The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1873-01-16

TsxAs. recent trinaph al ssbs
Democratic party nsEsxia u attended
" pleading ind instrpst ttss result-the
sabsiaenSs og political end fem enc and
disorder, and. q marked rsstors Non 81
leace. The defeat snd ovsrshsos of;ths
malignant party that kept ths Htats fhi )
continual Torment Of agitation AND dis.
content has left the people their own
masters, and Texas has become as tran
gull and orderly as any State of the
Union. The discussion OF politics has
nearly disappeared from its papers. and
they ufe now talking Of little else than
public enterprises. railroad and ,btidge
building, cotton growing, public schools,
manufactures, and other similar health
ful topics. SO contented are the people
in the enjoyment Of their regained rights
that they are beginning to forget and
forgive the author OF their late wrongs;
they even propose TO let Gov. Davis go
out OF Office without the impeach ment
which, at one time, they seriously medi-
tated against him, and which he richly
deserves. The new Legislature elect,
now about to assemble, will have de-
oided Democratic majority in both
houses. and might impeach and depose
Davis in prompt order if it wished to-;
but some of the leading papers are I'D
vising against this measure, and propos-
ing to let the Governor serve out his
term unmolested. The Galveston Neus
thus discusses the question:
''But let us not be understood as say
ing that Gov. Davis does not deserve to
be impoached and ousted from his high
Office. BE has been guilty of offences
against the great majority of our citi-
zens that, in many caees, were hard to
suffer. With commendable forbearance,
however, they have borne during tho
past three years, aud despite the many
acts of Davis aud his satellites. the State
has grown in wealth and population az
never before. Aud this, too, when the
Democracy of the State was utterly una
BILE to prevent the extreme pressures of
the Radical administration. Now Davis
is almost powerless, except in the mat-
ter OF appointments, and these are few
and unimportant. IT the obnoxious
measures passed by the last Legislature,
at the suggestion of Gov. Davis, cannot
be repealed, (he being likely to veto their
repeal,) their being put in force can be
prevented by failing to make appropria-
tions therefor.
"Why, then, not allow aim to f1nish
out his term? It is but one year more.
In that time, hemmed iu on evory side
by the Democracy, he will bo powerless
to do us harm. Why, then, attempt his
|impeach hment. and run the rick thereby
of being placed in the helpless condition
of our sister State of Louisiana? Every
ole knows that Davis cannot be unseat.
ed without D struggle. His first move,
if it is not already arranged, after his
impeachment, would be to call on Gen.
Grant for assistance to retain him in his
position. What reasons have We for
supposing that the President would moi
give him the required assistance? What
would follow2 Probably. this, That
Davis would retain bis Office for four
years instead Of one. This could not
fail to produce uneasiness not only with
our own citizens. but with the capitalists
oA tue NoflDs WHO are now investing
their means in tho construction of rail
roads and other internal improvements
and-would certainly stop the flow Of i'm
migration that is coming in from every
quarter OF the Union as we'll as Europe.
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| "REKINDL1Na HATREDs."- ."-Itis "offeu
sive" to Forney for the Southern peopl,
to erect monument to the memory o
General Lee. He says: ;.
"The Southern Generals were rebels
and it is contrary to every theory of 60
vernrdent that their memories, as such
should be perpetnated in brass aud stone
In losing the war they lost all right tc
renown as warriors, and tho erection o.
monuments to them amounts to nothing
else than the assurance that the glory. Of
the South is her rebellion. It is not fol
the good of the country that the young
| men Of the South be taught their duty
to the Government in such lessons OF
would be learned from monuments tc
Lee and Stonewall jackson. We arc
also told that such efforts 'rekinde
hatreds. >" '''
We do not know what theories of 60.
worm rnant iovo IN do with eractino n