The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1874-04-30


warning inventors sgainst these bogus
issues. ''As the convention met in
May. 1871. VIC might suppose they
would know the facts" &c No, sir,
they could not know them. It was no.
to the interest Of those who engineered
public affairs at that time to let in full
light on their transactions. Tho fact OF
the conversion OF a certain amour. mey
have been known. There was no mo.
tive to conceal that, that we aro aware
OF. But there Vas no publication made,
aud no knowledge accessible to those
not in the 'ring," Of the fact that, under
this innocent ACT for conversion, nearly
Sc. 900. 900 of original bonds had bceu
issued. "Thou canst not say. did it
never shake thy CORY locks at me. y
As for the honor and good name oi
South Carolina ns involved in this mat
ter, as for the poor appearance she will
make in 1875, at the centennial, we SUP.
pose, with the bar sinister Of repudia.
tion on her escutcheon, these be dream
and visions of sick bond-holder.
Houor and good name are tho meres.
igments as applied to the present 60
vernment OF South Carolina. Bar sinis-
ter. indeedl How puerile to hold this
poor and unmeaning threat over State
whose history, as it has been made for
the last six years, is the history of in
fanny. corruption and every imaginable
wrongl South Carolina. genuine, ho.
nest, honorable and punctilious South
Carolina. can now only be heard in pro-
tests and remonstranccs-can only be
seen in writhing and in agonizing efforts
to th.ow off an intolerableyoke. She is
another Prometheus, chained, with vnl-
lures preying on her vitals. Bond.
holders aud others who tell her to look
forward to the centennial festival to be
enjoyed with her old original sisters
the thirteen-and to brighten her
escutcheon for the joyful occasion, do
you not hear her daily cry to the birds
of prey who devour her,
Take your hoax from out my heArt.
Take your form from off my door"
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How 1t Is.
The Union expatiates upon the pres J..
perity of the upper and middle tier Of
Counties in this State, attributing it to
the general awakening wrought among
the people by the predominance Of Re
publican principles in this State, since
the era of emancipation set In. The
people are more industrious. Crops in
certain localities are larger. land higher
in value, and schools are exerting q har.
monizlng effect. &c. There is undoubt-
edly higher degree of prosperity in
the Northern part of the State than
elsewhere in it. But the causes assigned
are not the true ones. and the facts are
not correctly stated in several particu-
lars. But the general fact OF advance
ment in that section we have been
pleased frequently to recognize. Those
Counties were not embraced iu the
sweep OF Sherinan's desolating march;
their accumulated capital in buildings,
improvements, stock, fencing. 60, were
not destroyed by his fires. That WAS q
gooi deal. and gave great advantage
in starting again after the war. Another
is. they lie out of tho track of extromc
Radical influence. They are far away
from its centres of corruption, and they
are mostly Democratic or Conservative
in politics.
Whai is particularly rich in this article
is the contrast between the people here
aud those of Georgia. The one are
free. untrammeled, protected in their
lives and property. Tho other, (the
Georgians,) are in very sad plight
"Their business languishes, education
is discouraged and equal rights are q
name" We thought things were differ
ent from all this. We thought that,
except in peculiarly favored localities,
property was declining here, that the
people could hardly pay their heavy
taxes. that schools would generally close
about the fret of May. It is news to rs