The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1871-06-24
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blood nndmrsh haBausisiHe 4h6 okeauest
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surely have Had little f6nISHr ID bis Own
ior ANY Other country yet We Fave been
the worlds most brilliant capital, Ia the
very noonday st oiEi!i;zyatiioP. giYen over
iraaS VII Wia anS iaarFpi fTysasss it4iest s8
sTnuBt dwarf celr lesser .intsfottunes. Ba-
1fdrh the AHfu death agony .tk thel Com.
mnne. with its wholesale slaughter of
oPen, women, and children, s6ot and
'bay6neted lik9 dogs in Tie kbnne1!!1 or
.fluag td IGNORE iappallinG death III: the
flames OF burning .paiaoeS. human life
and Offering .Seep toi grow 50 chesp as
rssat rssssaaftsse!X t2 6s TSfsh % t1onght. ,Eyen
ghastIy story; of,she prisoners Forgotten
,iD the firing of .theiHotal del Willie, and
c1eit Re- perish in their dpngaona Aearssly
rs Ss2a n5st e. 81 msSs s &eRge5 t@s
sConHcionbly 'or nos, most people have tus
cgrownan q measure Gallons to this excuss
yof misery. ,.si,; II, t.,n.- A. 1.a. ,.o q
!, Something. Of this may be detected in
the tone With wlich lie SeWspSpars 81 Va nIb.
.hsh accounts'6f 6tier fesS Hbtabfa events.
iThe time is'rife With disaster, and within
ta,teW weeks. in different parts of the
World, there have been, several, OCCUR
rences OF an unusually painful nature.
any one or which would 7fofmefly have
earned sensational y prominenca. rThAs
dreadful epidemic at Buenos 1Ayfes; for
example. with its thousands Of victims,
was probably .as dramatic in. it's way as
either OF thoea famous plagues in Flo.
rence orr London which Boccac6io and
oDefoe have dpmortaliEed., The two dis
sBtrauss earthquakes in China and the
ssy ss yad Asss sssh ese 81 bss. les ssrsSP astS
nary events has be6f dismissed with tie
briefeat. steeBraphio, mention, rand has
sAttraeted the least possible public atten-
stin more striking ihy'.ex example 81 this
general Indifference IL afforded by the
famine in Persia Snohs smeaere details
as have reached us show that most heart
rending afaiotioh" has fallen tnpu}n that
6 unfortunate county. In certain! idis-
satracts, the etasyipg inhsbitanta were try
!, 4nB tn aapsisG on gfss6 IN others. they
were selling their children into slavery
to enve their lives EfsAe;whefe,, hunger
. had drivehlth 'peopl6 to the: still, more
desperate resoreof killing aud. eating
the children, and jn. one province, ,it is
even said the graves havye been deapoiied
to furnish food Tor tho ITving::' Tfg Sto-
~.riea of tne Hnpuis ip Inc arabian Nights
are not more ipcrediblaa or more revolt
! ing. Nor is there anything tecorded in
Il tha dark romance ief the slave trade
more trngio than the, burning OF. the
], ,coolle- ship Dolores Ugarte, in mid
ttaptiVe soalE.M Yet, We tS7enture to say.
the majority OF newspaper readers have
given scarcely "a, thonght to the immeas-
nrable horror Of these two situations, or.
: hare dismissed them .hs.- OF. less relative,
: finpbrta noe than tlieilatast street affray.
Z or Political murder tMiaery appeals TO
z pb inlpfoportien to- its. tneaSfless, and
Pafig ia n1of9 tor nAoSt OF the world than
! 4PeFsia or Buenos ,Ayres. POSSIBLY with
the, mil l6nHiuM there, will como aSosni O.
ih6litane ,,symphshyPnbfJ more catholic
chGrity. G-Nes0 ;R0@Ik. Times. y >.as.5i1.
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