The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1869-10-05
spIri. of tho state press.

country.
Spirit of tho State Press.
MARIoN.-The Crescent contains spi-
rited appeal from the County Agricultu-
raj Society to the people of the County,
urging full attendance at an agricultu-
raj meeting, to be held at the Court
House, on the 14th October. The ladies'
are invited, addresses are promised, and
general rally called for.
EDaEFIEID.-TheA Adoertiser, on the
subject of the fifteenth amendment, says:
''This fifteenth amendment is not by
any means SO sure of being grated on
the Constitution of the United States as
has been supposed. There are several
lions in its path yet. No true State
rights mar, North or South, can surren-
der his opposition to this amendment on
principle. I. Be negro suffrage good or a
bad thing, per Sc, it is for the State and
not for the United States to decide. The
South is the last that should concede it,
because all our reconstruction experience
shows us that no sooner is one encroach-
ment yielded to, than another is pro.
poeed. The schemers at Washington are
already concocting sixteenth amend
ment, there will be seventeenth, and a
twentieth, and hundredth, as the exi-
genoies of radical party necessity re-
qulre. The only safe course is to oppose
them all, and with all the means within
our reach, and on all occasions and at all
times to fight it out on this line
CHARLEsroN.-The Ne'cs says:
cit is no; surprising that all those who
live by honest labor, desiring to be good
and faithful citizens, should be inclined
to cut loose from radicalism and join
party which will secure to them all the
privileges they now possess, and more
than the freedom they now enjoy.
''This party is the anti-radical party
of South Carolina. The platform of the
party is broad and strong. Southern re-
construction and negro suffrage are re-
cognized as accomplished facts, and it is
not proposed to interfere with any right
which the colored men now have. Here
Mt once is offered to the colored voter all
that his radical friends can give; and the
anti-radical party promise, besides, an
honest and economical Government,
which shall enable trade and business to
flourish, and make the laboring classes
prosperous and happy. Upon this plat
form the anti-radicals of Abbeville, Sum-
ter, Kershaw and Georgetown can rally
to their support hundreds of colored
voters, and can elect men who will repre-
sent all classes Of the community, and
try to retrieve the State from the bur-
dcns which press SO heavily upon her.
''There may bo found some men who
will not consent to work with the large
majority Of our people upon the anti
radical platform; but public opinion in
ItS favor 1oi1x, CO.
will increase in volume until the strong
holds OF radicalism have all been swept
away. a. common sense submission to
tho inevitable necessities of the situa-
ton is the only course which will save
the State from ruin. And tho work
should begin without an hours delay"
And IN reference to some remarks of
the Yorkville Enquirer, it says:
SIN this part of the State, we are not
so philosophical as to say that We don't
care how the negroes vote; for, upon the
wpy, in which they vote, depends their
welfare and ours. They already feel in-
directly the pressure of taxation, and
still moro do they feel the utter selfish
ness of their so-called friends. They
will, in time, find out for themselves that
our interests are theirs; but aciM our help
they will know it, and aot upon it ct the
next general elections. We might wait,
and wait quietly with folded arms; but
an old proverb says, that while the grass
is growing, tho steed may starve. This
ls our predicament."
YoRK.-The Enquirer, in reply to the
Ph@ni1, 'hus explains its views:
"Tho Pa9ni1 is mistaken in supposing
thAo we favor any sort of milk and water
policy. Wo believe in vigorous opposi.
tior 20 the radical party. But any mea-
sures which secure our GO operation,
must possess the virtue of telling with
effect upon that party. We are not at
tracted by mere noise, tho practical effect
of which is only to attract the attention
of our opponents and stir up unnecessary
illwill on both sides. The present is one
of the times, when quiet can do more
for us than agitation, which is the great
desideratum with tho radicals. Opposi-
tion only serves to give them strength;
without it, their party will soon fall to
pieces. Argument and exposure of their
ouil hor h.