The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1868-11-22
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Sunday lIorning Nov. ss 1855.

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communication signed !. Prosperity !"
in which The writer takes ocoasi on to
censure the Southern people or a
portion of them4for their unjust
treatment Of Northerners. He is
evidently laboring under a serious
mistake. Thegreat mass of our peo-
pie are anxious that the Northern
working man, as well as the capital
ist. ahoi,Id make his home am mongst
us. His skill, his intelligence, his
industry, his learning. and the fruits
of his ingenuity. cnlture and energy,
are gladly received, and be at once
invited into full communion with the
Southern man in all the pursuits and
avocations of life, Such men are
found here and everywhere, and are
among the most respected of our
cltlzens. Such have. come here since
the war, many Of them officers in the
United States army, and others con :
neoted with the Government during
its military occupation of our State,
in positions which made them by no
means popular for the time being,
and who are known as members of
the Republican party, yet are esteem
ed and honered as good and useful
citizens. But there does exist here,
and there is continually increasing
abhorrence Of what are styled carpet
baggers. 1t is not altogether con-
fined to the radical, and that Demo
Gratis of nomadic and predatory
habits, whether Northern or South
ern born. are looked upon with much
the same dislike, though the party
phrase be not SO distinctly applied to
them. BUTT is especially felt toward
some men of the radical party, and
of Northern birth, and for this rea-
son it is affirmed that the South is
intolerant of Northern people or of
Republican or radical political Opt
Mons, that free speech and freedom
to vote are not to be had at the
South, and that more force is needed
to secure these. Utterly untrue is
this of any portion of the South, de-
spite the homicides which have been
quoted to establish it. A man may
vote, as he pleases, and for whichever
party he. pleases, and advocate what
ever political opinions he pleases, un-
interruptedly. All that is asked of
him is that he shall tread on no
other mans toes and avoid SLAM
dering and libeling his neighbors.
The great difficulty with the car
pet-bag politician is that he thinks
that he brings with him the right
to abuse the man under whose roof
he is sheltered, i'll his own presence
and that of his family, and that this
constitutes free speech, and that tho
Southern man has no right to pay
him back in his own coin, or to resist
oppression. His mistake as to his
right TO vote is equally great. He
supposes, as the New Orleans Plea
yune trutbfully remarks, that this
right makes it his privilege to ex-
clude froma vote the man who is
already voter here, and to admit
others who have not been as yet re-
garded to be thus eutitled in his own
previous home. Nor this only; his
title TO vote is title he thinks to
tax the present occupants of the land
to the, full extent of their revenues,
and to pocket the proceeds of these
taxes himself. Then, with an AFRO
gance which can find its equal no.
where, he declares that when he thus
obtains possession Of all the legis-
lative, judicial and executive powers
of the community. it shall not bo
lawful for the people of whose entire
powers of government, and the con-
troll over their own affairs, he has
possessed himself, to speak of him
and his in any other the kindest and