The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1875-05-13

suffering in that oity, for the want Of the
common necessaries of life. However
astounding the statement may be, its
accuracy cannot be doubted, and the
suggestion by the council that the more
fortunate should divide n part Of what
they have with the sufferers, although
addressed only to the people of the un-
fortunate city, should find wider appli-
cation, and meet with generous response
from all sections of the Union. Many Of
her inhabitants are dependent entirely
upon their daily labor on the levcc or in
the workshop for bread. Under the
pitiless persecution and plundcring of
the Presidents pets, the fountains of
commerce have been dried up, trnde of
nli kinds has been blighted, and the re-
sources to which the people have been
accustomed to look for food, entirely cut
off. The result is, many nre dying from
absolute starvation, while greater pro-
portion of tho population than ever be-
fore seek relief from the misery of their
condition by suicide. This seems to be
true, not only of the lower classes, but of
those who hive been gently raised but
whose fortunes have either been swept
away by the Wholesale dcsolation or gra-
dually absorbed by the bandit tax col
lectors of Kellogg Such is the effect of
the system which has been adopted to-
ward the South, truthfully snys the Lou
isville Courier-JOurnal. And here we
may properly introduce some striking
passages from the very able speech Of
Senator Ransom, Of North Carolina, ninic
before the adjournment Of Congress, on
Southern nffairs. Speaking of the policy
which has brought 80 much ruin upon
n once prosperous people, he says:
Beneath the whitening shadow of it's
bayonets the prosperity and freedom of
half million people have sickencd and
fallen to the earth, and its depressing in
fiucnces have extended far beyond the
limits of n State and are felt in every
limb and artery of the republic. The
commerce of a nation lifts its hands
against the wrong; the manufactures of n
country protest against the inpolicy; all
the trade of the States condemns the
folly; NIL the industries Of the republic
resist the injustice: all the humnnitics of
the people rebuke the expressions that
have depressed, paralyzcd, and exhausted
their best resources and cast frightful
cloud upon their hopes. Every interest
in the Union sympathizcs with the mis-
struck her down hos staggered the cncr-
gies of the North and the East Her
blight and the adversities Of her South
ern sisters have extinguished the fires in
your furnaces, closed the doors of your
mercantile palaces, left your ships to
decay in the docks, stopped the
music of your looms, and have taken
their daily bread from the mouths
of the noble sons Of lnbor who sup
port your wealth, prosperity and glory.
'When the Senator from Delaware
(Mr: Baynrd) declared to you year since
in clear words, that Justice to the South
wns self-protection to the North he
uttered great truth, one full of wisdom
and full of patriotism. Time has vcri-
fed his craftsmanship. Justice is the
of perpetual life, the only principle of
permanent possession, and whenever or
wherever it is violated, the sooner and
the more palpnblc its retributions come,
the better will it be for the country.
That relation which makes the prosperity
of each section depend upon the pros
perity Of the other sections of the Union.
is the guarantee of it's justice and the
indissoluble bond of it's integrity: and
every American patriot must rejoice when
he behOlds n conspicuous illustration of
the sublime principle 1t is the union
of duty. of interest, of self preservation
thnt binds together more firmly than
laws, the union of the States and the
| people. Inc destruction OF mntcrial
prosperity in the South has been fol-
lowed, as the night follows the day, by
the arrangement, depression and dis
tress of all interests ut the North: and
the injury to constitutional liberty com
mitted on the State of Louisiana NAV
not rs promptly, but will as surely, ex-
tend its dangerous Influences over the
free institutions of the country. An
organ, n limb, one of the senses OF the
human frame, can no more be cut off or
manned. without impniring the vital
strength of the whole system than can n
section or State of this Union be mu-
tilatcd, stricken down or dishonored,
without weakening, corrupting, degr,d-
ing the power and character Of the whole
republic.
In another portion OF the same admi-
rablc speech, he says: How long can
the North survive the slavery md ruin
of the South? This country cannot en-
durc with onc-half of its limbs and body
paralyzcd and decnying The genius of
ancient Greece was taxed to invent the
most cruel md appropriate punishment
for the murderer who had slain his own
brother. The unhappy felon was doomed
to have the dead body Of his victim
chained to his own living limbs, and to
carry the frightful burden wherever he
moved. The penalty was greater than
the crime. The wretched and accursed
frntricide found relief only in dcnth by
contagion from the mortified corpse to
IL l. l.