The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1867-10-08
something Sor tho Northern People.


Some days ago, large assemblage
of negroes, mostly from adjoining
plantations, congregated in the city
of Savannah, to listen to the harangue
of one Bradley, who, by his inoendi-
cry appeals. has demoralized the
colored population of the island
plantations. and caused tile planters,
as well as his poor deluded victims,
heavy losses, by drawing the latter
away from their labor at the very
time it was most needed. In the
present instance, he was not success
full, the threatened riot being nipped
in the bud, by not only the determi-
nation evinced by the authorities, but
by number of the moro sensible
freedmen themselves. The attempt
to produce a riot was an outrage upon
o peaceable community, and one
which must have sorely tried the
patience of those who had these peo-
pie employed for the production OF
their crops. The Savannah Repu6k-
can, edited bya Northern man, and
we believe an ex-Federal officer,
brings this view of the case-the en-
durance of the Southern planters
under the repeated provocations they
have Independently forward, and
addresses the Northern portion of its
readers as follows:
"We wish our Northern readers
especially to consider whether the
patience and indifference with which
the Southern people of Savannah
land we have but q few hundred
Northerners in our midst, out of q
population of 100000 submitted to
allow a degraded black wretch, an
ex-State prison convict from Sing
Sing, to publicly villify and abuse
them, and to openly advocate the
confscation of their lands, houses,
mules, horses, cattle and other pro-
perty-we pause to learn whether it
does not exhibit spirit of magma
nimity and forbearance that would
not be generally accredited in the
North to the Southern people.
''More than this, our planters are
complaining bitterly of the losses
inflicted upon their ripening crops
by the pernicious interference and
general arrangement of their labor
system.
''In many cases, large plantations
have been entirely depopulated by
the inroads of these political adven-
turers, who, under the cruel pretence
of bestowing lands snd money upon
the ignorant freedmen, entice the
laborers from their honest labor, and
thus infiict double blow-one which
impoverishes the planter and his
hands, while it enhances the political
prospects and enriches the pockets of
the caitiffs who live by such swim
ding. These outrages-for we can
designate such proceedings by no
other or milder name-have been
perpetrated for several months, caus-
ing serious disturbances in several
instances between the colored peo-
pie. and oil without the slightest
lCoiothuC0 VI ouO" VI NlO1CuC0 lIOu
the aggrieved planters, who are nobly
struggling to make both ends meet,
liquidate their honest debts, and to
repair, if possible, their broken for
tunes"
This calm and temperate appeal is
not from the pen of any Southern
secessionist, (that was,) but from
man who seems to have taken O pro-
per view of the situation of tho
planters and people of the South, as
it is affected by these miserable ennis
saries, who seek to stir up bad blood
between the races. We hope his
admonitions will be received in the
spirit in which they are written, and
nationally considered by those to
whom they are more Immediately
directed.