The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1868-01-12
COLUMBIA.
Sunday Morning. January II. 1858
No Relief.

The National IWeHigencer admins
tors scorching rebuke to the domi.
nant party in Congress- and declares
that they do not intend, during the
present session, TO furnish the ieasi
relief to the suffering interests oi
commerce, industry and enterprise,
which they have SO alarmingly pros
trated by perverse legislation, by
profigate expenditures, and by cor
rupt practices. The situation OF
affairs, North as well as South, is
most grave, and yet these reckless
maJorlties continue to trife with the
public welfare as if it was the mere
sport of partizan strife, and was
unworthy of the least reflection or
care. The revenue is falling off at
the rate of 800, 900, 600 for the year;
the public debt is daily augmenting,
because of standing armies in the
South and bounties voted by Con-
gress for purposes of party; every
branch of trade is depressed; conf.
dence is fast disappearing; desolation
spreads its sad gloom over the whole
South; unemployed mechanics fill the
great cities of the North, and state
of fearful apprehension pervades the
country from one extremity to the
other. Yet, in presence of MI these
causes of alarm, and of others equally
momentous, Congress diverts itself
with President-making and partizan
warfare upon the Executive. Not
one remedy, worthy of the name, has
been or will be proposed. because
the fixed intention of the dominant
majorities is to squander the peoples
time, for which they voted them
selves increased salaries, in efforts to
continue the power by which all
these evils have been brought about.
Selfshness is the only idea which
animated their policy. To that end,
everything has been, and will con-
tinue to be, sacrificed. AS long as
the party can triumph, by fair means
or by foul, the country is not deemed
worthy of the slightest attention. SO
far as the financial issue is concerned,
there is neither harmony nor ability
manifested by the radicals in Con-
gress. One faction favors unlimited
expansion, another advocates con-
traction, and third reputation of
the public faith. Small politicians
apply their limited intelligence to the
largest practical question that ever ex-
ercised the craftsmanship of nation,
just as if they were dealing with the
affairs of o County Convention, or
the cost of q nomination to Congress;
30 that superadded to the narrow
partizanship which governs the mind
of the majority, there is an incapacity
that wholly units it to grasp the ne-
cessities and duties of the situation.
Their whole time seems to be en-
ployed in making the condemned
policy of the majority more odious,
in riveting fetters upon the white
population of the South, and in arm
ing the degraded blacks with power to
subjugate and exterminate the whits
The cruel and vindictivc champions
of this policy appear anxious to
provoke war Of races, and to make
the work of ruin even more appall
ing than it is, to crown with dark
and bloody catastrophe the end Of
their malignant and atrocious
schemes. They aim to crush ani
destroy. Their only motto is, delen
da est Cartilage. While the best in
terests of the nation are thus wanton
ly and wickedly neglected and de
spised; while suffering is felt owe
the North, and sorrow saddens ever,
fireside in the South, tens of millions
are wrung from oppressed taxpayers
in order to support military despo
tisms, and to maintain worthless ne