davidaulloa/AmericanStories huggingface dataset:
The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1867-03-10
COLUMBIA.
Sunday Morning, March 10, 1867.
Reconstruction-Thc True Basis.

Reconstruction-Th True Basis.
The visit of the Committee from
the New York Firemen's Association
to Columbia, has impressed us with
the belief that lie people of the coun-
try could more readily solve satisfac-
torily the question of reconstruction
than all the politicians. in or out of
Congress, from Maine to the Rio
Grande. The brotherhood of this
noble organization is stronger link
of union than any that could be
forged in the national workshop at
Washington.
The truth is, that q friendly inter
course between the people Of both
sections cannot fail in the end to
defeat the schemes Of the politicians,
and we hope that such intercourse
will be earnestly promoted by our
own people, and that, losing sight of
the political muddle at the Federal
capital, they viii, on every fitting
opportunity, cultivate that spirit of
friendship, which made itself SO
manifest during the stay of the New
York Committee in this city. We
believe the people can reconstruct
more efficiently than their political
leaders, North or South, and that if
Congress would adjourn and not in
terfere until the regular meeting of
the next session, they would find
their constituents SO well agreed on
the policy of restoration and peace,
that even the leaders of the domi-
nant party would bow in submission
to their will.
Masonry and the Fire Department
have given, in their recent visits to
Columbia, the best evidences of the
truth of our position, that the people
are wiser than their politicians.
The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1867-03-10

Position OF THE SoUrH.-Thc wise
counsels given by the press of Viz
glnla to the people Of the State, in
the present crisis of public affairs.
are, we have no doubt, adopted with
almost entire unanimity. There
should be nothing done in the South.
through passion or irritation, to
''play into the hands of our op-
pressors, who would be glad of an
excuse to Justify their course. To
bear is necessity; to forbear is a
duty. Patience, endurance, peacea-
BILE department, calm resignation, are
what should characterize the conduct
of the Southern people in this the
worst hour of their trials. They can
sutfer-they can endure, while they
can be true to themselves.
Alexandria Gazeue
The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1867-03-10
@S>-S

STATE SECURITIES. The Augusta
Ch3'Oncle and Sentinel throws out a
word of timely caution in the follow
ing article:
We are sorry to see that Il sort of
panic has seized upon Our people in
relation to the value OF State securi-
ties. The idea seems to be thay, under
the operations Of the Sherman bill.
all State securities Will become yalne-
less. because of the abolition of the
State Governments. This we think
an unwise conclusion. The territo-
rial condition OF the States cannot
continue very long, and, in the inte-
rim. Congress will be compelled, from
the sheer force of circumstances,
TO recognize thc existing State Co
Eernments, to Il certain extent at least.
The power to levy and raise taxes for
the support Of the Government will
most certainly be allowed the States,
and all acts of the lie facio Govern
ments not in derogation OF the power
OF the Federal Government, will be
tolerated and recognized Any other
course would speedily bring about
such condition Of anarchy as would
startlc even the radical majority.
There is no reason-there can be
found none-in the Sherman ill.
which should cause any very great
decline in State or railway securities.
We advise those who have such to
withhold them from the market, at
least for the present. The prices of
such securities must go up. It would
be folly to sacrifice them at present
prices. The only persons who can
be benefited by the present condi-
ton of things are capitalists and
brokers. Withhold from them the
chance of purchasing at the present
panic rates, and, in few weeks,
prices Will regain their former level.
The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1867-03-10

FAST lime. Passengers via the
Charlotte, the North Carolina Central
and the Richmond and Danville Rail
roads are now carried through with
almost lightning rapidity, as the fol-
lowing schedule will show: Leave
Columbia 3. 80 a. M. leave Charlotte
10 a. m. leave Greensboro 2.3O D.
m.; leave Richmond H. 45 p. m. Ar
rive at Washington city 6.45 q. IN.
arrive at Baltimore S45 a. m.; ar
rive at Philadelphia 1.30p. m. arrive
at New York 5.45 p. m. AS we have
recently passed over this route and
made the above connections, we can
speak correctly with reference to it.
The time between Charlotte and
Washington city, via Danville, is now
20 hours and 45 minutes; New York,
about 30 hours; between Columbia
and Washington, ~ hours; New
York, 81; between Augusta and
Washington, 81 hours; New York,
about At hours. This is the shortest
route to New York, and without any
transfer by omnibus or boat between
Columbia and Richmond, Va. The
conductors and officers of the roads
generally are polite and attentive,
the cars are comfortably arranged
and the road-beds in fine order. Ask
for tickets via the Richmond and
Danville Railroad.
The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1867-03-10

