The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1874-11-17

paper representative OF the ability and
conservatism Of Republicanism in this
country expressed its extreme con.
cern, during the late election, 90 to the
probable conduct of the Southern De.
pocracy in the event OF the defeat of
Gen. Dix. The New York World says
the Nation spoke in earnest, and says
it has no doubt that there are hundreds
if not thousands Of respectfully edu-
Gated men in the Northern States who
have gradually brought themselves
during tho last unhappy decade of our
history to think of tho people of the
Sonthern States very much as tory
English amen habitualIy think of the
people OF Ireland. or us tho Austrian
conservatives used to think of the
Lom bardo- Fenetians in the daik k days
of that domination over Italy Which
Austria accepted to her own torment
aud to the discomfort Of all Europe at
the hands OF the allies of 1915. TIE
World conceives that most of these
doubters concerning the South are for
the most part people whose experience
OF public affairs dates 10 further back
than the outbreak of the late civil war.
TO us it il almost uncomfortable that in
this age of steam aud telegraph, intel
!lgcnt men in one section of the same
country shonll be completely befoeged
rs to tue spirit aud character of the
people of auolher section. Although
subj .ctel since the close of the war to
vtXi,ions aud irrational tyranny,
which has disturbed their peuce, me
naced their lives aul euteu out their
substance, the great uIi,ss OF the Son;h-
ern people have remained Qniet under
these lnhictions, and il may well he
doubted whether even the violent and
lawlcSs elements, which are found in
the Suntb. as in all communities, have
coH mitted q. nany ontruges since the
war upon property and life. in proper
ton to population, AZ have been perpe-
trated in the same period in the North.
ora States. The World Justly remarks
that the internal history Of the Con-
federated States during the period Of
he civil war, OF which. unfortunately,
little more is really known ut the North
today than Of the internal history of
Japan during the same period, bore
the most striking witness to the essen
TALLY law-ubiding character and the
Fundamental common sense of the
Southern people. Public order, the
rights of property. the whole of that
vast police life in which the secret of
the civilization Of great communities
most truly resides. were es little dis
turbel in the Southern States beyond
the range of military operations us in
the North. Tuat the relations of the
black and white races during that time
were certainly very free from being re-
lations of reciprocal hostility, is abso-
lutely demonstrated by the simple fact
that nothing resembling negro insnr-
rection occurred in any part of the
South. Tho emancipation of the ne
groes has not resulted in war OF
races. but on the contrary, rs might
be evident even to prejadiced Northern
observers. from the vast products OF
Southern agricultural labor which con.
tinue annually to be sent to Northern
ports. aud from the lending articles of
commercial and manufacting enter
prise. the two races arc working har-
moniously together for their com mon
material welfare.
So far from the defeat of General
Dix, or, what is moro to the purpose.
the almost universal defeat of the Re-
publican party in the United States,
hayi g ipcited the Southern people to
revival of the secession spirit, or to
tho antngonism of whites against
blacks. the very contrary, 80 far as our
observation extends, seems to be- the
fact. We find Senator Gordon, Of
Georgia. in meeting called to cele-
brate the political victory, invoking
his audience to permit him to pledge
them In the Senate to renewed fidelity
to the constitution. while his hudieucs 9
received his address with enthusiastic
cheers. We find other Southern speak
ers expressing like patriotic senti-
ments, and the Southern press c,lling
for moderation and for the strict recog-
milton of the political rights guaran-
teed to the negroes. Facts like these
saonll convince candid aud independ-
ent Journalists in the North that tile
South is solldly and sensibly Conservu.
tive aud aw-abid;ng, and quite fit to
be entrusted ut least with local self
government, which is the height of her
present political aspirations.
Baltimore Sun.
BISHOP ELLIorr. Tho Rev. 3. B.