The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1874-01-06
COLUMBIA rs. G.
Tuesday Morning, January 8. 1874.
Nsws,sp,.per Ethics.,

laud ourselves, or to pick flaws and in
einuate inuendoes against our contempo-
ra.iss Of the gopse.yetiTe prsss. By: the
Oharleston! !Nsrsi indulges in this pastfme
towstdslhsa little too frequently fot our
forbearanoe. It must be taught to know
its place. In giving :itslistls castiga-
tion, it will not be necessary to 60 into
those ugly details. concerning it which
the Ra lioal press freqtently spreads be.
fore the public. The Ne,rs is Conserya:
tive aud probably is wropged in:some
Of Establishments put forth Ivy them, For
that reason. But while We have passed
such things by, having in no instance
reproduced them in our columns, it is
necessary for the .Ne,rs to learn better
manners, and to cease writing in the in
vidious strain which it has seen fit to
indulge in lately towards us. It is by
no means infallible or invulnerable. Its
course may have been satisfactory to it.
self. but we Gun detect in it many q
shortcoming, many regeneration and
very much trimming. and. If necessary.
we willlgiye the Ners some unpleasant
sensations. 1t is all very we'll for it to
apologize for its position as County
organ OF the administration. Nobody
cares particularly about it. We suppose
it got the printing on good terms. We
have understood that it was paid in full.
Certain it is, that at that time it adyo-
Gated Moses election, whom il now de-
tnounces. What is significant is, that it
praises and sustains. under one set OF
circumstances, what it oondemps under
another. Yet it has the hardihood to
thank its stars that it ia better than
,other journals.
Since those days the News has received
the infusion of now life in its young
veins from consolidation with the vene.
rable Charleston Courier. Thereupon
it concludes that it must rise above the
suspicion that its Independence was
hampered- by considerations of self
interest. It accordingly ceased all deal
ings after that time with the State Go.
vernmsnt. This Is the tale as the Neus
tells'it, and it is funny. to say the least
OF it: Tell It to the marines. The
Ne,os having collected its little bill from
the State administration, and having
lost it's position as the printer for the
County. becomes open to conviction,
and because it is the Courier as we'll az
the Neus. forthwith resolves to purge
and live oleanly. All Of which the
Ne,os is welcome to say, and il it thinks
that it IS entitled to honor for it, we
shall only smile, we shall not grumble
about it. But it isa vain and shallow
pretension. Behold the reformation of
the Nesosi Odce the apologist Of Moses,
once the recipient of large sums from
the Stata Treasury, it now
''Csmpounis for sins It is inclined to,
Byod4maing those It has no mind TO-"
The Nsws has;the happiness OF having
some, benighted correspondents. who
come to the front every now and then
with a'salvo for its feelings. Thus is it.
encouraged in the chronic delusion that
it is the only journal in the State which
dedicates it's powers and devotes it's
scorn to the demolition OF "fings."
This tickling Of tho self-complacenoy of
the :NetOs is matter Of taste about
which men may innocently differ. You
pays your money, and may tickle as
much as you please. We can take no
exceptions to it. II it helps the Neaos,
it harms no one else. But the Ne,os
itself, when it receives one of, these
backing letters. gets rather beside itself.
1t straightwaY goes off at tangent, to
make declarations and assume preten-
sions which caaEot be allowed. Thus,
during the last act of the protracted
farce Of trying Honest John. Patterson
before the Trial Justices Areopagus in
Columbia, some one wrote to the Ne,cs,
complaining thnt the PHOENIX did not
give sufficiently elaborate report of
the proceedings before Trial Justice
Stratton. The corresnondent ;,3r,oo1