The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1874-05-01
COLUMBIA, S. c..
Friday Morning. May !. 1874.


which aifliot our Southern communities,
but are not caLdid enough to admit
their causes, or to indicate the proper
remedies The turbulence in Arkansas,
the desolation OF Louisiana, the hope.
less proAigaoy which rules in South Ca
rolina, form pretty themes for sensa-
tionsI newspaper discussion. But only
here and there is there the admission u
made that these troubles spring from the
reconstruction measures of Congress, in
nnsettling the basis Of good and sensi-
BILE government, upon which only secu
rity aud prosperity can rest. The New
York Herald signals the symptoms of
q deep-seated disease" prevailing all
over the South and South west, but,
with many expressions of interest aud
sympathy. may be regarded in it's gene
raj course of comment and suggestion,
as IN obstruction to tho recovery by
these States of any wholesome aud last.
ing prosperity. It is powerless before
the evils which have been generated by
bad government, and by the spirit of
sectional strife and oppression which
has been exalted into ruling principle.
1t says nothing upon which we can rely
with any hope and confidence as q
remedial of our difficulties and trou.
bles. Look at them as they are sum-
married. by our contemporary, the
Richmond Dispatch: 1.-THE lands are de-
preoiated: their productiveness is cur.
tailed; the public charges are increased; !;
large population OF improvident and
badly-rcgulated people is added to the
constituent body, imposing burthens
and paying but small share of them;
the public councils are degraded. the
public administration vexed. and all the
operations Of government and domestic
economy 60 revolutionized and dis
ordered, that discomfort and tlespond-
eacy have taken the place of hope aud
oontentment in the public mind. Men
are impatient OF the burthens imposed
upon Them" There is. of course, a
silver lining to this cloud. Certain
States and certain sections of States are
better off than others. They will gene
rally be found to be those least directly
under the influence Of the National Co
vernment, or the vulgar and corrupt
carpet-bag despotisms. which it has
erected. They are those parts OF the
country where the white population
holds clear, undisturbed majority and
controlling influence. Such is, to some
extent. the case in the upper tier OF
Counties in this State. Such is the fact
in parts of Virginia, and. notably. in
Georgia. But this last mentioned State
has not wholly esos Jed the consequences
OF tue anomalous and painful state OF
things from which others suffer more
keenly, as the language of the E1ecu-
tive Committee of the Georgia Agri-
cultural Society. quoted by Radical
contemporary. in this oity, few days
ago, shows. 'We are filed" they say,
with apprehension and humiliation
Wheu We confess the fact that the men
in Georgia, who profess to get their liv-
ing by planting and farming, are not
making their bread" A sad picture,
indeed, and a proof, perhaps. of the
universality OF the desolation in the
South from the causes We have men
toned. It is more likely, however. to
have been the purpose OF the committee
&c sho= .hs unsatisfactory zssu!. of cz-
elusive cotton planting. It certainly
cannot bo tortured by any but Radical
logic into the proof Of injury inflicted
upon Georgia by her rejection of Radi.
ca'ism, and it cannot justify the Union
in saying, "their business lapguishes,
education is discouraged and eqnal
rights are name" This statement is
as untrue as the one which aoco mpanies
it. that il South Carolina, owing to
Radical ascendanoy, "the people are
free, untrammeled, protected in their
lives and property. every encouragement
is given 10 industry, education and
peace,"& &c.
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