had become in
tense in the crowd before the last
heat. There were ominous threats
from numerous voices. Darkness
came on. The rival horses and their
drivers disappeared in the gloom.
Only one re>appeared. The other
driver was murdered o. the course.
The crowd were utterly reckless Of
the poor mans fate. Their bets
were all they cared about Instead
of seeking the body, they rushed to
the judges, and demanded u decision
Of the race. The scene is described
as one only fit for Pandemonium
We shudder as we read it. Then we
have Il horrible account Of brutal
fight between policemen and men
they attempted to arrest in the night.
The common theory seems to be that
the driver was murdered in order to
defeat his horse in the race The
whole story of this scene in Chicago
is enough to make one sick of his very
nature, when he reflects that these are
men on whom our boasted civilization
has laid its full effect, and that the bar
barism is that of q part Of the popu-
lation Of Il city in which, more than
i'll any other, are daily published
false and fabulous stories designed to
prove the barbarism Of THEN neigh
bors
RADICAL TREATMENT OF a DRUNKEN
HUSBAND The Ntiae DemDc1.td, of
Saco, gives the following details of
the late murder of Dr. Sweat, of
kennebunk, by his wife:
On Sunday morning last, Dr. c.
NJ. Sweat, OF kennebunll, died from
the effects Of morphine, administered
by his wife The doctor, until within
few years, has always sustained Il
good character, bnt, in that time, he
has taken to drinking, and, on Sun
day morning, he had q bottle of whis-
key hid i'll the hay in his barn, which
he had visited two or three times be-
fore the family were up. His wife
sent little girl to find the bottle,
which she found and handed to Mrs.
Sweat, when she poured some pow
der in the bottle, and, after shaking
it, sent the girl to replace it III the
hay, Shortly after, the doctor went
to the barn for Il few moments. and
came in, after which he helped his
wife about making the fire, and then
went and sat down on the sofa, where
he soon fell asleep, never to wake
His wife, after finding that he could
not be awakened, took q large dose
of morphine, for the purpose of kill
] ing herself. but was discovered in
season to prevent death Mrs. Sweat,
we understand, had given her hus-
band morphine two or three times
previously, which had made him sick,
and it was for that purpose that she
says the last dose was intended The
case will be brought before the grand
jury at the present term.
WHAT WE FoUGHr For. Was the
war one of false pretences? We
claimed that it was for the preserva-
ton Of the Union; yet great party
persists in excluding ten States from
their rightful place in the National
Legislature, though they have given
every indication of willingness to
continue part and parcel OF the Fed
eral Union. We claimed that it was
for the maintainance intact of the
Constitution; yet the Constitution is
trampled 0nder foot in its essential
provisions of equality in the Senate
and representation in the House.
We claimed that it was for the resto-
ration of the Federal authority, yet
the effort is made to convert that
authority from q government OF law
into one of Congressional dictation,
by methods defiant of the Constitu
ton. We claimed that it was to win
1,o oo1- an. raholIinuc hratbv opI