The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1873-10-10
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Friday Morning. 0otoberr E 10, 1873.
D4! 'n1sSsr's iisason Tor LssSviag South
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D4! inisSsl's R.a;sceinn 1orE FLssasTiax South
,Ssft . Carollaa.
It is an Amazing TACT that what meI
wantte bslieye. .thsyarsready to assert
This ID notably the case id she active
communities OF 'the4 North, where, as in
Athens, in st. Paul's time. they are al
HAysN ia search q some new thing.
There are several stern facts .whicn the
journals.of' that tsgipn. and tho public
who derive their daily intellectual food
from them, find it 40 hard to swallow,
that they have to be orammed down
their throats over and over again. For
instaness sths agenoy'of shetman's army.
in burning uofumbia.a Thsy. are obliged
to admit thia ain their hsatts, for no
whim or caprics can prevent inward con-
victiSn f0iio wing struth.a. statement.
Sometimes. indeed. their newspapers do
practically admit it. accompanied, OF
course. with explanations, apologies and
pailiations. But they. stsdghtwsy for
get it, and. when occasion presonte,
treat il as a fresh topic, reacoting the
popular prejudice again, which refuses
to criminates any one so oonspiouously
distinguished as Sherman was in putting
down what they call "the rebellion"
The neoessity for return of the South
ern @ , element m Of gentlemen, and states
ppllssns plssnqs now, displaced byl ostracism. into
theicouneils of the Government. is an
other Of those unwelcome truths which
the conscience Of the Northern people
feels a .keeuiy. but which, so far as sz-
preston generally goes in their public
men and journals, they persistently
hoet 'as and soorn. Now and then it
asQps ont ri il in vigorous expression, as in
the str;kinag article which We reproduce.
-to.dAy3i iftom thsipan pftElihu Burritt
We have q new instance in point
Or. Efffqpets ffp hisbeE, Yha died in New
Xork, year ago, is canonized in the
public regard asa martyr to- his love Of
'Heedom: He has been; time and sgain,
vadnted as' q man who gave tnipp distin-
guished ipoqiti9pi inr South Cal olina be-
ohuse OF ihis anti-slareiy l1iews. This
hsa been as often related. and the facts
which determiniea- his action and his
true statue ..op: the slavery question
plainly. spread before the Northern pub
lic. We have ano, 'plsasute'in dwelling
upon anything UNPLEASANT in mans
history who has passed away from life's
scenes and gone to his long account.
aofs DR.. Lieber. we have
bsen always ready ITO admit his emf
ilishcs il the, world q letters. He vas
70 trpan1 oilintsuse activity of mind. of
Unparalleled industry. and of prodi-
2giops ocpaoity for labor. He cherished
pBffsl y ideas, ana wrote generally in the
interests Of humanity. Hewas devoted
ITO ttherndvancement lof .hs race in oul-
thte;; civilization and refinement. He
struck many hearty 1hhss and telling blows at
old aah9sesl and ,fcqnsecrated wrongs.
Had he not come South. he would have
been conspicupfa as an anti.slavery
man. ReeideHnsee Hss here and contact with
it showed bin tbatA Alavery was not the
evil which e:' is represented to be.
His oppo2AE = It waa:modiaed by
the modified Shamane form in which
be .foutdsit -to5 exist, It, is TO he re.
grstted Tor hisfame that circumstances
were so sstopg "a to gpmpelshim to be- a
slavsholdaf:a and slave. .vepdor here, and,
in his latter years in New York, de.
nouncer Of the institution OF which he
had practical knowledge TINT it was
gentle and harmless. It is. perhaps,
the great weakness Of his own life that
he set up such a preposterous claim,
apd certainly 1njassiaable in, bis sur.
viving friends to revive it. With such
questions, however, and with his more
questionable conduct during the war
towards the South, whore he had been
received as an honored guest, we desire to
have nothing to do. We hold in sacred ro-
gard the injcnotion, de naoriuis nil nisi 6o
num-. But Misrepresentation of the facts
of life do no honor to che dead, and are