queror-it is the part of wisdom for
us to accept that fact, with all its
logical consequences, and conform
our political action to it,
Hence it is our interest to attach
our colored people to us, by at once
taking the initiative in recognizing
their equality, and, by our entire
legislation, and public ard private
conduct, show ourselves to be their
truest and best friends.
When this is done, the revolution
ary furore ut the North will have spent
itself, and we will be homogeneous
among ourselves.
The moment all our people are in
harmony with each other, our mate
rial interests being identical, we will
be able to act together and prevent
the rise of u party in our State to
dominate over us, at the instigation
of outsiders.
In view, therefore, of all the cir
cumstances in which we are placed, it
is my decided opinion that steps
should be taken at once to re-organ-
ize our State Government in con-
formity to the action of Congress.
[ therefore respectfully call upon
your Excellency, as the only person
having the power to convene the Le-
gislature, to assemble that body at as
early a day as practicable, that they
may call convention of the people
of the State, to act upon the subject
of reconstruction. Very respectfully,
&c, JAMES NJ. RUTLAND.
The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1867-03-10
An Opinion.

The Winnsboro Neers publishes the
following extract Of letter from
distinguished gentleman, whose OPT
nion is worthy of deep consideration.
He says:
Gas to politics-if the South,
without delay, organize new State
Governments, under the law Just
passed by Congress, letting the blacks
vote, they can end the revolution.
If not, the next thing will be confs-
cation, and larger disfranchise-
ment.
A recent visit to the North, during
which we took Washington by the
way, confirms the truth of the above
statement. The best thing we can
do IS to slide Oft as easily as possible; ;
to attend TO our own affairs, and leave
politics to those whom it benefits.
The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1867-03-10

PRoTEcTIoS.-The Cincinnati COM
naercial says of peculiar feature in
the tariff which the late Congress, we
believe, didn't adopt:
''All the o.d hens of the United
States have reason to cackie with de-
light. Onr exemplary Congress pro-
poses to protect them. Even if the
tariff bill, now before Congress, fails
to become Il law, the old hens have
been recognized by American states
men as belonging to one Of the privi-
legged classes. Our own hens are to
be protected against competition
with the pauper poultry of Canada.
\ duty of one cent per dozen is to be
levied on Canadian eggs. The Ame-
rican hen that ereafter-fostered as
the egg interest is by protective legis-
lation-neslects to pay an egg every
day of the week Including Sundays
will be esteemed unpatriotic in her
tendencies.
The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1867-03-10

In its decision in the NIilligan case.
tie United States Supreme Court gave
expression to the following: Civil
liberty and martial law cannot en-
dure together; the antagonism is
irreconciliable; and in tile conflict,
one or the other must perish.
The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1867-03-10

STRANGE STATESAIANSHIP.- Surely
1t is the strangest statesmanship ever
known, and a legislation that could
hardly have been worthy of the dark
middle ages, to undertake to pro-
scribe the educated, energetic and
honest white men of province, and
give the contest and management of
affairs into the hands of the ignorant
and utterly uninformed and semi
civilized of an inferior and dependent
race, who but a little while ago were
slaves. Is that the way to restore
peace and harmony? What, to pro-
scribe and make foreigners of the
owners of the soil, the wealthy, the
industrious, the educated, the Chris
tlan gentlemen, the honest me-
chanics, the industrious and thought
full farmers, and set over them to rule
them the unthrifty, squalid, lazy and
degraded African, thousand times
less capable than Neapolitan lazza-
ronl! What are we to think of the
republicanism of a people who are
willing to entrust the destinies of a
country like Louisiana to the hands
of negroes, who are to be manipu-
lated and used for evil and mis-
chievons purposes by a few adven-
turers? Is that not to make inevita-
BILE a reign of terror? What can come
OF 1t, in country pcopled in large
measure by the descendants of
Frenchmen, but commotion, feuds
and bloodshed, and all the horrors Of
a servile war?h
The Irish republic. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1867-18??, 1867-10-12

