The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1867-03-06
COLUMBIA.
Wednesday Morning, March s, 1867.
advice Gratis.

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vice generously aud gratuitously
given to the people OF the Southern
States. We once had some regard
for the counscls of the New York
World. but whatever truth may be in
the following brief paragraph, the sug
gcstion made therein is very unwise:
eff the Southern people should re-
slst the execution of martial law by
force, they would be fighting in as
righteous u cause us any in which Il
patriot ever drew his sword Armed
resistance is the natural and appro-
pirate mode of redress for such fla
grant injustice as is now meditated
against the South. Resistance to
tyrants is obedience to God. The
only good reason for not appealing to
arms in this conjuncture, is the hope
lessness of success.
Armed resistance is all played
out. Northern Democrats, long be-
fore the opening of the late civil
strife, if they did not actually coun-
sci resistance, they said just the
above substantially y-that tho South
should not stand the encroachments
of the New England fanatics, and all
that sort of stuff; but the moment
the first gun was tired-presto change!
they assumed the title of ''War De
mocrats, and acted up TO their pro-
fessions with a vim that even out
stripped tho radical party. No; the
people of these States, thrust out of
the Union as they are, have had
enough of fighting for years to come
We have tried that remedy, and it
failed completely. We are worse off
to-day than when Fort Sumter sur
rendered to Gen. Beauregard. The
man who counsels armed resistance
is no friend of the South nor Of his
country.
We have just emerged from a gi-
gantic and bloody civil war, and it
has left us (down this way) PROSTATE
and impoverished to such an extent
that ten years will not reinstate US in
our former position. The Southern
people want peace; if we cannot get
restoration on our terms, we cannot
help it; but above all other consider
atlons. it is imperdlire, if we wish
even to live, that we should avoid any
further collisions as section. Such
a course would prolong indefinitely
the return of peaceful reconstruction,
and would only impoverish US still
moro as a people. AS the New York
.Su'i says, the South can do nothing
whatever in shaping the policy by
which she shall be recognized No
good can be accomplished by bewail-
ing the cruelty Of fortune; and there
fore, 1t is that they must drop
politics at once, and turn their atten-
ton to the cultivation Of their soil,
and especially to raising the means
Of support. Another season ought
not to find them dependent on the
charities of the North for food. No
bic and prompt as that charity has
been exercised, yet it will not do to
rely upon its continuance.
The people of the South have a
soil and climate which. With 81 new
organization of labor, either white or
black, are all sufficient, not only to
make themselves self-sustaining and
independent, but to start them on a
career OF prosperity they have never
enjoyed in the painiest days of the
past.
AS to politics, it will be seen, from
our dispatches yesterday. that the
people Of Georgia are taking action
in relation to the military law This
is neutrality-suspicious. or non
acceptance of the terms proffered -
which the people ought calmly to de-
eide for themselves, and after that
decision has been made, shut up the
book, and let the volume of politics
remain unopened until we have re-
gained, In some measure, that pros
perity which the fortunes of war de-
prived us of. Politics and war should