The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1868-06-05

ploW-handle, and to grasp the ham,
mer, and to ply the trowel, and in
every legitimate way to labor, and
invest labor with its dignity. We
want industrial development. We
need on army of fair haired and fair
hued workers.
Thus, again, will wo rebuild the
fubric Of South Carolina's greatness !;
thus, again, will the palmetto put out
its leaves, and extend its branches,
and delight us with its verdure.
j. Stuart Mill upon Suffrage---Con-
tinucd.
No. 2.-The following passages
from tho same chapter are full of
significance to the people of the
South, and to their rulers at Wash
ington. Mr.. Mil says:
.:It is also important that the as
sembly which votes the taxes, either
general or local, should be elected
exclusively by those who pay some
thing toward the taxes imposed.
Those who pay no taxes, disposing
by their votes of other peoples
money, have every motive to be lav-
ish, and none to economist. AS far
rs money matters are concerned, any
power of voting possessed by them is
q violation Of the fundamental prin-
ciple of free government, q severance
of the power of control from the in
terest in its beneficial exercise. II
amounts to dNo,cing them to put their
hands into othe'' peoples pockets for
any purpose a0hich they think fit to call
public one, which in the great towns
of the United States, is known to
have produced scale of local taxa
tion onerous beyond example, and
wholly borne by the wealthier class
es."
And again, Mr.. Mill remarks:
"However this may be, I regard it
as required by first principles that
the receipt of parish relief should be
peremptory disqualification for the
franchise. He who cannot, by his
Iabor suffice for his own support, has
no claim to the privilege of helping
himself to the money Of others
And again:
''Yet in this state of things, the
great majority of voters in most
countries, and emphatically in this,
would be manual laborers, and the
two fold danger, that of too low o
standard of political intelligence, and
that of class legislation, would still
exist in very perilous degree
will conclude these citations
from Mr.. Mill with ono moro pass
age:
eff, with equal virtue, one is supc-
rior to the other in knowledge aud
intelligcnce-or if, with equal intelli-
gence, one excels the other in vir-
tue-the opinion, the intelligence of
the higher moral and intellectual
being is worth moro than the inferior;
and if the institutions of the country
virtually assert that they are of the
same value, they assert the thing
which is not"
Mr.. Mill is here reasoning in favor
Of his plan of q plurality of votes,
based on education. If he were to
visit the United States at the present
time, lie would learn, from tho policy
OF Congress, to reverse his rule Of
plural voting. He would find the
most educated clnsses in the South
ern States disqualified to vote and to
hold Office, while the most illiterate
md degraded blacks are endowed
with every political franchise. He
would see the hundreds of thousands
of paupers, who are fed by the
Freedmen's Bureau, conveyed to the
polls to vote for men who will enable
them to "put their hands into other
peoples pockets" while those "other
people F" are bound in the fettcrs Of
Congressional prescription, and
placed Mt the mercy Of the privileged
class of paupers and laborcrs who
pay no taxes. 1t may be said, ngain,
that all this is good enough for
rebels. But will it promote the gene-
ral welfare of the North and of the
South ? Will it encourage industry
and thrift in the South, without
which the black race must IA pidly
perish from tho face of the earth /?
Finally, which should havo been
firstly, is it just :? I would he willing
to leave all these questions to bo
answered by committee, composed
of tho three enlightened friends of
Republican liberty, across the Allan
IL.