The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1867-09-10
Rich Satire.

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Quoted by Northern man, and an
out-and-out reconstructionist under
the laws of Congress: "A
= We have been frequently impor-
tuned by Northern friends to furnish
them with frank, Ineligible analysis
of the political complexion and senti-
ment of Georgia. This we have
heretofore, for various reasons, been
unable to do. In fact, until recent
ly there has been nothing ineligible
about it, being q mere indefinite,
disconnected medley of unforgotten
follies and half-formed resolutions.
The fountain of the Southern mind
has long been grievonsly stirred, hut
it is clear at Iast-so clear that Their
sites might water his asa in it.. A
policy has been adopted, q pro-
gramme matured. It is to be the
great satire of the age, the most
masterly triumph of political irony
ever perpetrated the very hyperbole
of sarcasm. Even now the wounded
pride of the. .spbjugated" smiles
sardonically ut the prospective pic
ture.
It is the deliberate design, reached
after much incubation, of the ex-
leaders of Georgia, to send rs many
negroes to Congress as possible, and
to send. as d, thorough-bred types,
physically and intellectually, rs they
can induce the freedmen to support.
It is to be the Grand National Opera
D'Afrique., We speak by the card,
and have had unusual opportunitie
of knowing whereof we speak. No
waiting for the slow civilization of
school-houses, or the statesmanship
of primary. readers. OR the political
economy of multiplication tables.
Here is your barbarian Lycurgus, in
his untamed, unlettered purity-your
swarthy Solon, fresh from the jungles!
Here is your legislative animal, strong
III the wisdom of his launches; bril-
liant in the wit that lies in his sinews!
What shoulders these to bear with
scornful strength the Senatorial toga
happy toga! What deltoides these
for the impressive Websterian ges-
ture, grasping massive metaphors and
tigurative ensigns "full high an
vancedr What an 0S calcis for stand
ing committees-what dreceps brachi
for adjusting little differences of
opinion in caucus! Talk no moro of
muscular christianity-behold, Par
lament, Diet, Cortez, Congress-, or
what you will, all musclc-every pia
mater thicker than the cestus of
Pollu1. Take your constitutional
eligibility, dusky, dull and defiant;
take your fourteenth amendment,
not on parchment or vellnm, but q
looming, breathing thing, tangible,
visible, odoriferous! Take your cir
resistible genius of universal eman-
cipation," redeeLed from oil but
vice, disenthralled from all but i'm
becility-and let us see the wisdom
Of Egypt in the coming Statutes at
Large-let us ponder admiringly over
the erudition and eloquence of future
Congressional Globes. Now for q
Carthagenian Senate that will shame
Afric's ancient glory-now for the
murky magniticence of Ethiopian
oratory as they had it before Christi
Noble scion, he can almost read the
sef-evident truths of your Declara-
ton .of Independence. ViUe La Re
public a PAfricain! Thus may eli
berty pluck justice by the nose" :"
Somewhat in this strain runs BAG
chant and riant, the rhapsody of the
great disfranchised. Nor is this all.
There is q richness in the social
phase of this plan that deies language,
ranging as it does in dim eclipse
through the leoees of Senator Pompey
in honor of his Numidian bride
through the salons Of Cardinals
Cleopatra, who ''makes great Caesar
lay his sword to bed;" through the
fiirtations of the ebony belle of the
sea islands, with her charming cris-
piness of curls and brown breadth of
lips
Zone was thin,
Compared with that was next her CHM"
down, down through q wondrous
variety of shades and shadows to in
finite darkness. But enough. At
the very thought, "a strange, invisible
perfume stirs the sense" and stiles
further speculation. Of course this
is little else than the insanity of sui
eide; for as certain rs the greater con-
tains the less, so certain negro con-
gressmen include, nolens coLens, negro
magistrates, negro police, negro State
and municipal officers. The "disas-
trous twilight" this would shed over