The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1874-05-22
Rotrlbut.on-PhiladeIphia and the
south.

South.
The failure of Philadelphia to secure
a Federal appropriation for the centen-
nial has moral, which it is our impe.
rative duty, as Southern journalists, to
point with emphasis. We do 80 in no
undue aspsrity or unkindness, but
simply US n duty to historical truth.
So fur ns relates to the centennial"
our columns attest thorough and com.
plete sympathy. We have always
thought, aud think still. thdt Congress
will ultimately be cajoled or worried
into doing something. Thus fur, it
has refused, but perhaps it will do 80
yet Bs that as it may, it is with the
actual, adverse decision we have To
deal, and with the motives and iunu-
ences which brought it about. Phi,a-
delphia has suffered at the hunds of
those it had a right to think would be
its friends, and Of those who, through
her own folly and fana,icisrn, have
been alienated from her. Bitter oppo-
sition comes from New England, and
We read that the South, almost to q
man. withheld its support. Oh the
ground that, until there was amnesty
aud perfect reconciliation. it ia mock.
cry to talk Of national harmony aud
sympathy in the face of the Christian
world. SO cogent is this adverse rea
soning. that we note. almost with
smile. that Senator Cameron, who,
like Mr.. Gilpin when he saw the Gus.
toner come in, ''hus frugal mind"
has introduced promptly au amnesty
bill.
In view Of the past, recent and re-
mote. we are bound 10 say that the at.
ttude the South. not reseutfully, bat
justly, takes towards what was once
known as the city of "Brutherly
Love, is most natural. Let us look
ut it for II moment. Tho old unie 6eiiuna
times, ii there was any community de-
voted, in fact obsequious, TO the South,
it was Philadelphia. We of Baltimore
were fur less demonstrative. 1t WAS
SO. socially and politically. Her great
medical schools were filed from the
South. Her faculty were recruited
thence. Chapman. Mitchell, Gibson,
Mutter, Horner, Dunglisou, Rogers
and Dickson. were oil from the South.
Boarding schools were filed by South
ern girls. A we'll known row of brick
honses-the summer home of the
Yards and Deasea. aud Manigaults,
and Draytons, was named ''Sou,h
Carolina" Into the lap of PhiIadel-
phia Southern wealth was literally
poured. Politically. it was the sane
thing. Nowhere. by it's local magis-
tracy first, and afterwards by Federal
authority, was the fugitive slave law
more vigorously enforced. That now
eminent Radical, Mr.. Is. Ii. Brewster,
Geary's first Attorney General, nnd
George Alberti, were always on hand
with writs and handouts. and Mr.. Iu-
graham's process ready. Under q
laundering Charge from Judge Grier,
Cislner HaC way was indicted for high
treason, and tho Cumberland Aboli-
tioniats mnlcted in damages. When IL
hull was built for free discussion, aud
sporadic negroes sate on platform
with whites, it Was mobbed, and, mer-
chants aud traders app!sudiug. burned
it to the ground.
In 1856, when John Browns ruid
occurred, pro slavery Philadelphia was
stirred to its hcnrt Of hearts, aud pro-
spective "leaguers" and wnr-mougers.
III spirit. danced joyously round the
Charlestown gibbeJ. 1t was the centre
of the popularity of Henry Clay, au-
thor of the second fugitive slave law,
and never and nowhere was Mr.. Web.
ster more h0uored than after his 5th Of
March speech in its favor. Such, for
more than half IL century, was Phila-
delphia, and to Philadelphia, as Of
yore, the South. in it's hour Of trial,
had right to look, if not for sympa-
thy, certainly for gentle judgment. 1t
was hoped that "neither heat, nor
frost, nor thunder" would wholly do
away "the marks Of that which once
had been" Alasi it was snare aud
delusion. No city Of the North. not
even Boston, rushed into the war with
moro ierocity than did Philadelphia.
Nowhere, except in Baltimore. was
there SO much social Intolerance and
persecution. Nowhere was society
more completely disloca.ed. Eminent
and perfectly patriotic cit2eus were
prescribed and insulted. Senator
Bayard. the elder, was mobbed; the
two MIR. Iagcrsolls boaton and cause
lessly imprisoned, ono Of them uur-
rowly escaping death. II was the per-
feet carnival Of fauaticism. Aud over
ull. nua this made it 80 much the
worse, the spirit Of iucre. foAterel in
the ultrn-protection Eot-bed. prodomi-
mated. 1t was the great centre Of CON
tracts and oil sorts Of jobbury. From
his luir, the old lion OF protection sen /
his grows. or vlcarinusly preached
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