The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1867-01-07
CHI a. Es TON.
MONDAY MORNING. JANUARY !, 1856

MONDAY MORNING, JANUARY 7, 1867.
THE MODERN PILGRIMs
We have not, for some months past, adverted
to the numerous letters from, the South appear
ing in almost every journal, North or West.
Your Special correspondent is usually so in
effably stupid or common place as to merit any
attention; the "Occasionar' not much better.
There is more freshness and interest in the
letters of the tourists, kind of volunteer cor
respondence. This class Of writer's usually
display refreshing verdancy, and even their
fotions are moro readable than the soporifc
lucubrations of "Our Special" The South
sTarmed with these new pilgrims year ago,
and many and curl ions were the reports sent
North. The Nation, New York Radical sheet
Of very somniferous proclivities, had long let
ters every week from the rural parts of the
Cotton States. The Tribune, we know, publish
Gazette had its vituperative ISLANDERS, regularly
measured cut by the column. The hot weather
at last acted as extinguishcr to these lumi-
naries. Like the smallpox, these pilgrims
were put to fight by tho scorching suns of Au-
gust. Schoolmarms, missionaries, philanthro-
pists, ETC., all returned to more congenial
climes.
With the return Of winter, however, the pes
tilenoe has again set in. Not only preachers,
and teachers, missionaries and schoolmarms,
but host Of inyalids have come to the Sunny
South; and we bid them welcome. But we do
not think we can be charged with a want of
hospitality, when we protest against the jaun-
diced view these pious ladies and gentlemen re-
feet in their correspondence. Is it fair that a
whole people should be condemned because q
few dyspeptics do not find our roadside inns
quite up to DELMoN1co's. And yet the opinions
Of these atrabilious travellers are cited by the
honorable gentlemen in Congress We all know
the Hon. SUMMERS trick Of reading letters, re-
ceived from friends travelling in the South, 60
ing to prove whatever point he wishes to make
at the time.
An individual styling himself ssIndependent
Missionary recently passed through the coun-
try, and was in Columbia during the session Of
the Legislature, and prints his observations in
the Cincinnati Gazette, Of Wednesday last The
man is clearly q fanatic, suffering either from
q diseased liver or sickly imagination, or
from both,-the latter the result Of the former
He argues the persistent disloyalty of South
Carolina, because little boy in the street
says: 6 I don't love the Yankee flag. The
Confed. dag is my Dag, if it is pulled down.
The C Independent Missionary" we think, was
recreant to his duty on that occasion Why
was this boy not arrested, and brought before
the Grand Jury on charge of treason? The
United States District Court was in session at
the time, and the whole affair might have been
dispatched with all expedition
Another man in Columbia said to him. {. Only
one man voted for the HOWARD Amendment,
and he ought to have been kicked out of the
House." A man at NlcKERsoSs said; a. Allow
the negroes to vote and take all the offices :?
Never" )" Twnddle like this is here collated by
the yard. The Independent Missionary
gloats on the ruins of the houses, churches
and colleges Of Columbia He says: s.Colum-
bia is IN ruins; God is just, but South Carolina
is rebellious still" But enough Of this blind
fanatic. What delight lie would take in com
ing amongst us with an inquisitorial commits
sion.
! In the New York Herald, of the ID, we find
letter from Charleston, from its special cor
respondent giving account of the recent
celebration Of the New England society's an
| niversary in this city. He says:
The New England Society Of this city cele-
brated "Forefather's Day. in secret session
Not q member of the press was invited The
Society, in former times, was distinguished fer
its libcrality; and the secret session nav be
considered as very fair exponent Of that feel
ing and prejudice against anything Yankee
which exists here now, and the knucklinp down
to the secessionists and anti-constitutional
amendment spirit.
This is news to us. We were not aware Of
| any coercion brought to bear upon the respect
! ed descendants Of those honored sires. On
the contrary, some of our best citizens have for
years been identified with this Society; men
taking high position in the city and in the State.
| recent Charleston letter in the New York
Times, speaking Of the election Of Hon. J. b.
| CAMPBELL as United States Senator, mentions
the fact of his elevation to this Office (notwith-
| standing his Massachusetts, birth) as one of the
cheering signs Of the times. Either the
| Herald's or the Times correspondent must be
| wide of the truth in his differences.
Verify, it seemeth as if these pilgrims had
come here to spy out the nakedness Of the land.
And when the truth is too nude, they dress it
| up to suit their fancy, and thus pander to the
| morbid and prurient appetites of their readers,