The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1872-08-17

SECRET ARCHIvEs-OUrRAaEs DUnrSo
THE WAR.-A correspondent of the Rich.
mond Dispatch says:
Id several OF yonr receut issues. Won
nave noticed ut some length the publioa.
ton at the bands Of the United States
Government of what purport to be the
secret archives OF the late Confederate
Government. The authenticity of these
papers IS denied; and it is asserted that
tney nave been trumped up for use in
Tue rresloentlal campaign; yet, even If
they are authentic, would ask if this
proceeding has precedent in the history
OF nations? T would like TO know ever
one reason in favor of the decencv or
fairness OF it. The United States Go.
vernment, as the administrators of her
dead enemy's estate, makes public such
portions of these secret papers ma she
deems fit to suit her attempted purpose
OF blackening the memory Of that enemy.
with mock-virtuous Indignation s6e
says, "See what wicked, black hearted
people We had to fight; see their diaboIi.
Cal plans Tor the burning and sacking of
our defenceless cities" In the name of
all honor, fairness and justice, will she
uare TO SHOW her own secret archives ?
VIII any nation on earth do it? Ought
any government to take this dishonora.
pie advantage of another, even though it
be fallen? Will the United States Go.
Vern ment dare to put her secret archives
SIDE by side with these OF her late toe? ?
autnentic or not, no act of the CCnfe
derate Government, or OF any of its
agents, proves the authenticity of these
papers. Unpublished or not, the fires
OF Columbia, S. c., and from the Valley
or virginia throw damning light into
the secret chamber at Washingto
Inc moan Of the widow turned out of
her burning home in the bitterness of
winter 30 die, the sob of the starving
orphan, re-echoed from Heaven, tell the
story OF what was done. Is it necessary
10 snow her papers that We NAV know
what Was ordered? Wore the men wbo
perpetrated these outrages punished for
dlsobedlence Of orders or rewarded tha
highest positions in the United States
army? Who is -Chief2
who Lieutenant General OF Cayalrv2
Who once ordered tho total destruction
OF everything in the Valley OF Virginia
so that even the birds of the mir could
not find sustenance in the desolated
land? Was it an officer who foand no
favor with the Government or people. or
Is ne now President OF the United States?
VIII the Government dare, I say. to
show her secret orders, and thus prove
that the Infamous papers found on the
oody OF Uric Dahlgren were excep-
tional; that they were given in the heat
Oh the moment, and that she afterwards
repented Of and was Mortified at them?
THE KU KLUx AND THE CoLUMp1A
UNION. is the editor Of the above men
TONED paper aware that there is still to
be found III each issue portion of Re-
verdy Johnson's speech, in italics? we
read that paper every day. but we must
confess that the said Italicized space had
become as familiar to our eyes as a stere-
otyped advertisement of Hostetter's bit.
ters, and we ceased to perceive it. We
have no doubt that most of the readers
OF the Union are i'll the same condition.
and thereby lose that necessary admoni.
tion to faithfully report all Ku Klux out.
RACES which are yet daily perpetrated in
Inc land. We would suggest, for the
safety OF the country, that the Union use
larger type and change the type eyery
day until it reaches forty yard Plea. Il
you'd be better still to print it in red
Pokeberry juice and molasses, it is said.
makes good bloody ink, suited to the
occasion; but it would be still better to
apply to the Grand Cyolops of the Kin
hinky Karacter's for real genuine blood.
which he always keeps in denijohn bv
his side for his whiskey toddies. For
the address OF the said Cyclops, the edi.
tor may inquire Of his imagination
general intelligence bureau of Ku Klux
outrages. In our County the martyrs
increase with fearful rapidity. The fol-
loving are two cases in point, which
have come to our notice within the Inst
hour: George Washington Cutie; color.
Republican; profession, martyr; number
OF shoes, l5R; politics, black. His
hesrt beat for freedom; he now fills
bloody grave.
Dorothy Clanderdash, born and raised
among the felloes of the hub; religion.
school marm; profession, spinster: mo.
ther OF three fatherless children. the
youngest with graceful curl of the hair
toward the fifteenth amendment, through
sspi1isun! affinity. Having been reduced
in flesh by the late intense heat, she docs
not quite fill her bloody grave. Her
spirit is marching right after old John
Browns, and, at last accounts, he was
Just one length ahead. and it was thought
II she did not lose shoe and cut her