The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1871-04-11
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calls the sdience OF shistos C)ns of lhia
enemiep TO- civilization As The pro oteotiya
spirit, to Eit: The ::notions that sso6ietJs
cafnot go+on without being forever
watched by the State. This bill lisa pro:
posai OF force. Iti6aosee== sAe N nnnteinal 70 z
spirit and teaches servile respect for the
military: and the ruler. tIt ts the "draR
and offal Of q by-gone age, Congress
who has no knowledge cof. civil affairH-
cringes, after voting investigation. It
hastens to undo o patriotic vote. It hu-
initiates ns beneath contempt-beiore an
unthinking power. The motive is parti-
san. In France, in 1892, Deputy pro-
posed to commit suicide near the palace,
to beget oalumnious rumor against the
court about assassinations and outrnges
in cid of his party. No such effort ap-
pears hero in personal, though it looks
so in party, way. II any one should
be selected for this self-sacrifioe, would
recommend the gent from Tennessee,
(Mr. Maynard,) whose name-sake, in the
time OF the Euglish restoration, 80 la
bored with Titus Oates, and his plots
against Vane, that Butler, in his 'Hudi.
bras" wrote:
"Did not the learnod lawyer. MAYNARD.
To mako good subjects traitors, strain hard2'
This side voted for investig CATION. Tho
other practiced the Rhadamnnthus code:
Custigdi, dulitque. dolos subigetgue, paieri
They punish, then hear. This is the
code Coke called that OF the Judge of
Hell-a damned and damnable order of
proceeding, and wholly unlike TINT Of
God Almighty in the case Of Adam aud
Eve. Better burn our powder on the
surface than bury it for an explosion.
The Republican party for six years. un-
shaokled, has failed to reconcile. It had
oil the powers. It plundered and terror
lied. It had bayonet and bureau; black
voter and tax-collector. It failed. It
would be wise, before new code OF re-
preston and violence is enacted, to de-
liberate on the failure and its causes
Consider the rcumstanoes-timc, place.
opinion, example, temptation, &c.-snr-
rounding the alleged outrages, before
commencing or censuring. In 1867, the
South accepted events, or concurred In
all our exactions, and was repulsed
Then arose the Ku Klu1. It began in
''scare' upon the pilfering negroes. It
had foolish orgies. It began, as the
laws became more severe, to have politi-
cal ends. In the testimony, it appears
that the members, being disfranchised,
felt outlawed, md acted accordingly. I
point to the example of the model State,
South Carolina. [ picture its corrup-
ton, its debts, its legislation, it's negro
militia, aud its tax is increased ten fold
since 1860. Can you wonder that men,
who love their homes, rush into society
Sr,o olrSly {1,af,,
their race, and but lately in their midst2
history. Despotism is the devil which
revolution. Read the history of the H.
lumines and the Trigend Bund OF Ger.
many. Poland was full of secret socie-
ties. So it has been with Spain, M
until Prim's death, and even yet. Paris,
to- day, is gashing itself into fury under
their lead. Italy under the Carbonnri,
England with its Fenianism, are in
stances Of secret banding for revenge
against presumed and actual oppression.
Lafayette, Kosciusko, Mirabeau, Wei
shanpt-men Of action md men Of geni-
us, like Kotzebue, Schiller and Schle-
gel-were associated with these clubs.
We know the influence of the Illumines
in creating discomfort They did it
easily. for the cause lay deeper, in the
tyranny Of Louis XVI. The Jacobin
clubs, and the clubs OF 1880 and 1S4S,
are the offspring of oppression, and
France bleeds for their existence Tie
infraction of those civil rights, drawn
from Magna Charta nnd tho Constitution.
and the breach of Federal faith have
caused these Ku AIuxes. Genile mna-
sures would have prevented them. Do
you ask what is to be done where the
State authorities have the power but not
the will TO crush thom? T answer, tho
States will suffer. Depopulation and
violence, crippled resources, and tainted
credit, and counter vengeance, will
band the good against them. Better let
them run riot, than by wrong methods
destroy the Constitution to destroy them.
The Governor OF Mississippi treats them
rightly. He taxes tho Counties where
they nre, and only proposes to uso tho
State militia and the State laws This
bill gives absolute power to the Execu-
tivo ITO take such measures as he may
deem necessary. Itgives him the army
and navy. It mikes linn autoorat of MI
the States Hia aullaN 0rd ocr;,rop;or,