The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1869-05-19
The new outcry Against the South.

The Washington Chronicle and other OF
the more ultra of the radical press, are try
ing to find excuses for Executive and Con-
gressional interference in the affairs of the
Southern States. The Tribune insists that
the situation in Georgia is grave enough
to warrant prompt investigations" and its
co-laborer at Washington will have it that
there is still ''no more important question
than that of the future condition of the late
rebellious States" What these journals de-
sire the Government to do, they do not
clearly explain. The Tribune wants 'inves-
tigaation,," but into what, concerning what,
under what authority, or with what object,
it does not specifically tell. So, again, the
Chronicle demands that "the ascendancy of
the loyal people" shall be preserved, and the
Vaccinations of ga re-actionary party"
frustrated, but the means to be employed,
or the authority under which the Executive
should interfere, it fails to indicate
The object of the Tribune, in directing
the volume of radical wrath to Georgia, may
be conjectured. It is on the lookout for
causes of quarrel with that State, with the
view OF re-opening the status of its recon
struction when Congress re-assembles The
steady progress of the State toward regular
and prosperous industry is not denied. The
efforts it is making to attract foreign popu-
lation, and the cordial reception given to all
who 60 there in an honest search for homes,
are facts not to be gainsaid But the Bull
lock party want a monopoly of all the Offices
and of the Legislature into the bar
gain, and they know that their only chance
lies in forcible upsetting of the present
order of things, and their installation by
Federal order and under Federal manipula-
ton. They caused the fifteenth amend.
ment to be rejected, in order that Northern
indignation might be excited against the
State. And having failed to win the SYM
pathy OF Congress, they are concocting
bugaboo stories Of outrage and persecution
and danger to ''loyal" interests, in defiance
alike of fact and probability. The Tribune
seems to be enlisted in their service
The Washington oracle takes q wider aim.
1t objects, not to Georgia particularly, but
to the whole South; and it urges policy
which would end in re-opening reconstruc-
tlon-undolng what has been done, and
multiplying obstacles to the completion of
what remains unfinished 1t assumes that
the authority which forced through recon
struction in the first instance is at liberty to
do as it pleases with the entire South To
prevent reaction" and to secure ''loyal
ascendancy" the Government may-accord-
ing to the Gronicle-throw the South back
into anarchy, and enact whatever fresh con-
dltlons 1T deems necessary for the further
ance of 'loyal policy" The proposition
is too monstrous to be entitled to serious
discussion. Its. PRONUNCIATION, however, is
worthy of mention, as an illustration of the
madness of partisanship, and a key to the
invention of Southern outrages There are
Southern newspapers which suggest that
much of this new born ferocity is traceable to
bear-game in real estate speculation, with
which recent travelling party is said to be
Identified; but before accepting this con-
structlon OF the new outburst of violence.
we await further evidence
Nep York Times.