The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1869-03-09

DEAR SIR: Although the writer has no
personal acquaintance with you, and pro-
fesses no other claims upon your regard
than those of any other humble citizen of
the State, yet he trusts the fact that he
agrees with you in your political views on
the great issues of the day, and approves
the principals and plans you propose, and
advocate for the redemption of our noble
old Commonwealth from tho thralldom and
perilous and unhappy condition in which
she is now placed, her speedy restoration to
the prosperity and blessings OF former
days, and the advancement OF her great
material and industrial, moral and educa-
tlonal interests, that her present welfare
may be secured and her future career rem
dered bright and glorious, will be deemed
sufficient apology for addressing you this
brief letter, and Offering you his cordial
though humble, cooperation in the good
and important cause in which YOU are en-
gagged. 10 you moro than to any one
among us, he believes, is due the credit and
honor of proje citing and inaugurating mca-
sures and a policy which promise the only
practicable and satisfactory solution of the
difficulties and dangers by which we are
surrounded, and he desires to award the
merit to which ou nre justly entitled. In
saying this, no disparagcment is intended
of your noble and able co-adjutors who
have from the first and ut all times given
you their prompt and efficient assistance;
they are deserving of great promise, and
yon have had, too, the ready and willing
aid, and the hearty sympathy of all true
SONS of Carolina, who were only impatiently
waiting for some good and trustworthy
leader to blaze the way, and they would
eagerly follow.
But 1T Is hardly time to pause and bestow
the highest Lonors Of the day upon the
most deserving brow, when the field Of CON
test has not yet been won. We are as vet
bnt on the threshold of our movement. and
have not reached the thickcst of the
fray and the most trying hours OF our pa
triotic tolls. Herculcan task, lnborious
and, it may be, protracted struggle, is be.
fore us. A good deal has been accompli sh-
ed, but much still remains to be done
The country mast recover from the disas-
trous results and effects of a long and
cruel civil war, and that will have to bo
partly the work of time. The ghastly
wounds that have been made in the body
polite, and the corrupting disorders that
have sprung from them throughout the
whole social fabric, will have to be healed
up and removed before we can expect
soundness, stability and q true vitality in
the political system again. History records
the wars OF nations, and it recounts, too.
the evil influences and damaging consc-
quences which have ever followed in their
wake to liberty and law, to civilization and
Improvement, to education and Christianity.
and to all the best and highest interests of
human society. And whenever q nation
hos been visited by tho terrible scourge of
war, the extent and duration Of such result
ing evils and disasters, as inevitably succeed
In it's train, have always been in proportion
to the intelligence, the virtue, the inherent
energy and patriotism possessed by the
people. Such you know is the general and
philosophical teachings of history
PREVIOUS to tho late sanguinary struggle,
no country, either in ancient or modern
times, had ever been more highly favored
ana blessed than were these United States
NO nation had ever made greater and more
RAPID strides In increase of population and
extension of territory, in civilization and
Improvement, In agriculture and commerce.,
science and the arts. and in oil the elements
of wealth and greatness Nowhere in the
wor!d was there a broader and more gene
raj diHnsion OF the blessings of liberty and
law, anu greater degree of public and pri-
vate prosperity and happiness. The grand
old revolution OF 1776 achieved our indepen
dence and established the distinctive nrin-
ciples of American liberty, the war of 1910
confirmed that decision and gaye character
and standing to the republic among the
nations of earth, and the country went for
ward In q career OF unexemplified progress
and greatness. But the war at lengtl. came