The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1870-02-10
.s,s:is Tho Enquirer ana
Esani,su., of Richmond, Virginia, says:

eyeFnOr In L0u18i1Eh; then RSnegrO son
the Republican State ticket i'd; Virginia;
then negro SECRETARY 0f State in Mis-
sissippi; then Senator Bevel; and now
q negro on the bench Of the Supreme
Court of South sOarolina.
This is Republicanism; This is the party
ve are invited to join on the ground that
hind us, and go only for "results."
We do not like the "results." We do
not like these negro legislatures, and
these negro Secretaries of State, and
these negro Supreme Judges.
1t is perfectly idle to tell us wen "get
used to it" we cannot get used TO it.
We have an unconquerable prejudice in
favor of the white race.
Nothing but the most unblushing
effrontery would ever have dreamed of
forming white Republican party in the
South. Just look at South Carolina.
Two-t thirds of the Legislature negroes.
And the whites of the South are mildly
invited to countenance ana cooperate.
In Virginia we have got the majority,
and we intend to make use of it. The
laws will be executed; the negroes will
be treated kindly; they will vote under
the laws; but we shall fill the Offices
with white men.
It is enough to make the blood boil
when we recall all that has happened in
the past five years-and contemplate
the present condition of South Carolina
or Florida-or Louisiana (where the law
provides for mixed schools )-and then
observe in some Northern or Southern
paper quiet expectation that some of
us here are going to join the Republican
party.
1t is perfectly we'll known at the North
that nothing but fear or some pecupiary
advantage could tempt anybody here to
act with the Republican party-savipg
and excepting q handful of original and
consistent Unionists. And when any
politician here shall receive that brand,
and join that column, he will first have
stified all of his natural feelings, and
have rejected from his future life all that
finer experience of humanity. which
clnssed under the general head of the
sentiments" we distinguish from the
purely material and animal within us.
Now no money can pay for such loss as
this; if our whole people were reduced
to such frame as this, they would in
deed be little better than 'the beasts
that perish" All-M would indeed be
lost; and people may sneer ns much as
they choose at what they are pleased to
denominate "abstractions" but in their
view of the matter, religion, morality,
honor, duty, self-respect, all of the
natural senslblities, are nothing when
set i'll the scale against the "practicnl'-
nothing, we mean, if their ideas arc
pushed to their realization.
Now we submit this propositions: Puro
utilitarianism --Epicureanism- Saddu-
ceeism-is the very worst practical life u
man can lead.
SALE OF APPOINTMENTS TO WEST POINT
"A SOUTH CAROLINA CARPET DAGGER
MAKES LUcHE.-A Washington special to
the Richmond Dispatch says:
The resolution 10 the House providing
for investigation as to the alleged sale of
appointments of cadets to West Point
and to the navy is likely to lead to some
very humiliating disclosures. For seve-
raj years, and especially during the re.
bellion, these positions were sold out to
street brokers in Washington for sums
varying from $500 to $1,000. The
Southern States being unrepresented,
the cadets that would have fallen to their
allotment were parcelled out among the
representatives of the Northern States,
and many Of them were sold to the
brokers, the latter dividing the money
with the members of Congress who de-
signated the cadets.
The trade has been kept up since the
rebellion, and the new members of the
South, the carpet-baggers especially,
have made good thing out of the cadet
traffic. Ono of the South Carolina mem
bers. who was very active in his opposi-
sition to the admission of Virginia. and
who was for imposing the most illiberal
terms and fundamental conditions, sold
one of these cadetships for s., 900, agree.
ing to give the two brokers engaged with
him $500, but pocketed the whole bonus
save $500. Of course, the brokers are
after this high moral South Carolina
member. and intend that he shall render
a bill of particulars to the Investigating
Committee.
VIOLENCE AND BLooD.sHED IN Mis-
soURI.-A despatch from st. Louis, dated
the 9Th, says: SIN street quarrel, in
st. Joseph, night before last, between
several parties, Michael Coligan was
shot by III. l.. Church, and died soon
after. Church, who is conductor on
the st. Joseph and Council Bluffs Rail-