The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1875-04-02

OISCONSOLATE EATRlO1Hsr~xtp1 1B melan-
choly to think that suchS Ssanguine and
indomitable patriots as Massfs. Morton
and Butler ''despair Of thesrspublio.
pondent stated yesterday. takes q /, more
gloomy view of affairs than any other OF
the Republican leaders. He has NO doubt
that the South means to inaugnrnte an:
other rebellion, and he has doubts whe-
ther the North would be willing ito pile
up another great debt, even for the sake
of saving the Union. If the Senator
could stir up the South to another war,
and mako it believe that the North would
make no effort to put it down, hc would
be in better spirits. Such war might
save the Republican party, but it takes
two to make quarrel, and the South is
not going to fight again, even if it We're
able, with the possibility of such ull
effect of its belligcrency. Senator Nor
ton has the reputation of being one of
the most sagacious men of his party. and
if that reputation is we'll founded. he
must be M sure rs he is of his own exist
cnce, that the South has neither the
power nor the inclination to enter upon
another civil war. 1t lost in the lutr
struggle the only possibility it had OF
carrying such contest to successful
issue. Despoiled of its material wealth,
Its great generals and the flower of its
fighting population in the grave, and its
100000 of slaves converted, in the
event of war, into 1000, 900 of enemies, ii
has no dream of provoking another
struggle. If Morton thinks the powerful
and prosperous North would be unwilling
to increase the national debt, even for
the sake of saving the Union, how can he
pretend that the weak and impoverished
South would be willing to increase its
burthcns and miseries, to the risk of its
own 1ttcr annihilation, for no purpose
that any human being cnn conceive, and
that Mr.. Morton himself hns not assigned!
Whatever alienation of it's lot the
South desires, it knows perfectly well
can be only gained by peaceful and con.
stltutlonal methods within the Union,
and even If it were so demented as to
dream of any other resort, it would not
indulge such madness ut time when
the signs are auspicious of the re-estlb.
llshment of wise and conciliatory in.
fiuences at the seat of Federal power
Senator Morton's prophetic grOwlings
are but the complaints of the wolf in the
fable that the sheep lower down the cur
rent has muddiod the stream. OF course
Gen. Butler is also disconsolate. His
benevolent and sympathetic nature i.
shocked by the misery which lie con
ceives will ha suffered by his Southern
retainers in consequence of not being
suffered to persecutc their neighbors.
He is reported as saying "Our people
(the carpet-baggers and deluded negroes
being meant) will now be slaughtered
We had supposed, from their own ac
counts, that they had been slaughtered
in great numbers before, so that by this
time they were rs accustomed to it rs
eels to being skinned. We trust General
Butler will try and keep up his spirits
and not make Job Trottcr of himself
The only slaughter of his ''people" that
is likely to take place is of political
character, such as he himself has lately
suffered in Massachusetts. He may con.
slider such proceeding in his own case
as little better than murder, but the
country generally is not of that opinion.
The more of that kind of ''slaughter'
that occurs the happier will be the re-
suit to the best interests of society
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