The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1873-08-24
S. G.
Sunday Morning, August "a. 1879.
Stnnd Together.


politics. You must stand together, if
you are to accomplish anything great or
useful. The cross is as much the sym.
Dol of union, as Of suffering and faith /.
The church Of God, in all it's various
organizations, is the grandeat combina-
tion on earth, to further the highest in
terests Of men. If the isolated action
OF individuals had been sufficient to OBJ
tain for Christienity the spiritual domi-
nion OF the world, the church would
never have existed. But from its first
incipiency, Christians met together,
prayed together and acted together. at
every step Of its progress, it was i'm
PEELED forward by organization, and has
found it's triumph in the command
''stand together!" It is the same in So
ciety. Good men must stand together.
to make good morals predominant.
Virtue is not the point Of promisouous
intercourse amongst men. It is the re-
suit of individual obedience to "the
man within the breast;" and then, of
association, by which the good is che.
rished, and evil is shut out from com.
munication. There is nothing on earth
80 solitary as the human heart; and yot,
it yearns for companionship- seeks
in society for the indulgence of it's
mighty passions, and the vast powers
With which it is entrusted, to lit itself
and the world to the high responsible.
ties and destinies for which man was
created. Society. beginning with the
exclusions of the church, and going
down to the humblest village organiza-
don for innocent amusement or of elo-
rions truth. finds its strength in the
motto, "stand together!"
And 20 it not the same in politics?
Are the great interests involved in Co.
vernment less worthy OF exclusion and
combination than the interests of So
eietJ? Government is the one grand
organization under which the combina.
tions for the protection of society find
their security. In it's justice or in
Justice, the morals of country improve
or decay. If good, there is perpetual
protest in all its operations against
wickedness. depravity and tyranny. If
bad, there is perpetual flow of evil in
fuences. through oil the ramiGcations of
society. stimulating wrong and oppres-
sion Reaching up from its operation
on individuals. it stretches out its arms
and embraces the whole body polite.
for life or for death. In such strug-
gle, necessary from the nature Of men
and society, no man can be Indifferent,
because no man is exempt from it's
power. Government is nothing but IN
instrumentality, set up originally lygood
men, to protect innocency, virtue and
honesty, against aggression and injus-
tice. To succeed in its noble object,
good men must combine. If they do
not, bad men will unite together and
pervert the very object OF government,
which was to defeat their machinations
OF evil. There is no other alternative.
The strife for mastery is perpetual aud
eternal. Every man is on the one side
or the other. Even when the govern
nent is good, passiveness is not virtue;
because the united strength of all good
men is necessary to keep the govern.
nent pure and just; and the non action
OF single man may be fatal to its per-
petnity. "Stand together!" is the order
to oil good men, coming forth from the
breathing foundations OF goyernm ment
itself, laid deep in the hearts and inte.
rests OF men. It is the order Of society
seeking purity. peace and happiness.
It is the order of God himself not only
to obtain peace for ourselves, but to
spread this peace and justice over the
world.
"Stand together" people of the
South! Government, society, Gol-all
call upon you to ''stand together" You
are separated. peculiar people-from
your woes, your prosecutions, your suf.
ferings and tolls, in battle and doatl.
There is not graveyard in the South
Which does not tell you that you are o