The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1870-08-10
S. G.
"Wednesday Morning. August 10, 1870.

Wednesday Morning. August 10, 1870.
The Past and the Future OF tho South.
In his great vindicatory work, entitled
''A Constitutional View of the Late
War Between the States," Mr.. Alexan-
der n. Stevens. speaking for the South,
remarks:
amidst our ruins, bereft Of fortunes
and estates rs we'll as liberty, with no.
thing remaining to us but good name
and O public character, we will, in the
common misfortune, still cling to the
land of our memories, for land without
memory is land without liberty"
This sentiment will address itself with
sad emphasis to the hearts of thou
sands in this section, and yet are we in
clined to think that there is in Mr..
Stephens declarations something too
much allied to that spirit which fingers
rather long by the memories of the past,
when the future lies before Us with its
claims, its hopes and its duties.
Heaven forbid that the true sons of
the South should ever cease to hold in
grateful remembrance the labors, the
sufferings, the trials, the services of that
grand company of patriots, dead and
living, whose names are linked with our
''Lost Cause" But is it not true that
G,e best honor the memories of the past
iby brave trust in the future? It is
strue that we have been bereft Of much
In the South. Much of the pride and
the flower of the land has fallen by but
tie or disease. We have lost precious
lives. It is true that much of our liber-
ties as we'll as of our fortunes and estates
has been lost to us. Yet whilst apprc-
ciating all this, let us remember that
much more than good name and pub
lie character is left to us. Much, but not
all, has been lost. We have left to us our
energies, our resolute hearts, our wills
to do and achieve, and great natural
resources in fields, forests, metals and
climate. We have the means to build
up what has been thrown down, and to
SOW the fields once devastated by war;
Whilst, therefore, we do remain loyal to
the Gland of our memories" let us
march steadily to realize the land of our
hopes. In spite Of the untoward cir
cumstances around us-in spite of the
political curb that has been put tupon US
let US bear ever in mind that the same
spirit and genius that made the South
what it was, can sieze the reins of power
and mastery, and make her in the future
what We would desire her to be. Let
that sublime impulse that moved our
troops ut Gettysburg end that nervcd
them on all the fields of victory, Or of
brave endeavor. in the late war between
the States-let this spirit and these cnor.
gies and these patriotic labors now seek
to repeat themselves in the departments
of civil life; and the South and South
Carolina will live again in the pride and
prosperity of renewed and regenerated
and redeemed people; and again we
shall take in our hands the sceptre of
our influence and power. Whilst, then,
the great heart OF the South responds to
Mr. Stephens sentiment and resolves to
cling to the Gland of our mem ories," it
will also respond to the demands Of tho
present, aud "go forth to meet the sha-
dowy future without fear and with a
manly heart"
Tue following appointments have been
made for Judge Carpenter and General
Butler: