The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1869-08-05

.'siaysry 4, Dead, shut Trsasep Esvss.,'
This is the Language used by Fosney
fih cpe Of his leaders last week. SNevef
EweI9 truer Words utter ID than these:
kTruIy ''slsvery is dea>., bhts t<oasofI
iliv9s." Treason livss In every zS11 11i6sl
[meMber of Congress, who syioiate ilis
oath TO support the Constitution every
time he casts his vote. 1t Lives ID the
Reconstruction Acts and military dsspot.
isms established by congressional 1egisi9.
ton. It was alive in the Republican
party before the late war broke out,
when it nominated sectional candidate
on sectional platform, and declared
that 'fhis country Gould not exist half
slave and half Free" It manifested its
vigor and its virulency when, through
the columns of its leading organ, the
Tribune, it denounced tho flag as q
Haunting lie, and hates polluted rag, "
and called the eagle, the emblem Of our
prowess, ':the vnlture of the Union, -
and, with Wendell Phillips, agreed that
our constitution was "a league with hell
and covenant with DEATH"
And ''slavery is dead;" but when it
died, it transferred the manacles upon
its wrists and ankles to the white labor
ing men Of the North. .The slave aris-
tocracy," as it was so flippantly called,
is dead; but that was self-sustaining.
self-snpporting aristocracy; that was an
aristocracy that paid to the North mil
lions in gold annually; and during the
last decade before the war furnished ex-
ports to the value of over 1000, 900, 600
to swell the wealth of the country.
The slave aristocracy is dead, but it
has been succeeded by an aristocracy of
Northern bond-holders, "who toll not
neither do they spin; yet Solomon, in all
his glory, was not srrayed like one of
these" These successors of the slave
aristooracy receive their interest in solid
gold, while their serfs and bondsmen-
the poor laboring Glasses of the North
must be content with the deprecated rag
currency of the country. These success,
sors of the self-supporting, wealth giving
aristocracy of slavery pay no taxes, but
impose that burden on their white slaves,
who are mere "hewers of wood and
drawers of water" for these worse than
Egyptian task masters.
When Hood wrote that wonderfully
suggestive poem of his, with its wild,
touching burden of
"Workl workl work!
From weary chime to chime,
Work! work work!
AS prisoners do for crime"
He was simply picturing the condition
of English serfs under the grinding in
huence of huge national debt and the
tyranny of bonded aristocracy. The
artisans and laborers, now out of work,
afford an opportunity to some American
Hood to write O song of labor here, with
even n more touching refrain than that
Of the English poet. He could tell his
countrymen "why bread should be SO
dear" because "Aesh and blood had been
so cheap"
Yes slavery is dead and treason
lives;" but it was negro slavery that died.
in order that white slavery might live.
That creature Forney, and his cocoon
spirators against the Constitution and
the Union, have given the freedom OF
laziness and the privilege of starvation
to the millions of former well-to-do
slaves; but have imposed their cast-of1
fetters upon the limbs Of white men here
at the North. Let our white laborinp
men remember at tie ballot-boxes next
fall that
| "Ho who would be free
Himself must strike the blow"
| No,r C,,,,J.,, NJ.