The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1870-12-04


week.
think | have said enough to ,how ih.>
cause OF my "arcl!abiiily in these two
particulars; whether it appears that Il
lied and L knew it," l will leave 10 yo.!r
impartial readers.
If there had been reliability" or re-
spectablity in tAc journal in question,
such cpithcts could not have found :.
place in its columns.
GIL. DIXON rON.
Correspondent Charleston N,.rs
COLUMBIA, December >, 1870.
HOLDEN AND VANCE Look oS THIS
PICTURE AND THEN ON TIAr.-Thc New
York World we'll says:
1t is worth while to contrast the recent
uttcranccs Of two we'll known North Ca
rolinians. On the 22,l ultimo, Governor
Holden, i'll his message to tho Legislu-
turc, Says tho credit Of the State is such
as to require partial reputation of its
indebtedness; the common school system
OF the State such as to require the as
sumption of the duty Of education by
The General Governments; and the tenn
per OF the State such ns has forced him
to use militia and apply for regulars,
Though no" peace rciGuS. Taking mp
the items OF this account, We find that II
!'"pupilcan Governor, summing up the
lnnillw Hrk al Government he has
head,r! Tor two Years. says North Carroll
Ia can neither pay her debts, educate
her r!,ldr.n, nor protect her citizens
wltiipn' Il RECOURSE respectively to rrpu-
diail':n, charity, and force. We ar" n,,,
altogether willing to believe. So dismal
fut';iu is before North Carolina aS The
GoT'rafr in*nuatcS, since the State is
now IN :.e hands Of its own people, and
wl''in;, mind makes easy ways; bat IL;
aSains: tiovernOr Holden, the lamcntabl,
recli;u IS good, and in view Of it the
question arises whether the system Of
government which has dominated North
Carolina since 1865, is not proven by its
resnlts an error, if not crime.
Turning tr the second North Carroll
man, we find him in Ex-Governor Vance
addressing il party which scrrnu,lc5 him
IN lialciGh. on Monday night last, in
honor OF his election that day to the
United States Senate, ric: Mr.. Abbott,
whose term expires on the .ith Of March
next. Facing the humiliation am, losses
henpcl upon the State by the recon
structcd Government, and standina a,
the embodiment of victory over that Go
vcrnnrnt, he is neither 80 stung with
wrong nor flushed with triumph but that
he can say: 'Now that we have the Go
vernmcnt uf North Carolina in our hands.
we should not aim to avrngc ourselves
Tor the over riding of civil liberty among
us. Let anger, revenge, and
retaliation be ignored" The contrast
between this language and Governor
lio!dcn's confession Of the ruin he has
wrought, IS quito enough to make us re-
Jolce HAT rs Mr.. Holden is slipping into
"bsourIty, Governor Vance comes to the
front. Ills election is good one, and
blythe iih of March it is to be hoped he
may have an opportunity TO illustrate
his declaration that ''In my place in the
Senate shall cndcavor TO serve my Great
State "wf mY conatrY with honor.
NAUuIrrY GARRETT i}AG,;l:.I car
pct-baS rcyeHnc officer in South Carroll
na recently rtn away from his wife, and
the balca,r, lady writes tn the I.pu,vi!.r
f of police for Information. r!,i, is
VS. Of him:
Kentucky to <, i;i;u
John Brown,
w. w. Land he j,
i" $50