The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1871-08-19

I THE LOGIC OF EvENTs.-The New
York Commercial Advertiser is in it's po-
litics consistently Republican. The re-
suits OF Congressional policy, however,
towards the South, are too bitter for tho
Advertiser, and-quiokened thereto per-
haps by the disintegrating process now
developing in its party in the so-called
reconstructed section-it utters at this
lato day its call for amnesty. After q
survey Of the foreign fields Of Alsace,
Lorraine and Ireland, it turns it's eyes
nearer home, and, with measure OF
mis.statement which is comparative can
dor, says:
Power is sweet, and those who exer-
else it dislike to lay it down. Hence
Congress is ever ready with new mea.
sures OF control, to which the South re-
spends with sullenness or with an occa-
sional outbreak. There is just enough
turmoil to furnish pretext for force
bill, and too little good sense to see that
the entire restoration of power at the
South to those who there abide is the
surest means of securing quiet and or
der. It must come to this at last, and
the sooner this end is reached the better
for the country. What 'oarpet-bagging'
can do for State is shown in Louisiana
and South Carolina. A dozen years ngo
the State Tux in Louisiana was less than
thirty cents on a hundred dollars. I'm
mediately after the war, it was thirty
seven.and-a-half cents. In 1869, it was
double this 1ast sum- Now it has ad-
vanced beyond 50. In 1860, the State
debt was $4,000, 600. In 1868, it was
S14, 100000. Now it is $40, 900, 600. a
similar picture is presented in South ca
rolina, and with these two before .us,
and with the familiar scenes In Ireland
and other quarters of the globe, we may
form some idea OF the difficulty of re-
construction. It would be we'll if the
other lesson, that OF self f-goyernment,
was also taught, and 30 impressed on the
public mind that force bills would give
way to the declaration Of amnesty"
The same paper gives glance to In
dian affairs, and seals the completeness
Of its political modification with the fol-
lowing paragraph: Sherman submits
the whole matter to the Secretary of
War, with the remark that the army is
in no condition to meet the requirements
of war with the Sioux Such is the hu-
initiating condition to which Congress
sional legislation. first by reducing the
army, and then by rendering it necessa.
ry to disperse the army over the South
ern States. has reduced us. We are
forced to leave hundreds of families e1-
posed to the torch and knife Of the sa-
wage, while Hypothetical Ku Klut are
hunted in the South. The remedy is
simple enough, and that is to restore
autonomy, and to remove the occasion
of bitterness and ill-feeling. The old
residents OF the South may be trusted
to keep their communities at peaco.
They can have no interest in lawlessness,
even though the object of it be negro
or carpet-bagger." This is one among
q number of indications that the Rerub-
loan leaders are preparing the minds OF
the party for ''new departure" in pro
fession at least. if not in practice.
A NEGLECTED DUTY-How TO Do IT.
II all the survivors of the war could be
| AueotcotCd uuO 1uuuCeu 10 JOIN the DIR
vivors' Association, and pay one dollar
each year, quite money enough would be
thus obtained to carry out the plan of
educating some Of the orphans of the
dead, as suggested in our last, in it's
three parts, in local District schools, in a
State central school, and at the Virginia
University. In order to collect the an
nnal contribution of one dollar each, an
honest and deserving disabled soldier
should be appointed collecting agent
and canvasser in each County, and pnid
twenty per cent. for his work. Who is
there that will refuse his application, or
grudge him his twenty cents out of each
dollar?
If On active executive committee be
appointed in each County to confer will,
the ladies' nnd get up County Sur
vivors' Fair in December, We believe
that this alone would provide sufficient
funds. What Christian will refuse as.
sistnnce to such o fair? WhatJew, what
Turk. what inidel? Docs not the entire
world accept the doctrine that ''pure
religion and undefiled is this-to visit
the fatherless and the widow in their
attilctlon?" Thank God, however mucl.