The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1872-07-23

tno aorldRment or deprivation of their
politIoal privileges, I think the Southern
people have behaved with good deal of
forbearance. Though some political out
RACES have been committed, what people
under the sun, subjected to tho same
provocations, would not have done ss
much and more? Reverse the results of
the war, and impose upon the people of
the North the same onerous and to them
odious burthens that the people here
have had to endure; in o word, suppose
we transfer the whole set of circum-
stauces under which the Southern COM
mnnity has lived since the war, and is
still living, to the loyal, law. abiding
North, and think you that all would be
borne meekly and tamely, without any
exhibition of feeling-no murmur
against oppressive and unequal govern
ment. no breach of the public peace?
Would the Northern people servilely
stoop and kiss the rod that smote them?
Not II L know them properly. And I
tell you that human nature is ths same
In South Carolina that it is in other parts
OF the world. You may soy that the
Southern people are themselves respon-
slble for their misfortunes. Be it 10.
Does thet make them any the less mis-.
fortnnes, or soften in the least the mise
ries they entail? If you cast a stone
against resisting surface and it re-
bounds and fractures ono of your limbs,
is the pain any less acute because you
threw tue stone yourself?
am no apologist for the Southern
people, nor do 1 pretend to justify the
political outrages committed here; my
notions of Republicanism are utterly at
war with such practices. was soldier
in the United States army during the
war, and no man rejoiced more than I
did at the downfall of the Confederacy,
because it re.established the integrity
and supremacy Of the Federal Union.
But this does not warrant the annihila-
tlon OF the enemy after he has laid down
his arms and made an honorable surren-
der.
I am also Republican, and am iden-
tilted with the party here; but this is no
reason why L should stigmatize those
who oppose the epolitical principles which
espouse as traitors and murderers, and
unworthy to be trusted with the public
veal, and unentitled to the privileges of
FREQ citizens.
The point want to make is this: That
the only persons the Southern people are
lnlmlcal to are venal aud unprincipled
politicians, who, under the misnomer of
Kepubllcanism, seek to force obnoxious
and oppressive measures upon the peo-
pie, tor their own aggrandizement, re-
gardless of the public good.
Your next question-namely, opportu-
mites for business-is more difficnlt to
answer. The professions are oil crowded.
Merchants complain of hard times and
dull business, (but this does not prove
anything, it is fashion of theirs-force
of habit, perhaps.) a large number of
persons, reduced by the war from afflu-
ence To comparative poverty, and who
never before knew what it was to labor
in any capacity. being now compelled to
earn their living 'by the sweat of their
6rows," pretty we'll supply the demand
for labor. both mental and manual Still,
l cannot but think that with the in
creased development of the natural re-
sources OF the country. which are varied
and abundant; the progress OF internal
improvements, which the spirit of the
age demands shall go forward; the build
ing Of new lines of railroads and telo-
graphs, the establishing of manufacto-
ries, &C., Sc, there is room enough for
oil who may desire to find homes in this
sunny cume
To those who may wish to turn their
attention TO the cultivation of the soil. 1
would say, come to South Carolina, and
come at once. No section of our coun-
try offers better inducements for invest
ments in real estate than does this. Land
can be purchased here for from one dol
lar up to twenty dollars per acre, and
snng little homes of from twenty to
sixty acres aud upwards, with comfort
able residences, Gun be had for 81, 600 to
5000, and large tracts of land suitable
for sub-dividing into small can be bought
at exceedingly low figures.
am satisfied that rs soon as the up
heavipgs of society consequent upon the
war can have time to subslde, and peace
resumes once more her wontcd sway,
and the natural advantages of the South
become more generally known, enter
prising, home-seeking thousands will
pour into her borders from all parts of
the world
And when they come with honesty of
purpose-come to help build up the
broken fortunes of the State; come to
people her unoccupied lands, and to cul-
tivate and enrich her wasted fields, to
rebuild her burnt cities and to found
new ones; to make the shores of her
splendid water courses ring with the
busy hum of machinery; to fell her
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