Tri-weekly phoenix. [volume] ([Columbia, S.C.]) 1865-1875, 1871-12-09
COLUMBIA. ![,lE s. G.
Saturday Morning. December 9 1871
Tho Ring. tho Piundcrors, and tho Coz
lorcd Pcoplc-Our Coursc.

Tho Ring. tho Plunderors, and tho Coz
lorcd People-Our Course.
Any one who has been reading the
Columbia Union Of late will readily per.
ceive what the game OF the ring and its
allies is. The Union is the willing tool
OF the ring and their alder and abettor.
It will perform its antics. and go through
it's Japanese-like tricks, just as Scott,
Parker or Kimpton may pull the string
that moves it's petty soul. It may be
called the Scott Parker -Kimpton.ite, or,
better still, the RoBBERs' Own. When
we desire to SEQ indications of the de.
vices that we must expose pro bono pub.
.:co, We notice the drift of the Uaion's|
articles. For this reason, we notice it.
For this purpose, we watch it. Other
wise No would leave il to rest unnoticed
in its corrupt bed.
What. now, has been the marked pur-
pose OF late. ever since We have driven
home upon the ring their monstrous
swindles. and suggested the hitherto un-
opened sea Of fraud-not unopened !
however, to the fduored few? What the
purpose of the Union2 1t is plain. The
object is, il possible, to excite against
Che native whites the passions and pre-.
judioes OF the blacks. The game is the
old one. The harp of q thousand strings
is once more to be played on. It was
by tho artful arraigning OF the Carolina
white man against the Carolina black
man that the 'thieving carpet-baggers"
were enabled to come between aud fat
ten upon the PROSTATE body OF South
Carolina. This has been going on for
the last three years-the last three disas.
trons years. ~ Shs
g On one side has stood q long line of
white men. with O deep sense of wrong.
standing almost unarmed, but proud
and; erect even in their poverty.
On the other side has stood facing
them q dusky line Of black men, fearing
to be re-enslaved. and sensitive ahou,
their newly acquired rights, and flushed.
800. many of them, with the lust OF
power.
Between these two compact lines, the
PROSTATE form Of South Osroliua bus
been lying, bound hand and foot in
Federal bonds-a prey to the Northern
adventurers and their Southern allies.
VIII" have united to outrage and rob her
Like vampires-like vultures-they have
fastened upon their victims; whilst th.
opposing lines have stood weak specta.
tors OF q common ruin.
This has been tho spectacle. And
now, when the gorged birds of. prev.
alarmed by the crack OF tie Carolina
rihe'' are seeking to take wings aud a,
away; now, when these two hitherto
hostile lines ara about to close upon the
common destroyers, the game is again to
array the lines against each other, that
the vultures may escape. The trick il
transparent. The prominence given to
this Ku Klux business-the effort oil
dovernor Scott in his Infamous message
to magnify Ku Kluxism, and to minifv
financial scoundrelism-the Efforts of|
the corrupt Union to muddy the POLITICAL
waters, to enable the sharks to escape,
anu to escape itself-the appeals of the
On1o" to the passions and prejudioes oil
the oolored people; it's suggestions of al
desire on the part Of the "white Demo.
Gratis" to re-enslave the negro, or to|
drive him away; its base ISLANDERS upon
the white men of the State; it's artful at.
tempts to mislead the colored people.
and to. change the issue between then
Toooea and tho robbers, between the
honest and The rascauy-all this proves
the proposition we have laid down.
viii the colored people be deceived {?
we know not One thing we do know:
Inc whites do not intend to be deceived.
whether with or without the honest
colorad mans help, we intend to trap the
catch the robbors in their
own nets. They have dug their own
pit. We shall give powerful impetus
TO foul WRONG as it descends into its nit. /
Lei the conspirators know that the
avengers are upon their tracks. Mutt. |,
lated, outraged South Carolina now
bleeding, PROSTATE, wounded by the
hand OF Federal power. and by the de.
vices OF the most unblushing scoundrels|
tnat the world ever saw, appeals to every
'Tue son in the State. and to everv|l
adopted son. Let Us all say, native Ga.
roiinians and adopted citizens, we must
save You, we shall save you-Heavep
helping and approving. Friends of the +.
State, OF whatever nationality, of what. c
ever political oseedI let us beg you, by .
ali tho great interests involved. and bv l.