The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1868-08-01
Massachusetts Civilization.

AA wiz aye PSCpAS VA phO b)oubd
cry aloud for the civilization Of Mas
sachusetts."
The above quoted language occurs
in communication from carpet
bagger in this State to q Boston
paper. Who he is, we know not; nor
do we care; but of one thing we are
very certain, and that is that he is
"some punkins," when it comes TO
nasal twang, Psalm-singing and eat
ing Goldfish.
Now, what are some of the fruits of
this boasted civilization, for which all
the ''loil' people Of the South are
crying SO loudly and so earnestly?
We have now before MS II number of
the WMchm0n AMI RettectOr, one of
the pm' e.cccllcace religious journals
of old Puritanic Massachusetts, pub
lished on the 10Th day of June, 1865.
In this disseminator of Massachu-
sets civilization, published right at
the club" there is brief article
headed Tho Home Mission Pro-
blem," in which the writer says:
"The necessity of great and imme-
diate enlargement of our Home Mis-
sion work is the burden Of many an
appeal from the South and West"
The last article in this Reflector, pre-
ceding the one from which we have
just quoted, is headed GA Boston
Boy Culprit. Under this heading.
the writer proceeds to detail the par
ticulars of a scene which he witnessed
in the Boston Police Court Oh the
morning of the 23d of May, 1865,
which resulted in the sending of a
boy, twelve years old, to Deer Island
Prison, for two years penal service,
for the crime of stealing money.
The writer, after depicting the sad
scene in the court room, proceeds:
''The door closed after the Judge and
we went out with him. Poor bow!
One-ffth of all the children of this
city are under the influence of the
school of destitution, debanchery
and crime, said he, and he is one of
them. Out of between 1,7OO and
l,oOO children sent annually to the
Tombs, here, no more than an aver
age OF one in thirty ever saw Bible
or learned what it told of" Great
Heavens! can this be so? Are there,
in the city of Boston, that great
centre If civilization and piety, that
only redeeming oasis of Christian
purity and holiness, in the great
moral desert of this Western world,
are there, we say, in that Heaven
favored city, 1,70O children. large
enough to be made the objects of
criminal prosecution and retribution,
who never even so much as saw
Bible? 1t cannot be. The assertion
must be base libel upon the pious
people of that Cody city. Such, at
least, must be our exclamation, if we
Judge of the place by the loud
mouthed Pharisaic cant of the inLa-
bitants of the place.
But no, it cannot be q slander, for
it was written, as appears, by Bos-
tonian, and was most assuredly pub
lished in the year of grace 1865, in
one of the numerous religious jour
nails of that renowned city.
One-fifth of all the children "of
that great city" are under tho intlu-
ence of the school of destitution,
debauchery and crime. So testifies
an unimpenched and unimpeachable
witness Of the city, who is in n posi-
ton to know whereof he aflirms.
Freedmen of South Carolina, what
think You Of those traitors to their
race and their God, but truly loyal
servants of their master, the devil,
who come, carpet-bag in hand, into
the Southern States, trying to whee-
die you into the belief that they are
your best friends, while they leave
behind them, at their own doors, in
one city, all uncared for, 1,7O0 chill
dren, of their own race, who "never
saw Bible, or learned what it told
of p Were one of your own color
to play so despicnble part by the
children of his own color in Colum-
bia, and go to some other State, and
then try to persuade the white people
Of that State that he had gone there
to labor for their good, would you
not think he deserved crucilixion, or
some other ignominious death, for
his base betrayal of the interests of
his own race, and his hypocritical
pretensions Of love for the white
race? If you would thus think,
what must you think of men, with
white skins, but with hearts far