The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1869-05-04
COLUMBIA,, S. c.
Tuesd ~ ,torning, May 4. 1859.
"The seoundrcis and Knaves.v -


It is refreshing to see how the radical
journals are waking up to the fact that ''the
people are heartily sick and dlsgusted with
the profigacy" of the radical party, and
that they are determined that 'sthe scoun.
drels and kpaves. who Automatically swim.
died the Government be- hunted down,
bganded and punished as thieves and rob
bers should be- That 'thieves and rob.
bers" are as plenty as blackberries in the
t''party of great, moral IDEAS is something
which nobody can deny. Take the said
thieves and robbers out, and there would
be, as things go, amazingly little left, the
National Inteuigeaceri grayely asserts. That
the radical party is q 'twhited sepulchre, -
full of dead mems L mes and of all un-
cleshness. is something shch has for years
past been too glaringy obvious to be con-
cealed, and nobody pretended to deny it who
had notsAthe, faculty Of Conspicuous mex
actness"to an alarming degree. The only
extraordinary thing about it u.s. that that
pure party journals should perceive
the putrcscent condition to which things
have come. and that they should. almost
faint from The nliasma arising from the rot
tennessof character which afaicts the party
The New Fork @ Commercial ,Aauertisey, n
radical Journal ii a spasm 'of write, and
with a fearful SENSE ;Yof its party's short
coming, and withai manifest pressntimcut t
of the doom hat awaits It, d Few days since
spoke as follows:
New, one thing lis very certain, the re
publican party musG put an end to this kind
of extravagance or make up its mind to be
overthrown ut the polls. The people are heart
lily sick and disgusted with the profigacy
and extraragance on every hand, md if the
party in power cannot effect q change, they
will call upon some other political organiza-
tion to undertake the task. Sweeping re-
forms have got to be inangursted, and that
right speedily, in every department. of the
Government, if the Republican party hopes
to maintain its ascendanoy. Neither will
the dismissal of department clerks, the
abolisiing Of nn office here and there, the
reduction of salaries, and the increasing of
the hours of labor, appcase the demands Of
the people. Economy and retrenchment
0ust be emblazoned on the Republican
banners, and every one in Government en-
ploy made to feel and understand that they
have,t to earn their money, and war on waste
ful expenditures. The people demand that
every sinecure berth be abolished that
every political hsnger-on, who has run his
arm into the public treasury. be kicked out
into the cold. They demand that the heavy
perquisites which now make few Office
holders rich; shall go into the national ex-
chequer. They demand that honest men be
placed in. charge of the public revenues;
that these revenues be collected to the last
dollar; that those who have hitherto
shirked the income tax be made to toe the
mark, and the scoundrels and knaves who
systematically swindled the Government be
hunted down, branded. and punished as
thieves and robbers should be- They de-
mand that the whiskey and other fraudulent
of corruption and 'extravagance, begotten
by the war period, be stemmed and rolled
back.
"Old issues have passed away. The cry
OF the people is now for retrenchment and
reform. Will those in authority heed this
cry, and join with Grant in making their
party the party of retrenchment and re-
form, or will they go on as they have in the
past, shutting their eyes to the future, and
treasuring up wrath against the day OF
Nrath?"
For our own part, we have no faith at all
in the radical party, or in the cant Of radical
journals, and we feel fully assured that the
only way by which honesty and economy in
the administration of the Government can
be brought about is to withdraw the party
in power, and transfer the control of affairs
to other and worthier hands.
--O-
THE New REGIME. contributoria]
column of the 1orkville Enquirer, by Mr..
Davidson, of this city, contains the follow.
ing characteristic definition of the new re-
gime:
1--WE are of the new regime.
1t is tho regime of the onward and the