The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1873-03-06
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NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS., A4seASS 1873.

ThatsaayEAstaihg hg, A4feA4 e b s 1878.
Good Men 70 tho Resoue.
DR.. Clarke. Of New York, whosa ms
thod of representation in large consti-
tuenoes we have considered at some
length, thinks that the, adoption of bis
aystem would revive the devotion OF
aspiring minds for public business. II
it would. it wonld place upon il. .he,seal
Of supreme excellence. In alls we'll
governed countries, politics is ? ,profss-
sion whieh,astfaots tolls study and pur.
suit the first order .of. men. In Greece,
sidpe$.sin.2 Rlsranos, :. nh ahiayeii; in
Franos, Guisot; In the United States
Hamilton, Jefferson aud Calhoun. What
an array OF illustrious nam haves ap-
peared ID this commanding department
of human thought and human exertion!
Such central snns always have revolving
about them their systems of steady and
brilliant planets, moving -In. beautiful
order and shedding benigpant Light.
Their abieSpe. a at5,this time ihssthis
country, shows a sdarkness7in in the skies
which is too faithfully reflected on earth.
We have no philosophical statesmen de-
voted to this noble science. either in it's
study in the closet, or in the! application
OF its principles to .pruduos and pso-
mote happinesa among men. Mere
politicians. placemen and lackeys. speon,
lasora and jobbers, bribers and takers 81
gifts, throng those avenues of the public
service, from which patriots and men of
ingenious character shrink as from pol
luton. Politics is, accordingly, no
longer path for patriotism to walk in
nor the field OF an honorable ambition.
Universal suffrage, which is q. most
pernicious thing where morality has not
advanced, and where ignorance is gene.
rsl, our author thinks, may be! trusted
under his system to produce the e'bess re-
suits Of which human nature iR capable.
It can only, operate successfully where
thesnnits d society are. placed in their
proper relations to esch other and the
common veal. "Not till the touch of
the laad-stone." as philosophers tell us.
''has brought each of it's several ipnrti-
cles into due polsf arrangement. does
the spartials metal obey celestial influ-
ences and bsoo,nsJ the safe guide 'df the
wanderer."
In concluding his essny, the author
glanoes at what he conceives to be the
most imminent danger TO the republic in
the future. Il 1.-THE. alliance OF money
with politics. Organized capital, repre-.
sented by banks. railroads and special
interests, aways Legislatures andsdfotates
their measures. Even now, he says,
railroad corporations are substantially
omnipotent in the Eegielat1res Of many
Of the States: even how the favor of ma.
tional banks is necessary to carry fiscal
measures in, Congress-; oeve4 new at
torneys apd, agents of:;ahecat; interest.
largely, ,oohtrol taxations The 1evif thus
already existing. and more darkly fore
shadowed in the future, can only be
hindered by putting the best mon il
oontroisof affairs. The high scientife
mindot the ago should be applied to the
transcendant object o: saving society
from anarchy and corruption.
President Grants admirers in Wash
ington, seem to be divided into two
principal classes. One halls him as q
saviour, and desecrates the sacred Legend
of Eece Homo by irreverently applying i,
to the object OF their worship. Anothe,
sees, in the numbers and pageantry Of
the inauguration ceremonies, q strong
resemblance to ''the triumphal glories OF
Napoleon l." These nre ready to ex.
claim, "Viue rEmpereur!" and those to
bow down and worship anything that
looks Ike a king even King Logs 80
Judgment thou art fed to british beasts,
and men have lost their reasonl' Iu-
stead Of to Ecce Grant, let them flee ior
salvatio4'to one Of the sminently Chris.
tian statesmen fresh from the Mobiliel
tribulations, the snivelling Harlan, the