The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1868-10-15
..The New Rebellion ;,

The radical papers are beginning
to- fume about what they call the
"new.rebellion IN the South" They
recite the ebullitions of some crazy
Democratic editor, recall the outrages
of the Ku Kiux Klans, the assaults
upon professions, the turbulence,
riots and bloodshed that have recent
~ occurred in Nashville, New Or
leans, Camilla and lately in Ope-
lousas, parish of st. Landry-in
short, they point to the unsettled
and menacing condition of things
throughout the States of Georgia.
Alabama, Arkansas, Louisiana and
Texas, indeed all over the South, as
evidence that o new rebellion has
qeen inaugurated, and the people are
warned to prepare for the conse-
quences.
q Now, we admit that state of
alarm, confusion, anarchy, quasi-re-
bellion and quasi-war, if you please,
exists in the South. We admit that
society there is plunged into condi-
ton of chaos from which it may take
years to recover; that business is
Frustrated; that the agricultural,
commercial and all industrial inte-
rests are paralyZed; that distrust
and discredit prevail; that education
and the cause of religion are Ian
gulshing; that the people are in a
great measure strangers to any LAW
exceptlynch law, and that order, the
first law OF God, is utterly unknown.
But what is the cause of all this pub
lie disorder and social derangement?
Who are to blame for precipitating
upon this rich and fertile land this
gigantic fusion of evils? The answer
is plain. They arise from wild and
utterly preposterous attempt of the
radicals to establish in the South the
supremacy Of q race utterly unpre-
pared, unfit and incapable to assume
for years to come any other position
In social and political life than that
sanctioned by condition of semi
barbarism. If the white and black
races in the South had been left to
themselves, as they are in New York
and in all the North, there would
have been none of this anarchy, none
of this blodshed, none of this :snew
rebellion" as the radicals call it. In
this effort to elevate the black race
above the white, the radicals have
excited in the former visions of ease,
plenty and equality which thew know
can, never be realized in this age.
They have awakened in the negro's
mind an idea that he is greater and
more powerful than his late master,
and that when question of justice
or right arises between them, the in
tuence of the black must kick the
beam. Butwhen the ignorant negro
finds that the promises of his white
radical friends are not fulfilled, he
becomes an altogether different crea-
ture from what he was even in state
of bondage. His savage and cruel
nature is developed He becomes n
maraader,. ravisher, an incendiary,
Q debased and inhuman animal.
White citizens are then obliged to
defend themselves against the depre-
dations Of the blacks, and naturally
a collision occure, in which it would
be singular if somebody were not
hurt. All this springs from a viola
tion of the laws of nature and of the
statute in regard to the status of the
two races, which the radicals insist
upon carrying out in the South, and
which would be followed by similar
deplofable occurrences were like Mt
tempt made in the North, or in any
community where the blacks have
settlement in any numbers. Hero,
then. is solution of the question as
to whom the existing reign of 9io
lence in the South should be as
cribed. Now what is the remedy?
To apply corrective to this state of
things would be, first, to cease giving
the negroes ideas above their capa.
city; second, to make them under
stand that they are amenable TO the
laws and as liable to punishment for