The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1869-08-15

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"Who should be free, Themselves must strike
the blow"
Weekly Review, OF the State Press.
The Newberry Herald calls attention
to the proposed cotton seed oil mill to be
located here, and commends the sub
ject to planters as promising cheap
substitute for corn.
The Edgefeld Advertiser calls for De.
mocratic organization there and else
where, and asks Edgefeld to initiate
Abbeville in the matter of a County
Agricultural Fair. It reports all quiet
about Edgefeld jail-its military occu-
patton not disputed.
The Marion Star wisely suggests that
the people of the South should not look
to cotton alone, but should turn atten-
tion to other branches of industry. The
proposition to repeal or suspend the
present township law, it properly re-
CARDS ga move in the right direction. +"
The Sumter Watchman congratulates
the country upon the redemption of
Tennessee, and therein sees the fast
coming overthrow OF radical reign in
the South In an article on suffrage, it
points to the indication already given,
that just so soon as the negro shall cease
to vote with the radicals, they will be
ready to insist upon qualified suffrage
as essential to the country's welfare. Tho
engineer may, indeed, yet be hoisted
with his own petard, and the Southern
whites may yet be seen fighting the ne
gro's battle.
The Winnsboro Ne,cs, of the 10th,
suggests to the Senator from Fairfield,
the Hon, Mr., Barber-George Washing
ton Barber-the passage in Carolina of
law similar to that in Indiana, which
exempts every man from taxation upon
fifty or one hundred dollars worth of
property for five years for every acre
planted out in fruit trees.
The Darlington Democrat, looking to
the indications of radical disintegration
and moderation, sees the handwriting
on the wall that dooms that party.
The Yorkville Enquirer, on the sub
ject of the land tax and its burdens, sug-
gests that the laborers be required by a
general arrangement to participate in
those burdens. It states that there is a
growing conviction that those who share
the profits in the land should pay their
share for the privilege of making crops
thereon. In other words, if the laborers
receive one-third Of the crop, let them be
required to bear one-third of the tax.
The Enquirer very properly says that the
only way to get rid of burdensome taxa
ton, is for the majority to be made to
feel it. At present in South Carolina
the non-tax-payers impose the taxes.
The Sumter Ne,cs urges the people of
the County to further the objects of the
State Agricultural and Mechanical Soci-
ETY., and to contribute to the Fair move
ment.
The Spartanburg Gazette approves of
the proposed subscription of $50, 900 in
bonds to the Air Line Railroad by the
authorities of that town. The PROPOSE
tion is to be voted upon by the citizens.
The Winnsboro Neps, of the 18th,
announces it's determination to act, here
after, with that party-call it what you
please-that elected Walker in Virginia,
Senter in Tennessee. ."We must mount
the horse" says the News, "to control
the reins." Let us suggest to our friend
that he delay to mount, for two reasons
first, the present uncertain character oi
the steed; second, the possibility Of his
being thrown. We have not yet decided
exactly what kind of horse that was. In
the meantime, we remain shy. But is
not liberal Democracy better charger