The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1868-09-30

Legislature, have issued bonds and
endorsed bonds for that body.
amounting to several millions OF dol.
lars. They have likewise been bribed
by the bill-holders of the Bank OF the
State,.tc issue bonds for those bills,
at their par value, when they were
purchased by the holders for ten
cents in the dollar! "a N.
The most alarming feature, how
ever, of this wicked and stupid leois-
iation, so-called, is the bill recently
introduced to suspend the writ of
habeas corpus. seize the railroads and
telegraphic wires, and call out q
standing army of negroes, to protect
the cowardly tyrants and usurpers
in their despotism, oppression and
plunder. This bill authorizes the
Governor, so-called, and his minions
all over the State, to arrest and iln-
prison any one, without charge or
accusation, and confne them in dun
geons as long rs it may suit their
pleasure-no trial to be had. In the
meantime. these black troops are to
insult and outrage our families, and
plunder and destroy our homes and
property. A more infamous, cruel,
atrocious and degrading despotism,
was never established by the Grand
Boshaw of Turkey. or the Imperial
Gear of all the Russias! If there is
nature or manhood left in the white
race, it will not, cannot be borne.
Their vengeance will fall on the car
pet-baggers and scalawngs, and not
on the poor deluded negro. Retribu-
tive justice, sooner or later, ever has
and ever will overtake tyranny and
crime.
1t is high time, L have said, for
the people of South Carolina to turn
their attention from national politics
to these terrible State wrongs and
grievances. They must not be over
looked in our present political excite
ment, for the time will come, and
that speedily, when they will crush
us to the cart. We ought to pre-
pare to meet them. Not by violence
and revolution, but by exposing their
atrocity to the colored people, whose
interest is ours, and who have been
made the dupes and tools of these
vile men from the North. They have
come here for money, and will quit
the country when they see there is no
more to be had, or there is personal
danger in their path. Our line of
policy is clear, patent, manifest. We
must commit no aggression, no act of
violence, but be prepared to act on
the defensive, with spirit and vigor,
when action is imperative. Patience
and forbearance, in suffering and op-
preston, are high and patriotic vir-
tues.
Let us consider and reflect on our
condition. A man from Ohio pro-
fesses to be our Governor! Two of
our Associate Judges in the Appeal
Court, are from New York and Penn
sylvania! Two of our Circuit Judges
from New England! The Attorney
General, (shown to be an ass of the
first water, in our opinion given the
bogus Legislature,) from some radi-
cal clime The School Commissioner
from the same latitude! The Treasu-
rer of the State is n carpet-bagger,
and has been published rogue and
forger from his boyhood! One of our
United States Senators is from New
England, who now boasts his great
loyalty, but who wished to take an
oath of allegiance to the Confederacy
in 1861! The member of Congress
from Charleston is from New Eng
land or the Northwest, with infa-
nous antecedents! The Congressman
from the Pedee is from Massachu-
setts, and said to have bad record in
the army, and in Darlington! But
enough of these carpet-baggers.
Is it likely that these men will con-
tinue here, when trouble comes, or
that they will be long sustained by
the negroes? I think not-their eX-
odus is at hand. They know that the
people hold them responsible, with
the arpet-bagger, in the Legislature,
for all their wrongs and expressions
endured, or to be endured in the flu
ture. The prominent scamps in this
bogus Legislature, black and white,
are all from the North! None of them
have property here or are taxpayers,
and yet they are overwhelming the
property holders with taxation!
B. F. PERRY.
GREENvILLE, S. c., Sept. 25, 1868.
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