The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1872-09-21
The CONDITION or THE SouTHnRN
SFATEs-A SOUTHERN WoMAH's VIEWS

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STATRs-A SOUTHERN WoMAN's Views
UPON THE .CONDUOr OF TRH CAMPAIGN.
A prominent Southern woman. with tho
regeneration OF the South and union oi
the two sections of the county at heart,
called .at the Democratic headquarters iu
Now York recently, and expressed her.
sell very forcibly concerning the con.
duct rof the campaign. There is. she
thought, too much sentiment in the ar.
guments advanced by the Liberals, and O
luck OF those which appeal to business
interests Of the country. The lady's
views are given below:
In the tirsE place. exhibit the actual
poverty Of tho Southern people. the
dilapidation of their homes, the want of
means to repair them aud to supply
themselves with even the comforts or
necessaries of life. This is the general
aud actual situation. The few who are
differently situated are the exceptions.
II local self-governmont were given to
the South to-day, it would require at
least twenty years of incessant and eur
nest labor for the Southern people to
bring their States out of the ruin and
dissolution which, turn in whatever direc-
ton they will, stares them in the face.
Hundreds of thousands of the richest
lands of the South bordering on the
Misslaslppi River are lying idle, growing
these lands are toiling to pay the heavy
taxes upon them, but are unable to cul-
tivate them, owing to the destruction Of
the levees, which allows the river every
spring to- sweep it's waters back u dis
tance OF forty miles into the interior
sweeping away crops and cattle the FIJI
distance OF its course. Thelevees were.
cut and destroyed by the orders aud
| armies OF Cen. Grant, and the people
are too poor to reconstruct them. Ii too
poor to rebuild the levees upon Which
their very subsistence depends. how is it
possible that this impoverished people
could have any thought for the present
or for the future OF anything but the
| reconstruction of their homes and the
reclaiming of their lands? How, under
these circumstances, is it possible that
the rich, prosperous people of the North
and Northwest can do themselves so lit
tie credit and pay so high compliment
to tho poverty y-stricken people of the
South as to suppose, even if they hnd
the desire to do 80, that they would have
the time or the power to overturn and
overthrow the Government? In tho
first place, they are greatly in the mino-
rity in numbers. Financially and nume-
rically poor as they are. is not this fear
which the Grant Republicans evincc and
express. OF the Southern people becom-
ing the power of the land, the highest
tribute OF respect which the wealth and
numbers of one section could pay to the
intellect Of another? In this fear, do
not the Grant Republicans belittle them
selves! Afraid Of The ashes of the
Sphinx? for it amounts to little else.
Convince the New England and North.
ern people of the fact that good and re.
spectacle people from New England and
other Northern States are and will be
cordially welcomed by the Southern
whites. when they go there for the pur-
pose of visiting the country or to settle
aud identify themselves with tho people
there. that they will be received with
true Southern hospitality and cordiality;
that the Southern people actually desire
sucn persons to come among them, both
as visitors and settlers; that they feel the
need OF having the enterprising North
ern spirit in their midst; and that it is
only those who 60 South for the purpose
OF creating dissensions and discord, for
the purpose Of banding and allyine the
blacks against the whites, the EMPLOYEES
against the employers, labor against
capital. and for the purpose of oppress-
ing, distressing and plnnderiug the peo-
pie, who are ostracised in society South.
Convince the Northern manufacturing
States how intimately connected are the
real interests of their States with the
n8rlopltural South. Under the admins
tration OF General Grant emigration to
the South has become an impossibility.
1t ls not'that the capitalist is ostracised
there, but because they see the South
prostrate under carpet-bag rule aud
plnndering, and are not willing to carry
their capital into n country where they
see they can do nothing but lose it;
where they are heavily taxed without
even voice i'll the State or General Go
vernment; where their representation ia
only by cnrpet-baggers. who have no
identification with the people, and igno,
rant negroes. Furthermore, these
Northern men, accustomed to courts of
Justice where they may be tried by their
peers, are not willing to go to q country
where, upon any false charge. their lives
may be endangered by trial before jury
composed of men helplessly ignorant of
the slightest idea Of justice. Thus emf
grafton remains moral impossibility
until there is change of government.
Then proceed to illustrate the different1
state of affairs which won]d av;at ;f tbo