The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1869-07-09
COLUMBIA, S. c..
Friday Morning, July 9. 1859.
senator sprasue and ths. oolumbla Ca

3The Columbia PHGNN says that Col.
Pearoe, the agent Of Senator Sprague, is
now In Columbis, accompanied by a
surveyor, who has commenced making
estimates for widening and deepening
the canal So
The Columbia people had better not
allow themselves to become too sanguine
about this purchase. Neither Senator
Sprague or any other ordinarily prudent
= and intelligent capitalist will be in any
great hurry to put their money in pro-
perty where the laws are made and the
government administered by ignorant
and scallawags. The great curse Of our
sister State is her complete subsection to
ignorant and irresponsible law-makers
and law-expounders. IF the white men
OF South Carolina would determine to
take the control of governmental affairs
III their own hands-if they VIC aid boldly
assert and courageously maintain the
power which intelligence, virtue, wealth
and caste should always and everywhere
assert over ignorance, vice and an infe-
rior race-that proud old State would
soon resume her power, prestige and in
,huence. Until this is done, capital will
not seek Investments there.
In the meantime, Mr.. Sprague and
other Northern capitalists and manufac-
tnrers who desire to extend their bust
ness in the South. could not do better
than to come to this city, and examine
carefully the great inducements which
our location offers for manufacturing on
large scale. We not only have the
finest water power in the South, but we
have numerous and cheap lines of COM
munioation with the interior, and direct
and speedy communication with the At
lantic ports, by three different railroad
routes and navigable river"
The Columbia people are cautioned
against being too sanguine in reference
to the canal purchases caution which
comes at late day, and for which they
are correspondingly gratiied, when, but
few days since, Col. Pearce, the agent
of the purchaser, broke ground on the
canal, in compliance with the terms of
the sale. We do not cavil at the state
ment of the Sentinel, in describing the
infections of legislation under which we
suffer, lit is unfortunately too true;) and
recognize to the full extent its influence
in preventing the introduction Of North
ern capital. Facts, though, are stubborn
things, and the appearance of Col.
Sprague's agent, and the commence
ment of work upon the canal, looks ex-
tremely like Governor Sprague intended
to complete the bargain. The facts of
Col. Pearce's appearance in Columbia
and Surveyor Tinsley, and of the initia-
tory steps being taken in developin the
canal, were noticed in the PHOENIX, of
June 29th; so, at least, this one capitalist
is not fearful of risking his money in
South Carolina. The Sentinel, in its re-
sumo of our political status, and con-
clusion drawn rs affecting Northern in
vestments, is but an echo of an editorial
In the PHGNIx, of June 24th-saye that
our article, in addition, expressed the
strong belief that Gov. Spragne would
forfeit his bargain, and ignore its arti-
cles. The arrival of Col. Pearce, and his
conduct since, ippels US, as IN act of
justice, to acknowledge the error, and to
assure the Sentinel that there is every
reason to believe that the project will
be fully carried out, in due season.
AS concerns the determination of 'the
white men of South Carolina in taking
the control of government, and boldly
maintaining the supremacy of intelli-
gence, worth and CASTE" we would re-
mind the Sentinel that it is question of
arithmetic; the marshaling of one against
the many. The white men of this State
compared numerically with the Republi-
cans, shows that the contest for supre.
macy was, on their part, against the
most desperate odds; and yet, with q
brave, unfaltering heart, in the recent
Presidential election, the whites tho
roughly canvassed the State. and evinced
o unanimity of purpose and strength
OF union which deserved-richly merit
ed-success. Had the Sentinel borne this
in mind, and recognized the disparity of
numbers, and, too, the force of the apho-
rism, ''the heaviest artillery wins the