The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1875-03-02

justice be done, though the heavens
fall"
"TRooPs FOR THE SOUTH. 1T has
been tho custom Of the Radicals to re-
spond 10 ali requests that the Fedora:
troops might he Withdrawn from the
South with the loud declaration that,
under the Constitution and tue laws,
all the States were open to the occu.
pancy OF the nrmy of the United
States, and that il troops were with
drawn from one State because their
presence there WAS Objectionable to
! tho people, it would only be 70 send
them into another State wuers similar
objections might be raised. No doubt
this will be the Radical answer to the
recommendation OF the Congressional
| Louisiana Com mi:tee, that the Federal
<xoops be withdrawn from the much-
GQyerned S;ate Of Louisiana aud the
! peoPle left 70 govern themselves.
What Is meant, Ut course, ,hy the COM
pittee. aud by every sensible man wi ho
makes a similar demand, is that the
troops shall be withdrawn from all in
terferenoe with State affairs. Not
withstanding the howl of the truly
loyal Radicals, no one in the South OBJ
lects to the msre presence of the boys
IN blue, and If they were not always
forced to present themselves in the
disadvautageous character of an in
strument of unlawful oppression, no
doubt they would receive as much
generous treatmsQ in the South as
they might elsewhere.
Fort Adams, with its frowuing bat.
Elements, its gay artillsrymen and its
evening gun and brass band perform.
apce. is one Of the most attractive fea-
lures of the fashionable resort OF New
port, Rhode Island. It is one of those
things that Newport would not givo
up on any account; for, in the classic
language Of Col. Sellers, "there's mil
lions in it," But suppose some fine
day the gates of Fort Adams should be
swung open. and band of dashing fel.
lows should march out to the tune of
1.-The Girl Left Behind Me-" on past
the weeping maidens thronging the
porticos Of the hotels, and should cap
ture both capitals of Rhods island.
prevent the Legislature from sitting in
either, aud proclaim to the world tnat
all the people of Newport-who really
do nothing worse than rob strangers
through all sorts of pious devices-are
a lot of banditti. what would General
Burnside have to say about that in the
Senate? II one walks down to the
battery with a New Yorker. the New
Yorker will point with pride to Go
vernor's Island, and inform the
stranger that he is gazing upon New
York's last ditch, aud that even low
it is throbbing with life that is ready
at any moment to be laid down in de-
fence of the Empire City. But if Gen.
Sheridan should drop down to the bat
terry and call over to the island for the
throbbing, patriotic life to come over
to help him kick out Mayor Wickhsm
and substitute General Dix for Go.
vernon Tilden, the New Yorker would
probably regard this last ditch as a
hiving plnoe for despotism, and would
not be so proud of the boys in blue
who erst strolled the psrapets.
In times of war and invasion q
strong infusion of military is very re-
assuring. In times Of peace dash o.
military is highly ornamental to any
city or watering place. Under such
circumstances no one can object to the
presence Of soldiers, but the South is
not at all exceptional in wishing to see
the military kept in place; and when
the whole South join in the recon.
mendation, made by the Congressio onal
Committee, that the soldiers be with.
drawn from Louisiana and the people
be left to govern themselves, they only
do what the people OF ishode Island
or New York would do under similar
circumstances. Let them stay and
sport their uniforms, and dance with
the girls and fire their evening guns
and run down the stars and stripes to
the roll Of the drum, and generally
add to the hilarity OF the occasion and
the picturesqueness of the scene, and
be welcome to them. But withdraw
them from participation in Lhe manage.
ment OF our civil affairs, for that We can
} attend to for ourselves and interference
only destroys the hsrmonies of color,
contour and courtesy that the ing.
ling spurs, the olanking sabres, the
waspish Waists and the plumed and be.
spangled young military bucks might
otherwise lend to fashionable society
in the South. There is no opening in
the South for military statesmen.
There is room for few good.looking,
well-mannered. waltsing sous.lieuten.