The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1874-10-31

| years, 8ICcf WnlOu tO0 memoirs OF
Toms Creek Grange, delegates aud in-
vited guests adjourned to enjoy one OF
the finest barbecues we have ever had
the pleasure OF attending. There was
an abundance of eatables of all kinds.
The Committee Of Arrangements, as
sisted by the ladies OF the Grange, de-
serve q great deal Of credit for the
handsome and elegant manner for the
way in which the tables were arranged.
There was nothing to mar the pleasure
of any one, and everything passed of
we'll. Yours, INVITED GUEST.
THE SoUrH.-A writer in F.aser's
Magazine, on the resources and capa-
bilities of the Southern States of this
republic, does not hesitate to express
the opinion that the Northern journals
are accustomed, from habit, to portray
the condition of the South in more
sombre colors than the actual truth
warrants. and this, he thinks. is the
.eascn why European emigration and
capital seek the Northern instead of
the Southern States. Perhaps this
case might be put in different way.
At the North, the press assumes vast
proportions, and is prolific in its re.
ports, descriptions and eulogiums Of
the resources Of all parts of the North
and West. At the South, the press is
very limited in extent and poorly sup.
ported. It is chiefly partisan, red-hot
with sectional bitterness, and devotes
little or no attention to agriculture,
mining, finance, railroads, banking,
insurance, commerce, navigation and
the internal resources and advantages
OF the South. When Northern emi-
grants go South to settle, they are
termed oarpetbaggers.
The above. says the Augusta Chromi-
Gle and Sentinel, is taken from the edi-
torial columns of the Philadelphia
NORTH american. It would be difficult
to cram more falsehoods in smaller
compass. The Southern press has
labored zealously and Increasingly
since the war to build up the South
and to repair the ravages of Northern
armies. The Southern newspapers
have never failed to lend helpiag
hand to any enterprise which promised
directly cr indirectly &c benefit their
section. They have never inquired or
cared whether the men who had them
in hand were Northerners or Southern
ers-Democrats or Republicans. They
have in good faith invited capital and
Immigration. and the bona .fde settler
has always been received kindly and
Hospitality. The Southern press has
been partisan aud bitter to this extent:
1t has refused TO accept or sustain the
infamous governments which politi-
cal party North put over them, for the
purposes of plunder and oppression.
1t has denounced villainy and fraud
and arrayed public sentiment against
their authors. It has repeiled such
SANDERS as those manufactured by the
Philadelphia North American and other
Radical papers. This is the partisan
ship Of which Southern jour1fals have
been guilty. Il is not true that "North-
ern emigrants. who go South to set
tie, are.termed carpet-baggers. And
the first person to deny such state
ment are the Northern settlers them
selves. We call those persons carpet
baggers who come here from the North,
not to mako living by honest indus
try, not to aid in building up and i'm
proVin the country, bnt who come to
make business of politics, who at
tempt to array the races against each
other, who strive only to obtain pos
session of government. in order that
they may grow rich by theft These
are the carpet. .baggers. We do not
say that all of them are dishonest; that
there are net exceptions to the general
rule; but we are speaking now of a
class, not of individuals.
Tho laboring men from the North,
the mechanic, the farmer, the mer.
chant the lawyer, the doctor, who
come among us to make reputable
livelihood, are made welcome, and
have no complaints to make of their
neighbor. The capitalist who comes
to develop our resources is Just as
cordially received. It is true that the
South is unable to Offer the same in.
ducaments to Northern and European
immigration as the West. There are
no public lands in the South to give to
settlers; no great trunk railways built
by means of Government grants,
which keep agents in Europe for the
purpose 9: turning immigration oyo.
their lines. But VIC offer to every ho.
nest laboring man, no matter what his
nationality or his political opinions, q
delightful climate, fertile soil, cheap
land, varied productions, unexoelled