The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1871-10-21
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Saturday Morning. October 81. 1871.

Saturday Morning. October IL. 1871.
Gulliver on His TraveIs-Accountabi-
lity--Lct Us Have It.
The reply Of the Uaion to our arraign-
ment OF it before the public requires no
special answer. Only this and nothing
more, have we to suggest, by way Of
brief reioinder. The Union remarks:
.'Gallioe,' traueled through LiAipM and
came d,oay unAarmed, notwithstanding the
sho,pers of darts and other missiles hurled
al him by the Inhabitants Of that country" I"
All, now. we have to say is. that we thank
the self-styled Gnlliver of the Union for
its illustration. Doubtless it has boen
reading Gulliver's Travels; and. no
doubt, South Oarolinn is but o ''pigmy"
territory-no more than "Lilliput"-
the Gullivers who, with or without
carpet-bags, have been passing through
this section. We leave the Union where
it has placed itself-in the land of LiIli-
put. We have only to add, by way OF
suggestion, that, whilst on its travels,
it would, perhaps. be we'll for it, in its
character of Gnlliver, to extend it's visit
to that island, near by the Lilliput OF
Swift, where men were the subjects, and
horses-and, VIC presume, asses, too
ruled.
But we take OCCASION to meet
uew issue raised by the Union. In an-
other article, that paper which, in aid-
ing to bring martial law upon portion
OF South Carolina, seeks, virtually, to
strike the bosom that has warmed it into
life-says: "1Ae PHGNN pulls in The
same team tcith tie Charleston Ne,cs, both
claiming to represent the Diriuous (DiM an
e:rclamation) and intelligent (,oitA snecr)
Democracy O" the Stale. SOMEBODY WILL
THESE DAYS" Now, we have this to say,
once for all, to the Union on this point.
The Ne,Ds can speak for itself. The
PHOENIX pulls in team of it's own-it
pulls in the direction of the honor and
prosperity of South Carolina. But the
Union adds: Somebody will be held to
an accountability one of these days"
Now, If the Union is foolish enough to
throw this out ss q threat, our answer is
this: We hold its threats in utter con-
tempt. We defy it aud it's aiders and
abettors, in all that malice can devise or
ingenuity suggest. So long as we WELD
the pen Of the journalist. we shall WELD
it-as firmly and pointedly as manhood
and duty requiem behalf of the pub
lic interests By all means let us have
this accountability" of which the Union
speaks The sooner the better. We are
perfectly willing to take our chances
with that paper and its party before any
tribunal. But, in our Judgment, the
less the Union & Co. talk of ''accounta.
bility," in South Carolina, the better for
them. The case of South Carolina vs.
her traducers and defamers, cannot too
soon come up for adjudication
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UNKIND. Among the half dozen men
killed during the late Philadelphia elec-
tion, was colored. man named Cato,
over whose remains one political party
un that city organized pageant, and
with much emotional elocntion con-
signed them to their grave. Upon which
the New York Tribune muses. as follows:
Nov. for the life OF us, we cannot see
Why the aristocratic Philadelphians
should make any pother about the mat
ter, hold mass meetings in National
Hall, or show their righteous wrath at
the murderer by unwonted zeal in
funeral services for martyr whose life
they did SO little to protect. There is
no place where the colored man has
striven harder and more successfully to
prove himself man than in the City OF
Rrotherly Love, and there is no place
where he has had to fight his way
against greater odds in intolerant
tyranny"
1.-THE S1LL1EsT OF BosH." Tile Chi
cago correspondent OF the Cincinnati
Commercial has this paragraph in his