The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1874-02-11
COLUMBIA, s. G.
Wednesday Morning. February II. IA.
OonnioN SENSE m TIE SoUTH.-It is
that South Carolina is deter


dreds and thousands OF fine young fel-
lows ready for. the adventure and eager
to try their chances in that community.
But the people OF that section thought
the only attention worth paying to the
new oomers was to burn them out or
shoot them. SO only the caspet-bag po-
litioians remained, and they were driven
to Sambo. But new ideas may open
new possibilities, and the proposition
OF South Carolina is the keynote Of the
hope Of the Southern States.
f. Neu York Herald.
It is boyiaa fiction and boyish won
der that cats have nine lives. But what
is this tenacity of life, to the vitality
which it is tho especial privilege of lie
to enjoy in this mundane sphere Of
ours? The demands Of the ago require
another Mrs. Opie to present this inte-
resting subject in its. proper light. The
Iiehas expanded with ths civilization of
the times. It has acquired constitu-
ency, wing fondiy regard it as no longer
convenient expedient, but promising
virtue. IF, an satirist has said, san
eminent fool muet be fool of parts."
consummate liar must both show origi-
nality in'their invention and unscrupu-
lopsness inlstioking to lies. No power
OF reason OF olearness of exposure must
ever.sindn6a him to give in. He must
remember that lie we'll stuck TO is as
good rin many modern communities ns
the truth itself, and has not half its in
conveniences. Once lie, therefore,
always a. lie. II the saturnine Swift
could lookinto current events here, and
learn, what whoppers are told overy day,
and how,far they are credited, he would
ohuckle with renewed satisfaction ovar
his famous doctrine. that lie will run
round the world. before truth can get
on his boots to pursue it..
Eight years ago. South Carolina ini.
tiased stopsto bring in immigrants. De-
vastated. az she had been, and utterly
impoverished by war, she nevertheless
sent her greetings North and to Europe,
with earnest invitations to immigrants
to come in and settle her wide unooon-
pied domain. She maintained O COM
missioner abroad for some years, seeking
by speech, personal intercourse and
publications, to convince the Northern
Europeans of her advantages. But i'm
migration agents from the North and
Northwest poisoned their minds with
misrepresentation, and prevented their
coming hither. They were greedy for
them themselves. and there was no
panic or financial stringency then TO
cripple them in their designs, So much
for the Herdld's lamentations about
eight years ago. The hundreds and
thousands mentioned: hy The HernzA AS
ready to come and eager to try their for
tunes in the South, and who were burnt
up or shot. are pnre fictions, every one
OF them. There has never been O day,
before the war or since, when fine young
fellows would not have been welcomed
most heartily. Only the carpet-bag
politicians remaired, according to the
Herald, and they escaped by easconsin
themselves snugly in the bosom of
Sambo? Does it pretend to think that
these people went to Sambo from neces-
sity? Does the Herald not know that
they were sent out in many cases, and
came expressly to deceive him, ride ON
him into political power. to suck the
country dry through the aid of his vote,
and then at last to desert him, and the
country itself, aud leave them to the
roin they. had produced? II the Herald
would take paine to examine, it wooid
discover that The chief opposition to the
coming In of the honest immigrant
comes from tho carpst-baggers. They
dread and discourage those who come,
not to plunder and destroy, but to work
for fair wages, TO add to the productive
resources Of the State. and to get an
honestly acquired foothoId on it's soil.
Work and honesty are two things they
hold in mortal detestation.
The Herald may do immense service
to truth and to the South, which re.
eeives little iustics in tho Northarn