The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1874-09-06

ouS caii1nB yUu heRToes, "uep Try
ing to save you from ruin; and you
have licked the feet of those adven-
turers who called you "colored per-
sons" while they despised you in their
hearts aud treated you like dogs.
When these plnnderers-Mo Scott,
Chamberlain. Nsagle. Parker and the
rest-are fugitives from justice or in-
mates in the pepitentiary. to whom do
you expect to look for friends and
allies?
Here, in the North, one newspaper
after another has published exposures
Of the misruln in our State. until now
the stnnnchest ami most ultra defend-
era nf Rn,licnilsm and the longest deaf
To the truth about your infamnus Go
v"rnmcns. us wei! as the bttrrcst
hAters OF the Southern white man US
such, are all boldly denounciug the
inisrule aud the criminals who are per-
petratiug it. Three years ago heard
the Vice President Of the United
States thank God for the scnlawag and
the carpet -bagger. To day. the scala
wag and the carpet-hugger are in me
rited disgrace, aud Schuyler Colfax is
the bY-word und soorn of oil honest
bly, fallen rs to be vomited from the
nauseated nav Of his own dshonored
| c!lqne. Six months ago the President
went out Of his way to Insult deleg,.-
tion OF gentlemen representing our
taxpayers. while he smiled graciously
upon the tag rag thut yonr thieves sent
up to him. Now. as Senator Robert.
son has told you, President Grant
would rather see the State pass into
the hands of the Democratic party"
than to SEQ it continued in the bands
OF yonr friends the plunderers; and
the New York Times says that this is
"a strong expression Of npinion; but,
under all the circumstances. is not too
strong" And the Times VAS the last
Radical organ that succumbed to the
pressure Of an outraged public senti-
ment-the lust to see the melancholy
failure that yon have mude-the last to
finally ceuse defending the Infamous
policy of IL Congress which, in it's
beariug upon South Carolina, hes
brought disappointment to all true
friends of your rnce. disgrace upon
your race itself, shame to the Repnbi.
oan party, odium to our General Go
vernment. aud the scorn aud contempt
of the civilized world, upon the au-
thors and workers of this gigantic
wrong upon the South. Good men iu
all parts Of the country, having had
] time to abute the viudiclive feeliupe
engendered by the war, are coming TO
see that the course pursued towards
the South Is IL wrong aud an injury
not only to Us of the South, but also
to them aud to the country ut large.
This revulsicn and reversal of OPT
MON comes OF the notorious failure
Of the Southern Governments III ad-
ministered; and your race hus had the
! con'rol of these, mud more absolutely
so in South Cnrolinn than elacw!ioro.
at first, rs 1 have said, you were de-
celved. at last You cannot plenl that
excuse. That immense sympathy of :.
world with which 80 naturally you
started six years ago, has been fatally
weakened by yonr failure to do whnt
WAS expected Of you-by your failure
to see thnc the waite nun bus any
rights which the negro is bound to re-
spect. Lake warning! But your glib.
tonguel advisers may reply to. meas
they probably will. land ure yon to
swallow again ull they tell youH that
Congress can never touch your suf-
frage. Refect-if you can. Congress
has exercised the power of declaring
you citizens with the right of suffrage
1t has quite as much power to decree a
limit to that right. Your pluudering
advisers may reply to me that the Con.
siitation Of tbs Uutcd States !o.hils;
aud l reply to them. that your pre-.
tended friends have ''campeu outside
OF the Constitution" 40 long that ths
boundary line is low merely truii
tional. beware Of TINT beautiful
phrase. Remember Jamaica.
The address Of the faction calling
itself the Union Republican Party"
has recently been issued, calling for
State Convention. That address is
signed by some of the men who have
been running our State to ruin for he
past six years. They admit that hcir
pledges of 1872 have not been re-.
deemed; and then hurry on to give yon
moro pledges Of the sumo sort. Do
yon again need to bo told the value of
such promises? These IRE tho men
that the Republican party all over the
| United States has denounced ns plum.
dcring adveniurers and false Republi-
cans Are you going fourth time to
be fooled in tho same way by tho 81 me
men? 1t is nonsense to urge tho re-
spectability-should any one think of
doing so-of some Of the names signed