THE NINE AND THIRTY ARTIcLEs-At the late meeting
of the British Association for the Advancement of Science
which took place Dundee Scotland the Duke of Bucceugh
in the chair Professor Tyndel-who by the way is Irish
materiasm as the province of science and
with all the courage of science and the authority of master
as he concluded by the adjuraton:
Be careful all things of protesting
of the the evidence Divine pleasure
who would deduce from the fall of the
against those who
equally who cholera cattle harvests
Doubt those who that
alton railway of railway travelling Sun
day CheersJ nothing about it, them
what said by Of the mightest seochmen living
dead-Thomas Carlyle-to the followers OF DR.. Pusey
The Builder of this universe was wise,
He all souls all systems, planets, particles;
The plan he formed his worlds and Kons by
Was-heayensl-was thy small nine and thirty articlesH
Sensation and appause)
The professor was heard with wonder and CONSERVATION by
onehaf his audience and with raprous applause by the
other The Bold Bucceugh was astounded The duke got
would make skepics he would not occupy that chair
The Irish republic. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1867-18??, 1867-10-12
Tories and Copperheads.

In his speech at Cincinnati Senator Sherman related the
following significant facts
few months ago stood in the House of Commons in
England and heard this question discussed to who
ought to be allowed vote at popular election heard
some of the most eminent Enghmen discuss this matter
They nearly all concluded that the great of mankind
ought not to be allowed vote and they uniformly said that
the aborngman ought because he had no stake
In society," They maintained their position by the same
arguments by which the Copperheads seek to exclude the
negroes in Ohio from voting. found them using the very
same arguments to exclude the aborngmen OF Great Britain
The Irish republic. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1867-18??, 1867-10-12
Resolutions of John Mitchell Circle, F. B., Mon
tana Territory .=

BEAR Town, MONTANA TERRITORY, August 25 1867.
WHEREAS, 1t has pleased Almighty God to remove from
amongst good and wellbeloved brother Michael
King, and
WHEREAS, We have always found him to be true man,
and devoted associate in the holy of Ireland and
liberty therefore, be it
RESOLVED, That we, the members of the John Mitchell
Circle F. B., Montana Territory do publicly express
heartfelt for the loss the of country has
sustained in the removal of whose heart and life
earnestly devoted to the regeneration of Ireland and her
restoration to her proper place of the free and indie
pendent nations of the earth. And be it .#,
Resolved That these resolutions be enrolled on the minutes
of the Circle and copies of them forwarded for publication
to THE IRISH REPUBLIC and Irish american newspapers
The above Resolutions unanimously agreed to at
whereof they are hereby subscribed by tr
MATTHEW GRAYsoN, Center.
The Irish republic. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1867-18??, 1867-10-12

from the elective franchise that the Coppeheads
clude the negro in the United States"
And the Copperheads of this country appeal to who
sought refuge here from British Tory injustice perpetuate
similar injustice whose only ofense lisa black skln
-Leavenworth Kansas Times ##.5a
The Irish republic. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1867-18??, 1867-10-12


show that here lived men with soulso
Men of the Fenian Brotherhood of Minnesota fyour old
officers not with you in this great work. if they
solved to forward help you cast them aside like the
Drs towers and choose better the work must
on Men are but straws the great upheavng of national
feeling If they fail they must fall by the way forgotten
but not forgiven.
Our men are armng for the coming struggle, and must
aid Them Henceorth we, of Minnesota must not seek to
depend on central organizers Let every be organizer
begin with himself and work out. We far from
headquarters that heretofore the labor of central organizers
has scarcely paid the Brotherhood for the outlay Therefore
We must depend energy, and make of our
means for hepurchase of beachoadng organizers Thousands
OF men are waiting for them Let to it, that far
can they may not have long to wait.
Surely intelligent and patriotic enough organize
ourselves The good seed has been well among Let
us see to it that may not rot through want of cultivation
Let us from within. Let show proof of the
faith that say is in U.S. by earnest steady, pesevering
work. Lay the burning words of young and noble
yrs your hearts Surely when many of our counymen
have offered their young lives the altar of Irish free
dom we, too, should make sacrifices. Their voices
reach from British dungeons bidding onward
to their and Ireland rescue and shall respond with
Vengeance? sH..s
Spring nH I into t the ranks snh, once n more
Lash aa the 5. demon lem aae Of di ss boar
And all of her helish brood
Sprung from her lewd rank glance
Low-browed blusterers, rude,
Who riot in ignorance.
Giants of clay oergrown
Charge through the horde again.
ton of muscle and bone
Can be moved by of BRAIN
Let captains who CONTROL
And our soldiers understand
That we bear in each loyal soul
The hopes of our Fatherand"
Finally, my brothers, beware of the wolves in sleeps
clothing who have been trying to steal your heart and
derstandng from the true path Irish freedom and teach
inpy The of sandal prtn
them Keep your eyes and hearts looking forward
national liberty which only be by hard work
and unfinchng in the of truth and justice
The path to freedom lies straight before u.s. We must not
look to the right to the left but press onward and up
ward remembering that God will help all who accept of his
MEANS TRUTH justice and perseverance, There is nothing but
disgrace behind Victory and freedom lie before and
if we be but true to ourselves cannot fail
Yours fraternally, PAUL FIrzGERALD,
District Center F. B. for Minnesota
Minneapolis, September 1867. Box 1866.
The Irish republic. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1867-18??, 1867-10-12

