The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1868-08-28
Tine Real origin OF ali our Troubles

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Tine Real Origin or all our Troubles.
Although wars, civil or interna-
tional, producing death, devastation
and ruin to nations, are often the re-
suit of trivial causes, we doubt
whether any community of people
ever existed upon the face of the
earth which allowed itself to be rent
into fragments, and all its social rela-
tions disrupted, by cause having an
origin SO contemplate, as that which
is the foundation of all our past and
present troubles. No thoughtful
man, who has pondered upon the
causes which inflicted upon this great
people the inestimable evils of the
late sectional war, and entailed upon
them the countless burdens which
are its necessary fruits, but must see
that it, and all its train of immediate
and consequent horrors, are the re-
suit merely of an internal disposition
in the ever active and mischievous
minds of certain class of men
(chiefy confined to one section of
the country to poke their noses into
other peoples business. Beyond
question, the peculiar "notions" of
this kind of perpetual pests, coupled
with IN inveterate industry which,
if united to honesty of purpose,
might pass for respectable fanati-
cism- were, from the persistency
with which they were pressed upon
others, the sole cause of our sectional
strife, and the only impeachment to
national harmony. These hypocrites,
orrather their progenitors, introduced
slavery on this continent. In ''pay-
ing" sense the institution was in
applicable to their climate. They
sold their slaves to ''their Southern
| brethren" and at once their souls
were troubled with the weighty re-
sponsibility of living in "Union,"
contaminated in part of it. however
remote from them, by the pollution
of negro servitude.
Well, by means of bloody war,
brought about to enforce their moral
dogmas, slavery has been forever
abolished. Are they satisfied? Not
yet. Other motions" are to be pro-
pagated. Negro equality, political
and social, must be enforced-upon
hei, meigAbors, while denied TO Mei,'
oaon black population 1t is enforced
by the power of the bayonet upon
crushed people. Are they yet con-
tent? Not at all. The negroes thus
raised to the summit of supremacy
must themselves obey the mandates
of the fanatics-hypocritical even in
their fanaticism. The nonresident
philanthropic vagabonds must rule.
They must fill every place of honor
or profit, State and Federal, from a
constable of County to Senator
in Congress. This is also accom-
plished. Are they yet ready to for
bear further interference in the
affairs of others? Not at all. The
whites must found schools for the
education of negro children. All
right; but they must also be forced
to send their own children to the
same schools, and will not be per-
mitted to educate them with their
own money, in their own way. Inn
keepers and common carriers must
accommodate filthy negroes, of whot-
ever sex or character. Very well.
But the whites must also, by law, be
compelled to eat with them at the
same table, sleep with them in the
same bed, and sit beside them in the
same car! What will satisfy them?
asks the Washington Erening Star.
Nothing. Certainly nothing in the
way Of submission. They must be
soundly thrashed at the polls in No
vember. collectively. When that is
done, we will guarantee that the in
dividuals composing this class of
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