The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1869-12-29


The Galveston Alssus haas SslHlI} 60
editorial on '.AIilits RplS s. 4;
lr Military RUS is bod Snta III shel
iharQ Of any shoulde< Sssssd satrca-
nAr to sly: EDo this o. d0 shAt, Sfs elss
fmyl yleayonets shall snaite you. But bad
as l1ilitary rule is, can fhese Act BE Il
1osse- thing -Some upon us?. 70 there not
truth in thot tenth plank OF the Bren-
ham platform, which says: ssWe prefer
the continuation of military government
to the restoration of the State on the
proposed dishonorable terms, and deem
it infinitely less Objectionable than rndi-
cal State rule"
It will be well for our people to con-
slider these things. Look at that i'm
mense immigration which is now pouring
into this State; is it deferred my military
rule? Not bit of it; il comes. and
comes cheerfully. because Texas is bet
ter, far better, under military rule than
Sonth Carolina, or Arkansas, or Ala
bama. under scallawag or negro dictation.
Look, furthermore, at the taxes. Com
pare the taxes of this State of Texas to.
day with the taxes of any reconstructed
State, of North Carolina, for instance, or
Louisiana. So far as mere money goes,
military rule is better than scallawag or
negro rule.
But why do We say these things2
Simply in order to let our people see that
the politicians, for their own selfish pur-
poses, have held up this thing of mill
tary rule as worse thing than any other
that could possibly befall us. Is it worse
than the State of Arkansas worse Ethan
the State of North Carolina, worse than
mi n III
constructed States, all with their Sena-
tors-God help us for the prostitution of
such q name!-in the Capitol, and their
State names borne on the roll as fully
reconstructed.
We bid our people look to it, Let
them beware lest, in the eager hunt of
reconstruction, they suffer very much
greater evils than at present encompass
them. Peace is not to be obtained by
compromise; liberty is not the child of
concession; good order and prosperity
necer arise from yielding to the avari-
cioGs and the base.
For military government, we are no
apologist. To have ones Office silenced
and ones own person threatened for up
holding the rights of ones own people.
by upholding the liberty of the press,
is not a matter to make one love the
military, but bad rs it is, may not n
worse thing come upon us? Compare
Texas to-day with any of the reconstruct
ed States. This State under military
rule and those 'in the Union" Look at
the solid wall of wagons that crowd our
Northern frontier; go to Houston, and
Calvert, and Brennan, and see the thou
sands passing through; come to Calves
ton and look at the ship loads of people
fleeing from the older Southern States
to this, and say if there is not something
significant in this exodus of people-our
0,Cn people-from reconstructed Geor-
gia, and Alabama, and Arkansas, and
South Carolina, TO this unreconstructed
Texas?
Worse things may come than lack of
reconstruction. Negro government may
como, the fifteenth amendment may
come, the equality of white men with
negro slaves may come.
Look to it, brethren of Toxas, and
avert this great wrong.
We see by the telegraphic dispatches
that warner has introduced bill for
the more equal distribution of the cur
rency;" Without stopping to inquire
who Warner is, or where he has intro
duCCo Oills Wo haNO ohiJ " Stsy Lu6U
Warmers bill suits us. The unequal dis
tribution of the currency has long been
a matter of very profound sorrow to US.
Somehow, our pockets must have been
overlooked when the original distribu-
ton took place. It is remarkable thing
about the distribution of the currency,
that tho rich men have by far the largest
share-a fact which finds no parallel ex-
cept in that of large rivers, which always,
curiously enough, run by large cities. If
Warner will only stick to it, and have so
fresh deal of currency all round" he can
command any Office within the gift of
the people. He is unquestionably our
candidate for the next Presidency, in
case the Stone Giant declines. Go it,
Warner .-Ne,r Orleans Times.
The subject of minority-or, moro
strictly speaking, of personal-represen-
tation was recently brought up in Con-
gress. This subject, which was first in
troduced to the American public by the
World some three years ago, has since
grown to very considerable dimensions.
At the New York Constitutional Conven-
ton the plan of personal representation