The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1867-03-05
Signs ofa Commercial Tempest.

mond Times, from an intelligent
wholesale merchant in the city of
New York, affords some idea of how
| the action of Congress is affecting the
material interests of the country. The
correspond dent describes the condi-
! ton of affairs there rs most unpro-
missing, and as pregnant with COM
mercial and financial disaster; and he
correctly traces all the evils, present
and prospective. to the failure of
Congress to bring the. South into
peaceful harmony with the rest of
the States We give an extract:
1.-The failure of Congress to reha-
bilitate the Southern States is react
ing unfavorably on all business pur-
suits, and the whole country Ian
guishes IN consequence. Business
here Is killed, incomes have been re-
duced, internal revenue receipts are
decreasing, factories are closed, work
people are thrown out Of employ
ment, poor people accumulate, chill
,iren suffer and die, and all interests,
financial, commercial, agricultural,
stagger like drunken man, ignorant
of what to do and how TO act. The
reaction is coming on us, and it will
culmlnate at some early date, but
when or how cannot now be predict
ed. The amazing part of reconstruc-
ton legislation is the desire to refer
fO h1rl,o o,.io n1oec
suffrage which the constant clamor
here is, ought to be limited to white
people at the North, because of the
| negro's ignorance of its value, so far
as any proper exercise of the fran
chise is concerned.
The views of this correspondent
must strike every unbiased mind as
singularly correct in their application
to the present state of the country
And it is passing strange that Con-
gress cannot and will not see the
effect of its action. But they do see !;
they must see. Vengeance, however,
is sweet, and the exercise of brute
power supremely attractive to some
minds. Though the country should
perish, party rage, like that of the
famished and furious Wild beast, must
fix its fangs on the throat of its help
less victim.
We see by the Charleston papers
that Capt George G. Hayward was
brutally murdered by negroes, near
Savannah, on Friday last. He was
also robbed of his watch and money.
He leaves a wife and sixteen children.
WHAT THE RADIO. LIS WILL Do
The Baltimore American, of Tues
day, says:
The loyal people intend to purify
the institutions Of this great repnb-
lie. They have resolved upon this,
propriety, but Of political and ma
tional safety. In this, they will not
be hindered by the Supreme Court
or any other other branch of the
Government. The people are the
Government-the controlling power.
The judges, like the President, are
the mere instruments through whom
they work. All must yield by some
means or other, sooner or later, to
the deliberately formed judgment and
will defhitiyely expressed by the peo-
pie.
And the Gazette, of Wednesday,
commented as follows:
SO passes away the Constitution of
the United States, and with it, con-
stitutional government and civil
liberty. Millions of men on this con
tinent, to-day, stand as completely
divested of political rights and the
protection of any laws as ever did
the liege subject of any absolute mo,
march on earth. Into the future, we
shrink from gazing Confiscation and
rapine, ruin and confusion must soon
begin their ruthless work, and where
and when they will complete it, no
man may know.
RELIEF FOR LANCASTER The Char
lotte Times, of Monday, says:
We were gratitied to learn from
Col. VIM. Johnston that he had re-
ceived several donations for the suf-
fering in Lancaster District-25O
bushels of corn from the noble city
of Newbern, and $500 from Boston,
contributed by the editor of the Pilot
and a few friends. The Colonel also