Year: 1865

Serious Objections or the south Car0lina


Chivalry to Standing Armies I'm Their


[From the Columbia (s C) Phoenix, May 1871


There Is no good pretext for conquerors keeping
up any longer the shows and exercises OF in
country On the part Of the people Of this State and Of
every Southern State this side Of the Missssipp all
struggle has ceased There embodied parties any
have been thrown down. We have neither arms nor
munitions OF war No banner Of the confederacy now
aouts the sky No commander calls upon troops either
Tor hight or fight The solders in scattered groups foot
sore, weary, In rags and without money, are
vending their weary ways homeward, to homes in ashes
heart or hope in any proongation of or renewal
Of struggle. In this condition Of things con.
be questioned by nona-the distribution Of armed ear


sons among the people throughout the country and from
the seaboard to the mountains, to be wholly with
out use pretex or necessity and may possibly lead
mischief The country in the first place, is in no
don TO feed its own people, and know too well tho
quered people TO suppose that they will orbcsr TO lay
hands upon all they find, without considering the
difference between the neuns d feun-the mine and
thine rude soldier-an arrogant overbearing captain
or goad by his persecutions the most
whc aS % and lead to acts
acts Of war and rebellion, and bring punishment
on the heads of the innocent and unoGendina.
patiently-retire 10 their several homes-succumb
to fortune against which they have been unable to
scurties Of private and purely domestic eopdsieu t
they wish only the privilege to do this Let them work
At their own grounds II allowed to do content
cabbages and potatoes and forbear all considerations Of
politics, nor ask again what rs done doing in Congress-
nor care to know who is in power WIG shall win the
present plaadits Of Denus Let the farmer substitute
the potato making for the President interest
the craftsman attend 10 his workbench se suor rVra
vany srven save themselves by qntting the last the
saw, the anvil and the hoe Briefly let them humble
have decreed as fitting their deserts IN Ss tSs humtv
they may probably deserve more gracious countensnce
In future from that great Dispenser Of judgment who
fhA
even az he d six thorsand years ago.


It will be hardly possible for people TO remain at
nsolent garrisons quartered among them Even il the
provocatons Of power dressed brief authority do not
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petual nnxieya neglect of a regular habits Of indus
In the end must drive them into exile. so wholly
crstomed have the American peope been TO this sort Of
and they will seek in other lands that refuge that repose
and quiet that sense Of security, which s denied them


In the absence OF all shows of war and of sl the ma
terias for the struggle In tho spectacle everywhere Of
people submitting fortune which, however revolving
to their PRIDE forced upon them by their necessities In
the sate country torn ravaged beeding and destitute
what NEEDED all Is reet quiet time for rscupers
ton and the Of their energies upon the
daily duties Of domestic life. It may be that this
peration s the very thing which conquerors would
deny II may be that they would prefer that should
order 10 prevent future dsanection, shall bo kept
hewers OF wood and drawers Of water, under sort Of





70 be thrown away, and reduced to territorial
dition, are 10 be governed by satraps sent from
abroad. To this too we shall, perhaps, be compelled TO
resign ourselves bat, at all events the
ght what future status s % be the better We
shall then the be able to decide whether the
refugee shall TO his home prepared to
what he from the wreck, and repair by labor the
loeses of fortune whether he shall abandon IL for
evcr-prefcrrng escape TO foreign rule and region
rather than struggle In tolls in that In which he abors
under constant sense of equal insecurity and shame.
Our conquerors cannot deny the privilege Of exile
having red ced US below the condition Of humanity


Meanwhile exhortations TO people to
subside quietly from view-to avoid the highway and
the thorough avoid all disc sson whether Of past
or future; submit TO the inexorable fate which
the sanction OF the Most High God, and striving
only after the support OF their families and tho Of
the household and the equally of the domes
tic mind and condition. afford preext TO their
qnerors which shall give any seeming justification TO
resumption Of conflict the increased usurpat on Of
power Let submit with what fortitude and patience
we command, until God shall be pleased TO heal
pluuder will bo construed into guerilla parties
seeking renewal CT ana this pretext will DO eagerly
seix upon by thousands at the Norch, whom the


sudden suspension OF hositlitics serious loss Spccu
ators will be glad TO ranow their games practcing with
their wits upon the nuctuatng moods Of Dc


try; soldiers will be glad Of the pretext for rnng de-
fenceless towns and villages and thousands OF jack
ais the wake cc the tiger will rush along high
ways cleaning whatever ehal remain in the stores Of
the miserable population Let us carefully abstain from
all things-from all shows OF conddct-which shall fur
nish arguments ~ such classes Of spoilers LIT sub
init In good faith condition which have not been
able 10 avert peeyshy murmur and fret like
spoiled children the loss OF those poss ssions
which, seems, we lacked the adequate manhood 70 de-