The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1870-01-23
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IF "PonIT1cs ARE AT A DISCOUNT"
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! The Winnsboro Ne,cs expresses the
opinion that We are sounding "our po-
lltical tocsin" into deaf ears, and seems
to suggest that we might be doing some
thing better than to seek to rally the
country and the State "to the rescue. Z"
We accord the News tho right to ex-
press an opinion; but, after all, it is only
its opinion. We differ from the Ne,cs in
this-that we have a deaf oar to deaf
with. We do not believe that the good
men OF the country are amenable to the
charge that they are bent on money
making and nothing more. 1t is we'll for
money making to engage public atten-
ton. We have, over and over again,
suggested that wealth is one of the most
essential powers that wo need. But it is
not NIL of our duty to mend our fortunes
There is something else before us; and
our plan is to let industrial development
and political activity act and react upon
| each other. These arc connected, and
We must not part them asunder Our
obvious programme is Political Reform
and Industrial AcHcitY. These are tho
words that we inscribe upon our banner.
This is the tocsin that We sound. Above
the din of busy life, we shall raise our
voice, and urge our people to their
duty. The Ne,rs finds occasion to sneer
at onr earnest effort to do the State
somo service. 1t finds it proper to say
that all this goos for nothing, and that
our voice is not needed. Ii this were
SO, still would we go on and DO what
seems to us to be solemn duty. But
the proprietor of the Ne,os is not correct.
Our voice is not unheeded. We but
speak the thoughts that breathe in many
mans soul. We but use the words
that spring unbidden to many mans
lips. And we shall go on with our work.
1t is, however, more than we expected,
to find opposition where wo expected
aid, and coldness where warmth was
anticipated.
It may yet result that the Na,cS will
find cause to review its political career
that review, in our Judgment, cannot
como too soon. It is poor policy that
lands us in the slough of despond. 1t is
poor way of saving the country, to
suggest that 'all is lost" All is not
lost. We have an abiding faith that the
sense Of the country will triumph over
its folly, and that the virtue aud intelli-
gence of the land will triumph over its
vice and ignorance.
Let us do our part. Let us keep the
"whitcness Of our souls" And rs there
is God above us, w shall yet reach the
political haven where we would be.
Cannot men have faith? Can they
not SEQ that even the forces of nature are
working for the cause we uphold? Aud
they are working, just as those forces
generally work-quietly, slowly. silently,
somewhat imperceptibly, but resistlcssly
for the State and the country.
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ME, EDITOR: Why is it that Governor
Scott, Judge Willard, aud other pretend
od friends of the colored people-car-
pet -baggcrs, who owe their Offices to ne
gro votes-do not invite nor admit
negroes to their parties, soirees. and
social gatherings? AreInot Whipper. and
DeLarge, and Elliott, and Wimbush, and
Bosemon, and the sevsnty-four other
colorel men in the Legislature, fit to as
sociate with the adventurers to whom
they have 30 literally voted lucrative Of
fees? Are not Senator Nash and Repre-
sentativcs Thompson, and Wilder, and
Simons, and Goodson, clean enough to
touch the immaculate kids of these
creatures of their own making? Why
does Senator Wright sue for S5, 900 dam
ages for being put out of ladies' car in
Virginia, when here, in Columbia, he
does not dare to enter the drawing rooms
of Yankees whom his own vote has helped
to raise to Office? I merely ask for iu-
formation. AHASUERUS.
/. o. 0. F.-ELECrIoN OF OFFICERS -
At tho regular annual communication Of
the H. w. Grand Lodge of South Caro-
lima, held on the Goth instant, the follow
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