Spring into the ranks once more,
You who have souls of men,
Lash the demon of discord hoar
Back to her devils den,
And all of her hellish brood,
Sprung from her lewd, rank glance,
Lowbrowed blusterers. rude,
Who riot in ignorance.
Giants of clay o'ergrown
Charge through the horde again.
A ton of muscle and bone
Can be moved by an ounce of brain.
Let our captains who control,
And our soldiers understand,
That we bear in each loyal soul
The hopes of our Fatherland."
The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1867-01-04
The Lift Wreck.

rs-.,5,nx the ailey- WAYS dark and damp
nv the fickering fight OF the feeble lamp,
breaking the night with her ghos'y HAf'
sine totters along-nlone, alone. -.
Tom hoyel TO hovel, from street 10 sue.t
en- nicks her m ssage through rain ana siee''
with not a friend in the world 70 eIes TO-,
Not n bonnet TO wear nor II mo- 81 - '
Not n speck OF earth 10 cali her own
Wearing her life ont day by DAY,
Throwing her priceless soul away,
Stunning for very shame the ray
uf the sun OF Heayen-the 2'oIio"' sun
Weary of life and afraid 10 di"'
afraid of the earth and AFRAID Oh the shy
AFRAID of the light, she knows not WY
She woes the night as she he;lNe S'o.t rnu
And thinks OF a race that Is almost run.
| Phan tom Of life and beauty neu,
Shadow uniting the quick ana aela
| Enevy her before her soul was "eu
t. tho demon OF hatred and despair
I kne,y her happy, thoughtiess ehi'u'
| A nic,ure OF innocence, nndehito' - ,o,,ad
| When she prattledk and laughed anu ''"p''
a no. s hnart wa. pure and her spirits wild
And all her troubles light rs ar
| rne,y her again, in womanhooo,
| 49, no,pty and wit no heart wlthstoou'
and and lovely, yet gentle ana gov, roo-
Admired and loved by the wise ana 'he s''''
| Perfect in all that grandeur lenu7
To native beauty in all that seh"s
,hri,i ,phereyer the proud knee benos-
! T,a crnwning gem of cluster OF frlehcs'
Inc c,o IN soul and queen in state.
| Inox her now-yet l know her not
| Where all but praise from the senseless son.
Where all that is pure Is spurnea, iois'''
+ nothing know but 4 holy dread.
| STEPPED in misery and disgrace,
The eve of man no more can trace
Tn The shattered form and shriveled face
| A single mark of their ancient grace
The frame is there, but the woman 10 "s"u'
Shades Of immaculate women when
shall the curse Of God come down on men
| For woman's wrongs for not TIL then
| Shall he atone for thy namelcss woes.
When thy oppressor, unhoused, unfed,
Shall stalk the earth in terror and dread,
With wreath of scorpions round his head,
| To sting the wretch wherever he tread,
| Till in utter most hell he makes his bed,
He may pay part of the debt he owes.
The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1867-01-04
~ c. r,on, 7 had stained my soul

