The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1870-02-27
COLUMBIA, 8. e.
Sunday Morning, February 97. 1870.
southern Regensration.

.a Southern Regeneration.
Deplorable as the condition OF the
Southern people has been made by the
unnatural scheme of radical reoonstruc-
tion. not for one moment, not at the
darkest period of our darkened fortunes,
have we despaired Of the coming relief.
Conquered by the sword, and by the
sword reconstructed. il there be peace
now, it iss the peace of resignation, and
il there bsailenoe. it is thesilenee which
might constreins. No genuine Southern
white man. be he rioh OF poor, be he OF
native or foreign birth, can lay his hand
uRon, his heart and say that he freely
accepts the condition Of things as fixed
by The, ,ediots and arrangements of radi.
calism in the South. Ii is. an outrage
that the intelligence, the virtue, the
ability and the capital of the South
should be 80 little represented and so
much ostracised. 1t is an outrage that
the Representatives of the South should
be such as they are in Congress. It is
an outrage chat that our State Legisla-
lures, State Executives and other State
officers should be such as. in many cases,
they are. Il Is an outrage upon deoenoy
and: the boasted civilization of the times,
that BHch miserable set of little, weak,
corrupt, and ignorant men should lord
it over, this State and other Southern
States. But thanks to the Irresistible
laws Of human affairs and the corrective
influences Of time, this abnormal, illogi-
cal. unnatural state Of things cannot last
long. No. We speak the sentiments of
the rising power of the growing South,
when we say, that it sHA1p NOT last long
Not long since, the present Goyernor of
South Carolina, was reported as saying,
very bravely. that the carpet -baggers"
from the North had come here to stay,
and did not intend to be driven away
This ia very well, IIet them stay, and
when they come like other people, to
WORK for their living, there will be no
objections to their sojourning in the
land. But let Gov. Scott and his party
understand this. too-that the sons of
the soil in the South are equally resolved
TO- stay here, and intend, just as soon as
they can, to have that share in moulding
the destinies of their country, to which
they are entitled by nature and natures
God.
There are generous men in the North,
OF the Democratic party, and many of
the Republican party, who are beginning
to appreciate fully the indignities and
outrages which have been inflicted upon
the Southern whites, and with their
help, we expect, ere long. to cease being
made the prey of the carpet bagger, -
the ''scalawag" and the African. Nor
do We think that the time is far distant
when man may be 'loyar to the South
and at the same time be regarded as
''loyal" to the Government and the flag
OF restored Union. The white popula-
ton of the South have been badly dealt
with, but soon will this be remedied
Let no man despair of the future of his
section. Lord Bollingbroke was right
"A wise and brave people cannot be per-
manently cheated or bullied out of their
liberty" Let the South be wise in it's
political moderation and its industrial
activity; let the South be brave in its ad.
herence to its honest convictions of its
rights and its duties, ann its early future
will illustrate the proposition of the Eng
lish statesman. Our article is headed
Southern Regeneration" Let us ask
how, in word, this is to be accom- plish-
ed2 We answer: By much WORK, rather
than by much TALKING. Thus, we are
brief.
Fallen from his High Estate.