The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1867-05-07


what we must call her culpable indif-
ference to relieve herself ofs these
unnecessary burdens.
! The West, too, with immense stores
of provisions and overfowing grana-
ries, sufficient almost to supply the
world, having no identity or commu-
nifty of interests with, and, in fact,
whose interests were antagonistic to,
tho party they aided to re-instate,
and its originators and high priests,
the manufacturers of New England
she, too, we say. permitted the wild
flood Of partisan fanaticism to sweep
away the barriers of interest and pru-
dence, and has rcaped in return IN
enormous system of taxation, and been
compelled to pay heavy largess to the
masters of the looms and spindles of
Lowell. Not only SO, by thus per-
mitting party adhesion to blind her
to her best interests in her relations
with the cotton States, she crippled
the resources of that section with
which she was and ought to be iden-
titled, i'll resistance to high tariffs
and unnatural bounties, besides i'm
poverishing one of her best GUS
toners.
We soy there never was exhibited q
spectacle of such strange inconsist-
ency, by any country, rs that now
illustrated by the politicians of the
sections alluded to, and the constitu-
ency of these politicians who placed
them in power and retain them there.
The prosperity of these constituen-
cies, in the West and in the import
ing States of the North, was, in n
great measure, dependent on the
prosperity of the South; but it was
equally to the interest of both that
the peculiar policy of New England
should be frustrated, for to the pros
perity of both it creates obstacles by
forced tributein in tariffs and taxation.
And yet both the North and the West
/ supported the party (the so-called
Republican party which upheld the
New England policy, and which
by being thus fostered and sustained,
sent out the rank shoots OF radical
ism, the miasma of which has made
the country we'll nigh sick unto
death, and has prostrated the ener-
gies and capabilities of the people of
ten Of the most productive States of
the Union.
There is but one way for the reyivi-
fication of trade and commerce of the
Northern cities-but one way to en-
able the West to successfully combat
the selfish policy of New England
and that is to check tho mad progress
of the ultra radicals. Already we see
signs among the moderate men of the
Republican party, that they consider
the reconstruction measures of Con-
gress, now in operation at the South,
as the final step that ought to be
taken for restoration. They feel that
the humiliating condition of these
measures are sufficient, and that the
limits Of punishment of tho "rebels"
has been reached in their provisions.
Therefore it is that they employ the
telegraphic wires concentrating at
the headquarters in Washington,
sending their general and utter repu-
diation of the schemes of confiscation,
which the malignancy Of such party
zealots as Thaddeus Stevens would
superadd to the laws already passed.
The present reconstruction measures
are being complied with by the pco-
pie of the South, and their course, IN
this respect, is giving satisfaction to
the moderate men of oil parties ut
the North. They know that, so long
rs the threat Of confscation is held
over the South, there is IN impene-
trable barrier to the influx of capital
andl labor, without which she can
never recuperate and recover. For