The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1872-12-17
bayonets in the soa:h. free government
is at an end everywhere:

bayonets in the Soa:h. free government
is at an end everywhere:
PATERHAhj GovERNMENE- those
Southern States which sre now in q con.
dition only,a little better than anarchy,
the disorders have been brought on BY
men who have no proper connection with
Southern interests. It was the horde Of
adventurers from the North, following
the army into Georgia and the Caroli-
mas, who emptied the Southern treasu-
ries q few years ago and ruined Southern
credit. So, It Is the Northern political
freebooter to-day who fastens himself
upon these plundered communities, and
robs them Of their Last remaining posses,
eion-a free republican government.
The South is not responsible for War.
moth. nor Kellogg, nor Casey, nor Pack
ard, nor Spencer, nor Patterson, nor
and sell Legislatures, and judges, and
election ogos7s, and supervisors, are the
rulers whom we have imposed upon orr
conquered provinces. IT Louisiana has
been prevented from casting her vote for
President, and Is distracted by two Le-
gislatures and two sets of administrative
officers; If Alabama has two Legislatures
and rival Senators at Washington; if
Arkansas is threatened with similar divi-
sions, and in South Carolina the Soma
torship. has been bought in open market,
and the purchaser is now trying to buy
the Supreme Court also. it is not the
South who must be held directly ao-
countable for such outrages. She is the
sufferer, but the disgrace is ours.
In all these States the origin OF the
trouble lies in the assumption Of the do
minant party at Washington that it can
govern the South better than the South
can govern herself. The party under
took to declare that the most experienced,
educated and respectable citizens of the
lately rebellious communities should
neither vote nor hold Office, and the
natural result WAS the immigration Of a
horde of carpet-baggers. who came to
steal the taxes, and to foist themselves
into power. When disabilities had been
mainly removed, the fallaoy was still
hugged that the Administration ought
! to sustain .hese MoEt!aaE:. 1oguus, in
order to prevent the South from falling
| under Democratic controI; in other
words, it was the duty of the President
and his friends in Congress to take care
OF the local elections in New Orleans,
and Charleston and Montgomery. Thus
We sas in Louisiana a combination of
the principal Federal officials to get up
Legislature, and Governor, and courts,
and other machinery of administration;
in Alabama; We see Legislature orga-
nized in defiance of law for tho purpose
of electing the Federal candidate for the
Senate; and in all the distracted States
We see one party or the other running to
Washington for aid and comfort, asking
for troops, begging for the Presidents
Intervention.
In some instances lately the President
has refused his aid. This is wise and
proper; but the wisdom comes late. II
so much aid had not been given hereto
fore, if Congress had not interfered so
busily in the thanklcss task of protect
ing the South against herself, these scan
dals could never have arisen. Patcrnal
government does not agree with the
American Constitution. Let us have
no more of it. whoever may be elected
to the Senate, Whoever may get the Go
vernorship, whoever may sit in tho Lee
gislature, Let it be understood that Ala.
bama, and Arkansas, and Louisiana, and
South Carolina, must settle these quar-.
rels themselves, in the courts. or by
whatever local tribunals she law pro-
vides, and that Congress and the Fedo.
raj Executive must keep aloof.
Ne,o York Tribune.
ARE THE SOUTHERN PEOPLE TO HAvE
PEAoR2-During the recent Presidential
campaign, while predicting the success
of General Grant. We announced that we
would demand of the next Administers
ton, whoever might be at it's head, re-
turn to constitutional government in the
Southern States, and Tue restoration to
the Southern people of all the rights en-
ioyed by their follow-oitizens in New
York, Massachusetts or ILLINOIS. We in
tend to redeem this pledge. and notwith-
standing the apprehensions expressed
by some Republican journals that the
Herald desires to excite conflict bo.
tween Congress and the Executive, we
shall continue to urge upon the Presi-
dent the expediency and justice Of re.
versal of that policy which, after four
years trial, has left the South in state
of anarchy. at the mercy of the worst
class Of political ladventurersa and stripped
of all semblance of self-goyernment.
General Grant has enough sagacity to
know that the favorable verdict Of No
vember was rendered on his own per-
sonal merits, and not on the strength or
popularity of the Republican policy.
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