The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1868-05-01
A Southern woman,l protest.

0aHies STaut, Union. .-
A Southern Womnn't Protest.
+. To Hon. B. H. HiN--SR: I have
read your eloquent appeal to patriots
to. rally to the rescue of their country
from ruin and infamy. You appeal
\ to the women of the South to arouse
from their grief stricken apathy and
4 for the South once more. You
We not called in vain. In every
5manly heart you have awakened a
deep response, and being one with
them in the great sisterhood of sor-
row, in their name speak. We
have not been silent from insensibili-
ty to the dishonor thrust upon us,
but from a grief too deep for words.
Sir, we do not deem ourselves
equal to the discussion of State craft
and questions of political import,
but we do feel that on the subject of
personal honor and State pride we
are competent to give an opinion. In
\ our countrys cause we lost our all
friends, fortunes, homes; vet we felt
that though-iike Francis, at Payia-
lst'aH was lost save honor" in that we
had priceless jewel still. To see
demagogues, now in power, barter
that jewel for mess -ot1 pottge,. is q
\ grief beyond endurance, q lumilia-
zion hard to bear. We, the women
Z the South, now speak. We take
vantage of your courteous appeal
to make our protest-a protest
Inst threatened dishonor,.a a pro.
]sS against injustice done the dead,
VI Tbtest against all conua,tions.
. bout ten months since, several
artfles appeared in the New York
Hei,A, and were copied in the. seve-
raj Ptatq papers, purportiug to show
forih public opinion in South Caro-
lina" If the articles had been
! styld ..tEhe press of South Carolina, !"
they jwbuld have been nearer the
truth, fdr they were q truthful expo
,sition Of the weathercock pelitics
= then foisted upon public notice by
u the several Charleston dailies, and
which were void of interest and rep
resented nothing. To paragraph
IN one of these articles call atten-
tion [ have waited for able. manly
pens to give it the lie, which simple
Justice to the dead demanded-bnt
waited in vain. Defeated yalor finds
no champion, now, and it is left to
women to defend the braves "who
died for u.s."
After an unjust attack upon men
whose motives he could not pene-
\ trate, and whose ability he tould
Aeither emulate nor understand, this
nderer-safe with the cold bars of
grave between him and his vic
.s--thus strikes the dead: tThe
feaders in politics, our Sena,ors,
members OF Congress and Govern
a prs, goaded the people to secession
AAnd war; and when the war CINE,
'av&hat did these gentlemen do, rush
: 70 the front and lead forlorn hopes? ?
New, perhaps, may be found by the
hgent historian, but the vast majo.
y in this, and other Southern
\tes, went TO Con gress, held other
VI oHices, uHu Decame COLLECTORS OF
in kind
This is not true. The statesmen
I'd Governors did not goad the pso-
le to secession and war. The reso
luton was great popular upheavl,
\ political and social necessity Iii
kas the bloody result of mental aud
oral antagohism, and the STATES
fn could not have prevented it, EIt
771s, III trutn, an jrrepressi6ie con iii,e
ind secession ESs depanded ali
the laws OF hAare 4 l.e sne
$ y of politi Aao5 Fl
smen of -