The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1867-01-07
CHARLES TON
MONDAY MORNING, JANUARY Z, 1867.
THE MODERN PILGRIMS.

TIRE MODERN PILGRIMS
| We have not, for some months past, adverted
TO the numerous letters from the South appear
ing in almost every journal, North or West.
Your Especial correspondent is usunlly so in
effably stupid OF common place as 10 merit any
attention; the Occasional not much better.
There is more freshness and interest In the
Letters of the tourists, kind of volunteer cor
i respondence. This class of writers usually
! display refreshing yerdancy, and even their
fctions are more readable than the sopori6c
lucubrations of .Our Special" The South
swarmed with these new pilgrims year ago,
and many and curious were the reports sent
North. The Nation, a New York Radical sheet
of very somniferous procliyities, had long let
ters every week from the rural parts of the
Cotton States. The Tridane, we know, publish
ed number of pious fbs; the Cincinnati
Gazette had its yituperatire ISLANDERS, regularly
measured out by the column The hot weather
at last acted as an extinguisher to these !ami-
naries Like the smallpox, these pilgrims
we're put to fight by the scorohing suns'of Au-
gust. Schoolmarms, missionaries, philanthro-
oists, etc., all returned to more congenial
climes.
With the return of winter, however, the pes
thence has again set in. Not only preachers,
and teachers, missionaries and schoolmarms,
but host of invalids have come to the Sunny
South; and we bid them welcome. But we do
not think we can be charged with want of
hospitality when we protest against the jaun-
diced view these pious ladies and gentlemen re-
fleet in their correspondence. Is it fair that
whole people should be condemned because
few dyspeptics do not find our roadside inns
quite up to DELMoN1co's? And yet the opinions
of these atrabilious travellers are cited by the
honorable gentlemen in Congress. call know
the Hon. SUMMERS trick of reading letters, re-
ceived from friends travelling in the South, go
| ing to prove whatever point he wishes to make
at the time
| An individual styling himself 'Independent
Missionary recently passed through the coun-
try, and was in Columbia during the session of
the Legislature, and prints his observations in
the Cincinnati Gazette, of Wednesday last: The
man is clearly fanatic, suffering either from
q diseased liver or sickly imagination, or
from both,-the latter the result of the former.
He argues the persistent disloyalty of South
Carolina, because little boy in the street
says: 81 don't love the Yankee flag. The
Confed flag is my flag, if it is pulled down."
The Independent Missionary" we think, was
recreant to his duty on that occasion. Why
was this boy not arrested, and brought before
the Grand Jury on charge of treason2 The
United States District Court was in session at
the time, and the whole affair might have been
dispatched with all expedition?
Another man in Columbia said to him: stOnly
one man voted for the HOWARD Amendment,
and he ought to have been kicked out of the
House." man at NlcKEnsoN's said: 't Allow
the negroes to vote and take all the Offices? |?
Nevern' Twaddle like this is here collated by
the yard. The Independent Missionary"
gloats on the ruins Of the houses, churches
and colleges of Columbia. He says: "Colum-
bia is in ruins God is just, but South Carolina
is rebellious STILL But enough of this blind
fanatic. What delight he would take in COM
| ing amongst us with an inquistorial commits
sion.
In the New York Herald, Of the I'd, we find
letter from Charleston, from its especial cor
respondent" giving an account of the recent
celebration of the Now England society's an
niversary in this city. He Says
The New England Society of this city cele-
brated sForefather's Day" in secret session.
Not member of the press was invited The
Society, in former times, was distinguished for
] its liberality; and the secret session may be
considered as very fair exponent of that feel
| ing and prejudice against anything Yankee
which exists here now, and the knuckling down
to the secessionsts and anti-consitutional
amendment spirit.
This is news to us. We were not aware of
any coercion brought to bear upon the respect
ed descendants of those honored sires. On
the contrary, some of our best citizens have for
years been identified with this Society; men
taking high position in the city and in the State
4 recent Charleston letter in the New York
Times, speaking of the election of Hon. ]. B.
CAMPBELL as United States Senator, mentions
the fact of his elevation to this office (notwith-
standing his Massachusetts, birth) as ono of the
cheering signs Of the times. Either the
Heralds or the Times correspondent must be
wide of the truth in his differences.
Verify, it seemeth as if these pilgrims had
come here to spy out the nakedness of the land.
And when the truth is too nude, they dress it
up to suit their fancy, and thus pander TO the
morbid and prurient appetites of their readers.