The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1871-05-06
COLUMBIA !. s.. 6,
Saturday Morning. May 8, 1871.

terseIy put thoughts upon the condition
Of South Carolina appeared recently in
the Norfolk YTgjnian. under the head
ing Of 'sA' Dismal Picture @hitH is
Worth our Study It is from the pen
OF the editor Of that. journal, James
Barron Hope, q man OF rare gifts, "a
genuine poet. Virginia gentleman. and
a true Southern man. Captain Hope
says:
< IF South Carolina sinued in her
pride, she has paid for her offence in
blood and ashes and tears paid q price
80 bitter that we shudder to think upon
it. Grant that she was naughty, that
she was arrogant, that her head was
turned by vanity, If you choose; 60 fur
ther and soy that she defled the Govern
ment, and made war on the old flag on
deliberate calculation and without suffi-
cede only for the sake Of the arpument.)
and then, having found her guilty, as
most Northern men would do on each
separate count in the Indictment let us
compare the panishment:with the crime.
In doing this, we eliminate from the
brief discussion ali that she would urge
in her own defence--aI that sue might
say like Bodecia Of States, BY way of
appeal for sympathy-ding all this to
the winds, and then look abroad through
her territory The master has become
the slave-black, ignorant, degraded
men just ,emancipate kfrom somethinp
worse than Egg ptian bondage, as We are
told by the North, fill her places OF trust.
Of honor and :emolumenk Her bench
is degraded by. venalh adven turers; her
Legislature is id the hands Of d mere
mob; the arms Of the Slate are in the
hands. Of negro militia; her, mansion
houses are represented frby blackened
chimneys; her wide plantations ara te.
duoed to wastes: her Losses Of life and
property are beyond computation, and.
admitting that she has sinned,,, we see
that she has rendered q bitter account
for it. Let US put her present condition
In the broad; praGtical shape Of q tabular
statement, and study it in ita material
aspect. To the mass Of men, this will be
more Ineligible even than the blazing
lines in which, Mrs. Downing has told
the pathetic story. Compare two de-
cades. Hers they are: !
Espensea Legislature s5i. Zoo go ss5o.ooo Es5a
Tsass &,yI expenses .s1 SSS sso S1sSSS Sls goo
Taxable Value. 4s0. .c0o. 600 1874, 900, ,0O0
"This. is q black picture. No man who
has the feelings common to humanity
can contemplate it without pain, and We
appeal to the white men Of the North to
know whether they, as. Americans, can
Uphold systens which in so short time
has brought forth such hfdeo1s condi-
tion Of affairs Let The answer to this
be given in the sight Of God and before
their own conscienees;' aud let the men
OF Virginia see to it that this State does
not fall into the same hands which have
ruined South Carolina"
LYNCH LAW IN Wnn1Aa1snnuRa. The
Kingstree Star says: .i3!'t.l
Our heretofore quiet and peaceable
County hss been disturbed end shocked
at the hanging Of two negro men. which
occurred on Monday and Thursday
nights Of last week The first of these
executions took place near Coward's
Station. on the North: Eastern Railroad.
on the Oath ult; and the other on
"Green's Road" on the 9th alt. Coro-
ner Donath wes notified and held in
quests over their bodies. At the inyes-
tigation of Daniel Edwards, the fret VIC
tim, he learned that party of disguised
men came to the house where Edwards
was staying. late in the night, and Sc
lected him from among some other ne.
groes and carried him off. lie was
found the next morning, short distance
from the house, suspended to tree with
q rope around his neck: Alex. McClam.
the other victim, was visited in tho night
also, and taken out Of his house and
hung by the side of the public road.
about ten miles North Of. this village.
We are informed that nothing was elicit
ed OF the Investigations of the coroner to
identify any one connected with these
unlawful proceedings. That they are
bold and determined set of men, we'll
organized, there SCENE but little doubt,
as is evident by the cool and Systematic
manner OF their performances. A gem
tleman who lives in the neighborGood
where McOlam was hung, informs US
that he was aroused late at night by q
party of men to learn from him the loca-
tion Of MoOlam's house; that being q
little cautious to go ont &C that time, to
q body of horsemen, he was politely in
formed by them that he would not he
nolested. He says he neither recognized
their persons or voices.
~ The unfortunate vioti mo xyhn haoa baon