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

aAAse r~SAAi 6SuAUCy = eAu6m6, OK H10HE8S
chusettsJ has written the following letter
s s e s Afss{s s sS; SRG ss RSsg
lie is fast. going is Destruction: 't'l@
QuiNoY; Mass. j Jure. g., 1871. %
DEAR SIR: i cannot pass: over. silently.
letter which, gratiAes: me, as much as
yours, which 7 received to-day; and YET.
l feel shy OF speaking TO you or any oiti.
zen OF the tts6bject States" I" I dislike
to earn the retort: "0h.,it is very easy,
TO preach; but, suffer as we have. and
then tell us how you, feel. and we will
listen. :" do try to take it home to my.
self; and l do not doibt' that, III similar
circumstances, I should to-day be an
''nnfepetant rebel"-sore, Angry, beaten
and defiant. And, with me, it would
doubtless haze been as it has been with
you, that "the tender meroies of recon:
struotion had been harder to bear than
all the horrors OF invasive war" I
should have been CALLED, by misgovern-
ment. robbed by Imported knavery Of
the pittance which the war had spared,
e8asperated by wilfu! and persistent mis-
representation: and cruelty condemned
to hopeless Impotence for the imputed
guilt OF cowardly crimes I abhorred. T
should have been condemned, too, to
mercenary carpet-bagger or the whim of
q military satrap. I say that I fear I
should have been nm s.irreooncilable.
In snch case think should be sulky,
but know I ehould be silly if yielded
to the feeling, for whence must my relief
come ii my last estate is not to become
worse than the first? Us there a man
outside an asylum who thinks that by
auott course the s'lost cause can be re-
gained? By whom, then? If by the
North, believe me that the experiment of
secession has satisfied us that no cause is
worth a civil war. That war has con-
hrmed, beyond shadow of turning,
the! destiny which deoreed that there
shall be- bnt one oonfederatcd people of
the North American Union No. Re-
hellious I might be: bnt weak enough to
await the resurrection Of secession, I do
not think l could be- You and and
your fri snds and neighbors and nine are
os ono blood; we were, once fellow
oitlzens;" and the Old.time kindness must
linger yet in spots! Our fathers were
"brethren," and that must count for
something. The whole political prob.
lem OF the future turns upon the answer
to the question: "Shall We live together
as friends or enemies?" Now, the whole
internal policy OF the present Admins
tration says war. Reconstruction meant
war; aud the Ku KIux bill declared war.
This Union is now held together By
Iorce. Certainly, il this ia 10 De permh-
nent, it would have been better to have
parted at first. II the struggle to cast
out slavery oyerthrew, the Constitution,
what chance is there for Stree" Go
vernment, il the North is to rule the
south? South Carolina is to-day the
most ahameless parody on Republican
institutions since Republican Rome be-
strode all the nations of the ancient
world, put the sword to their throate,
stripped them bare, pand then lacked
words to land the .loveliness Of liberty.
You cannot be- subject, aud We be long
free. The untrammeled exercise OF
local self-government, BY the people of
the States is the salt which preserves our
whole system. Take that away aud our
frame OF polfty will rapidly rot into des-
potian. Therefore 'it is that, not as a
partisan, but wholly as fellow-citizen,
I trust that all the good citizens of the
seeded States will frankly and honestly
accepb the revolutionary changes which
have been-ferced upon tie Constitution.
and with them oheerfully adopt the new:
relations OF amity and political and civil
equality toward.T the emancipated oiass
which these changes involve. And
therefore am glad when see the noble
spirit Of your letter pervadipg the South.
ern people as it does, despite the malig-
nifty of q partisan press; while the sterl-
ing sense Of Afr. Vallandigham has re.
formed the Northern Democracy. And
it matters not what man may BE ohoSen.
to lead us. SO long as his heart is large
enough to hold his whole county; his
Roui brave enough to embrace Confele-
rate as q brother. and his platform wide
enough for every American citizen to
stand upon. To compass this end some
thing Of sacrifice is required of us all;
much Of self-oontrol Is demanded of the
South. You aud all I hear assure me-
that the attempt will be made; and, if
made honestly md in earnest, it cannot
fail. Again thanking you for your let
ter, 1 am. very respectfully. yonr obedi-
ent servant, j. o. ADAMS.
TO J. T. TREzsvANr, ESQ Augusta,
Arkansas.
At Louisville. June 27, the triple fnne.
raj of Mrs.. Stark, child and sister, elicit
ed much attention. They all died within
twenty-four hours
TO THE PUBLIC.
i fho nal, ,DH