The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1871-10-29
WHAT rHB soU1irH ,HAs FAD ro.Oon.

WHAT THE soUTH Has HAD TO Con.
TEND sWtGTH,- Montgomery Adper-
!tseT avails itself Of the assembling of the
Snb ,Kn Klnx COMMITTEES in that city, to
address, some solemn facts and remind!
era to the Alabama member of it. ] They
are Of universal appIiostion.in the South
ern States. and We copy m eloquent and
truthful paragraph: ''
mo man living knows better thar
me Alabama member Of the Sub Ku
Klpx Committee, how patiently and
people of this aH,oted State have ,borns
the hideous 'eyils.o the past six years,
and how wicourageously they have tried to
make thei hest of their unfortunate cir.
cnmstancesl mo one knows better than
he does how our whole social life has
been perverted. and how the political
fabric has been torn down aa il by the
hands Of madmeu,i and u mere caricatur.
erected inIts! PLACE. He knows of what
mlllions oof property the people have
been plnqdered. since ther CLOSE of the
Wer, and how. we have lived here In She
midst ef Uuioni Leagues, aud Of inoepdi.
ary teaohinga; while there was only mar
siai law snd the,Dry Tortu gas for Demo.
Gratis who. might, inot relish the idea ESQ
suddenly brruohed) of constituting their
late slaves, by Aotss Of Congress. their
political masters, led by car, ,et.bag nd:
Ysnturers aud 'scnlawag renegadesi i He
knows that the most despisad Radicals
have been accustomed to travel by day,
aud night from one end of Alabama to
the other. without molestation and in
perfect aeourity. He knows what cheat.
ings at the baIlot-boxes have been per-
petrated by the Radical party through
election laws aud election machinery de.
Vised for tfat purpose. and by the false
registration of thousands of illegal voters
by reason OF homage, or by fictitious
names. He knows we'll that there has
been less disorder. o"tside of the Radical
1euds IN 81. Clair and one or two other
Counties. in the entire State, for two
years past. than in any one ward in the
cities OF Philadelphia, New York ur
Chicago. He knows that the Radical
government is responsible, both to God
aud man. for most of the deeds Of VIC.
ls9ce which may, have been committed
IN some localities; and further, that it
would be unnatural aud unreasonable to
9upposs that the population of Alabama.
1nciudlng both white aud black, could
have beeD subjected to the measures of
Haqical administration so universally
and relentlessly applied for four years
past, without being excited by exaspera.
lions necessarily leading TO some colli-
BIons between individuals, and to some
deplorabie cases Of outrage visited on
supposed guilty parties by the wild JUS
tlce,of Lynch law courts. In view OF
past occurrences, it is not 40 surprising
that fifty men should have been killed in
Alabama. as thut the inhabitants should
not have been aot1A!ly decimated. No
one knows better than Mr.. Buckley
what an Insignificant proportion OF
Crime there has been in the State. fieay-
ing Radical Governors, Legislatures aud
defanlting nfficinls ont of the county in
companion With the indictments anu
provocations to evil-doing instigated
from Washington. and the terrible
wrongs Inflicted by system of legisla-
ton on the strange theory, that in 60
yerning the people of the Southern
States the wishes. feelings and interests
OF 9 large major,ty should be utterly
and vindictiveiy disregarded, and that
the South should be regarded US mere
dependency OF the North. to be con,roll-
ed and used through negro ballots, BACK
ed by bayonets. to serve the partisan
offsets Of q Northern and Western Radi.
cal party and people" a-''ii '''