The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1868-10-07
Our Governors, so-CalIed.

Our Governor, So-CnIIed.
Forney-he of lying kilograms
publishes communication from a
correspondent, containing an extract
from private letter, which he saws
was written from Columbia, by our
Governor, so-called, to some one in
Washington. That Gen. Scott wrote
such q letter, is, of course, very
doubtful, since Forney publishes it.
The presumption is, that every thing
which appears in that paper from the
South, is written in rome dirty back
room of its establishment in Wash
ington. But as the extract is very
like the stuff which the negro ipecac
elects from radical emunctories-we
lay the communication before our
readers:
SOUTH CAROLINA.
Io.the Editor Of the Press:
SIR: A private letter from Gov. r.
K. Scott, of South Carolina. contains
the following, which may not be un-
interesting to your readers:
The Legislature is bringing its
work to q close, when all will take
the field for Grant; we must elect
him; his defeat will bring war and
carnage to the South. The people of
the North do not believe this, but let
me assure you there is no help for it.
The great question with the rebels is.
who shall hold the Offices; they don't
care whether the negro votes or not,
so that he will vote for his old mas
ter, and If he does not, they intend
to either compel him to, or prevent
his voting; we intend he shall vote
as he pleases.
If Seymour and Blair are elected.
we will have to fight for our right to
even live here. The spirit of rebel
lion is worse than in 1860; both they
and ourselves look for Blair's election
to bring war more fierce and bloody
than the one we have passed through.
Grants election will give peace and
quiet to the country, and that alone
will satisfy these deluded people that
the loyal people of the Union will not
suffer traitors, who, in addition to
their other crimes, are -blooded
murderers of the loyal people of the
South. There has not been less thon
one man shot each day for the past
two weeks, and q Democratic success
would be the knell of freedom in the
South.
There is a Governor, who calls the
whole white race in South Carolina,
with the exception of not one man in
fifty-that race which owns ninety
nine out of one hundred of the pro
perty in the State, "rebels." They
are not Citizens" under his august
rule, but they are "rebels." Between
rulers and rebels, there is, and can
be, but one relation-that of hostility.
1t is his duty as Governor, TO put
down, try and hang "rebels." And
II this is his duty, we must presume
that he will perform it, So here is n
lie and death issue, between our
Governor, so-called, and the white
people OF South Carolina. AS he
recognizes them as "rebels" to he
hung. can they recognize him as
anything else than an enemy to he
killed? This is the logical relation
which our Governor, so-called. makes
for himself, towards the white race of
South Carolina. 0 -
But our Governor is not only thus
tenderly disposed towards his white
subjects in South Caroline; but he
extends his mantle of blood over the
whole South. He says the defeat of
Grant, "will bring war and carnage
TO the South" How the "war and
carnage" is to arise, he does not ex-
PLAIN, The Democratic party, and
the white race, which will have con-
quered ut the polls by the rejection
OF Grant and the election of Sey-
mour, certainly will have no cause to
resort to "war and blood" The poll
tlcal and the physical power of the
country will be in their hands. "War
ana blood' can then be produced
only by those who shall resist the
political and physical power of the
country, i'll the hands of the Demo-