The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1867-01-03
A Reformed Radical.

A Reformed Radical.
We extract the following from
letter in the New York Erpress,
dated Columbia, December 10:
According to promise, [ address
you from this place of desolation.
During my business tour through
the South, L had the opportunity of
learning and witnessing much that is
taking place in these States. While
the clouds are dark and threatening,
do not believe there ever was in the
worlds history people who bear
their affiictions with more philosophy
and Christian fortitude, than these
unfortunate people. They know the
dangers, and their wrongs. Yet,
amidst it all, they are cheerful. ii
any one had told me what 1 have
seen, since l last wrote you, | would
not have believed it. L have seen
many little orphans, whose fathers
fell in what they thought a good
cause, but what we know to have
been q very mistaken one; whose
widows, some of whom are young
and beautiful, but u close observer
will see care and suffering depicted
in their countenances. Many are
penniless now who were nursed in
the lap of luxury. They toll day by
day to support these little ones, who
have committed no sin. who are the
sufferers for others errors AS radi-
cal, [ always lent q willing ear to oil
stories Of Southern barbarity. With
q feeling of hate 1 took delight in
circulatin oil kinds of absurd false
hoods about these people, and
thought [ was doing God service. I
acknowledge my error, and am
determined hereafter that no hypo-
critical preacher, no political dema-
gogue shall ever lead me again by
the nose; and unless the Northern
masses arouse themselves, these same
madmen who are now ruling in Con-
gress, will not only make this, but
the whole North n hell, worse than
any revolution the world has ever
seen. Political preachers have
always been, and always will be,
curse to any country, wherever they
reside. Instead of preaching Christ,
they preach the Devil; but how can
anything else be expected, when
Divine grace, with all its beauty and
holiness, is far away from their
hearts? During my tour L have not
heard one disloyal word from ANY
Southern man, nor have I been
treated in any other than respectful
manner.
1t is all falsehood about Northern
men being prosecuted, as thousands
of honest men from the North will
testify. Such lies are gotten up to
prevent the reconstruction of these
States, and to hold them under mill.
tary rule; but while they are injuring
the South, they are doing the same to
their own section.
Governor Worth, OF North Carroll
ma, has recommended, in order to
settle the negro question, and to give
them justice and equal rights, to I'M
migrate all who are willing to 90, to
New England. Why should these
saints object =? Why, to be consist
ent, they should gladly aid in this
enterprise, in order to give the poor
freedmen equality. Bring this sub
lect before the poople, and ask New
England to do these people the good
she has promised. [ will let you hear
from me again. IN haste,
Yours, respectfully,
a NORTHERN MAN.
p. 81 am glad to see in the gal
liant little State Of Connecticut the
conservatives and Democrats are
moving for a great Convention, to
lnaugurate a movement by which
National Convention of all the thirty
six States shall take place to consider
what is best to be done. Kentucky
is following in the great movement
also. 1t must take plac : If such q
Convention is postponed many
months, all is lost. 1t will be too
late
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