The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1874-01-13
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Tuesday Morning. january 49, 1874.
Willingness 60 Receive }Immisrents No,
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tendent ofsshs Lnnatic Asylum, to .
friend North. who is thinking Of coming
to South Carolina. and consulted DR..
Ensor in reference to the advantages of
settling hefe, has been made public: Its
general purpose seems to be good. and
its expressions, frank and oandid, but;
we are constrained to say. not correct.
The Doctor. announces that the Ku Klux
are all dead or imprisoned; that there is
tendency to correct high taxation and
irregularities" in the State Govern
.ment; and that corruption, proaigacy
and wrong-doing in the high places of
the State" will soon disappear .'5efore
the onward march Of in ntelleotual deve-
lopment and the diffusion OF education
among the masses cs the people, We
beg to differ from DR.. Ensor. There
has been q savage increase in the ASSESS
ment OF property. aggregating $26, 000,-
600 more than last year. Property has
sunk or shrnnk as much as that from
the valuation Of last year. So there is
really tax levied on more than $5O,-
100000 of pfpperty which does not
exist. The tax levy, if We include tho
special taxes imposed on tho Counties,
is the largest ever made in South Caro-
lima. These facts cannot be disputed,
and theyEemphatically contradict the
agreeable view which DR.. Ensor pre-
sents OF deorease, or tendency to de-
crease. in taxation. The onward march
of intellectual development, which is
fast putting to flight corruption and
proAigacy, is equally mythical. Educa-
sion and progress, so far ga connected
with or dependent on the State Govern
ment, ara stone dead. This is fact
just as incontestible as that OF the exist
enoe Of intolerable and grievous taxa
ton. The Doctor also lands the Gene
raj Assembly for blotting out tue fraud
ulent conversion bonde, and scaling. or
reducing, as he considers it, the public
debt. To all which, We have no objec.
ton. We have commended them for
the same thing. But it is, 80 far. only
tentative and experimental. II remains
to be seen whether any reduction of
debt has been effected or not.
We come now to q portion of DR..
Ensor's letter which is, no doubt, kind
ly meant. bat which is untrue in fact,
'and does the people OF South Carolina
injustice. he says they are becoming
more cosmopolitan, passions are subsid-
ing, and the ''prejudioes that once ex.
listed against persons who happened to
be born outside of the geographical
boundaries of South Carolina are fast
dying out" DR.. Ensof is very good to
be so complimentary, but he has come
too recently amongst us to understand
that he misconoeives the spirit Of the
people, and does not know the facts OF
history in the matter to which he refers.
There has never been any prejudice ex.
eroised in South Carolina against any
worthy persons born outside of its geo.
graphical limits. Never was there
human being from any country OF Eu-
rope. or from any State OF The North,
who was entitled, in his character and
department, to q gooG reception, who
oamo with good, honest intentions to
any part OF South Carolina, who was
not properly welcomed. OF course,
rascals and frebrands have met with re-
buffs occasionally, as it was natural and
proper that they should; but our policy
and our feelings have always been in
favor.of cordial admission OF the new
elements which give life, enterprise and
spirit to community without tarnish.
ing or derogating from its honor. Has
DR.. Ensor ever heard of Chancellor
Dunkin, Benz. Faneuil Hunt, James B.
Campbell, DR.. Gilman and hundreds of
other worthy citizens OF Charleston,
who were planted there from New
England soil, and have prospered and
been honored for the last half century?
Has he ever heard Of the Walluces, the
Bryces, the Ewarts, the Edgars, the
Crawfords, early settlers, coming from
foreign shores, and rearing families and