The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1874-06-21
tho State into irretrlevable confusion
and difloulty."

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write TO sugd dst s5a1 el,offhousHt.
.;Fhi& il We ii rsue IN Soqh U4ioliph.
he thinks. wifi lead us- dut of our
troubles. He saye We may preach
reform and cumulative voting to car
.pet.basgers and the negroes until
d9ops-day and never get them. Our
friends remedy is to stir up the people
TO giving theft surplus land TO good
immigrants. The arrival of few
thousand Of such will do more to pro.
cure reform than all things else. In
stead OF making humiliating PROPOSE
tions, he advises that South Carolina
shall introduce within her borders
forty or ifty thousand good. sturdy
immigrants-not the refuse Of Castle
Garden, bat men of better class, Of
some means and intelligence. Then,
he says, will South Caroliua become
safe, rich and prosperous. Help will
ponr In on all sides. when il is seen
that We are disposed to and can help
ourselves. This is all very we'll, though
mol exactly new, in our correspondent.
We have shed much ink ia presenting
and enforcing similar views. We wish
3hey oonld bn icarried out as easily az
he thinks. But after hS walks fully
round the subject, he will find it sur.
rounded With difficulties OF which he
does not Tnow,dseau. They have to be
got rid OF slowly, one by one. It takes
will and concert of action to do such
things. He thinks the discussion of
proportional representation not likely
to lead to any concession bythe strong
numaricsl maiority. He has his rea-
sons for this belief, and they are
plausible. il not conclusive. They
centre in the unwillingness OF those
who hold the power to yield any part
of it. But our friend does not also
sae that before we can get O.OOO or
$4,000 Immigrants. by giving them
land, there pust be willingness aud
zeal op the part of as many to give it.
It will take time. effort and concert to
produce the one result as we'll as the
other. AS regards cumulative voting
and such other desirable changes as
We are trying to convince the domi-
nant party leaders they ought to insti-
tute, the argument is addressed to
their sense of self-interest, as we'll as
to justice and right. They must know
that the end for them is nigh. They
are simply asked to look forward to it,
and make sensible arrangements for it's
inevitable coming. Cumulative voting
will be good anchor cast to wind ward
for them when the storm breaks upon
the ship of State. Besides, again,
every reasonable demand, if refused,
the hands OF those TO
whom it is refused. President Grant
and the majority OF the Judiciary
Committee OF Congress could not see
howthey could interfere with sove-
reign State, even 30 much as to send
q committee to investigate its com.
plants and discover it's troubles. Not
they! But that refusal has done South
Carolina more good than was ever ex-
peoted or designed. The Radicals
who rule Congress to day are afraid to
discuss the affairs of this State. But
the discussion will come in spite OF
them, and the investigation which
they dodge.l will yet be made. There
is always good in good honest effort,
although we may not always see it at
the moment it il made. "Cast thy
bread upon the waters; for thou shalt
find it after many days"
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