The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1873-03-18

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GENTLEMEN OF THE H1BsRr1AN So.
c1ETY: In your honorable corps, T have
the happiness OF reckoning many friends.
There is one, (Mr. Richard Cathcart,) so
partial to me as to cherish the hallucina.
ton that I am fit man to respond to
this sentiment; aud he has gone 30 far
as to inooulate your Committee of Ar
rangements with the same heresy. Under
circumstances of 30 much favor to my
self, and considering the festive charac.
ter OF this assemblage, am precludcd
from the direct revenge which I would
otherwise like to wreak upon this young
Hibernian, who knows how averse am
to speaking in public on the stage, and
ought to have been more meroiful to-
wards.me. But he must look out before
the evening closes. He ia here separated
from the suroharged batteries, behind
which he is accustomed to take his
stand, and from which he discharges
powerful telegrams-those forked light
nings Of speech, which usually give him
security and arm him with power.
Gentlemen, I nm expected. it Seems,
to respond to Tho Press" Now, in
these days. little irregularity, so it be
not immoral, is no uncommon thing, and
not harshly to be condemned. You will
pardon me, therefore, if prefer, on
this OCCASION. to sink the shop. The
press is 80 often heard from, it speaks in
such commanding thunder-tones for it.
self. every day, that it may safely be left,
as Henry Clay said of his mouth, when
charged with uncommon size and ugli-
ness, to speak for itself. Il is, indeed,
the most characteristic and the most
powerful instrument of modern civiiiza-
ton. As an agency and medium Of dis
ciplined thought and steady influence.
acting promptly and simultaneously in
all civilized countries, it is immeasurAbly
and effective. Through the hourly ex-
tension and multiplication of railways
and steamships, the laying of cables
across continents and under oceans, oil
tributary to its demand for news, for
opinions, for facts, for thoughts poetic
and philosophical, it may be, or which
concern the every day affairs of life,
rural, commercial, mechanical, or what
not. it daily grows in power. widens in
the line of points it touches, aud deep
ems in its hold on the heart and brain,
the: sensibilities and the affections of
mankind. Once like our small school
biographies. q map of hu.y but contract
ed life, it may now be said TO be social
and statistical chart Of the world, origi-
nal, fresh and varied every day It
gives concurrent presence to the most
remote points Of space on our ipla.
net, as we'll as to the most divergent
theories. opinions and views, perhaps,
whether they concern morals, history or
government. Columbia and Hong Kong,
New York and Adelaide, London and
Zanzibar, and every local and moral an
tipodes, are brought into juxtaposition.
On the same page, we may read what
Captain jack, OF the Modoos. says,
speaking from the lava beds OF Colorado
or California, or listen to the voice of
some African chieftain OF Unysnyembe,
or the thrilling events of last Tuesday
night in the British House of Commons
when Mr.. Gladstane's Irish University
bill was lost; possibly, in the same CO.
lumn, the eye may pass from an account
OF the discoveries and conclusions of
Agassiz, in his researches and expert
ments in natural history, off the coast OF
Nantucket. to the remarkable vote of
the forty second Congress-, on the last
day OF its existence, bJ which its mem.
bers. whose term was then expiring,
voted themselves bonus Of SIS, 600 each,
or 81 100000 out of the National Trea-
sury. The presses of the great cities,
and in modified degree those of smaller
towns, are alike in their presentation of
the great world-facts. In the perform
ance of this task, their differences are
differences OF degree end means, Just as
their several modes Of grouping them
may be considered differences Of taste
In their comments and opinions, in their
elaborate essays equally as in their hasty
paragraphs, they show their individuali-
ty, inward character and real power. We
give credit to some journals, as more
above prejudice and ignorance, more
exempt from undue bias. as freer from
personal, pecuniary or other objection
nble sway-in q word, as more honest
than others. Here We reach the line of
division between journals which aro in