The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1871-07-25

suoh a subterfuge. He asserts, in the
following pae.eSeY siat !taey Toaa4. mainly,
llupon Rapublioqh authqfaty: j
|! .TkSke journa nals l4afb unanimousIyas- :;
sumed that We fderiv6d our inapxesst0ns,
Of Observation-Disclosures from ps-l
mocratio aourJ5s. and explain ithem BY.
the alleged fact that we mainly associated
|,with Democrats while in the South.
|lNow it is the simple truth that our wUrst
impressions or thHt surf oi 0nTpot-DaY-
gera' were made BY, the statements not
of Dsndocratskat all, but of jealous Re-
pubGcaus. One of them was himself q
recent emigrapt, from Illinois, who never
voted amy other than the Republican
ticket, but who went South to plant cot
ton, and declared himself nearly ruined
by the heavy taxes imposed on his plan
tation by the 'carpet-baggefs. who, hy
managing the negroes, ruled and robbed
his County, continually putting up
swindlipg jobs. OF bridge building, &C.,
to fill their own pockets. Another WAS
onr iriond OF many years VINO. iasa fall.
headed the Republican State ticket in
Louisiana, and was eieoted by an over
whelming majority. We take the liberty
of indicating him without asking leave.
ooSuuoO VIC AoOS Suob uo 40 QbhluK N0~
termined fight as Auditor against the
robbers who would gladly ruin the credit
as they have 'absorbeu the funds OF the
State, is 40 widely known That he cannot
liz he would conceal the' truth that he is
q natural enemy 'of thihYaa SO in Texas
We heard, more to, the ,ip5Iiei1dioe of ,ras-
oslly carpet tsbaggersa from ii Republicans
thnn from DGhbtfass. 10 Had [@H heard
hothing at alf,a the public .IreS6tds And
financial exhibits OF several Southern
States. bear tesfim onyi tha! cannot be
misunderstood nor explained away
7" - "Mr... Greeley turns npdn ,hiB Eincing
carpet-bag asSailants with this apt aneo;
dOte: &; .l-- - so,!~,1 r-; ,aG-:, rtpdH
"3Ehe gross perversions and angry
criticisms df. certRth Southern Republic
can Journals reminds as OF an aheodote: /:
The eccentric LoreuzorDow was once ap-
pEo20h1ng n. place ,Vhere-he hall en,at,
pofatm enss t6S.p preach when a stranger
complained to =.hims-that: his watch had
been stole9y from, under his pillow the
night before. Dow assured, the victim
tha4 bis watch would; be, returned, and,
paokng up q, boulder that weighed: q
podndor go; hid IL lunder isiol6akia and
entered the pulpit. After preadhing
zealously for fa1f al hour OF SO. he sud-
deuty stopped. and exclaimed: etA ma6 g
vatui was stolen inithis heighborhood
iAst night. 'a2d the thief is now iH,this
ho9se.. shall bit him: with thia stonier
He,made feint of, throwing it, md Que
of the audience duoked' rhis head LIE
was; ,ipAfGhtH SEIZED iseafched, and the
stolen Watoh found in one OF his pockets
"'AtG there not too mary ke6de duck
ing in difference to our dehunciation OF
! 'thieyins carpst-bsgsers2'
| "We submit that these con :essions,
| extorted from Mr. Greeley by his sense
Of fairness, area full vindioation of the
Southern people. Their 'disloyalty,
about which such a noisy outory has
been, kept up in the Republican pApera,
| is only disloyalty to the most graceless
act of thieves aud swindlers that ever
made figure in American politics. Mr..
Greeley cannot deny;that- those thieves
and scoundrels have been. countenanced
aDd abetted BY Gen. Grants administra-
ton. asa they afe' still defended by the
sycophaht Republican newspapers that
support Grant and deno9poe Mr.. Gree
fey's truthful revelations.'"'.