The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1872-09-24


q. GRATZ BROWN, OF Missouri.
.2oined to Thoir Idols-Let Thorn Alone.
We despise, and the world with us
>5espises, the creatures who, through the
weakness or corruption of the black
'ycters and the bayonets of the central
power, complacently fill the Offices of
is our duty to leave no stone unturned to
-oust them from their positions. We
should gather up and husband every in
Huence, should hoard every resource,
which may be used against them, and
when the right moment arrives, deliver
them such telling blows as, in their salts
faction with themselves, and with the
dat iivings and stealings they enjoy. they
do not expect, and will not be prepared
9or. They taint the very air by their
presence. It is lamentable. too, that
their baleful influence is extending, aud
involving in it's folds the weak and
thoughtless. The comforts which their
Rilainy brings them aud the rotten
'splendor in which they shine, are capti
waiting to the unwary and the unsteady.
The moral standard is man;feetly lowered
amongst US. A vile expediency, areadi-
&ess 'te wink at successful proaigacy. are
@eooming the order of the day; and men
NOW embrace as an excuse for their par
sicipatien in or connivance at wrong,
That it is the fashion, that when in Rome,
one must do as Rome does. 1t is tho old
corrupt plea of the age, the usage OF the
tiae. which was stigmatized by the in
1Gignant pen Of Tacitus as marking the
worst oorruptions of the times of the
AAtar Roman emperors. There is down
ward tendency, manifest inclination to
!awim with the tide. to catch the favoring
breezes which will watt US smoothly
along. albeit moral shipwreck may en-
cue. or we only gain port where pesti-
dence RACES, and death holds carni-
gal. Is it not significant fact,
Chat with its corruption thoroughly
developed and matured, its prohigacy 80
ranG, its conduct and tone so low and
snfensive, that every fool may know it,
sud even the blind see it. aocessions are
1nade to the ranks Of the dominant party
an South Carolina from among the intel
Ngent and cultivated classes? Men of
:s0a&y who go into such company pro-
claim their own dishonesty and confess
&kst they have been bought with price,
present or prospective. It is only just
xetribution which they are made to ex-
Perience, that, when once fairly entered
into their corrupt society. they travel
down an inclined plane and soon reach
the bottom. The greater absorbs the
&eas. They are swallowed down, assimi-
lated and speedily digested. The facility
OF temper, the moral obliquity, the want
of balance, the lack of grounding in q
sense of right and wrong, which led them
thither, now become so many weights
&ronnd their necks and drag them to the
deepest depths. where no plummet line
<osn ever reach them again. Their alac-
city in sinking is aided by the kicks and
cuffs OF their new associates, who natu-
they can no more escape.
They compel them to prove their faith
by their works, and such degraded
creed can only be vindicated by dirty
york. The fiends of party, like the
asends of hell, rejoice over the arrival OF
every fresh recruit, and Immediately set
.abcut moulding him into conformity
awitk themselves.
For many months the Lunatio Asylum.
the Penitentiary, the public schools, the
school for education of the deaf and
Aucb and the blind, have exhibited
signals OF distress. Moneys appropri-
ated for their support. though regularly
collected from taxes and paid into the
dreasury, have not been available for
tkeir uss.~ They live on charity and
hope and the indulgence OF their Gre
,Gitors. The Professors in the University,
the Judges on the Bench, all State EN-.