The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1869-05-30
COLUMBIA, S. c..
Sunday Morning, May 30. 1859.

The position which the South would
take in event Of war with England seem.
to be subject of extreue impor ance tt
the Northern mind. Mr.. Forney, gu
thering experience from his travels in the
South, asserts that war with England
would weld North and South together
and ingeniously discovers in it relief te
the reconstruction difficulties, and, says
the sagacious Forney, "if the worst come
to the worst, no force will prove more
potent than the men who fought for the
Confederate cause" Mr.. Forney is cor
rect i'll his estimate of the Confederate
soldiers; q tribute which suggests that
Mr.. Forney is disposed to use them tc
the benefit of his section should TO-
reign war take place. The South will
scarcely ''be welded to the North" if the
Alabama claims be the issue upon which
war is declared by the United States with
England. The Southern people can
hardly be recreant to the record of the
past, and lend their aid against coun-
try which lent them help in their hour
OF sore need and danger; they cannot,
in equity and good conscience, raise
their hands against the English nation,
when the specific issue is the assistance
rendered to the Southern Confederacy.
If the people of this section join hands
with the North in prosecuting q war with
foreign powers, it must be on some
ground remote from aid and comfort ex-
tended them in the recent civil war. The
Southern people have had enough oi
war. When they laid down their arms
at the surrender, the sword was put aside
and the pruning hook taken up. With
commendable industry, they are striving
to recuperate from the devastations ot
war, to make an honest and creditable
livelihood.
It is natural that the United States
should feel anxiety concerning the tone
and temper of this portion of the coun
try in view of foreign invasion, with
hundreds Of miles of Southern coast
Offering in its many harbors and bays
convenient places for landing troops and
establishment of military depots, the
people of this region sore from their late
defeat, and smarting under the severest
burdens ever imposed by conqueror-
the most cruel indignities inflicted upor
them, their rights ignored, every battle
field filled with their dead, their land.
ravaged by sword and torch, the little
substance saved to them from the gene
raj wreck eagerly coveted and fought 70,
by Yankee adventures and native rob
bers. 1t is neither reasonable or Just tt
expect that this people would be welded
to the North, as the polite Torney sug
gests; nor is it likely that the poten
force of the gallant Confederates Will b,
welded as he cunningiy insinuates
Surely not on the Alabama claims, ant
specially with the conduct Of the Unite,
States towards Cuba before our eyes
The Southern people have had surfei
Of war. They have, in making bread il
restoring the land, in recupcrating iron
the desolation OF the late struggle, al
abundant field to employ their time an,
energy. And if Il foreign war occurs, til
Government should be thoroughly salts
fed if the Southern people, alive to til
experience through which they hav
passed, take no part in the contest, bu
remaining quietly in their homes, striv
to gain in peace what they lost in WAL
1t would he wise in the Government t.
suffer this course to bo pursued: il woui
be prudent i'll cur people to be willing t
follow it.
SHALL THE CONFEDERATE DEAD %
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