The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1867-05-17

Friday Morning, May II. 1861
The New Glass OF Voters.


The New Orleans Crescent says that
our colored people, in their new cha
racteri Of xotefS occupy d1 Position
very similar to that OF Moses, in the
"Vicar of Wskefsld," who went to
the fait to- senihis fatherb horse Phe
good dDoeterPsiaarose and his family.
we're indpPj5yby the pFecocious peS
da4ty So hS gousH f6 f3duIga nigh
expectations of hin bianagemeht Of
the romIm;a9iSSi adventure. !! They
tried him, j and :, 80 rieturn for the shofss!
Moses brought back hgross of worthl
legs green gpectacies:
HS9oIosGd people ;should remsma
heeS&hak 4! RPalas election always
was. and always will be, like the fair
to which the youthful Primrose Was
sent to dispose Of the horse. They
VIII find hharpers in every avenue,
ready to relieve them of. theirtyotss,
in exchange |os gaossing batteries and
premises premises eye4ISg Sgspre void Of sincerity
than. the ,ape eotacles palmed off upen
Moses We're Of substantial valuep Let
them beware especially Of those lime; e
liant Whites who are now ohai the
grand radical circuit, who appeal To
them as fhbngha predestinea to the
ofice Yfaiictating how thgy ought to
voteAwho profess to lbe their Fonly
true friends. and like a quack medi-
cine vender, extolling his poisonous
nostrum,ast only panacea, proclaim
that theirssAthe only loyal platform
upon which. electors, CAM stand, OF
should saD1l be permitted to come to the
1t is easy to detect any sort of char
latancy, after having been. once vic
timized in one ofgits numerous
branches-their tricks all bear a
family likeness. Therefore, let our
celored people know that, among the
commonest of those tricks, is the
stimulation of ON unexampled friend
hip for the victim, and of an ire
pressible desire to render him an
inestimable service. If our newly
enfranchised- d-voters will only firmly
resolve to give wide berth, hence
forth, to politicians who declare IAN
unaccountahle love for them. and an
enthusiastic p purpose to, do them i'm
possible favors; they will achieve o
triumph over mendacious cajolery
and .unprincipled demagoguery which
they will remember with pride and
qualification as long as they shall live.
Another thing our colored people
shpuld remember that, when told by
men who MieR ito promote faetiqus
and incendiaf5 ends by breeding i'll
blood between the two races, and that
when reminded they are indebted to
this or thatsman, or, body of men, at
the North for their freedom, that
emancipation was not the design of
the war, but only Its incident, sq1d
that, if it was true. as asserted almost
universally in the North, that South
ern secession necessitated the war,
then it must follow that emancipation
was indirectly the work of the South,
since, without secession, it would not
have happened. The truth is, the
South did not commence the war for
the Nero purpose of defending
slavery, nor did the North fight for
the abolition of the institution.
We commend these views to The
consideration of the colored people
OF this city and vicinity. They may
be, and probably have been, led into
political societies OF leagues, but we
advise them not to cntanele them
selves with any set of men or party
who have no interest in their welfare
beyond their own selfish ends.
MEXICAN NEws.-The news from
no quarter of the globe is 80 unrelia-
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