The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1871-10-28
THE EXTENT, OF RADICAL Connu,,r1ons

NJ taI Sooko.-4 ue expose which has
lately been nado, and is attracting world
Wlde attention, as ahown by the COM
meuts of the English, ,,ns we'll as OF onr
own press, Of fnanoinl corruption and
ring management in New York city. ia
curionsly and .suggestivoly like to that
which has been repeatedly made of h
similar state eff things in the Southern
States The indignant resolutions of
the citizens meeting al Cooper Institute
echo almost literally the complaints
which for three yearspast the Southern
press aud people have been uttering in
theears OF the nation. Tho fact that tho
Republican party has been mostly in
diHereut to the spectacle presented at
the South, while it iB vexed to its inmost
soul at the recital of the miadeeds of
Tweed u Co., only illustrates, the differ
ence whose OK is gorel. It always does
make uiferencs III politics, although it
makea none in morals. aud should make
none in' the Judgment Of honest aud pa
trlotIo men. which side does the stealing.
In this. city Tanlmuny is accused of
plunuering the public to enrich itself
and retain the supremacy Of the Demo
cratic party. The wholesale robberics of
the State Government ts und people at the
South have been excused and palliated.
II not Justified. because the men who
perpctrated them We're OF an unbtem-
ished ''loynlty," and it was by such
means that the pcrp -tui'y of carpet.
bag rule and Republican, ascnndency. was
to he secured
All the Southern States have not
suffered equally. it is true, but not one
has escaped. Tho history of Radical
mis-government in the Suutl, recalls that
OF the worst period Of pro-consuIar GO
vernment, when exturiiona like tho 20 Of
the Qucstur Eerrcs in Sicily furnished
an Immortal text for the indignant elo-
luence of Cicero. LII modern times it
finds its only parallel in The policy which
Spain has remorselessly pursued toward
her colonies, farming thcm ont among
political fAvoritcsntid need y ,,,lventurers.
II IT does not even rival the experience
OF Mexico and Peru III the hands of the
Every word OF indignant
protest aud condemnation contained in
the resolutions passed by tho citizens
meeting III this city in reference to their
own municipal grievances, is appropriate
to the condemnation of the South,
heeced aud piundered by nsnrping
rulers; or if II higher strain of feeling
bo invoked, it will find most fitting ex-
pressian in the language iu which our
fore-fathers recitcd some Of tho opprcs-
sions of the British Crown:
He has crented multitude Of
Offices, und sent hither swarms of
officers to harnss our people, and eut ~,
their substance. H., has kept among MS
in pence standing armies, without tile
conacnt of our legislatures. He hns
affected to render the military indie.
pendent OF, and snperioE, to, tue civil
power.
The history of Congressional recon
strnction and Ku Klnx legislation could
not be better epitomizcd; and it is in
pursuance of this policy that the local
governments have been created aul up
held, which have ,levoured the substance
Of the Southern people nnl saddle.l
them with such enormous burdens Of
debt. We do not cite these facts as
any well-groundel complaints
of the taxpayers nnd property holders
of New York. But in the midst Of all
this Republican party cla1nor upon the
subject Of the wickedness and greed OF
Tammany, it is we'll to hold in remem-
brance these fruits Of unrestricted and
uncontrolled Republican rule ut the
South. Whoever wishes to be impartial
AAN W PeS"oA W % IuoiShhl IShPGI, LuuSt
look on both sides Of the picture
4NeW York Ne,ps.
Public opinion will never allow these
guilty culprits to escape the just respon-
sibility of their own acts. Accessories
before the fact are generally regarded as
equally guilty with the principals. Ac-
cessories after the fact, merit the just in
dignntion Of law-abiding people
C0iunJiu Umion
Truo as preaching; and the evidence
given III the trial OF Cannon aud Palmer,
for the murder of poor Mutt. Stevens,
shows that June MobIey, IL ronrs, ...i,.
member Of tho Legislature from this
County, promised to tnke ammunition
to tho gang Of men engaged in that ter
rlble and malicious murder. Tie luv.
will be yiudicnlcd. sooner or later.
Inion Times.
Madame, the Queen Of D.nmark, is
certnluly ''maunging mnlunl;l." One
daughter is tue future Empress of Rus
sin, the other the futur. Queen of Eug-
land; while one Of her sons is King oi
Greece and the son-n-law OF u Gar.
Known INTO God are al! future events
mud contingencies. l have thrown myself
blind fold, and, trust, without reserve,
L., II. 4.