The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1872-04-16
of Federal authority, as understood,
propounded and agreed by the founders
Of tho Copot;ypt;on

In tho South" says he, "where the
very vssture of all government was torn
away, and where the processes OF recon
struction have taken direction from ma
tional authority, we have seen the public
| thought OF the North interpreted in tho
| most distinct manner. There the work
Of reconstruction has been followed up
by an alien policy, swift t. punish rather
than to reconcile. There the spirit Of
dominion has been thesynonym Of Fede-
raj authority, in the shipping of oil local
organization, open control of large
bodies of dependents, interference to
sustain worthless officials, and ruthless
violations OF the rights of person. There
the failure to build new civil and social
order, replete with illustrations of con-
cori and progress, has been most signal
and unfortunate. There the race which
was liberated has been kept solidly ar
rayed against the rest of the community,
under corrupt appliances, with constant
ferments, to control such States in the
interest of the Administration. There
the substance OF entire sections hne been
piundered, debts mortgaging generations
OF labor contracted, taxos levied to the
point Of oon6scation-all done under
agencies upheld by the National Govern
ment. There, whenever the system it.
self has created new disorders, as in the
nature of things it could not fail to do,
still harsher legislation has been de-
manded. and the endorsements of mar
tial law have been resorted to with need
less severity. But the texture of this
rule and failure thus imposed. must be
held to show forth the animating i'm
pulse that accredits it's work. The po-
lltlcal ideas which are accepted at the
North are the self-same which have thus
had unrestrained vent in dealing with
the South. and this might we'll crowd
into its consciousness that mighty Ian
guage OF the Earth Spirit in Goethe:
AT the roaring loom OF time ply,
Weaving for dCd the garment thou seest
Him by
Nov, submit to you If theory of
national policy and power, which has
developed 80 ruinously elsewhere, is not
dangerous everywhere? I ask you whe-
ther public opinion that has sustained
80 much of spoliation, and shown itself
so Indifferent to the limitations of right
ful authority abroad, may not possibly
be the parent cause Of cOrruptions
springing into suoh alarming magnitude
at home? Do not such inflictious, like
curses, come back to roost, aud may not
the plunder of Erie corporations and
venality in so many Legislatures. from
Albany to Topeka, have closer oonnec-
ton than might at first be supposed,
with programme of political thought
and action thus set on high as type of
the public conscience? Could the
S25O. 600, 600, pillaged by the carpet-bag
governments, have been permitted, ex.
oept under dissolute political morality,
that connived at Tammany in q $1O.-
600, 900 steal? Gould that violence done
the Constitution in suspending the
hd6edS corpus have proceeded from any
other than an atmosphere saturated with
constralnt of elections and dictation to
electors, under Presidential suspices?
And, as fitting sequel, also, to such in
quest, may it not be worth while to con-
slider If the moulding of such depend
encies on Administration favor as Loui-
slana and South Carolina, ruled by an
uneducated, inaamed negro vote, may
not have Significance in the electoral
college or the deliberntion of Congress,
that will silence the protest even of
Massachusetts, herself, should the ext
gencies of an election demand a war with
England?
"It will not be contended with any
truth that the great mass of Northern
men sympathize with the animosities
thus perpetuated, or that THY would
willingly foster dangers thus threatening
to all free society. But it is true that
they have surrendered the leadership Of
public opinion to party organization,
because it carried them safely through
the perils of OWL war, and have not
been alert to prevent that control from
taking shapes utterly at variance with
the free opinion in which it was founded.
1t is, therefore. only by an appeal from
the party to the people that any read
justment of the thought Of the North
can come, and it is only by arrestiug
that tendency in national administration
to extreme Capitalization that auy inhu-
ence can be given to such re-awukcned
conscience"
Governor Brown next makes COM
prehensive review of the financial policy
of Grants administration, showing it's
extravaganza and proAigacy, and the
bitter injustice done under the opera
tions Of the present tariff system, by
throwing the great burden Of our heavy
taxation upon the agricultural and
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