The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1875-01-07
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Thursday Morning. January Z, 1875.
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The news from New Orleans, pub
lished- ine Jour despatohes, yesterday
and to. day. are Of the most startling
6haraoter; The sickening details are
all,spread before our readers. and we
need not repeat them. The CON.
spiracy which was poneooted in Wash
ington by the miserable minions Of an
interruptions and desperate despotio
power. has been carried out to the let
ter in ta4he Crescent City. such an
outrage upon a people. saoh wrong
against the sovereignty Of State. was
never perpesrated before in this coun.
try, pfolifie as it has been in its recent
adtniniutrasion, in outrages and In
faalmiesFfs The real fathers Of these
atrocities are Williams, the Attorney.
Geneyal, who carsies what little brains
the Governmeptf has at its disposal,
With p snpersbuudanos of blood-thirsty
malignity sapd venom, aided by some
turbulent and oowardly Senators. The
Exstutivs and the General sent ont
on,fha villainons mission, secretly at
ffst, are only their wretched tools
What they have done, and what they
further propose to do. has only tho
base motive OF the revenge of despioa-
BILE minds. the instructive hatred of
good order. security of rights embo-
{" died In q people, whose very breath OF
: 'lffeIis obedience to rightly constituted
; authority and readiness to die for
liberty and freedom. One other mo.
sivet il possible, baser still, is the des-
perate gambling for the retention of
power which they see fast gliding away
fron1 them. Revolving as are the actions
land sentiments of Sheridan. they are
more excusable than the language OF
Oonkling. Morton, Howe. hogan and
Edmunds in their vindioation, in their
apology for the lawleasness of the Go.
svernment. and: in their persistent
y efforts to gloss over and hide this, it's
worst and freshest infamy. He is but
d bfital dgsnt They are the Designers
and planners of the horrible game.
Riit:t e.! I'll! ao: assi!. unl-se She
American people have become meaner
chan slaves. unless they are indeed
ready to accept che purple and kiss tho
hem Of she usurpers' robes. unless
ehey have lost ell true manhood. oil
senae Of personal honor and State
pride. they will strike down these
creatures from the places of power
which they Disgrace. We shall see
this 'atrooious conspiracy denounced
from one end of the country to the
other, aud we shall see the formation
OF q public opinion which will tolerate
the raseally parties to it no longer
than,it will be necessary to get rid Of
them. They will meet their fate.
Their doom is sealed. They will go to
the exile contemned by their people.
wherei Butler. Oolfa1, Poland and @
dozen Others have gone before them.
and at last
ITO the vile dust from whence they sprung,
Unwept, unhonored and unsung."
What they have done was, perhaps,
necesearyato reveal them in all their
proper deformity. They now stand
exposed by this conspiracy to the con.
tempt OF every honorable mind, the
loathing of every generous heart in all
this broad land. Their rapacity for
power. their scorn of all right in a
people, their prostration before the
idol which commands butchery and
throttles liberty, have this compensa.
sion, at least, that they will bring upon
theft guilty heads the; swift and deci-
oive retrihation which they have pro.
voked aadirfchly deserve.
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