The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1871-06-10
COLUMBIX.V' Is. s. g.
Saturday Morning Il & June Id. 1911.

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Ana Thoa. TOO, o. Bra.us-The'..vvorld
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We agree rec viii qnf Gotsmporaiy Of tie
Wilmington Journal, in it's structures
upon, the, tone of temper recently ex-
hibitsd BY the New York World in its
reference, to ex-President Davis. is5
Tho World should bear in mind, ,sthat
when it undertakes to relieve the Demo
cfitio patty OF any responsibility for the
political tenets and policy Of MIR. Davis.
it is not either wiBe or becoming for it to
initiate the Radical press in their, usual
vitnperation OF the South and diare-
gard. OF Southern aensibilities, The
Journal says: i3r' -; y ,.'' X. ,, ~
'We beg leave. -also. tosuggost whether
the contrast afforded by: the ntterances
Of such Republicans as General SheE.,
man, Sepator .Sehurz. and Senator Trnni-
bull, aud otheFa, when placed side by
side with the following from the New
York World, will have u tendency to at
tract Southern men to the candidate
supported and endorsed by the World;
'tThere is similarity in one point be-
tween the secessionists Of this bountry.
Under Jefferson Davis, and the Oomuapn-
ists Of Paris. under their hydra. headed
leadership. Both misused. disgraced,
and, finally deaeoratedta a good idea.
s.The crced which Southern nullifiers
perverted beyond recognition, and then
dishonored by rebellion, was that Of JEFF
ferson, Madison. and, Sam Adams" y
z f{Hpeech is free an this coAntfy,
for poets and orators OF the lost cause, ;
but they can have no influence or con.
troll in shaping the issues Of 1872, or on
ward, till by baptism and good works,
they show they have put away forever
the dead and dismal past, and:anbmitted
to the discipline Of the party:h
Jefferson Davis, and his abhttors, pro-
NOTED condition of.things among the
ruling politicians OF !. the South which
pfS6tpitated the rebelion.". n
ss:ah our. no trila.. tile lost. cause.: is q
seapnh. and we seek to buryit out Of our
sight" ~ 81 ~
SIT is not grateful to our feelings now,
10 matter what'our opinions OF him may
hAye been, to hear Jefferson Davis
bpoBen of by our friend. as a Bankrupt
politician, laundering old pman.' "a
false prophet, who, on former occasions,
Bo6sTeg:o.sly deceived and Misled the
Southern people to their ruin! We can.
not help thinning Mr.. Davis. has been
unfortunate fns tho uso of certain ex-
pressions recentlyi0r rather, 4we regret
that he has not maintained an unbroken
silence ON political SUBJECTS, for the
reason that nothing he. could say could,
by the plainest English be msde so plain
as not 10 be misrepresented aud ,pervert-
ed, 70 the dhmage fthe Sohth;fbut,our
respect for him is too great, and our re-
membrance of his past services too fresh,
too grateful, and too reverential, to hear
him villified without resentment. @
;'It is not soothing to the feelings ,of
Southern men. to be- liken.:d to such
haSAges'as the Oomnunists Of Paris, at
whose brntalities and atrocities tie world
is. even now shuddering with. horror.
Southern men are NOT yet prepared to
hear With patience, FROM their friends.
'Rt Ielat,' that they, IRE rebels, aid re-
sponsihle for the late war, In athe NOS.
trils Of Southern men, the .aost chuso, ;
as they understand it, has not yet be.
como to be o .stenoh.' nor have they yet
Lost tAat instinct of humanity. whether
savage or civilized, that prevents men,
though they. may have put their dead
out Of. sight, from quietly herring them
reviled aud insulted We indeed bury
our dead, but the idea of declaring, or
allowing others in our presence to de.
Glare, that they nre stencil in our nos
trils, is simply revolving. AZ free men.
possessing the right of suffrage. we can
mot quietly submit to be told by those
who ask our suffrage, and who caunot
succeed without it, that we 'can have nc
infiuence or control in shaping the is-
sues OF 1872. or onward until we have
complied with conditions they desire to
impose. + re ere to take no part in
shaping tn. ssnes Of 1879, it must be for
the reason Int we decline to appear in
the National Democratic. coun6ils, and
not beeanse we are excluded therefrom
by our Northern brethren. We approve
the new DEPARTURE but we utterly re-
pudiate the Interpretation sought to be
given to it by the 1Por!a."
A REPEAL OF THE FIFTEENTH AMEND.
MESr w WoULD not ABOLISH NEano sur
FRAaE. General George McCook, Of