The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1869-07-18
COLUMBIA, S. g.
Sunday Morninik. July is. 1869,
rho Eeaaicals in a Quunanrv.

The editor Of the New York Ifibaats is
much perplexed with the ''Ohinese pug
zle." He has worked and perspired over
it, but hecant's settle it to his own satis-
faction. BE is in doubt. He must have
moro time for consideration, and more
facts to eniighten him. He doesn't
know yet how immigration from the
Flowery Kingdom will affect radicalism
and the negro in the United States. He
is rather inclined at present to let the
Chinese come. but he is careful to say:
1T may be that further knowledge and
consideration will induce us to unite in
the, demand that this immigration be
stopped" The Louisville Couris7-.Jour-
nails strongly inclined to the belief that
this will be the editor of the Iri6une,s
conclusion. and that of the rest of the
radical leaders, when they see the effect
OF the inexpensive industry of the Chi
nese IN competition with the costly lazi-
ness Of the negroes, who. if worthless in
respect to everything else, are invalua-
ble to the radicals MS main element of
political strength. This country has
been boosted of by its people during the
whole period of its existence as refuge
and o home for the people of all nations,
bptIEes the fact be made to appear that
immigration is unfavorable to the pros
perity of radicalism among us, and our
gates, If the radicals shall have the con-
troll of the locks and keys, will be closed
against foreigners as vigorously rs those
OF China and Japan ever were. Another
leading radical organ. referring to the
petition of the leading Cinnamon that
protection and equal rights shall be Sc
cured to Chinese immigrants, interposes
ON objection. It says: eve must not
overlook the fact that there are considera-
tions of blood and morals, as we'll as of
cheap labor and industrial economy"
The radicals certainly insisted that we
should overlook considerations Of blood
and morals in the case OF the negroes
considerably more than we are asked to
overlook them in the case of the Chinese.
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The New IMPERIAL Po1ICY.-The New
York Times says the late elections in
France have compelled the Emperor to
announce his purpose of establishing re-
forms which are tantamount to q change
of the principles on which he has hereto
fore governed that Empire. It says the
vital point in the scheme he has formu-
lated is the proposition to give the Le-
gislatGre the control of the budget" :"
which is the fundamental symbolism of
power in all free legislative assemblies,
which has been hitherto practically with
held by Napoleon, and kept in his own
hands, and which he would never resign
If he did not see the impossibility of
permanently upholding the present sys-
tenn. It says all the other changes he
proposes are in the direction of liberal
reform, and adds:
"The astuteness, if not the duplicity,
of Napoleon, in working his way out of
political difficulties such as have lately
arisen in France, prevents our indulging
in very lively hopes of the passage Of
any measures of reform that will serious
ly limit his personal power, or interfere
with the absolute supremacy he has
heretofore retained in the government of
France. Again aud again has he pro-
missed reforms and liberties in the past
few years, and once and again has he
deceived the people. But the indica-
tions from the recent course of affairs
are more determinate than anything we
have heretofore had, and it looks lately
as though the logic of events had be-
come more powerful even than the EN-
peror."
The DIRECT LAND TAX AT THE SOUTH.
The Washington correspondent of the
New York Herald telegraphs under date
of the 14th: