The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1867-05-22


surged to and fro like biIiows Of n
stcrm-troubled sea. x panic seized
tho blacks, and they began to STAN
pede. Three shots were fired first in
the street, and clubs were used freely.
There was n rapid but random fire
issuing from L dense crowd of no.
groes, on the ruins of the old court
house building, around the speakers
stand. The city bell immediately
sounded the alarm, and two compa-
MES were immediately despatched to
the scene of action TO quell the dis
turbnnce
Shots were being fred from the
junction OF Roynl and Government
streets, from the old court house
building, from the North side of Co
vernment and from the left of the
building at the corner of Royal and
Government, all concentrated on the
centre of the latter street. The firing
became rapid, md thero was a run
ming fire down Royal toward Dau-
phin, up Dauphin, up Government,
and up Cont street, for some twenty
minutes, until the military got on the
ground. Some persons were killed.
and some wounded; how many, las
not yet been ascertained.
The RADICAL CRrsADE. Speaking
of the effects of the above, the Bos-
ton Posi- says:
Judge Kelly has succeeded in pro-
voking q riot at Mobile, which re-
suited Ill the death Of several citizens
black, and white. He taunted and
irritatcd his audience by BOOSTING OF
his determination to say to them Just
what hc pleased, Under military pro
lection, and to That end, if the imme.
dinte force at hand was inadequate.
he could cominand the whole army of
the United States. BY his intcmpc-
rate remarks and insuiting bravado,
he urged his listeners beyond the
lo:nt OF, forbearapcc, and violence
followed, which terminated in the
death Of innocent parties, while the
instigator sought the comfortable
shelter of his hotel, guarded by Co.
vernment bayorets. Thus is con-
summated what was generally pre-.
dicted. and probably designed by the
radicals, rs the consequence OF the
work OF self-constituted Northern
political missionaries who went forth
under prctenco of teaching the South
peace and loyalty! The eilrontery of
these domagogues, in going among n
people deprived of their civil rights
and property, held down by military
law, suffering the panGs OF starv;,-
ton, and tannting them with their
misdeeds and mocking at their Gala
mites, is as reprehcnsiblc IS anything
cowardice could conceive or party
hacks perform. The ready submis-
sion of the South to the reconstruc-
tion laws of Congress surpassed all
expectation, and the work was adj
vancing throughout the South with
out hesitation. The citizens of diff
ferent classes were fast adapting
themselves to the new order of things;
the blacks and whites were fast har-
monizing in their social and civil
relations, and the restoration of good
order and fidelity to the General
Government was unobstrncted At
such moment, extreme party men
not men distinguished for patriotism
or any prominent virtue, public or
domestic-not men of consistent
political action-not men who had
risked anything to defend the Co.
vernment when it Was assailed, but
mere party declaimors and leeches-
thrust themselves upon the South as
It's diotators, Extensively demanding
acquiescence in their will and threat
ening prescription, coniiscation as
punishmentl for none conformity.
What but resistance aud violence
could result from such proceedings
among civilized people with one drop
of American blood in their veins?
And was not this tho aim ut the start,
to sting to violent deeds, and then
summon those deeds rs evidence of
the necessity of continued subjuga-
tion, the postponcment of the peace
of the country and of the restoration
of the Union? We believe such per-
sons as Kelly and his radical asso-
ciatcs are dcyilish enough for any
such design and reckless enough to
attempt it's success If the American
people are so far in love with such
apostles rs to sustain them at the ex-
pense of the burdens they impose
upon the nation, civilly and pccu-
niurily, then we may rs well all "cry
havoc, and let slip the dogs of war; ;"
Strife and taxes, arbitrary govern
ment and the subversion of every
principle of true reDublicauism. will