The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1867-08-11
TERaES2eINi1ADVANCE..
Silent Politicians.

.tc Silent Politicians. -
The contributorial editor of the
York*iIle Enquirer, in his quaint
style, thus notices the silent politi-
clans at the present iuncture. The
notice is well worth reading:
Some of our contemporaries ex-
press surprise lat the fact that many
( Of our hitherto .voluminous advisers
and country-savers are now silent
snow.t when, If ever, we need the
advice and wisdom of experience to
guide Us. V 1t does not surprise us.
The case is livery clear one.
Ii you have eyerseen a coon up O tree
while the hunter was chopping at the
tree, and watched his course, You can
readily understand the point of our
illustration. Dli r'ta,1
The coon gets high up in the tree,
among the 'topmost, boughs, and Sc
lects "a fork. He keeps in this fork,
keenly cycling both the dogs and the
axeman, especially the latter. After
the tree begins to totter and fairly to
start over to one side-and' there is
no longer a doubt which way the
tree, viii fall-he jumps. ''f ~,
Our silent politicians are like the
coon. o'a = :iHileI .rt
= Whenever it becomes perfectly ap-
parent which way political affairs are
going to turn, then these Solons will
speak ont-will speak out vociferous-
~, as soon as it Is safe for them to do
SO. =! or f'Astt'1 = 1l7U a 80 : :
Mark these men-these silent So
lons., They are towards, and we
want brave men In times like these.
Gov. Perry is d brave man. He
may be wrong-wei believe some OF
his conclusions are--but we O. thou
sand times prefer such, men to those
cowardly .coon-politicians who are
waiting until we are ruined, in order
that they may see what advice win be
most profitable to them to give us.
Away with such patriotism.
10 the dogs with such politics.
If inaction is the true policy. let
them say so. o.sr
If they believe in radicalism, let
them announce it no,c. J
If Goe. Perry is right, Let them
say 80.0tirr| -iN5t .tt.. - ~
Here half dozen men have
spoken, after months of agony and
tyranny. Are these half dozen all
our political leadersp
Indeed, seven years ago, (afier se
cession was an inevitable fact, 1--WE had
eloquent speakers, and advisers, and
t country-savers, 80 many that, with q
dozen each night, it took month to
hear their speeches and all their ad.
vice. p ~ ~ -..' ''' a.
, Where are all these men? ~, "
A few of them sleep on the battle.
fields; but the great body of those
ELOQUENT men never got sleepy in
that way. i''r
Eternal silence, it is true, would
become them we'll; but knowing tina,
they are ready las soon as the tree
begins to falD to jump to the from
and tell us all about it, we deem il
proper to call their attention to tn,
subject now. Il
Col. VIM. G. Preston {peace to hi
honored memory once described Ger
tain of our politicians rs resembling
the sea gull-that the sea gull, buf
feted, driven and dashed onward h,
the violence of the storm at sea
seeks foothold at last upon som,
!ptting crag, and looking beck upol
the tempcst-the troubled waters be
meath and the laundering cloud
above-and fancies, poor thing. tina
it is leading that stormi
Did any of our readers ever Sc
one OF those political grlls?