The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1867-12-28
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towofse, and unless some speedy and
comp tehsnsiye measnres ofrelief and
reform ara interposed, the Civilized
world, within a. few short tmonthe,
fnay 'he, shocked with the revival in
the great republic Of those .horri-
BILE scenes of ST.. Domingo, which
marked the African movements there
for negro equalityand negro supre-
|; Speaking of the effect OF all this in
its own section, the Herald, in the
same article, says:
1N"And what is the state of things in
the North? Our merchants are doing
little or nothing, though selling at
less than cost; our manufactures, to
o ruinousl extent, are suspended or
cut down in their operations; our
mechanics, in still increasing num-
bers, are thrown out of employment;
the unemployed and the destitute in
all our great cities are more numerous
now than tkeJ have been in any
month OF December for thirty years.
Hard times is the general cry, and
before they can be better, there is a
general apprehension that they will
be worse. There is no confidence in
the present head of the national
Treasury, and there is no confidence
of any substantial or reasonable re-
lief from this radical Congress.
The New York Times, in its article
on General Gillem's report, says:
''The most alarming circumstance
in connection with this position of
affairs, is the absence of all signs of
improvement. The trouble has no
visible outlet. No thoroughfare' is
written as plainly by events as by the
pen of Dickens. The planters are
neither willing nor able to repeat the
Improbable experiment of cotton
cultivation on this years basis. The
prevailing determination is for q time
to abandon cotton culture, or to
make it subsidiary to surer and
cheaper crops; and as corn requires
only fifth of the labor which is
necessary for cotton, General Gillem
estimates that 'four-ffths of the
laborers required last Tor this) year,
will be thrown out of employment,
and, of course, there will be n cores
ponding decrease of wages Even
then the planters will have hard
task to pull through till next harvest.
With little property besides land,
they are in debt to merchants on ac-
count of this years supplies, and
have, therefore, little credit; and
outside of the State will
afford no help in the present unset
tied condition of the South. Nor is
there much likelihood of immigra..
ton from the North. OF the North
ern men who remained in the South
when the war closed, or who went
thither under an expectation of sud-
denly growing rich by cotton cultiva-
ton, nearly all are ruined. The for
tune they wooed so hopefully has not
rewarded their enterprise.
The Times says truly, that the most
alarming circumstance is that there
is no sign of improvement in this
condition of affairs. But when it
says that the trouble has no visible
outlet, we think it is mistaken. That
outlet can be opened by the people of
the North and West rising up in their
strength and might, demanding from
Congress the re-installation of the
Southern States in all their rights,
privileges and immunities rs mem
bers of the Federal Union. The
people of these States are powerless;
but if those of the North and West,
who are now suffering from the evils
they have brought, not only upon the
South but upon themselves, were to
unite in some concerted mode of ac-
ton and make that sturdy demand
which freemen have q right to make
Of their public servants, the wild
legislation of Congress would soon
be put stop to and the country, in
time, be restored to peace and ulti-
mate prosperity.
But New England itself, the hot
bed Of that fanaticism which has
sent this whirlwind of desolation all
over the country, is also reaping the
bitter fruits of her madness and
folly. History repeats, with distinct