The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1874-09-03
Correspondence. OF tho Phoenix.
WASHINGTON, D. c., Sept. l, 1874

WASHINGTON, -. w., sept. 1, 1914.
MIR. EDITOR: Almost daily the cub
sidized press OF Washington (there is
not liberal, free or independent sheet
issued in the city publish articles de.
rogutory, abusive of aud insulting to
the South. Nothing delights Wash.
ington editor more than to jeer at "the
South Of former duys." and credit for
nothing commendable can ever be had
from them for those who represented
the South in those days. Only allude
to South Carollua anterior to 1860.
and forthwith their vile pens emblazpn
ON their leading columns "Slaveocra.
cy;" mention tue Virginia of old, and
the whole vocabulary Of ridicule il
showercd upon what they style ''he
buds" aud IN T. VS." OF the Old
Dominion; speak of tho South west.
amt mt once you are terrified with the
assa sins stiletto or the murdcrer's
Bowie knife aud b:udgeon. Snch edi
TOTALS being the daily breakfast dish
of the cosmopolitan inhahitunts Of this
city. you may rest assured little sym.
puthy or fellow feeling is ever ex.
pressed or entertained for US of the
South who belong to the above cate
CORY. Every such piece Of Informs
tloE is believed by the people; they
talk it over to the clerks, who carry it
iut their daily avocations, nnd. fualIy.
tho national officiuls have their minds
iu,bned with these Impressions. that
are the Outgrowth of fIlsehood aud
ignorance; and the result Of the whole
matter is, the South is stigmatized az
unreconstructed, aud political capital
ia made out of it. For the past week,
occasionn! sanIbs huve appeared in
several Of the diily papers, stating
that letters had been and ure being
received from South Carolina and
Geurgia, advising the departments
that anarchy prevails throughout those
States. It has been asserted that the
negro is being driven from Georgia,
and that in Sonth Carolina the whites
are being marshaIed ugainst the bucks.
So mnny letters of this nature have
been received by the officials. thut .he
Attorney General has run off to hunt
up the President aud counsel With him
as to what can the mutter be." II
Attorney General Williams belie:es
such condition of things exists in
more than one Of the Southern States,
he has certainly SO impressed the
etking President. And is it
not lnceutabe tint Mr.. Grant can be
so cailous while his country thus
groane? Did Nero fiddle while Rome
WAS burning?
To-day, the Chronicle. sheet inca
pable OF taking u statesmanlikc view
of the political armament. aud too
prone to siander to speak the truth Of
n political foe. has a long letter from
Arkansas, published in it's leading trle-
graphic column, which would doubt
less astonnd any citizen of that youug
Stute, save tho carpet-bag fraternity,
who are, aud have beeh, rlhing it's
treasury nnd delrauding it's people.
Elitorinliziug upon this letter, the
editor invokes the people to tuke Ar
kansas i'll hand aud sccnre for her a
republican form OF government. What
pity that some wiseucre cannot see AL
equal necessity of reform in South
Carolina, where his political kith and
kin have for years Iun riot over the
tax payers and produced tenfold
worse .tl:ct than he is now lamentipg
over as being produced by the Demo.
cracy Of Arkansas.
um too much AWAY from the State
to know what the political in-looh is ut
home, bnt au sure the political OFT.
ioo& for South Carolina mt Washington
is indeed gloomy. The name is never
spoken but in pity or ridicule. The
whites of South Carolina have no
friends here aud not many elsewhere,
i'll my opinion. The Republicans to
whom speak denounce Moses aud
laugh at our submitting to snch gnber-
natorial degradation. A New Yorker
! said to me-: IF Gov. Dix had done as
Moses did. be would now bo cracking
stones with Boss Tweed" A Wiscon.
sin man said: "Curpet-bag rule would
not last iu my State twenty four
hours" And Pennsylvania Quaker,
in the beautiful valley of tho Cumber-
land. inquiriDg particularly about
South Carolina, replied to my asser-
tion that We wero doing pretty well:
Well, sir. I once admired South Caro-
linians. but you have lost your claim
to admiration by not making manly
effort TO crush out your corrupt go.
vernmcnt." Similar remarks, Mr.. Edi-
tor, are constantly made to me in my
association with men oil over the
North. This last remark, alas! was too
true. Has South CAroliua ever made
an effort to relieve herself? Not that
am aware. True, we did select one
| of our best men and tried to win by