The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1867-01-11
New Years. Day mt the South.

sHc HCohtH or year.
New YEARS. Day MT the South.
The New York World has the fol-
lowing comments on the condition of
the Southern people of both classes
during the recent holidays:
cit is difficult to believe that any
person can honestly go with the radi-
cal leaders in their thousand times
reiterated assertion that the Southern
States are not fit to receive their
rights under the Constitution, be-
cause they are filled with hatred
both against the Union and against
the freedmen.
'The kilograms which yesterday
reached us from all parts Of the
South, Ill regard to the celebration of
New Years Day, must, Of themselves,
suffice to make every really candid
person, every person who frankly
seeks to know the truth, pause and
think twice before he accepts such
statements as that the lives of the
freedmen would noo be safe in the
South We're the South represented in
Congress under the forms OF the
Constitution. These kilograms de-
scribe to us a series of negro festivals
held in all the leading cities Of the
South on New Years Day In Rich
mond, in Louisville, in New Orleans,
in Charleston, in Augusta, the cman-
cipated negroes paraded the streets
In organized bodies, often accompa-
MED with military music, and in some
cases under the leadership Of med
men bfaudishing swords At E;c:.-
mond, one OF these proc, ;sions
brought up in the Capitol s., mare,
where it WAS harangucd for IN hour
by one OF the inccndiary Torch and
Tnrpentine Tramps, Hunnicutt.
''Nhis individual filled his mouth
with tar, and set it on fire with his
tongue. He vomited forth volleying
fame and pitchy smoke, invoking Il
servi!e war against the whites Of the
South, denouucing the President OF
the United States as traitor 10
liberty, and generally stirring up all
that is worst and mcanest in the
passions, OF his hearers. Iti> impos-
sible that there should be two OPT
mons among reasonable men us to
the lndecency and positive scandal Of
such performances. That the negroes
shouid desire to celebrate the ami
versary Of their emancipation. is ma
tural enough. No one can blame
them for so doing; but to cele-
brate this anniversary with simu-
lated pomp of war, and to make it
the occasion Of hot and inccndiary
addresses, directly designed to array
the black race against the white, is a
public crime. Nobody who under
stands anything of human nature
could have been astonished if such
demonstrations had provoked coun-
Recommendations on the part of the
whites; and, if there had been the
slightest vestige Of truth in TIE rep
RESERVATIONS which the radicals are
perpctualiy making of the condition
and the temper of the South, such
counter-dcmonstrations must infalli-
by have occurred. But nothing of
the sort came to pass. The sons of
Africa went through with their jnbi-
lee unassailed and undisturbed.
Hunpicutt reared himself hoarse
from the steps OF the capitol at Rich
mond, without receiving so much us
q single egg to clear his voice withal.
Ii the celebration of New Years Day
at the South proves any thing at all,
1t proves that freedom of inccndiary
speech IS more absolute in the rebel
State of South Carolina to-day than
IS freedom to worship God in the
loyal State Of Missouri. In Missouri.
under i; radical Governor, ministers
OF the Gospel who essay to break the
bread of life to their people without
PERMISSION of the powers that be, are
daily seized, fined, imprisoned or
driven into exile. In South Caro-.
lima, the men who, tnle. years ago,
were shareholders and re s, Gun see
the streets filled with del mt praces-
SONS OF liberated slave. m ser the
fil% OF the Union, without fling Il
finger. or uttering, as far US appears,
an angry word. And yet we are
coolly invited to treat the .despotic
radicals OF Missouri as the elect of
liberty, and the law-abiding ex-:ebels
of South Carolina as unworthy of
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