The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1871-12-28

We invite attention to q voice that
oomos to us from beyond the waters.
Everywhere civilization stands aghast at
the enormities of Southern Radioalism.
Our plunderers. however, are looming
up-they stand now pilloried before the
world, or as lights and landmarks on the
cliffs Of SHAME. The Saturday Reuie,o
says;
dltion of the Southern States since the
war, is full of interesting and valuable
information. Tho writer is remarkably
free from prejudice, is certainly not pre-
JUDGED in favor of the Southern oause,
and he avoids as far as possible all refer
ence to the political conflicts which pre-
ceded and brought about secession.
When his subject compels him to speak
OF politicians and political measures, he
studiously confines himself to an account
OF the facts and practical evidences of
the working of Republican policy which
he himself Witnessed; but his muin pur-
pose is to exhibit full and fair picture
OF tho social and industrial state and
prospects of the South. He has ira.
verscd nearly all the conquered States,
and conversed with oil classes OF their
inhabitants; he has been u careful and
Impartial observer, and the record of his
observations is, therefore, ms satisfactory
and trustworthy as any descriptive work
OF travel that we have lately seen. His
temperate language and perfect candor
disarm suspicion and slistrust; and even
those admirers of the Federal rolicy who
have tried to persuade themselves and
the public that the South is prospcring
under government of negro votes and
Northern bayonets will be compelled to
accept his evidence. That evidence
shows incidentally and not of direct
purposo-that the war was waged with q
wanton and savage ferocity on tho part
of the North that recalls the devastation
of the Palatinate by Louis XIV. Tie
Wholesale confagration of cities and
homesteads, the devastation of cult
vated lands, the destruction of all facto-
ries, machinery, railroads. buildings, all
the accumulated wealth of generations,
has reduced the South to utter poverty
and her entire wealth, in 1870, was hard.
ly more than half of what it had been in
1860. Moreover, though no executions
Tor high treason marked the close of the
war, the reconstruction policy displays q
more vindictive spirit than the infiiction
OF death upon q few leaders would have
done. 1t is the infliction Of O cruel and
degrading punishment upon a whole
nation. The test Act excludes from
Office every man Of character and repute
in the South, and practically disfran-
chises tho majority of tho white people;
30 that the States are ruled by Northern
adventurers of the lowest class, elected
by negro votes; men of the stamp of
Fisk and Tweed. who have treated the
Carolinas as those gentlemen treated the
Erie Railway and the municipality of
New York. Such q Government of
course discouragcs immigration, and
frlghtens away capital; and, in spite of
the immense resources of tho country,
and the heroic energyof the people, the
South is poorer than she was twenty, or
probably thirty, years ago. Mr.. Somers'
accounts of the character, conduct and
demeanor Of the freed negroes are inte-
restlng. but do not at all confirm the
hopes OF those who suppose that the ex-
pertinent Of emancipation will be more
successful in the South than in Jamaica
Altogether, tho picture drawn of the
condition of the country might satisfy
tho most vindictive of Northern Radi-
Gals, and is deeply painful to any one
who. whatever his opinion of the justice
or constitutionality of secession, what
ever his adherence of slavery, cannot
help sympathizing with the cnlamities of
a gallant nation, crushed by overwhelm-
ing numbers while struggling for what
they considered to be their national
rights and inherited liberties"
Can This be So, md not Excite Wonder!
The editor of tho Missionary Record,
colored man-Parson Cnin-who cp-
poses tho thieving ring and advocates
the complete overthrow Of the present
dynasty, says:
"THH PRoGREss OF REFORM AMONG
THE CHIEF THIEVES. were pro-
missed, on high-sounding words, aud O
nasal twang, after the most recent cleo
ton on record in this County, that the
pink Of purity would overhaul and un-
earth the great financial faro dealings Of
tho chief Sachems of the bond dealers;
but tho last Indications are that there
has been wine-drinking at the chiefs
parlor, that the mountebnnk of re-
former, the seven million 'uprooier. ;
Came il among the frat of the guests,
and drank the first bumper to tho sue
cess of the financial policy Of the ring;'
.acu o"no d loucWul Oi ODllBatlOnS, q
bnrying of tho hatchct, drink all
around. mutnnl admiration, review
OF the former success in rascalitios; then
fow tears of repentance; then an affec-
tionate embrace, and all wns serene and
delightful again, and the great gamblers
In politics originated Il new samo, in
which each was to play an important
part. in order to deal into each others
hands, and rob tho innocent greenies.
If tho people of this State expect any
reform from these Fnlstalls aud Dick
Turpins, they have moro credulity than
we gavo them credit for. There will be
no reformation in this State until the
present horde of speculntors and wire
workers nra driven from nlncn md