The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1872-05-18

sented in the Scriptures as very active
and unscrupuious enemy. He is always
on the war-path, devouring and consum-
ing. He is At prototype OF Radical.
The latter is as hungry as unprincipled.
He eats up and appropriates all that lies
before him. His jaws are as wide as the
mouth OF Vesuvius, and his stomach as
capacious as the continent. He has
already consumed and destroyed for the
South over S240, ,000.0 worth of pro-
perty in less than four years. He has
gone from one end Of our desolated land
from Virginia to Florida, and from the
Atlantic coast 10 the States that lie be-
yond the "father of waters''-and ruin
has marked his pathway. The destruc-
ton of vegetation in Egypt by the
locusts was not much moro complete
than the devastation of this merciless,
Unsuitable enemy in our Southern land.
To 6nd language terse and comprehen-
sive enough to express the devsstations
of such q CORN GRANT, you must betake
yourself to the Bible. Look where you
will in North Carolina or Tennessee, in
South Carolina or Mississippi, you wit
ness the same terrible results. "That
which the palmer-worm hath left. hath
the locust eaten; and that which the
locust hath left, hath the canker-worm
eaten; and that Which the canker. worm
hath left, hath the caterpillar eaten"
Take the statistics of Mississippi, and
you will see the frightful waste and de.
probation in the productive energy and
capacity Of the State. The negro, under
the manipulation of the scalawag. has
become too lazy to labor He now plays
the gentleman, aud being eminent!y ap
initiative being, he copies the manners,
and, sad to say, the morals Of his ally
and destroyer. Governor Alcorn shows
in his message to the Mississippi Legis-
lature, that in six Counties, embracing
every variety of land and population,
the falling off in producing ability is
astonishing. The value of the farms has
fallen from S20946,046, in 1860, to
So, 415. l6l, in 1870. The production OF
1860, to 42,8S0, in 1870. The produc-
bushels to 1,159,4 ,459 bushels, whilst the
swine has diminished full sixty.fve per
cent. A like decrease in production ex-
tended to all other kinds of crops. But
mark, whilst this vast falling off in pro-
duction was going on, there was q cor
responding increase in the taxes. The
the burdens. In 1860, these six Coun-
ties paid 1884, 1908 in taxes; in 1870. they
had grown to the enormous sum of
50 .229, ,696, and was expected to reach
the stupendous sum OF SS,00O,000 by
1871.
These figures speak volumes. They
tell an alarming story of the villainy and
corruption of the Radical party. Be it
remembered that these figures are the
figures of q Radical-the Governor OF
Mississippi at the time he made them.
We see it stated that the scalawags are
about to go upon fresh raid against tho
South. They ore also preparing to
'ease out" of the embarrassed condition
in which they find themselves, by mis-
representing and falsifying the statistics
Of the South. According to the New
York World, they have already begun to
publish figures to show that the South
is not only miserably poor, but was
never otherwise than poor. The villains.
to rob and ruin and degrade, and then
with the impudence OF the devil to turn
around and swear the poor South never
had anything!-RaleigA Sentinel.