The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1874-08-29

DEATHS HEAD AND CRos ). BoNE Po-
LITIcs.-The loyal press has awakened
to the Importance of publishing South
ern neYs of,Northern manufacture cat;
c3lated tolkrouse the old hatseds qa
ri bsoh The Republican party livss.a Tue
faSorite style OF item at this moment
isiaomethipB like this: ~,
~HGuns add ammunition are being
shipped to the South in large quaint
ties. Prominent Southern politicians
gay that the whites are armidg for the
purpose OF keeping negro voters from
the polls"
/ In few months, the details will be
more sangnlnary. :. We shall learn that
the white Inhabitants Of Hokeepokee
County, Florida. have thassa red seven i.
teen lovely colored babies and one 90.
lorad adult. Then we shall be thrilled
wilL the news that the editor OF th.
Louisville Courier. Journal hus been
found poisoning the lemonade pre-
pared for picnic Of dusky Amerl-
Guns. Before the campaign is over,
We shall. doubtless, heur that every
white Southerner has sworn upon the
Bible to kill three blacks per diem aud
reduce thoee who remain alive after
the election to hopeless slavery. 1t
will be- u rare feast of horrors, aud It
will force into completion the very
separation Of the two races which these
organs pretend to deplore. They u1e
now making the most of the few disturb
anoes at the South. With wondrous
iupartiality. they attribute them all 10
the aggressions of tho whites, even
when tho latter have nothing whatever
to do with them. There are now two
specks of war in South Carolina.
Ihe whites in that State are iu
q hopelessly small minority. They
would be idiots TO provoke u conhlct.
They have shown no signs Of dong
SO. Yet when two negroes, Bowie and
Jones, arm their negro followers aud
skirmish up und down Georgetown
sfreets, there is an instant howl Of
''White League" aud an instant call
upon the General Government to save
these dear colored men, these loved
Republican voters, from the attacks
of hendish enemy-the said enemy
being in truth the men and voters
aforesaid. When thu negroes of the
whole region around Georgetown come
hocking thither. each faction breath.
ing out threats against the other aud
the whites, the latter arm themselves
aud stand ready to defend themselves,
their homes. their children aud their
wives from the brutal rage Of ignorant
ronghs. Then there is still louder
out'cry. Now, the fact is. that not
one single case of assuult by u white
man upon q negro has been reported
during the whole disturbance. While
the negroes have been firing at each
other. from safe distances, and making
the streets OF Georgetown bloodless
battle-ields. the whites have kept per-
feotiy still. The State Government
has been called upon to quell the dis.
graceful row among it's supporters, and
has proved unable to raise ono CON-
pany of militia. The Executive bus
reduced stealing to fine art, but is
unable to grapple with any other
branch OF the science Of government
Thus, because disturbance has been
caused by two factions Of negroes in u
negro-ridden State, aud because set
OF negro officials have failed to sup.
press it, the white men of tho Souih
"re denounced AZ mnrlerous ussnsslnn
aud foment9rs Of bloody strife. we
40 not regard Them ns spoticss Angels.
Neither do we, like the loyal Lrsas,
regard them as devils incarnute.
ChicrgO Tribune.