-she for waom I had stained my soul
with nv friends blood She should die
n Tho nlenitude Of her wealth and beauty,
and M mower upon earth could save her .
The stations flew past. ! put on more
s,eam babe the firemen heapin the coke
and stir the blazing mass. ! would have
outstrippcd the wind, had ii been possible.
Faster and disadvantages and trees,
bridges and stations, flashing past-Vil-
lagos no sooner seen than gonc-tclcgraph
wires twisting and dipping and twining
themselves in one, with the awiui swiitheSs
of our pace Faster and faster, I'll the
| fireman ut my side looks white ana scared,
and refuses to add more fuel to the furnace.
Faster and faster, till the wind PUSHES IN
our faces and drives the breath back upon
our lips. - !,
! would have scorned to save myself. l
meant TO die with the rest. Mad a. / Was
and | believe from my very soul that was
utterly mad for the time-1 felt passing
pang of pity for the old man and MS SUITE.
/ would have spared the poor fellow al IN
side, too, if could but the pace at when
we were going made escape Impossible.
yicenza was passed-a mere confused
vision of lights. Pojana few by. AT
Padua, but nine miles distant, our pas
sengers were to alight. l saw the fire.
mans face turned upon me In remon-
STRANGE: saw his lips move, though
could not hear word; | saw his express
sion change suddenly from Renaissance
10 a deadly terror, and then-nerciiul
Heaven then, for the first time, saw 'hat
he and [ were no longer alone upon the
engine. -,
There was a third mana third man
standing on my right hand, as the fireman
WAS standing on my leit-a tan, stai"art
man, with short, curling hair, ana nat
Scotch cap upon his head. As | fell PACK
in the first shock of surprise, he stepped
nearer, took my place at the engine, ana
turned the steam of. / opened my Ups 10
speak to him he turned his head slowly,
and looked me in the face.
Matthew Price!
uttered one long, wild cry, flung my
arms wildly up above my head, aud fell as
if I had been Smittcn by an axe.
| am prepared for the objections that
NAV he made to my story. ! expect, as
matter Of course, to be told that this was
an optical fllusion, or that l was Suliefihg
from pressure on the brain, or even that L
lahored under an attack OF temporary III
sanity. I have heard all these arguments
before, and, if | may be forgiven for say
ing so, l have no desire to hear them again.
Nv own mind has been made up upon THIS
subject for many year. All that | can
sav-all that ! kn0,o-lS, that Matthew
Price came back from the dead TO save my
sonl and the lives OF those whom |, IN my
guilty rage, would have hurried TO destruc-
fion. I believe this rs l believe in the
mercy Of Heaven and the forgiveness Of
rencntaut sinners.
The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1867-01-04
LETTER FROM WARRINGTON.
Correspondence of thu Richmond Dispatch.

The New York Custom-fsouse : End OF tho
Campbell sherman aIis.ion-saIc Of Gold
Conference on southern Re-admisdon- =
General Stcudman In Washington. &c.
WASHINGTON, January 2.
There are many hints given out that a
bad condition Of afairsin the New York
custom house has been uuearthed 10y the
Congressional Investigating Committee, In
which prominent individuals are impli-
Gated. Ii is asserted that Collector Smythe
will certainly resign, even If he has not al
ready rendered his resignation.
The Campbel-Sherman mission has :"
all probability been dropped for inc pr :.
sent. The former is expected ~ 81
Washington before long, ana u."I ID 3,'e'
man has obtained leave Tola '"o 'oS'uen'
% visit Ohio.
There does not seem 10 DC any donht
that Congress, upon rcaSScmhling, VIII pass
a bill authorizing the sale OF gold IN open
market, at regular intervals OF time. The
PROPOSITION does not meet the approval OF
the Secretary of the Treasury.
The few delegates from southern States
who have been here in conference with lead
iuy men with the desire to form some plan
for the admission of the South have met
with hut little success. NOT one among tue
Radical members will state definitely what
Is to be done. The truth i, they do not
know bat that something new in the recon-
struction line is 10 be hatchcd up, Is Is
evident from several public assertions re-
Gently made.
General James B. Stcadman is in Wash
iugton, and was at the Executive mansion
to-day, but did not obtain an iDtcrVie"
with the President-unlcSs at late hour
who is now almost constantly privately en-
gagged on important official business.
The Negro Suffrage bill will reach the
President now in a few days, even if the
Secretary Of the Senate does not present
il tomorrow. There does not seem to be
much interest expressed in its reception
every one being fully aware that II will be
vetoed. IiAoH.
The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1867-01-04

Witness" This here feller broke our
winder with later, aud hit Isabeller on
the elber, as she was a playing on the pi-
amer"
Magistrate.-" The conduct of the pri-
soma and his general characta', render it
propa' that he should no longa' be men,
ba' of societa'."
Why must q telegram be slower in trans
mission than most letters? Because it must
go by so many posts before it reaches its
destination.
We dearly love children-particularly
when they have attained the age oil
sweet sixteen" or Whereabouts, and IRE
of the feminine persuasion. YasoO
Commercial.
The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1867-01-04

funny EGGs.-An Irishman entered q
barber shop while drunk, ate with brush
a cup OF lather, dug out the ball OF soap al
the bottom of the cup, ate that, and sa,
down to warm his feet.
Glow did you like your lunch 7" asked
a bystander.
Said Pat: "The custard was Elegant
but by my sowl b'lave the egg was lit.
tie too long in the wather !"