The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1871-11-22
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MIR. EDITOR: It seems that the New
York 1sf6xne keeps a1eorrsspondeut3a 3at
'stl1s seat Of war In thefebellioua Conn.
tass.. whose dhty ikis q sniighten, Che
readers OF that veraoioas journal inEre-
gard to ths- condition Of things in-this
portion OF Grants dominions. In his
communication. from -Yorkville, under
date OF November TO-, appears the fol.
lowing language: ''The average white
man Of South Carolina is the poorest
specimen OF the Caucasian race I have
eyer seen on either side Of the Atlantic. {"
Now, it strikes me, Mr.. Editor, that this
highly intelligent and most astute lass.
tute) and critically observant 'knight of
! the quill. who mus seen the Caucasian
race on both sides Of the Atlantic, pays
rather Neutrality-suspicious. to that
branch OF the Caucasian race resident
in the ''loyal North" Let us see how
it is. This same Mr.. SaaA.ey and his
worthy coadjutors are in the habit of
representing South Carolina as the "head
and front" of the ''great rebellion, {"
which, they say. was the most gigantic
rebellion: the world ever saw. It is a
welt-known fact that the Confederate
States did not contain exceeding one
fifth of the whito population of the once
United States. It is matter of record
and that record Tint all the efforts of
the whole tribe of SmaHeys can never
eradicate from the history Of the civil
lied world-that the 5000, 900 of white
population OF the rebellious territory
did put into the field an army that for
four long, weary years held at bay all
the ''embattled hosts" that the 20, OOO,-
600 Northern patriots were able to set in
martial array against them. What a
compliment to the boasted superiority
OF the ''loyal masses" of the Northi A
population of 10000 hedged in on
every side by besieging hosts, depend
ent entirely upon their own internal re-
sources, with the prejudioes of the world
against them, and the masses of that
5, 900, 600, composed OF class of popu-
lation the Average of which constitutes
the poorest specimen of the Caucasian
race on either side of tho Atlantic, con
tending for four years against popula-
tion OF 20.000,000, who. beside their
own population, had the nations Of the
old world from which to recruit their
armies; and contending 30 successfully,
for long time, as to cause the patriotic
hearts of the truly ''loil' to sink within
them when they contemplated the situa-
ton.
But again, what q compliment do these
hired eoribblers pay to their own sec.
ton, when they assert, as they 30 fre
quently do, that this same benighted
region did for period of seventy years
control the policy of the Federal Co.
vernment to their own aggrandizement.
i. What pity that, during that seventy
years OF Southern ascendaucy in national
affaire, the great North did not contoin
within her borders q sufficient number
of this ignorant and degraded material
of which the South is almost exclusively
made up, to form foundation upon
which to rear superstructnre COM
posed Of intellectual power sufficient to
cope with the intellectual giants of the
South. "The long and the short of it
} 49," that these venomous reptiles who
are besliming the South at such rate,
so far ''outvehom all the worms of Nile, u
that in their blind rage against the peo-
Pile of the South, who, in the midst OF
their poverty and degradation, their
moral and intellectual inferiority, are
yet too proud to crouch, spaniel-like, at
the foot-stool of power, and lick the
hand that smites, they are continually
over.reachipg themselves, and placing
themselves bcfore the world in an atti-
tude that will. one day or an another,
cause them, or their posterity, in case
God does not, in his mercy, deny them
posterity, to curse the hour that
ushered them into existence There is
just God presiding over the affairs OF
the universe, and though justice he
tardy in its approaches, the inevitable
hour of its triumph will arrive, and that
in this world; and then woe to the
iSnsdlley tribe who are now reveling
amidst the ruins of once prosperous
and happy, but now oppressed and
down-trodden, people. ARGUS.