The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1870-04-23
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ASK epRce; In your columns, and now
only briefly to sum up what we have
been endeavoring to say in our previous
articles.
Then, sirs, let us again urge, that our
people, having accepted the situation"
having with patience and fortitude borne
the results of the struggle for their free.
forbid us actively to msddle with the
81 eat problem now demanding solution in
our midst. True, we are vitality inter
ested in that solution, aud possibly, if
the war had not taken pluce we might
have influenced the result to greater
degree-that we could have deferred the
| issue, we do not believe. AS it is, We
must stand quiet lockers on upon the
experiment which is making in our
midst, and at our cost; influencing it
only by passive resistance, which, like
the inertia of mechanics, may yet prove
stronger than the forces now so actively
engaged against us. This is the result
of the war-a war in which he who took
the humblest part muy glory-and ace
abide by ii.
Our faith in the righteousness of our
cause is not shaken, nor can we permit
ourselves to lend helping hand in join
ing together what we believe the God of
nations intended to separate, to unite
under ono government, as one people,
those upon whom He has set His seal of
difference. We believe that this will yet
be government of our people, coun-
try of our race. How and when, we cum
not tell.
Now we see the descendants of sa-
vpges. who, captured by their own coun-
trymen, were only saved from being the
of 1kh r
their captors, by their purchase and
the descendants of these people, whom
their slavery through generations had.
it was supposed, converted from heathens
into Christians. taught the arts of civli-
zntion, and raised to level never at
tanned by their own people in their own
land, bnt who since their freedom have
gradually been falling back towards the
state of their ancestors, both al heathens
and savages-these people we see dark.
ening the whole Southern Atlantic and
| Gulf coasts, on the one hand, and on
the other the yellow heathen, who is not
| q savage. pouring in countless hordes
upon the Pacific coast, and between the
| two we find the remnant of the red man
at war with all. And with all these va
rions people in her border, the Govern
ment at Washington announces that the
''rights of citizens of the United States
to vote shall not be denied or abridged
by the United States or by any State, on
| account of race, color or previous condi-
| tion Of servitude."
We may we'll be troubled in our sleep,
and, like ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS of old, behold
u vision; and as his vision, when inter
preted, was only history that was yet
to be, and as history repeats itself. we,
too, may behold vision. And our vis-
ion shall be "a great image, whose
brightness shall be excellent and the
form thereof terrible. This imngo's
head shall be fine gold. his breast aud
his arms of silver, his belly and his
thighs of brass, his legs of iron. his feet
part Of iron anu part of clay"
And in our dream we, too, may look
till we see "a stone cut without hands
smite the image upon his feet, that are
of iron aud clay. and brake them to
pieces" And, then, may we behold
''the iron. the clny, the brass, the silver,
and the gold broken in pieces together,
and become like the chaff of the summer
threshing floors, and the wind carrying
them away that no place may be found
| for them"
Unlike the king of old, we will not
need an interpreter, to make known unto
us the dream, and tell us that this hend
of fine gold was the Government of the
United States as established by our fore
fathers, and that after it cane the 60
vernments of silver and brass, the times
of prosperity that hardened mems
hearts, and that then arose the fourth
government. ''strong as iron: fornsmuch
as iron breaketh in pieces and subdueth
all things, and that as iron that breaketh
all these it hath broken in pieces and
bruised"
''And that whereas we saw iron mixed
with miry clay, they have mingled them.
selves with the seed of men. but they
shall not cleave one to another, even as
iron is not mixed with clay"
For ourselves, we are willing to wait
for the stone cut without hands, that
shall "break in pieces the iron, the
brass, the clay. the silver, and the gold"
and in the meanwhile passively to sub
NIT ourselves to that government which
God has permitted to be established over
ns. and which, in His own way, is work
ing out His own purposes.