The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1873-10-12
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Melanohely oolIapss.
The zig-zagscourse and sudden darsh
to earth OF the Graphic balloon is but
circumstance In comparison with the
tortuous- WRITINGS OF our ueighbor, the
Uaion- a"aal. on the bonded debt aues-
ton, and ita rapid descent to the deep
est depths OF Radical immortality, in it's
last uttersnces on that grave subject.
isfiew high in the Dir, circling glorious
" towards the, sun. aud made the vel
kin ring with its screams, of deuunoia-
sion Of Morton. Biiss g claims.
Men lookedsnit surprias kt its unex-
peoted, dome. ..strative and noisy re-
proachss ard rebukes of tho proAigate
crew Who had chested the poor people
the dear and humble people who sweat
in fields behind the plow. and holding
the hoe. and spade in their hard and
sweaty hands--out of their small but
honest earnings, and saddled upon their
toll and that OF their descendants Tor
generations to oome1ah intolerable load
Of spurious debt. Distrust OF the sim
cerity Of all this indignation, all this
palaver which flowed in copious streams
for several months. and frothed up and
down in the column conduits OF the
Hsrssd, =ss freely expressed By some
unbelieving skeptics. Even We. mild
aud gentle as We always are to our con.
temporary. were constrained to charac-
terize the display as theatrical. Like
the bully in the Georgia Scenes" the
Herald was only rehearsing, and ''seein'
how it coulda fout." We arc grieved
to say that our forebodings wore true.
The Hera'd shrinks from the last round.
II retires to its corner, or its "riug."
"Alasl Matilda thon was true,
Al least thou {ht SO ~ at the u"
nion-Herald.
II it went high, it has como down low.
I'm its issue OF yesterday morning, it
: says that the Legislature has been called
to arrange some compromise with the
public creditors. The responsibility for
: The debt, it of course saddles upon the
Democrats. TIE Radioal Government
contracted it. but. somehow or other,
the Democrats are the fellows to blame.
ut was the jaupdiced opinion manuiac-
*used by them abroad which produced
the monetary embarrassments, and be-
trayed the poor innocent Radical
officials to do wrong in re-issuing bonds,
in hypotheoating the Agricultural Col
lege land scrip, and in other similar
operations. They stole just to spite the
Democrats, who ''hadn't oughter' to
have dealt out to them such .'nnmea-
suFed scorn and contempt" We are used
to this sort of talk. It does not hurt.
It is not meant to be believed, except in
circles where anything will pass current,
and where counters are sgood as coins.
1t appears q new light has shone round
about the Herald, which enables it to see
the error OF it's ways. It is ready to
condone the crimes of the ''bad and ire
sponsible mem. of tits party, for party's
sake. Whsssysr AZ, advocated in the
spring aud summer, it repudiates now
in the harvest days. It holds it to be
imperative that the money borrowed,
with psrintefest, should be honestly
retnrnsd e must behonestly returned,
whathsF honestly borrowed or not. The
whola plan and reason. for doing this are
revealed in the following passage from
tho Herald: al ~, r
"Whateyer legal defect there may be
IN the issue.or hypotheoation OF certain
bonds, ii is urged by some, soiM much
sound sense. that plan should be ds
uised to pay those parties back their ,aonev,
soiM interesb swho lehtit in good faith to
help sustain Republican administra.
ton and educate the ,emanoipated chill
dren OF the State. 70 pould be political
suicide. stdbbing our party in The back, to
repudiate onssdolzar5of hsis debt or these
claims. II the creditor is willing to
take fair compromise, we should meet
him half way. and as he helped US in
our hour Of need, when the Dem oorats,
Ia III L.