The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1869-06-29
COLUMBIA, S. c..
Tuesday Morning, June %. 1859.
Which Dayl

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BY reference to the calendar of this
year, it will be seen that the supposed i'm
u.ortdi Fourth occurs on Sunday. In
view of this, the Puritans North, and
hypocrites East, West and South-men
and brethren, who despise the liberties
OF our fathers, and war upon their con-
stitution-are debating if Saturday pre-
vious or Monday following shall be glo-
ritied as the glorious Fourth. Saturday
is preferred. as followed by a day of rest,
and all Yankeedom may be hard Mt work,
on Monday morning, at their honest
trade OF cheating, thieving and Barnum-
ing the rest of mankind.
The Southern people and Southern
press are not excited in the matter; it is
no longer day they celebrate-it is set
now apart for the godly, loyal, Puritanic
North. They might as we'll celebrate the
anniversary of the Magma Charta, which
their English cousins conquered q few
centuries back. It is to be hoped no
Southern man will burn grain Of pow
der, no Southern hoy ignite Chinese
cracker, because of the annual recur-
renee of the nations natal day. It would
he mockery and Treason, to the men who,
ninety years ago, struck for liberty.
Better British colonial taxation without
representation; better the small taxupon
tea; better the paltry stamp act, admins
tered equally to all colonial Inhabitants,
which Henry denounced as chains and
slavery; better nll these fagraut political
ills, under royal George, than the yul-
gar, brutal tyranny of this American oil
garchy, with fellow of Grants record
i'll the Johnson affair, with sore-headed
poltroon as Sumner, with beast rs But
ler, and ON army of adyenturers, of the
lowest instincts belonging to human nn-
ture, now adjusting the chains OH South
.ern men, and melting former slaves and
savages to the ravishment of their wives
and daughters. This is the fruit which
this famous day now yields to Southern
subjects. 1t gave them peace and liberty,
and even prosperity, for o quarter of
century. There is little in the past his
tory of the Government of which the
South can be proud, except her part in
the struggle of '76, and the high bearing
of her statesmen in the honest admins
tratlon of the government since its inau-
guration; their struggle against the en-
croachments of the Northern masses-a
people with all the vices attaching to
human nature, and without virtue, ex-
cept that low, groveling spirit of accu-
mulating pennies, which Franklin, in his
early poverty, appreciated, and inocu-
lated into the blood and bone of his New
England brethren. The imm mortal Fourth
can Ego hang" as far rs our present
social and political status is affected by
that day. New Englanders, as Wilson
and Sumner and Butler Grant and the
Southern scalawags, lower and viler,
more loathsome, depraved and Sinking,
than the garbage fed upon by our carrion
birds, are the people to rejoice now.
When the principles of July 4, '76, re-
assert themselves to bless us, let us then
again rise up to bless and glorify the
day.-LaurensuiNe Herald
We completely coincide with the He
raid on this subject. In addition, we
would state, that we feel we have n per-
feet right to our interest in these nation
al days, the fruit of the revolution of
'76, but We willingly forego; we forbear
to-press the claim. since it's completion
would be a fraternizing and harmonizing
with the victors of 1865. No copartner-
ship for us-no such "acceptation of the
situation" The Fourth of July shall
be simply u day OF recreation and rest
No Chinese cracker or Roman candle
shall be ignited by our hands in COM
memoration of this national day; no
windy toasts be drunk in honor of the
2 "glo''ious Uaion"' We shall celebrate
it as day of holiday-one of relief and
rest from the carking cares of business;
and beyond that, nothing. We have
naught i'll sympathy, naught in COM
mon, with the Yankee, the carpet-bag-
ger, negro or scallawag. They may
celebrate it, as they will, with tinkling
cymbal and sounding brass; we shall by
cessation of business, recess from la.
Dor, and season Of ease-"only that,
and nothing more"