The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1868-05-01

the raightyswoes hat, have ,befallen
theirs eoqntry, we'll might the
JewsA eonaenin prophets of old
for "a q: dawnfalh / { j erusalenn; be-
| cause khen tie Md of inspiiration
lifteA 2eJeil of 'S Ature, blasting
their kf with Aof the city's
felLde 1Gtion, ivering lips
crlSd s'as i3d' Who is
judaheht apon ~ ,.triotism of
FothaEsP Aahan hose vanality is so
web: ::ktlpwS that 4 lps having business
OF qgssllSF Il |timacy, invariably
secQtA 3ASt s th4 kpliant agent; and
sci ldos hi3 minent chicancryl
fair tB en- te None of those crea-
tnrsst hSs iten cSep into the coun-
cilsS kiNA ant haggest vile craft,
nnd lame dState policy. OF
the ssionIsts 10 composed the
rank &nd file dNthe Confederate
army, "Carolihial tcould know but
little. By, person. contact, he could
not know them: Rying secured a
safe srettat W bullets never
whisfed nor bon thundered.
NelAer could know them all
through public p for many of the
noblest did bray pity in common
file, Ind their nahes%ere never pla-
carded in capitals Srsthe walls.
The represe. Et4e secessionists
fronf this State. Sonfederate SER
vice., were Mea Keitt, Gregg,
Mars tIaE 80 o - and yu1, art. a, no
theyznowNS e osts they fell
martyrs t6N bps cause they
lived and bait. r
Oh the othef "a, the men of
Unih pAocliyitis. hose who took
council of theiH jee1s, and preached
discretion upon Falstaff principles;
who, ,~either as fohing chaff or excit,
ed sedipfhpt, Only pRddied the cur
rent the d nps ssem-dnring the
war, ERE tiSSP With venal
allegiS they pNk tribute in their
hearts the flesh ets of Egypta yet
sougI1 PERSONAL ssfE y in the friendly
tents ~ Israel. While wars conflict
ragged, hd brptS SatS And countrymen
battleS foF altaf hhd home, they
cowereNi Confederate capitals and
quarteS9Aaster's warehouses, and,
under hes refuge Of some fortunate
disabling senjoys1 the warmth OF
hearth -stoncSes Where are they now?
Whining at the. Haors of negro CON
ventions, deploribG past association
with patriots aha gentlemen, de-
nouncing dead leroes as criminals.
repudiating the yhite race of which
they are degenerate off-shoots, and
begging for the, crumbs that fall
from the negro's table. A thousand
times better are bur dead lions, than
such living dogslaSthese.
AS wome en- of the South, we protest
against all conventions. Since the
war, they have, in every instance,
been either abottive or productive of
disaster. The first, composed of
senile paterfamilias and demoralized
home guards, did that in their ia
tuity, that Congress would not do
bartered awayYthe rights and pro-
perty of people without their con-
sent, or making them compensation.
The second was ghastly farce enact
ed upon;the boards at Philadelphia;
and we marvel that no one has held
up its deprecatiDg servility and moral
cowardice to the scorn of the world;
that there has been from the South
no indignant denunciation OF its
pitiful weakness, fraudulent expe-
dients, political perjury, personal
and representative humiliation. tits
but an act of simple justice to the
South to assert the fact, patent to all
the world, but as yet unackowledged
by our people, that these men, SO
forgetful OF personal and State pride,
so obseqnious and acquiescent, who
went over into hostile country and
shook in amity the bloody hands of
our. enemies, were not Representative
men. They were trading politi-
dams merely. They had no right
to wrong us SO. A small majority,
mere tools of ambi-dextrous Go.
vernors then in power, sent them
there. They could, il polite forget
fitness of the past, take New Eng
land Pharisees to board and hearth
stone, but they had no right to speal,
for the State For them to do SO
was an act of usurpation, and shame.
less was their abuse of the passing
power. In the name of their several
States, they abandoned the precious
right of sovereignty; they blackened
the memories of their illustrious
! dead, by disclaiming the principles