The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1872-11-15

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Is one thing that never fails; said ,BSlsac,
and that is ingratitude.. TO an absence
Of this elemeptin the character Of ,t6e
HSutherns psoHle may be- aszs;ibrted. per.
hAps, hefensSity withvbsSh they clung
"a the political fortuuas. .01 :tareeiey and,
Brown to the last. More honorable iu
defeat than in any victory won at the
sacrifce OF conscieuce or principle, they.
OCCUPY in the nation. to-day the exalted
position of men who. in tile face Of an
almost Inevitable overthrow, and in de.
fianoe Of the centralizing policy of
powerful and revepgefulf party stood by
those who hdd, for the sake OF reform
and good government: committed their,
political lortunes,t to tho-uncertlinrtide OF
the Liberal movement. As far as they
we're permitted to do so unintimidated
by Federal s9laiery, and uuo,nascu lated
by the prescription and disfran chise.
ment of Radical registration; thu South
ern people never looked back after their
hands had been once laid upon the plow.
For the Bourbon movement, they had
only noekery and contempt For
O'Conor and Adams, only the pity the
unshorn Sampson has for tho timid
eunuch. Grant was great and powerful
and full of promises, but because other
men had broken with the dominant
organization for their sakes, they fought
the issue out, stauding Or falling.
Perhaps they have fallen little ways
further: bnt only little, for God known
they have but o scant few inches more to
go before they are in the bottomiess pit
altogether. How strange the ed.fellows
politics introduces the ono to the other.
How unlocked for that alliance which
made Horace Greeley the champion of
the Confederates. and .standal d bearer
OF the Dem mocratic party. But had only
those who sat at Ills feet in the ancient
days, listening to his voice as to the voice
OF prophet, renamed as trne to him as
those for whose overthrow he had spent
all the vigorous years of his vigorous
manhood, this sorrowful spectacle Of Il
nation. PROSTATE at the feet Of despo-
tism might nave been spared to the pa
had no more perfect illustration than
that furnished by an almost united
South, standing up in the midst of her
desolation and holding out her hands in
friendship to those who, great in all the
elements of merciless warfare, vet halted
when the battle was done. pluudering no
beaten and fratricidal fold. True, al
ways, whether in prosperity or advcrsi-
ty, whether in victory or in defeat, the
honor of tho South remains untnrnished
amidst tho furious storm of 80 many po-
llticAl wrecks. disgrAces and desertions.
No matter what the future may bring
forth. at it's very worst it can scarcely
be darker. No matter how much further
and finer the machinery of the Admins
tration may tind it agreeable to grind the
lately reconstructed States, the South
stands acquitted before the country of
every sentiment Of treachery or ingrati-
tude.
Governments are not for n day, nor
are governments such as ours the patri-
mony or the possession of any man, oil
garchy or association. Beneath the tre-
mendous exhibitions of strength upon
occasion, it is consolation to know that,
however high the edifice may be built, it
is worthless and valueless, unless wrought
upon the solid foundations OF truth and
justice. And sooner or later, the crisis
will come again in the life Of this very
nation, now SO noisy with cheers for
Grant, and now SO jubilant with victo-
| rions rejoicings, when the unconqnerublc
manhood Of the Southern people will be
worth q premium in the political mar
ket, and when to have been stcadfast and
true to the great principles Of Liberal
ism will bring with them the honors and
the recognition of the republic. Let
/ those other Democrats vino surrendered
without firing gun receive such a re-
ward as Austria gave to Gorgey, and as
England gave to Benedict Arnold. The
time has not yet come for honesty and
reform, and hence the disgrnceful rout
and panic which has extended from
Maine to Minnesota. It pays to desert,
and in the scramble the Democratic
party has sold ITSELF
Kansas City NO J Times.
Tho cackle OF goose saved Rome, and
the tinkle of q COW bell eayed the resi.