The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1875-04-07

uuCe, am positive IN tne b0llOt thHt we
must get white men, born or bred in the
South, to rule it, and that State Govern
ments of negroes and handful of white
Republicans for the sake of it, will not
stand up. Therefore, I oppose force
bills, if their objects ore suspected of
being political and trifing with State
Governments, according rs they stand in
the path of certain ambition Or ont OF
it."
The GHOST OF THE CoSrEpErAIr-Th
| spectacle of three or four-score ex-Con-
federate soldiers in the Forty-fourth Con-
yress sits uneasily on tho finite patriotism
of the truly loyal editor. In his mind
eye, which is as limited in its range rs is
his mind, he sees these eighty ex-rebels
clad in all the habiliments of war; and
lifting aloft great swords rocking with
the gore of their countrymen. The clink
floor of the Senate chamber, and they arg
putting up their tents in the hall Of tho
House of Representatives.. The lissi-
pated fragments OFF efferson Davis armies,
like the skeletons of the scattered tribes
OF Israel in the inspired vision Of the
prophet, aro reforming rank by rank and
regiment by regiment, and their cry id
tho battle shout of the rebellion, ''On to
Washington" Lee, like another Cid
Campeador, rides at the head of the host.
and that "old yell" fills tho nir We IRE
not sensational, nor are we drawing upon
our imagination; we are only echoing the
opinions daily Expressed in scores of
newspapers in the land, and the sort of
stuff upon which the Administration ia
trying to rebuild its shattered fortunes.
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was stopped. The war has been over for
| more than ten years, and VIC believe the
nation is safe, at least from the South. Its
enemies are in its own household, and
the great danger now ID their presence
| therein and their insidiousncss At all
| events, the people have been fed on pow
| der end whiskey long enough. The
thieves are within, and not without and
the watchdog which is oftenest appealed
to Gun be given little needed rest The
! fact is, the soldiers on both sides are less
concerned about the matter than tho
civilians It is only your loyal editor
nowadays who employs military phrases
and marshals his words as he would q
regiment Of raw recruits. Every day we
have evidences that the men who wore
the blue on they who were clad in the
shabby grew, and who crossed swords
4 mAtA CACu OLucIs uhNc the causes
of the struggle in which they engaged,
in generous determination. 1t was iust
little more than year ago, that tho
noblest eulogy, pronounced over the re-
mains of Charles Summer on the floors of
Congress, was spoken by Colonel Lamar,
a representative Southern man and an
original secessionist who had resigned
his seat in the same hall, fourteen years
before, to buckle on q sword in behnlf of
what he believed were the rights of his
people, and certainly against the cause
of the Union. In that same speech, he
expressed tho hope that the names of the
battle-fields of the civil conflict would for
ever remain on the flags and among
records of the republic, and declared
that the memory Of the valor displayed
on both sides in those Lattles-by rebel
and loyallst alike-wus n common heri-
tago of the North and South. and 80
long rs it would survive would be COM
ton of n feeling of enmity And who
doubts that the chivalrous Lamar spoke
for nine-tenths Of the men who, buoyed
up by q course they believed high and
holy, for moro than four years opposed
the advance of our cOnquering armies?
And it was just about this timc one year
ago that tho first floral tribute, laid upon
a monument raised over tho Confederate
dead ut Montgomery. Alabama, wus
placed there by men who had fought for
the Union, while the first salute fired in
honor of the event came from the muZ-
zles of the cannon Of the United States,
loaned for the occasion On April 27.
last year, the Southern fields, which
bring forth flowers earlier than ours.
having blossomed and budded, and be-
ing as green and beautiful as ours wero
bleak and bare, the ceremony of decorat-
ing the graves of the Confederate dcnd
was celebrated, but not tomb was ne
elected in many towns, no matter whe-
ther it's occupant had been friend or foe.
And last year, on our own "Decorntion
Day." no distinction was made by the
\ Grand Army Of the Republic of New
York in the payment of the vernal and
Flora's tribute to the memory of the men
of the North and South who fell fighting
for what was and is their common land.
And 80 we tell the Bombastes Furioses OF
Congress-the great braves, who, like
Logan, carry thousand scalps in their
belts, and the warriors of tho editorial
closet, to cease their efforts to renew the
strife and to force Its ugly memories
upon us. As Senator Ransom said few
days ago, speaking to tho President OF
the chamber, but with the whole nation
for his audience, "Is this hostility be-
tween the sections never to cease2 Is
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