The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1875-02-16
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"A HsAlshy Change. ,-
fsssiss.a. GGA4sa. sasssshs county 0
.Aswn-right scare In the message he
nSea* TO Congress about Arkansas. It
..xaA the. ring of military order, He
Aisososed thefell purpose to beat down
: BY force all opposition to his designs.
He srrsyed himself like a malignant
szste against any possible change BY
: tho people Of the South Of their fas.
-oaliy governments, or Improvement of
tksts esspet1bagee institutions. His pli-
Sat followers, particularly those of the
1aser sort, met in secret and attempted
es eielhe eAet President General With
2arger and diotatorial powers. But the
result, as given in the dispatches, was
.x ''signal defeat for him, and the
aoautry viii now breathe more freely.
: aud consider the progress il has made
towards better things in the face Of all
this persecution. Really. much las
Seen done within the last. two years.
. Oar neighbor, the Augusta Chronicle
esd Sentinel happily sums up the case,
lad presents many causes of oongratu-
datien. Is.ssss:~n
At each election, Law aud rder,
peace, good government and justice
= have gained, strength, and military
despottsm and civil nsuEpssion have in
equal Iatto, declined. Slowly but
steaaily. Ike the inexorable march of
= rstsib gticn, the wrong has been going
doom ~ tkia oohntry, and the right
hasa been ,6oAinG, up. Last fall wit.
0essed' . gigantic leap in tho came di-
~reotion. A whirlwind swept over this
= country. and felled the rotten timber
. all AleRG u &Saokr The next Federal
Hosss OF Rspresen tatives 10 anti Radi-
.sal. anti-usurpstion. anti-oppression,
<oud to sam up all in one epithet-anti-
Grant. This year the Cyclone has suo-
eeeded tho tornado Last fall the
House felt the pniifying teuoh of an
aroused popular ndignation-weary of
&ozoe. weary OF fraud. yearning for
.:,vsHue and good order. and determined
toptt The lie OF the parasite and the
-haYonet OF the bully down. This
rrwintef che flame OF Regeneration has
. seachsd ths Federal Senate. State
SITE 0tate has pejacted the Senatorial
heiSSnen sAd A$4jng fsptaths os an
inpddeut despotism. and chosen up
right and decent men in their stead.
Deep speaks unto deep; Wisconsin
ssads greeting 70 Florida, and Texas
cssponds TO New York. The country
Aas sho wn- that II il sick to the core Of
~sts heart Of the present regime. and is
- .fn - a. h.s.
!Dnder these tcirpumstapces. then.
9th che skies fairly roseate with hope,
''end s.ery dey whspering . new mes
cage of encouragement, 'fde head aud
front Of tried aud condemned faction
lsanches at the heads OF the people q
Aaessage OF impotent defiance. He will
do this Ind that and the other, as il
he had only to speak and the thing
'Were done. The savage threats OF the
-Aekansas naseags.t when Considered in
-oonncction, =. With the . recent utter,
wholesale aud reiterated defeats and
.rebukes Of che man who utters them,
.Srtags to our mind the biting satire of
the prophet of old-perhaps thy God
10 asleep or on q journey aud cannot
hear thee or make bare his arm. It is
one thing to say and another to do,
aud with the enormous aud unprece-
aented revulsion of sentiment, and
consequent change OF power, that has
~itdin tho last three months taken
place in the United States, We have no
tear Of any further overt acts toward
edespotism, however good the will of
those who would like to commit the
crime. Honest old John Bupyan tells
-ss Of a giant that sat in his cave. be-
'atrewn with the bones of past victims,
bat now. bsing disabled by many
'sArewd brushes. could do no more
shaa bite his nails at tho travellers
,paatdng by. In President Grant aud
his desperate advisers. We behold the
same picture in our own time. The
.peaio. We believe. is about over, and,
go far as heard from, nobody hurt.