The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1869-11-07


orphans OF deoeased Confederates are
cared for. I'VE should see to it, as due
"a atba living as yell no Tho deod thot
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tne stu'n y. hts'oiJ pe Vinoica'eo' 50 iar
a. least as 10 concerns the spirit, motives
and achievements Of those who obeyed
the call ef their State in, tI,e lote war
.tat,no.n e. ot,..ua xv. r.., .,,..
70 Se nv We iee' 'n". we
neea say put little on this subject. -Ihe
two projects to which we are referring
will commend tbemselves to everv man
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e1u. ese.y ro4AAtfffa -. "AV" o"ei'' .ne
genuine SousnE Carohna feehng' we
earnestly anbniit these twin enterprises
To tha men and the women Of the State
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The Township system in south Caro-
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saa On tbis ssnb;eet,t &ha New Yorl, World
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t..e A9tse te.n. A'' "nA'n We
commend 70 the present lawmakers In
South Carolina: III
ga rather noticeable meetinp has inst
saian niaea n Sonth Caroi;na n ex.
Tiain ;fa object ;t ia necessary tn nre-
m;se' fi,at In. the fbrmat;on of the RADON.
letructed SonaEitntion. a provision reouir-
i;nds Aha iiv;a,nn ! of .tba Stota into
sfnvnsh;ns' was l;neerted Az J;recteS
Inv said Constitution. the RECONSTRUCTED
I,eGialature Y1asaed. in 1869. an net to
orgen;ze toVnsbins and tn define their
,,nwers and nr;vileoes Now in recon-
atructed Sontb ,Carolina there is in each
oonntv' or to sneal, nnreconatrnctedIv
o,isfr;S' n hoard of commissioners. and
On the oeth ~ Jn1v Iaet a convention of
said boards from tho several districts
was held at tbe state canitol Tn onen.
in0 tha nrocee6inos of this bodv the
chairman thereof Called the attention Of
the com miss;onars to the imnracticabilitv
of forming townsbins in Sontb Carolirio
a;rniIar 10 townshina in the NoItbern
States becanse NJ The 1;mited nonnlot;on
of fhis state and the conntrv nlaces
being 40 sparsely aettled. CLEARLY showing
tbat 3he parties who cot nm tbis stown.
shin bill'. had in contemnlotion n state
of much LARGER nonnlatior.'
"On the preseptation of this view of
the case. the convention took into CON
sideration the proprietv of memorializino
the Leoislature as to the necessity Of
postponipg the organization of town
ehips for a period of ten wears at lenst. ,
and, pending the final disposition of this
question. adjourned to meet. as atated
to-day at Columbia. Now. in itself. this
small matter of the regulation of coun.
ties in a single State is not much. but it
happens to point very we'll moral of
general application. That moral is this:
that rules of tho most approved accept.
anee as concern come Of the Northern
States, and particularly those making up
New England, are entirely out of place
as regards the Southern States. The
school. .system. for instauco. of New
England, as We took occasion some time
since to show. ia impracticable in the
South. and impracticable not because of
a general aversion to education and bar
barism, as was thundered from oyery
stump in abolition times, but merely and
simply because the common-schooi sys-
tenn of New England is only ADAPTED to
thickly settled Communities. and the
States of the South are, and always have
been, sparsely peoplcd. Similarly. we
called attention to tho fact that tue big
plantation system,' once the theme Of
such virnlent abuse, was now daily ap-
proving itself as the only style of apri
culture fitted for rich country with few
inhabitants. AS the virgin West is
brought under cultivation. we find FIRMS
of from five to ten thousand acres by no