The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1870-02-22


SlNAToR BAYARp oNITB RECONSTRUCTED
fSTxTEs or THks s6opTH. LIN his speech in
the Senate, he says:
|ireaAfter all, what bald humbugs and
wretched shams are your reconstructed
govern naents anu ypur 'resuscitated
States, as they have been termed in the
course of this debate! What honest man
but must laugh in scorn at these speci-
mems of radical manufacture, set up
here es Republican Statesi They are the
creations of violence and revolution,
based upon the denial of every underly-
ing principle of our original Govern
ment. They are the products of ruth
less military rule, of fraud and force
combined. The intelligence and wealth
and moral worth of all these communi-
ties are utterly prescribed, and ignorance
and profigacy exalted to high places of
power. The machinery of our own con-
stitution of government, designed only
for operation through the exercise of the
will OF free people, has been distorted
and perverted to purposes of tyranny
and usurpation. Hence tho failure Of
oil these schemes of reconstruction;
hence they will always fail. for you can
not engrnft tho principles of despotic
power on the tree of liberty. You may
mutilate that tree and insert your un-
natural scions, but they will never grow.
You may continue by force to pursue
your method, and the treo may wither
and may die under your manipnlations,
but you can never change its stock, or
make it bear for any time the false fruit
that you have songht to engraft on it.
would to God the people of this
broad land could fully realize how fatal
to the cause Of civil liberty, how hostile
to the very genius of our institutions is
the doctrine OF coercive powers, upon
which BOW alonc the radical party in
Congress propose to govern this country.
"When will the leuders of that party
recognize the truth that the true strength
OF our Government rests, not in the
number Of bayonets it cuu command to
overnwe and subdue local discontents,
not In penal statutes and test oaths and
disfranchisemonts of the ablest and most
Intelligent citizens, but in tho love and
respect which exist in the hearts of our
people townrd it aud their rulers? That
it's cheap defence will bo tho ramparts
which patriotic sentiments shall con-
struct to guard it, and that the consent
of tue governed is the onIy Just and firm
foundation upon which we can build our
hopes for the perpetuation of tho free
Constitution OF our fathers, designated
by them to be our shield and safe. guard
against all tyranny and usurpation,
whether from within or from Without"
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FHANKNG PRIVILEGE 4 um a man re-
markable for my honesty. lam model.
L may say, without fear of contradiction,
that am dragon Of virtue. and yet l
write you this with u gold pen that
Uncle Samuel paid for. on stutionery in
tended for the use Of the over worked
and under-pnid public agents, and, when
done, L will fold it in an envelope from
the samo source, and mail under the
frank of an honorable member. Now,
If this can be done by dragon of virtue
without pangs of conscience, what must
be the abuse on the part Of the very
wicked?-Don PioN
A bachelor being asked why he didn't
marry, answered that, as tho women
we're claiming the right to GO to the poll,
they would soop claim the right to go
counting. and that he WAS only waiting
for good offer.
Pianos have fifteen different kinds of
wood connected with them-besides the
spruce young woman who handles the
keys sometimes.
"Ohl what on excellent Tonic" is the
langn age Of the invalid who uses Solo
Mons BrrTERs. MI