The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1869-08-10
COLUMBIA, s. G.
Tuesday Morning, August 10, 1883.

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Tuesday Morning, August 10, 1859.
a New Phase OF shs Most Extraordinary
- Revolution OF ,IIodern Times. -,
SsThe Mobile Register, of the 9Th, re-
ferring to the recent election in that Dis.
trict, says: & =. : Z ''''t..' '..'': s. ~
The Democratic nominee for Con-
gress inathis District has been beaten
beaten not by the radical whites aud
their negro slaves, but by the white men
+ who have Thought proper: to. absent
themselves from the polls. IF the, non
yoting white men Of Mobile. Selma and
: Con necahI Comfy had come to the polls,
we should not only have overcome the
3, 600 6f 4, ,000. votes by which we were
beaten ID the Presidential election, but
we could have turned up majority of
1900 or 8. 900 on the other side for Col.
Mann. The SUM OF it Is, TINT We have
for misrepresentation from this District
former officer Of o negro regiment, a
cerpet-bag ihterloper and incendiary Of
the first water, instead Of once Federal
officer, but now Democest, true friend
Of the down-trodden South, and faith
full representative Of the people. Let
the blame restawhere it belongs. We
shall not, In response to the general in
dignation, indulge in denunciation OF
those white men. We feel as sensibly as
any the grievous humiliation to which
they have subjected us, and the new
dangers they have opened up for us in
the future. We think these gentlemen
will find out that they aid have AN inte-
rest in this election. Their course and
Its results will be sure to give rise to an
Arnks - IL
minds OF that portion Of our people who
will not and cannot endure the perma-
nent dominion of white aliens and black
ibarbarians. They are already asking
themselves, are we forever to be the
bondsmen anu serfs of an invading gang
OF plunderers-th insolent white scn.n
that Northern radicalism hos yomited
upon us? This question, and its answer,
flow logically out CT the events, thoughts
and feelings of the last four years. The
reasoning takes this form: We have, as a
people, been patient, OIL how patient!
for years; because we looked to united
people at home, and to more generous
feeling at the North. for relief from our
lntolerable burthens. lit never entered
into our plans or purposes to endure the
present condition of affairs forever. But
now that, after four years Of endurance,
we lind ourselves deserted by enough of
our own people to secure the ascendancy
OF q. b: rule over US, we are forced to
look about for other and new remedial
measures. Those OF us who mean to be
free, at all hazards, must do one of two
things-either, first, desert this c. B.
and negro cursed land, and find home
whose air we can breathe without sti-
fling, or we must resort to the uiiapd
ratio, and drive our tyrants away. Had
the white delinquents ut the polls come
to the front. there had been no occasion
for thoughts like these The majority
of this people mean to have their Iiber-
ties, and if blood comes of it, its stain
will be upon the garments OF those who,
having before them a peaceable solution
of the country's difficulties, and refusing
to aid in it, have forced men to think OF
sterner remedies.
Frhese reflections lead Us to believe
that we have entered upon a new phase
of this extraordinary revolution, and
that the years to come will not be as
quiet as those that have passed. It is
not in the nature of men, especially of
men OF our race, to sit down supinely
while they are taxed to confscation of
their property by handful of strangers.
Brutes will fight for their lives, their
food aid their young, aud our homes,
our subsistence for wives and children
are threatened; and when liberty is
thrown into the scale with the means of
livelihood, and when we are boldly told
if we do not like it, we can abandon our
country, an issueis presented that is not
long debatable. When that issue comes
to be made up-and it is immiuent-it
is one that spark may at cry moment
hi.ua.e into conAagration-our non
voting white people will discover that
they had some interest in the late cleo
tion. They ,oM have to fight. whereas
they only had to vote. In what we have
written above, we doubt not that we
have given true expression to the
thoughts that are struggling for utter
ance in the minds and hearts of this
people.
SIN the present exasperated condition
of the public mind, we enjoin prudence
as a necessity for the peace of society
and the triumph of right over wrong.
Individual passionate outbreaks will do
harm,and harm only. When the people
speak and act, they must do it authori-
tatively. This canton is especially to
be needed by the handful of G. Baggers
in the community. Let them beware of