The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1873-12-11
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Thursday Morning. December IL. 1878.
Tho Next Elections.

ani apprehenslVe as to the possible re-
suit Of the next election in this State.
Some time ago it discovered that the
oolored people were growing more intel
ligent, and would look more searohingly
into the abuses and corruption of the
State administration, and thereupon
sounded an alakp. Again it returns to
the subject, and its fears are removed in
considering the advance OF the voters
in knowledge, as shown in the hnbit of
reading newspapers Smooth as the
seas are. delightful and placid as is the
sailing over quiet waters. it discerns the
small clouds in the political skies, which
will, before long, wrap every thing III
storm and tempest, and convulse the
bark of State which now SO securely
carries the Radical party and its for.
tunes, But this is not it's only source
OF alarm. The Democrats nre still
about and likely to give trouble. It
discovers in them a vitality and quiet
energy which, We are sorry to say, We
cannot see. Tired out with other cxpe-
dients, conscious of the insufficiency of
the remedies to which they have usually
resorted, they are now, says this oracle,
about to try peaceable, seductive aud
effective means to regain political con-
srol. This is news to Us, aud we husten
togiyethe organ due credit for it's dis
covery.7
The organ griads out ono tune which
must have doloful sound to those who
now revel in tho spoils of Office and
lounge in its easy places. It gives So
lemn warning to candidates at the next
election, that they mus, show the people
clear record, and be able to render
good account of their stewardship.
What will they think of that2 1t is en-
tiroly too grim joke to be palatable,
and our neighbor ought to be more eon
siderate of feeling in singing it's ink.
It is too much to say in one breath that
the term OF the Governor, Lieutenant
Governor, members of Congress. oil the
members of the lower House and many
OF the members of the Senate will soon
expire; it is too much to make so many
mouths water, and then virtually slam
the door in their faces, by setting up
such impossible and. unheardof condi.
tions to their entrance upon these pro-
fitable and delightful sinecures. 1t is
carrying the, joke entirely too far.
Now, will the Herald obligo us by its
views upon the increase of the public
debt, upon the condition of the South
Ourolina University. aud that Of Clahin,
that Of the Institute for the Dcaf and
the Dumb and the BNud, upon the lcgis.
lative and printing expenses, &c. &c. 4,
al infnitum? What does it think Of the
tax being ton mills under Scott aud
fifteen the last year, under the reform
administration of Moses? What does it.
think of tue prospect Of considerable
increase upon this hgnre, in the present
condition Of the taxpayers OF the State
It cannot be donied thnt ton mills tax
would be both liberal and all sufficient
for the necessary expenses of small,
poor and obscure State like this. VII ut
need Of more? When the lands of the
people are offered for sale for taxe.', as
they will be more hugely in the neur
future; when men hayo to give up their
birth-places, aud their wives and chill
dren are turned out of the homes which
their hard earnings have procured for
them, and go begging for broad we'll,
what then? Does the Herald think this
improbable? Gun it say that we arc not
rapidly approaching q crisis of the most
imminent. character in our affairs?
We are ourselves considering these
grave questions, and as they will cutter
into the issue which will DO made up
and tried in the general elections next
October, and which is the text of the
article in our neighbor's issue Of last
Tuesday, we have ventured to suggest
them as worthy, too, of its considera-
tion. Things are daily narrowing down
to final struggle over the State Trea-