The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1869-12-17
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y Under thia titls, the Chicsgo Eveniag
tp yoassai .(rsdieait Wsites itsslf into the
sconclusion that .'the reports of tie
generals commanding the various mill
9tary distsicts Of the Spdth, ssh6w o sad
stateof affairs. Justice, is'trampled in
: s.ss .ssss dust and I'D y 7KIuxism is rampant"
And Who are The .eenerals commands.
,sgsnpenH Hhosa testimony this slander-
ods Spn6insion 10 Iseeheda asks The No..
bile Register. They are., in most cases.
Y ip5a6ked jay If radical generals, who
,,saot 5niy report. but govern the interests
of the radical petty; and IL is upon the
i; testimony Of these witnesses that the
ssoGth Is tried and condemned as the
aseSSion In Which |jnssics Is trampled in
" flia duet, and Ku-K Kipxisu is rampant.
osgFEatever of crime there may be in the
Southland We have the daily proofs in
: = lonr NORTHERN and Western exchanges
that it is less prevalent in the South than
inih6e es;loyais States y Is Is principally due
.stotshe- tyrannieaa government to which
the people OF the South have been SUBJ
iected since e3hewar. (; The wonder should
not be, that there iscrime in those out
$sgsd societies. but that there, is not
!. vast deal More: Radical reconstruction
has done / an That deyilish9 ingenuity
tscould dos to- make demons of the South.
'i!sFrp ieFpi psopia and drive them to despera-f4
don 2: tYes the people have borne their
iiibasaea aa,nof other, ever have, and as no
''6sbsr people In Europe or America to-
sdayyWouia bear it, How long would
: thh pe6pIs Of England or France, or even
1 old Spain. .remain passive under such
4 11tgoFs}nnent as that of the reconstructed
! States Of Amesieaa government hold
i ing its tennre Of power neither by divine
nor popular right, but forced on the
citizens, against their suffrages, by the
power 81 the Federal sword, welded by
q partisan Congress? government that
. is siie very Incarnation of despetic force.
How long, we ask the radical Journal.
& would Chicago and Illinois put up with
!. 4 tyranny that should turn over their
peopleto an alien power, armed with the
authority, to make their laws and to tax
3,elieir property? We have respect
enough for tile manliness OF the people
Of Chicago to believe that the fires of
z armed resistance would be lighted in
that city the first moment that its citi-
zena should feel the pressure of such
tyssnny. And if il should 30 have hap
pened that 3 Democratic administration
at Washington had put it upon Illinois,
as radical one has put it upon the
Southern States, the Chicago Journal
would be the first to lose it's "loyalty"
and become fierce "rebel."
Crimes are the offspring of tyranny
the world over. You cannot trample on
the sacred rights of men-especially of
brave msn accustomed to libcrty-with
out arousing in their natures the spirit
evil and the passions of revenge. The
outraged man, in the expressive phrase
Of Eugene Sue, "sees red" rs naturally
as the eye of woman brightens to the
plant of holy affection. For nearly five
years the sullen fires of discomfort. sense
of deep wrong, painting for justice and
passionate longing for revenge have been
pent up iu the hearts of Southern men
and women; and to their honor, too, for
they would be brutes were they insensi-
BILE and callous to their wrongs. And
yet with all these smothered promptings
to outbreak and violence, how marvellous
is the public quiet and how rare the erup.
tions from the volcanic crater! Take any
section of the South embracing popu-
lation equal to that OF Chicago, and with
help of all the &C parte reports of all the
radical Commanding Generals" in the
South, you will find that more crime is
committed in Chicago in day than in
any such district of the country in the
South in a week. Suffering as we of the
South do; deprived of the rights that
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