The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1869-05-22
sCOLLJMBIA Is. S.
) Saturday hIorning, May %, 1862
Another Radical Raid ON the south.


some of the leading radical journals in re.
gard to crime in the South, which is con-
jectured to be raised for the purpose OF
furnishing pretexts for still further inter
ference of the Federal Government in the
Southern States. It is melancholy rehec-
tion that, four years after the war is ended,
q period as long as the war itself, we are still
without that mutual confidence and peace
which is the common desire Of true men of
all sections, and tho common interest Of
North aud South. The Baltimore iSun calls
attention to the fact, that during all the
time which has elapsed since the close Of
hostilities, the Southern States have sought
restoration to their relations to the Union
before the war, and have been opposed and
thwarted at every step, and almost in pre-
else proportion to their urgency for recon
ciliation. The New York Tribune is now
sorely exercised over the situation in
Georgia." which, it says, sis grave enough
to warrant prompt investigation" the gra-
witty of the matter consisting in the fact that
the Bullock radical pnrty of that State are
at present outside the public crib, the most
solemn state Of things that loyal Imagination
can conceive. They naturally wish an in
vasion of Georgia's constitutional rights by
Congress, and the revolutionzing of the
present order of affairs, SO that the serious
and threatening aspect presented by the
bolts and bars which keep them from q mo-
nopoly of all the Offices may speedily be re-
moved, and an opportunity given for tho
rough Investigation" of the loaves md
fishes from which they have been 80 long
debnrred. The Tribune, however, does not
confne itself to Georgia, but turns it's
broadside upon the whole South, and has
the hardihood to make such an announce
ment as this:
''Now we assert, as our conclusion from
attentive observation of the journals, that
not less than l ZOO persons have been muir
dered because of their politics in the South
ern States during the last year, of whom at
least $50 were Republicans, and that not
twenty of the murderers have been brought
TO justice by those whom the Times is apt
to call tthe South.
Deliberate and intentional injustice to the
Southern people could alone blind the eyes
of, the author of that monstrous fabrication
to the folly, as we'll as wickedness. of pub
giishing so incredible falsehood The New
York Times calls upon the Tribune to ex-
hibit the data of its calculation. It says:
''Let us see how this total of ZOO poIiti-
cal murders is made up. With how many
is Virginia chargeable? and the Carolinas?
and Georgia, Alabama, Arkansas, Louisiana
Florida, Mississippi and Texas, respective
ly? Let the particulars be given, that each
of the States implicated by the accusation
may have an opportunity of disproving a
charge SO seriously affecting the reputation
of its population and the administration Of
its laws. Wholesale assertions of the same
nature have been heard before, and invaria-
bly, in connection with some sinister and
partisan scheme. but their authors have
rarely attempted the production of proofs "
The Washington Chronicle engages i'll the
same work of defamation with the Tribune,
and demands that "the ascendancy Of the
loyal people" shall be preserved, and the
Vaccinations OF "a revolutionary party"
frustrated. 1t assumes that to accomplish
this object the authority which forced
through reconstruction in the first instance
is at liberty to do as it plcascs with the en-
tire South. Yet, it is scarcely week since
the same journal voluntarily and ardently
testified to the "loyalty" of tho Southern
people. Discussing the subject of q war
with Great Britain, it thus emphatically
spoke:
"There is no hostility to England in Ame-
rica, but there is intense devotion to Ame-
RIGA. And all parties unite in this senti-
ment, North and South, East and West
Even the Democracy, who are now courting
free trade, will not be ready to sustain n
power which has cheated all parties in this
country in turn, and none more than the
South. Ireland looks with as much interest
on this new complication as Cnha. and ;f