The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1870-10-19
COLUMBIA. s.. &c.
Wednesday Morning. October 10, 1870.
Tho Work Before Us-Tho Duty OF the
Hour.

sour doubts are traitors,
And make us lose tho good we oft might win.
By fearing TO attempt"
These words may we'll come up before
our minds in this eventful day, "big
with the fate Of" South Carolina. How
true it is that "our doubts are traitors"
Many victory hos been lost-many an
enterprise has miscarried zmany high
hope has failed of it's fruition, because OF
mems doubts. It is our doubts that
often paralyze our energies and bring
upon US disaster and defeat. And par
ticularIy does this sentiment now i'm
peril the safety and the interests of
South Carolina. The white men OF
South Carolina for REFORM, and the
colored men in sympathy Herewith,
have this day in their hands the power
to redeem the State. Let them come
out from the mountains to the seaboard;
let them throw aside their traitorous
doubts; let ther,, standing upon their
native soil, catch the spirit of hope and
determination; let them rise up in the
pride of their patriotism and in the
majesty of their strength. and South
Carolina will be won back and renlitted
to honest, faithful and considerate
hands.
The reform organization of South
Carolina have the power to save the
State from the inroads that the ring of
Ohio, Massachusetts, and other plunder-
ers are making upon the peoples money
and tho peoples hopes. Let US sec to
it that we use this power at tho ballot
box to-day. The ballot is the weapon
now. Let the ballot restore to us whnt
the ballot lost US. Let the firm resolve
OF Oaroiinians win back that of which the
apathy of Carolinians caused them to be
deprived. Nor should the hardness OF
the times excuse any man for the non
performance of his duty. If business is
dull-if the merchant, mechanic or
laboring man fails to prosper as he
ought-if cotton is low-below the cost
of production, and the necessaries of life
continue hight the hopes of planter
and farmer have been blasted-in this
state Of things will be found the strongest
argument for REFORM. If our people
were rich and their purses plethoric- if
our merchants were doing thriving
business we might endure with equa-
nimity for two years longer the robbery,
the thieving and plunder of the two
years past. But, as it is, let the business
men-let the citizens sgenerally-consider
how they are to meet the tax-gatherers
another year, and considering further
the heartless, rapacious and irresponsible
character Of those who seek to retain the
State for another term, let them see in
their straitened circumstances the argu-
ment, the need, the demand for REFORM.
And seeing the need, the demand for
reform, let tho appreciation of their
duty come home to them in oil it's force
and importance. That duty is to be
discharged to-day. Let us hope that the
entire vote Of oil Carolinians in sympathy
with reform will this day be brought out.
This effort, good and honest citizenship
must bo saved. We do not intend to
give the State mp. Her bleeding wounds
appeal to ns. Her genial climate and
her teeming soil invite us to her redcmp-
ton. Let us read our duty in our
hearts BY the memories of the past
md the hopes of the futurc-Dy consi-
derations affecting our interests, our
safety and our honor-by all that is near
and dear to us, let us spare no effort in
behalf of the State. Let every voter
cast his ballot this day for economy, re-
trenchment and reform. Vote raliculisn.
down. kWhatever it may be in the North,
here in South Carolina it is the bane
of the commonwealth. It is associated
with fraud, corruption and robbery
with high taxes and plundering officials
with hard present and q worse future.
''The coin is spurious, nail it down."
Vote for Judge CARPENTER, and Gene
raj BUTLER, and for Reform. Here in the