The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1874-05-09
COLUMBIA, s. G. @.
Saturday Morning. May 8. 1874.
Tno southern Ulcer.

eHoe reflection Of the imbecillty OF che
General Government for good and
consequence of those unwise and vim.
dictiye measures which it go hastily en-
aoted and put into practical operation in
Che Southern States. But for the extra
ordinary forbearanoe of the people and
the sacred regard entertained for their
pledges, whether directly made or i'm
piled, We should have before this, in
more States than Arkansas, even greater
troubles than exist there. But the
Southern people do not carry the ami
uoslties of war into the domain OF
peace. When they resisted aggressione
upon their rights and invasion of their
soil. they did it bravely. openly and
with full recognition of the conse.
quences. When they accepted terms Of
surrender, it was part of their nature.
Snd their inherited and unblemished
hoaor. to adhere to them strictly. No
man with an ounce Of sense in his head
or drop of truthful blood in his veins,
can deny that they have had provoca-
tions without number to disorder and
revolt against expressions und iniquity.
Perhaps no people have ever been more
angenerously treated. But they have
cot yielded to the temptations of pas
aion. Their plighted faith has no stain
apon its lustre, no shadow upon its
Brightness. It is ungenerous in the
New York Herald, therefore, to intimate
chat the effect OF the condition Of affairs
6n Arkansas may be to fan into new and
active life what it calls "a large element
of disafsotion in the South" There is
40 moro danger of it than Of similar
result upon the saHeotion-whateve
that may be-whioh exists in New York.
There is no disaffeotion existing in the
South, in the odious sense which the
HcrdId means. Undoubtedly, there is
deep and widespread discomfort at the
ihnnnihle and unmerited treatment they
nave received, not unmingled with the
contempt which brave and honorable
men cannot avoid feeling for towards
and villains, who are instrumental in
insult and active as bummers in CLEAN
ing the fields OF strife. But while it is
strong, the sense OF honor and of a wise
discretion are stronger STILL It is no
sRtsoaEer, indeed, than it is in New York
VT England, and no more likely to pro-
duce turbulence here than anywhere
else.
The Herald is good enough to say I'VE
DO not believe in revived rebellion,
but we do believe in the danger of
diseased reconstruction-in what might
be called an liberated condition OF
aEairs in the South, endless pain, irrita-
Gon. outbreaks OF passion and feeling
and postponement of that sound and
perfect reunion for which every pa
Nist hopes and prays." The Herald
fears all this from the spread of the
visitations which exist in Arkansas
Was ever writer SO daft before? If he
hsd picked the English language for
twelve-month, in order to describe The
present, not the anticipated condition
OF the Southern people, he could not
Aave found filter terms. The South is
. running sore on the body politio. and
EHce at Washington lack the ekill to dry
Ut up aud heal it. Take South Carolina,
for instance, which is close upon morti.
dcation. The Washington doctors
stand upon ceremony about touching it.
They are afraid they might violate it's
constitutional rightsl They appear as
It they could not even carefully inquire
into its diseased condition. Why don't
the Herald, instead of maundering
idictically about "the liberated condi-
ton Of affairs" here, wake up the Co.
Vernment to sense of its duty in the
qrerises9 Why don't it raise its potent
voice and demand Of it that it shall not
sange itself any longer on the side of
7illainy, corruption and organized
plunder, as they exist in this State? It
is the Federal power which put this
mockery of government upon the people
here. and IL ia thu FoIoro1 ,>oro. ,,I,;,i