The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1869-06-27
COLUMBIA S. C..
sunday Morning, juno s7. 1859.
Virginia.

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ter from james Lyons, o distinguished
citizen OF Virginia. true SON OF the
Old Dominion, after the type of her first
progeny. It was in answer to An appli-
cation for him to enter the canvass for
the conservative Republican" candi.
date for Goyernor-Colone Walker.
We regret the paper has been mislaid.
We would like the people of Carolina to
read the letter. 1t comes nearer the
trne ring of the golden shield Of Virginia,
The shield of l776 and 1s61-65, than any
sound we have heard in three years. It
is nota war-cry, nor yet vail. It is
like the sigh of the mighty Roman, fall
ing on the Lybian sands, after the bat.
tie OF Pharsalia, by the hands of hired
assassins. Mr.. Lyons tells Virginians
they may be right to take carpet. bag
ger who makesa fair showing of himself,
as choice of evils; but warns them of
the cowardice, as well as the impolicy
and danger, of paltering with principles
and the brittle fragments of their lost
liberties.
It is ''expediency," s'necessity and
that vilest and most degrading phrase of
all-''accepting the situation, which has
put South Carolina under that domina-
ton which now rules her-in her Legis-
lature, her Executive, her Judiciary, her
police, her education, and is fast invad.
ing her most sacred social organism. I"
The filth and stencil which now prevails,
from the State House to the constable's
box, comes from our eager haste to SAC
cept the situation" Mr.. Lyons bids the
hungry politicians fast and wait little
longer. But our politicians would not
fast an hour. They were pinched with
the hunger of four years abstinence.
which had not been assuaged by four
years of glorious struggle. They were
starving for senatorial, gubernatorial
and judicial feasts, 80 they accepted
the situation" But instead of our peo-
pie feeding at the banquet, the dainty
viands were pounced upon by the buzz
yards of the North, and the maggots
bred in the rotten bowels Of the State.
The poor cnrcass of the State is torn and
mangled and gobbled up by these foul
vermin, while our own disappointed
would-be Senators, Governors, etc., ETC.,
sit, squat on their launches, peeping
greedily through the cracks OF the fences
nt the obscene symposium-presided
over by Scott, Moses & Co.-who mean
to polish the last bone, and then toss the
bare skeleton to the "native reconstrnc-
tionists," and invite them to accept the
situation. AS Jet, it has not been alto
gether so in Virginia, because Virginia
has preferred to be ruled rather by the
sword than the scum of the ;conqueror.
But MIR. Lyons warns against the infec-
ton. The deadly miasma is approach
ing-he knows the term conservative
Republican" is delusion and.a snare,
MS we'll as political absurdity. He tells
his people, however, if you, the best,
wisest, purest Virginians, insist on max
ing struggle for o conservative Repub-
lican," although cannot vote-I am not
permitted to vote-I will advise my ne
gro coachman to vote for Walker.
The election comes on the 9th OF July,
on tri-sected constitution, that is
constitution cut into three parts. Hun
nicut made it; Grant cut it into three
slices with his sword, and, taking it on
the point, he presents it in 'gobs," for
the sake Of easier deglutition by ''con-
servatiye Republicans. He thus thrusts
it down their throats. as Scott, Moses &
Go. stuff their loathsome laws down the
throat OF reconstructed" South Caro-
lima.
God help the "grand old republic, :"
and save her from our evil.
A BAD LOT.-A good MANY persons to