The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1872-05-12
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as without apprehension in effecting it.
The Legislature.
1t is proposed. We see. by certain anx-
ious and, doubtless, idle members of tho
General Assembly. to call an extra session
OF that body. to convene on the 10th of
June. If our memory serves us we'll,
there is required request from q major
ity Of the members of both houses be-
fore the clerks can announce call for
their meeting; and if the Union was cor
reotly informed, those that have joined in
the request comprise only the members
OF the Senate, and of them but six-not
sven ffth @! shat body. The move
ment, therefore, we presume, will fall
through, as 1t deserves to do. The idea
OF the Legislature remedying the "dis-
tressed financial condition OF the State"
is absurd. If it had not been for the
corruption and venslity Of that body, the
millions of public money that has been
squandered, or found its way into the
pockets Of the ring that manipulated the
General Assembly, would be to-day in
the vaults of the Treasury; or, perhaps,
what would be still more desirable, in
the hands of the needy farmers and
working people of the State. The short
est and only way to relieve the "dis-
tressed financial condition of the State"
is to purge the General Assembly and
the other departments of the Govern
ment of the distressfM corruption that
pervades them.
A meeting of the General Assembly
might serve to provide transportation to
the Radical nominating convention at
the expense of the taxpayers, and to
furnish, too. in the same economical
manner, board, liquor, summer clothes
and segars to needy delegates; but how
it would provide funds for the Lunatio
Asylum, the public schools, the peni-
tentiAry, ado., is something more, we
take I'D, than event our financial Solons
could devise. The State can't borrow
dollar, and We scarcely think it within
the power OF even our General Assembly
to levy tax at this time of the year.
Bills receivable. or scrip, that would be
taken in payment of taxes, might be
issued, and il we only had honest men in
control of the State finances, such q
course might be adopted and relief
afforded the public and charitable insti-
tntions; but, with the present rotten set,
such plan would inevitably end in
greater distress than we are now endur-
ing. We arc in woful condition, truly.
Two Latin race revolutions are about
over. In Spain, Don Carlos is played
out, and his grand ambitions are given
to the winds. Indeed, il he escapes
with his life, he may think himself welI
of, for even to that extent the proba-
bilities are sadly against him. Seldom
has 30 large stake been played for at
such desperate odds, and the attempt
on so poor capital of preparation ar
gues pitiful insanity, rather than ex-
alted heroism. The Mexican revolution
is the other one On which the curtain is
about to fall. It is one of those chronic
revolutionary attempts, which, for half
o century, have proved such curse to
the land Of the Montczumas. Though
there may be hopes of settled peace
for Spain, none such can be entertained
for Mexico. Peace there is never Of
long duration. An infusion of better
blood, and, with it. the elements of a
more stable government, are required
before there can be any we'll founded
hopes for Mexioans as people, and for
Mexico as republic.
WITHDRAWAL OF GRANT.-A special
despatch to the Charleston Neus, dated
Washington, May 10. says:
It is understood that the administra-