The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1874-08-09
COLUMBIA, S. G.
Sunday Morning. August Q. 1874.
Courage! Courage!

State have got hold Of one wholesome
truth. although some OF them wish to
make an illegitimate use of it. Della.
ney, several months ago, wrote a sen.
sible, letter on the uncertain tenure BY
which the black race holds power ihi
So4th Carolina. He urged them to be
wise in tims and concede to the white
people minority representation by Gu
mulative voting. It scarcely made a
ripple, and Wright, to- whom it was
addressed, replied in terms of ribaldry
and contempt. This voice OF Delaney's
was the only one heard III til. State
from the Radical side since the mea-
sure was discussed aud agreed to in
tha7 EtaeS,paYers' EtaeS Convention, in 1871.
,HSdsMrs chamberlain taken the agree,
'hent 81 that convention to his assooi-
ates and procured it's practical adop-
ton, as he profIered to do, some check
might have been interposed to the
sway of corruption. But he let it
sleep the sloep OF death. While he and
they have persisted in the policy Of
crowding the white man, humiliating
the minority and binding them down,
hand and foot, in degradation which
knows no parallel in history, time has
BEEN preparing startling revenge.
What mean these ominous words from
Judge Pierrepont. an eminent Repub-
lican. in an address at New Haven?
''It was not thought desirable thes
statesmen should meddle in this mat
ter, while politicians fastened to re-
construct the South upon theories
crude, ill-considered nnd impossible of
success. The seeds of this
folly are now producing fruits after
their kind, and bitter fruits, more
dangerous to liberty than any that
were ever ripened on American SOIL"
What means the failure OF the Re.
publican party in Congress to pass the
Civil Rights Bill? What has go sud-
denly influenced the sentiment OF the
people Of Arkansas, Tennessee, Mis-.
souri,, North Carolina and Mississippi,
and given such complete victory to the
Democratic standard? How is it that
Smith. who was, for political reasons,
introduced into West Point, and kept
there for the same reasons three years,
has now been made to walk the plank
and to abandon oil hope Of wearing
epaulettes in command over white
men? More significant still is the ex-
clusion, by recent Act of Congress, of
all persons from the right OF sitting
upon a jury in the United States
Courts who cannot read and write.
The rhmbling of this thunder has
reached the dull cara of the colored
leaders of South Carolina. They know
that it is approaching. and they feel
that this is the spot. of all others, as
the most foul and corrupt. which will
receive its most powerful and pointed
stroke-first to destroy and then to
purify. Ransier, Elliott. Cardozo and
Rainey have heard it at last. In speech
at Sumter. Rainey said that q .qualifica-
ton upon voting was under considera-
tion, and he expressed "the conviction
that there was now strength enough OF
feeling on this subject to pass suoh an
amendment to the Constitution, and
unless there was Improvement, this
would be DONE" With their usual
short.sightedness: these people can
only extract from such portentous
signs of the times feeble warning in
order to snbserve small political pur-
pose. They nse them only to frighten
voters to support their candidate for
Governor, and to continue themselves
IN charge of the power which they
have fagrantly abused. Elect man,
they virtually say. who planted and
watered our S15.OOO,OOO increase of
public debt; who is the bond holders
candidate to revive and establish the
conversion bonds and other fraudulent
claims against the State and people:
elect the man who made the measure
to give land to the landless, m abortion
and cheat, and this thunder will be
bottled up again; or the Sinking Fund