The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1873-05-30

valne, they-are worth $1,000 each, and
add Immensely to. the .natiopal wealth.
The Now York Herald jastly regards this
stream Of immigration as.the most pre-
oious of all our imPorlations. It 10 to
be lsmented that so small portion of
it flows South. I'VE have! abundant room
here. and would give them cordial well
come. They seek mostly the prai.ies OF
the North: h:west, from which in time, let
US hope yhea oar connections with that
country dfabstter established; they will
come to us.aYsiling themselves of the
open CONGRATULATIONS, aud fuller know
ledge which will thon become available
to them.
Kind ana Noble Worda f.r the conred..
fate Dead.
The pqbliahsa threat Of the "Grana
Army Of the Republic" to prevent by
force sympathi4era with the Confederate
dead from decorating their graves on this
their memorial day, has called forth
leader of unusual beauty and power
from the New York Tribune. It is SO
fnll Of noble expression and broad and
catholic charity. that We have concluded
that we could not better use the space
than in giving the following extracts.
The. Tribune says:
"Ol course, We discover in this de.
monstration of Indignation at the pro-
posed insult, the evidence Of profound
patriotism and earnest loyalty. We
should, perhaps, be thankful in such
times as these for the nice sense of
honor, the exquisitely sensitive love of
country, the reyerent patriotism, the
oonstancy of devotion to the Union and
the undying hostility to it's dead and
buried enemies, OF which we have here
such tokens For it must be confessed
that many things of late have made Us
skaptieal Of any such keenpess of sus-
ospdbiiey. For really, when We sell our
seats In :the Senate, and our Senators
themselves arc bought and sold; when
our judges haunt the lobbies OF Congress
to inaqPnoa legislation for. pay; when
perpetrators Of fraud are. protected by
Executive pardon; when We peddle out
our honor and trade upon our dignity in
the face OF all the world; when we are
scandalized in all departments by venali-
ty, corruption and incompetency-ws
should perhaps welcome anything that
seems an honest burst of indignation,
for whatever cause that has in il some
thing akin to pride of land or race.
And yet, shall We be deemed unpa-
triotic or disloyal if We cay that there
seems somehow in this bristling up of
resentment at the decoration of the
graves Of dead enemies something trivial
and narrow; something not entirely
worthy a great and magnanimous peo-
pie? In the year following the close OF
the war, before the bitterness of tho
long struggle had begun to give place to
a more meliowed and ;tenderer feeling, it
would not have been natural il we had
prote sted against such q mingling of
tributes and tears to the memory of the
fallen on both sides. But eight years
have passed since then. Surely loyalty
is no such .nngracious, churlish virtue
that We should nurse forever the mi
mosities it engendered; nor is its quality
so feeble that to let little magnanimity
grow round and Blossom over it will
overshadow or destroy it.
Let us be grateful to time, that 80
mellows and softens. the past. that ame-
liorates the bitterness and smooths the
asperity Of old contests, bringing us out
OF our selfish narrowness and littleness
into the lasgeneas and catholioity OF hu-
mauity. into sympathy with the univer.
sal brotherhood Of mRh. Here and to-
day the pettiness of our lives engrosses
ns; our struggles and our trials, our
tfiumphs and our failures, our toll, and
sweat, and tears, are all the world to US;
We magnify and dwell upon them; wo
draw away FROM them end they grow less
and less, and fade away behind US. We
all'exerciso sound philosophy as we'll
as Christian charity, if We gather only
tender memories as We look back over it
all-tender, kindly memories. not alone
of those We loved, but equally of those
with whom We differed, who were of our
race and our blood, and whatever their
faults or their mistakes. were our bro
theirs. Be sure we shall be doing no
mans memory an injustice, nor any good
cause harm, II on the same day, and
even by the same hands, the graves of
the Union and Confederate dead, lying
side by eide in all the South, are made
fragtant and beautiful with the blossoms
OF tender and affectionate remem.
brance.