The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1875-01-29

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T4n Irssoosh E oTr rgas, sourrHl rl A,1buin1,IsoAr ui1,Is
RHPuBni6s! he . South 9sAmerioan
States esatp perpetual condition. of
unrest. Itexuites no earnest inquiry
or abiding. public interest To learn that
fresh war has broken out between
tbe~rival tyrants.s The American Peace
Society itself has given up all hope of
m king the lion lie down peacefully
b, side the lamb in those ar.stricken
regions. And yet we are assured by
numerous travellers and foreign resi-
dents in those States, that the people
upon whom so many storms OF revolu-
tion burst are by no means ferooions
in their nature. On the contrary, they
have mild and peaceful dispositions.
and would vastly prefer to sit, every
man under his own vine and fig tree,
and enjoy the labor of their hands.
The bad reputation given to that whole
region is simply through the deviltry
and revolutionary machinations of an
Infamous act of plunderers and aspi-
rants for power. These men nuke
their living by stirring up sanguinary
revolutions. They keep the bayonet
always in plsy; they drive the unwill.
ing people to distracting wars. THUS.
in Peru at the present time, the graft.
flying progress which the people have
made to higher civilization has been
disturbed by the revolutionary carpet.
bagger, Pierols. Phus, Costa Rica,
about to enter upon an era Of pros-
perity, has been plunged into q war
with Salvador and Guatemala. Bar.
rios, the President of Guatemala, Ia an
overbearing tyrant, who incarcerates
oitizenB II they oriticise his political
action. So Ecuador under Moreno,
with q republican constitution en-
bracing all that the term implies. is in
o beastly state OF subjeotion to the
autoorat who, with much of Ben. But
1er'a antinathy to Newspaper men. has
kept an editor seven months in o filthy
hole OF O prison, for no other reason
than that he suggested that the coun-
try had q free. constitution which
seemed to have been violated. AS an
instance Of the deviltry which per-
vades unfortunate Ecuador. We quote
the following from the letter of q cor
respondent Of the San Francisco
Chronicle:
'''rhls Nero of South America held
an invsterats hatred towarda p.omi.
nent citizen and his family. He has
his own characteristic and bloody way
OF putting his enemies at rest. In this
last case, he had disposed of all except
q woman. Her he had arrested, and,
guarded by fle of soldiers, led to his
two bastiles-one constructed for him
self in case of emergencies, the other
to put his friends out of the way
when desirable. In the latter bnstile,
the woman was beheaded, and, horri.
BILE to relate, Garcia had her brains
fried In her blood to eat tham. This,
he said. forever cleansed the country
OF it's enemies. Atrocious and brutal
as this act of oannibaIism seems, the
history of the man guarantees that he
was capable of it. The Spanish Jour-
nails are giving wide circulation to the
heinous deed. and some Of them call
upon the civilized governments to in.
terfere and punish the monster"
The. revolutionary oaldron is also
boiling in Columbia, while Chill is
trying to settle down aud be at peace
with herself and all the world. It is
evident that the South American
States need to be purified of carpet
baggers. They make substantial
o'A'Noo W prosperity auu pohC6 Wueu-
ever their rulers remember that they
are republican presidents and not die
tators. We ourselves. intimates the
Louisville Courier journal, are not ex-
empt from similar experience of
vampire.like rulers thrust upon States
with all the natural conditions of a
great prosperity. Louisiana. to-day,
is under the heel of a military eatrap.
The people. like those of the South
American States. are not revolutionary
in their proclivities. but an eternal
bayonet policy will make them 80. We
are supposed to be model republic,
an examplar of republican institutions;
but, surely, if our mission is to repub.
licanize the world. our example ia q
bad one to our South American neigh
bors. The Radical party has brought
derision upon the very name "Repub-
lican." aud IL is left for the people to
redeem their honor by dethroning the
MoreDos and Pierolas, who have be.
come fire. brands in a once peaceful
and happy republic. ~
"And now" plains the Omaha