The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1869-12-16
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! BUsrNKss CAhDs AND ptRcUrAas.-As
thessaaon is apprpaohing for tie annahl
travel and distribution Of business casds
and circulars, our meschants and others
viii please give attention to the fact that
our,iob Office is supplied with the best of
boards, Of all colors, fine commercial
note and other paper, and the very new
est and most fashionable styles of type,
thus enabling us to supply all of such
wants. .-,-.,..---.. ---
The annual meeting of the members
OF the Ladies' Industrial Association will
take place in the Washington Street
Chapel, on Thursday, the 10th instant,
ut IL O'Clock m. It is earnestly desired
that there may be full attendance of
the old members, and that many others
who have not hitherto connected them
selves with this praisewortlly institution,
will now como forward in this, its time
of need, and by identifying themselves
with it. do what they can for the pros.
perity of the association, and the ame-
lioration of those whom it is designed
to benefit.
LOVES LABOR TO DE Iosr.-There is
paper circulating among our citizens to
petition the Legislature not to extend
the limits of Columbia. We have no
doubt but that this is the voice of the
whites of Columbia and of number of
the colored people, viz: that there is no
reason why the limits of the city should
be extended. But we doubt the efficacy
of this paper, and we regret that such
document should have been gotten up.
In our judgment, it will not have any
effect. If party tactics and political
wire-pulling have decreed that there shall
be another election in Columbia, the
voice of the people here will not change
the result. Possibly, the bill will not
pass; but if it does fail, the defeat will
not come from this movement of tho citi-
zens. In dealing with this Legislature
and the regime that the majority repre-
sent, backbone and stiff knees and stern
resolution and patience will be found to
avail more than any appeals to sense of
justice aud propriety. Towards the ma
jority of the present Legislature, there
should be no other attitude than that
of steady opposition and stern defiance
an opposition and defiance limited only
by the law and the situation. No doubt,
tho purest motives influence the signers
of this paper referred to, but we tell
them-this is q case of cloves Labor
Lost"
The following is copy of the protest,
addre ssed to the members of the Senate
and House, and signed by over 500 male
residents of Columbia-white as we'll as
colored:
We, the undersigned, the Mayor and
Aldermen of the city of Columbia, ask
leave, respectfully, to show: That they
are informed that bill has been intro
duced by member of tho Legislature
from this County, entitled ga bill to
amend the Charter of the City of Co.
lumbia, and proposing, first, to extend
the limits of the city about two squares
to the North and East of its present
limits; and secondly, to order a new cleo
tion of city officers. We respectfully ask
that this may not be done. The city now
contains four square miles-an aren suf-
ficient for more than four times its popu-
lation, and consequently ontailing on its
citizens moro than ordinary expense.
The additions proposed consists. in large
part, of land vacant and not likely to be
built upon, to any great degree. for many
years, if ever; is undivided in squares,
and although, in part, valuable as farm
ing land, is not of sufficient value to
sustain. under the limited powers of the
city, taxation sufficient to reimburse
the necessary increased expenses. The
city, from its almost complete destruc-
ton, as we'll rs the great poverty of its
citizens, has found great difficulty in sus-
tanning the necessary government, and
its credit; indeed, has not yet been able
to pay the interest due on its bonds
The undersigned, therefore, earnestly
request that the enlargement proposed
equally disadvantageous to the citizens,
as the inhabitants of the section proposed
to be added; not desired, in the opinion
of the undersigned, by the inhabitants
of the section proposed, nor by the ma
jority of the citizens of the city, and
very great majority of the tax payers
be not made.
The undersigned further show, that
they were elected (the fairness of which
election was undisputed and uncontested)