The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1874-03-18

your fellowcountrymen ali honor and
success in the new era dawning on you,
| am, with respect. your friend,
". T. SHERMAN, General
TIE DILEMMA OF THE RADICALS The
Washington correspondent of the At
lantn Herald writes:
The past week has not been without
it's leading Incidents, thnt, it is to be
hoped, will give some relief to those
portious Of the South that are suffering
from mismanagement and idiotic con-
troll South Carolina, with her horde of
ignorant, degraded and INSCRIPTIONS
Legislators. ready to sell "bills," like Ju.
das did b., Lord, for so many pieces Of
silver, is coming in at last for share Of
Repu blican sympathy. The cartoon and
accompanying editorial squib in Ha.-
per's Weekly, of March II, is very fair
reflex Of intelligent public opinion here,
in Administration circles. A leading
Republican Representative from Illinois
stated to me, o few moments since, that
''the conduct Of the negroes in the Lee
gisature of South Carolina, and their
white co,V1'ereS, was q failure of ignorant
depravity and Legislative vice, that de.
manded the earnest attention of the
General Government. A straw may
break the cunel's back The very DO.
verify and destitution Of the plundered
and negro ridden Palmetto State may
yet be the means Of attracting such o
public attention to the condition of her
| internal affairs. as to excite the most
active measures of relief for her people.
The leaders of the Republican purity are
shrewd. ond mauy Of them are taking q
back sent on the negro question. This
is evidenced very plainly by the quiet
slecp which the civil rights bill is tax
| ing. y few more such "straws" as the
present degraded, cong,omerate Assem-.
bly Of Sonth Carolina will "cook the
goose" of "negro equality" for the pre-
seut. Many things which have trans.
pired in the State never reach the ear OF
the reading North.
y blasphemous prayer. o(Ierel mp by
Rev. ~ Byron Sunderland, chaplain OF
the Senate, was another feature of the
week just closed. AS speciuaen Of the
prevailing style, aud as model OF
Christian charity and forgiveness, we
append the reverend doctors Invocation
He said:
ooh Lord. our God, We come in this
place to deplore before thee the spirit OF
lying which is abroad; and we beseech
thee to rebuke the giant demon of Sian.
der. that stalks forth. casting upon all
the earth fearful shadow. Paraiyze
the hand that writes wi!ful dctraction
palsy tho tongue that utters wunton ca.
lumny-the things which tend to under.
mine all confidence III the good, and to
give malignant power to all the bad
elements, for the decentralization and
destruction of society. Let thy hamiu g
spirit take vengeance npon the false ac
cuSor, and consume this spirit Of ruin
from ali the land. This We ask il the
name ana for the sake Of him who wa,
truth Itself.
This hypocri!ical representative Of til,
ruling pnri;ancal clement was moved
thus To snpplicatr. on reading repor!
to the Dctroi: Post, by It's Washington
correspondent, that old Xl.l Chandler,
the great i[ichigande., had been led oul
OF the Senate dead drunk, few DAYS
previous, by p;ous John Sherman, and
put to sleep on /. sofa, iu the Finance
Committees room. This slauder on old
Lick, that be would allow Sherman, or
any other m7n, to ''put him in his little
bed, when he was dead drunk" wa.
too much for this Servant of the Lord y
~ to bear, That morning, when lie
cutcred the Senate, you could plainly
see something was on his mind. Elan
nigan stopped the "wobbe' of his fob
chain; Goldthwaite woke up from hi,
morning nap; while Zack himself wa.
'aS happy MS big sunlower." Sun
derland whispered his b!asphemy, which
the recording angel must have blottaG
with n tear.