The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1872-07-03

nDeral movement. Ihe W0rld sadly
mistook the temper of the times, and
having now been convinced OF it's mis-
take, we trust to see it throw aside all
false pride of personal opinion and bat
tie manfully for the right, which is
Horace Greeley. Let US have no stay.
at.home policy, Mr.. World. The man
who does not vote for Greeley in the
coming election cannot escape the re-
sponsibility Of helping to re-elect Grant.
Searching for Unknown Quantities.
We hear that Treasurer Parker is
busily applying himself to the study of
Davies Elementary Algebra. We pre-
snme he is endeavoring to find solu.
ton to the intricate financial problems
to which his 6gurative management of
the Treasury Department has giveu rise.
He is trying hopeless task. ''Surd
Radicals" himself among the number
will spring up to balk his progress in
every equation. They are nasty things
to deal with in mathematics no less than
in South Carolina-these (ab)surd Radi-
Gals. Being the square root of q minus
quantity, their value is difficult to be
ascertained, and when found, is not
worth having. There is no hope OF
eliminating them until We wipe off the
slate and start with Horace Greeley as
leading factor instead of Grant.
We advise the Treasurer to quit alge-
bra for the present. and try his hand at
the simpler methods of arithmetic. We
have problem for him in the rule of
three, which he can solve with ease to
himself and intense satisfaction to the
people of ''our beloved State" It is
this:
Il the thi:d OF six be three,
What will his share OF the. plunder be?
II he cannot work it, we will render as
sistance cheerfully. We have shrewd
notion that we can fix the third term of
the proportion with great accuracy, say
at $500, 900 in $40 United States bonds.
with the addition of roam teams, gold
spangled bretts, costly mansions, and all
the other property visible here. We
will deduct. OF course. the value OF the
limited supply of cotton laces aud paper
collars which it is said he had for sale
on back street in Charleston at the
time he was elevated to or into the Trea.
sury. There were probably no assets
from the rum shop in Massachusetts,
village, But we prefer chat tue Trea-
surer will atate his own case.
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HORACE GRKELEx's Pos1T1oN in Re.
GARD TO THE DEMOCRATS. Ts.-The Hartford
Times (Democratic) of June 2s, has the
following extract from private letter to
a gentleman in Connecticut. Though it
was never intended for publication, the
gentleman to whom it was addressed has
deemed it of sufficient interest and i'm.
portanoe to inatify it's publication:
I have no possible claim to Democrat
10 support, and never made any. The
Democrats will. of course, be governed
by consideration of their own interest
1t is nowise proper or probable that they
should be Influenced in making their de-
cision by any consideration personal to
myself. and if they could be, 1 do not
desire it; Hence I have said nothing to
any Democrat unless he first addressed
me. and even then I have gone no fur
ther than to say that, il should be
elected, would treat all those who sup.
ported me alike, not asking whether
they bad been in the past Republicans
or Democrats. Yours,
HORACE GREELEY.
MIR. EDITOR: A notice appeared in the
Union, Of yesterday, purportipg to be
based upon note received from mem