The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1872-07-10


A SLANDRRER OF THE SOUTH SILENCEp.
The New York Times, owned and edited
by Englishmen, is now the Administra.
ton organ in that city, and to earn its
bread and butter is constantly harping
on the old string OF Northern prejudice
against the South, and reviving stereo-
typed slanders, which, since the war,
have constituted the chief capital of her
enemies and oppressors.
The other day. it attempted to read
lecture to the South, in order to brow
beat chat refractory section into the sup
port OF Grant, on penalty of further dis
fianchisement and despotism.
That staunoh Southern sympathizer,
the Weekly Ne,Os-Ben. Woods paper
OF the same CITY, which, in the days that
tried mems souls. steadily stood up for
State and Southern rights. unawed by
threats, and unterri6ed by Fort La
Fayette. thus rebukes the officious or
ganist, and pays passing tribute to
Georgia, in illustration of the truth of
its assertion in refutation of the Sian.
derer:
Speaking of the South, the Times had
said:
Industry is sluggish; trade creeps
from point to point; manufacturers are
feeble and few; agriculture clumsy and
monotousl The fault is theirs, and arises
from social lawlessness and threats of
political complications.
To strengthen his first point, he vo-
lunteers the information that
''In the palmiest days of slavery the
industry OF that part of the country was
professedly maintained by money drawn
from outside"
Quoting and commenting on these
silly statements, the Ne,1s makes this
crushing rejoinder, the force and truth
of which our readers will recognize and
gratefully acknowledge:
''1f our British pedagogue knew any
thing of the South in its ante 6eAun, con-
dition, he would have known that it did
not then need foreign capital, and that
''the industry of that part of the coun-
try was maintained" by the agricultural
products of slave labor, which consti-
tuted 30 large proportion of the ex-
ports of the United States, bringing
back foreign gold and exchange im-re-
turn for her rice. sugar; cotton and to.
bacco, and making money more abun-
dant in the South. in proportion to its
population, than in any other part of
the county.
John Thomas does know, or should
know. if he does not. that even under
all the terrible impediments to progress
and reconstruction thrown in their path
by its patron and master. Gen. Grant,
and his military satraps, followed by that
swarm OF locasts. the ,thieving carpet
6aggefs, i6l0asSsd by that honest old
Republicans, HOraSe Greeley, the South
has nevertheless done wonders in repair
ing the ravages OF war and rebuilding it's
lost fortunes. Had its people been per-
mittad to keep their hard-earned gains,
and not been robbed Of them by the
thieves who have legislated, under pro.
lection by bayonets and outcries of
loyalty, for that end alone-the South
to-day would be prosperous and happy,
and until "a new order of things is
established there, it never can be either.
In some portions of the South the i'm
provement and progress in all particu-
lars in which our Briton declares it to
have retrograded since the war, have
been most remarkable.
'Let any man visit Atlanta or Savan-
nab, in Georgia, and he will recognize
the truth Of this statement. and. marvel
at the real progress making in those two
oities-types of the same progress max
ing elsewhere where the iron heel of
martial law and Grants reconstruction
have not paralyzed enterprise and en-
ergy, or these foul harpies- the carpet.
baggers-have not eaten up the fatness
of the land. and it is these twin
blessings. the progeny of Grantism,
martial law Rnd' carpet hagiAm, which
this British minion of the Bastard Ma
poleon, who smokes and conspires at the
White House with his marshals, seeks to
perpetuate as, the sole conditions of
Southern prosperity. May God in His
mercy avert such visitation on an
afflicted land." I fy
There is both truth and manliness in
this vindioAtion, and 1t augurs we'll for
the ''good time coming" when Northern