The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1870-10-30

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todlb. ia = Fsiagses,ii ,iipl9'r played 'out.s''
: 'sE ysadB,e,6, L ere .Ishe soul and Ispirib of
thiEa nsatienoa IL gIhat ii name lp is the major
ob1igato, to which all national harmony
must now be shbordihated. d.l""fon y.'''3''
It is very plain here inrfthe South that
ibarty lie ended; = and it, ia but Just that
this should become general.
III Is buE just to the Government that
those ruled: byit should dnderstand it's
true,natures tnd respect it accordingly.
It1is bnt justi that the measure meted
out here should be. distributed beaping
to oil parts iof the Union. AS at the
Norsh,: before the war, it was asserted
that the Union could not exist half slave
and halt Tree, 30 is it equally impossible
afle1' the war that the Union can exist
hall alave and half free.
!The sending by the Federal Govern.
mend OF some four or five regiments to
the greatest city in the Union to spy
nponiand snbdue the people is q striking
lncldept of the centralized power of that
strong Government. That any portion
Of the people should be grati6ed by this
manifestation is the repetition of the
historical fact that the people are ever
betraying themselves and sacrificing
their liberties for temporary personal or
party benefits. 1t is also repetition of
the moral story of the selling of souls to
the devil . for temporal qualification.
They who play the traitors will find too
soon their folly. To-day one party may
suffer and another may gain by calling
IN power to assist in controlling public
OPINION to- the advantage of these who
support nsurpation. TO. morrow the
gamers will be the losers, and the whole
land may find that through folly and de-
pravlty the most precious Jewel ever
possessed by people-personnl liberty
and freedom from the oppression of
power-has been thrown away, not again
to be recovered.
Had such a movement as this, of SOL
diers to overawe the people, taken place
thirky years ago, the. people of the
United States would have risen rs one
man, and such storm as would have
been then raised would have shaken the
continent. The first step which opened
the path for all that followed was the re-
Jectlon OF the compromise of '6I aud the
destruction of State rights by the plnc-
ing OF the bayonet over the South. The
North prepared itself for conquest by
rioting over the subjection of the South,
and by continuing measures after peace
for the humiliation and oppression of
hec people. The bayonet became rhe
recognized agent for the purposes of
party as we'll as government, and the peo-
pie acqulesce in its use without murmur
or sign.
1t is useless to talk about liberty in the
face of these facts. Yet we cannot but
feel gratified that the bayonet is spread
ing itself. IF there is latent spark of
independence, the steel will elicit it. If
there is not. it is we'll to know it; and it
ls furthermore we'll for peace and order
that the whole nation we're assimilated
under arbitrary rule, and that it should
not be haF stare and half free.
we cannot cease wondering, however,
at what we see. The Northern people
are as simple as the ostrich with its head
hidden in the sand and imagining that
Its body is secure. The heads of snch a |
people must indeed be deluded and OBJ
scured. That which is done to secure
Republicans i'll power to-day may be
soon done to secure another party in the
OFFICES, emoluments and power of the
Government, and that usurpation and
that tyranny which overawe and disable
a party to day will assuredly ensluve the
whole nation at day near at hand.
[Richmond Dispatch
A Circus In n Storm.