The daily phoenix. (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, January 16, 1866, Image 2
COLUMBIA.
Tuesday Morning, January 18,1866.
Th* Military- In the South.
In the House of Representatives, at
Washington, last week, a resolution
was introduced to the following effect:
"That in order to the maintenance of
tho national authority and the pro?
tection of loyal citizens of the seceded
States, it is the sense of the House
that the military forces of the Govern?
ment should not be withdrawn from
those States until the two houses of
Congress shall have ascertained and
declared their further presence there
is no longer necessary."
This resolution was adopted by a
vote of 94 to 37. We cannot perceive
how this can be considered more than
an expression of opinion. It is
manifestly in opposition to the views
of President Johnson and General
Grant, and as the former is Com?
mander-in-Chief of the Armies and
Navies of the United States, by the
Constitution thereof ; and the latter
the highest executive officer of the
army nnder him, we imagine the
resolution will be of little avail.
The New York Herald says that this
is another card of the radical pro?
gramme to carry out their plans, and
that they want armed troops station?
ed at all convenient polling places to
carry these plans out. It adds, that
the radicals would rather have negro
troops for the purpose, in order to
exasperate the 'whites and goad them
to renewed acts of hostility, to be
followed by the remorseless vengeance
of the radical leaders. The Herald
says that men who have fought brave?
ly and have acknowledged themselves
conquered, and are ready to submit
as men of hqnor to the laws of the
Union, should not be wrought into a
state of frenzy and madness by party
or faction leaders, who have no other
object in view than personal and
partizan aggrandizement.
i-s hut little doubt that this
[fcintable interference with thg
?^onal function _^^B^??
?
9 Debt? Due Ute North.
The Spacial Committee appointed hy?
the New York Chamber of Commerce
to consider the propriety of enforcing,
by every means afforded by the law,
Northern claims against Southern
debtors, submitted the result of their
deliberations to that body on Thurs?
day, in the shape of a memoriul to
Congress :
' 'The Committee set forth that at the
commencement of the late civil war
citizens of the rebellious States were
indebted to creditors in the North,
for money loaned and goods sold, to
the amount of about ?150,000,000,
and that only a small portion of it
has since been liquidated, while ou
the other hand a large proportion of
the residue has been, or soon will bc,
barred by the State statutes of limita?
tion. In order that these claims may
ba adjusted, therefore, the memornd
ists pray, for the passage of a law ex?
empting suitors in the Federal Courts
of the Southern States from the
operations of statutes of limitation
passed by State Legislatures, for a
period long enough to afford legal
creditors an opportunity to enforce
their demands."
After an animated discussion, the
memorial was unanimously adopted,
together with a resohition calling
upon Senators and Representatives in
Congress to use the most earnest
endeavors *o procure the passage of
the desired bill.
The sum due Northern from South?
ern merchants is variously estimated
at from one hundred to one hundred
and fifty millions of dollars. The
New York Hei-ald does not think that
Congress w?l be required to take
action in this matter, but trusts the
utmost leniency will be extended to
the Southern debtors. It remarks,
that "most of the Southerners, espe?
cially the planters, have been abso
lutely ruined by the war, and, how
ever straightforward be their inclina?
tions and intentions to liquidate their
debts, they are utterly powerless to
do so at the present time, for the warn;
of the wherewithal. That the New
York merchants ought to be paid
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Noble Charities. ^? ,
"We subjoin two letters which will
appeal in strong terms, and we hope
not in vain, to the people of the
South. The note referring to the
condition of the widow of Stonewall
Jackson vi ill be read with sorrow by
the Southern people. Let it, as a
cotemporary well says, never be re?
corded of this people that all that
remains of its wondrous chief and
prototype has penury and wretched?
ness for synonymus. Perish the
though that a single member of the
immortal "foot cavalry" will not be?
stow his mite upon the relict of their
lat?; commander.
NEW YORK, Dec. 26. 1865.
Hon. Benjaniim Wood:
Will you not start a movement
for the relief of the widow of the
brave Jackson ? Think of his widow
and child libing on an income of
$150 per year ! She has been com?
pelled to sell everything but a small
house in Lexington, and this brings
in the above yearly. Gladly would
she return and occupy her little house
herself, but she has not the means to
live there, and there is a fear that
even this will be sold to meet de?
mands that she cannot aver!.
Surely there are friends enough
of the illustrious 'Stonewall' in the
North to rally to the aid of his widow
and chUd, ouce they are apprised of
the extreme destitution.
The following letter from Mrs.
Davis was addressed to the Agent of
the Louisiana Southern Aid Associa?
tion, in response to a communication
tendering substantial assistance:
MILT. VIEW, GEORGIA,
December 4, 1865.
T. B. Clarke, Esq., Secretary and
Agent L. S. A. Association.
MY DEAR SIR: I am in receipt of
your very kind letter in the name "of
the Ladies' Southern' Aid Associa?
tion." having " for its object the pur?
pose of placing" me "and family,
in circumstances somewhat commen?
surate with their estimate of" me
and mine, and begging that I will, at
my earliest convenience, designate a
place to which the means so collected
may be conveyed, so that they may
"safely and satisfactorily " reach me.
From our desolated and impover?
The Negro?*.
Hon. S. R. Mallory, in a letter from
Fort Lafayette to a citizen of Florida,
says that nil who study the strides of
public santiment on the subject of
?.lavery during the last quarter of the
century, cannot fail to see that, with
or without tho proposed amendment
to the Federal Constitution, slavery
can never be re-established within
the American Union. He says it is
i Ile to speculate upon thc advantages
or disadvantages of freedom to the
negro, and the fact cannot be ignored
that he is a permanent element of the
Southern population; and with re?
ference to Florida, all schemes for
his colonization or deportation tire
useless. His interests are indentified
with the State, and his liberty and
property are entitled to protection.
He favors the admission of negroes
to testify in courts, but declares him
habitually untruthful. He says the
system of slavery required the negro
to be kept in ignorance; but the
change in his condition removes all
obstacles to his instruction, and it
must be for the State to determine
whether her interests will be best
promoted by permanently ignorant
and'degraded, or by an instructed and
enlightened class of free labor.
Cotton and thc National Finance*.
The National Intelligencer titus puts
the existing relations between cotton
and the finances of the country :
The cotton question involves thc
financial question. Few financiers in
thc country believe that the national
debt can be paid, or the national
credit maintained, unless the cotton
fields of the Southern States are agaii:
reworked for a supply of the staple
which has been, and may now Ix
again, our chief medium of exehangt
with foreign nations. It has beer
suggested, indeed, and perhaps bj
some sanguine and credulous persons
believed, that our gold and silvei
mines are to totally supersedecottm:
in our foreign exch.wiLre^^jf^j
expeci at i. ei^^(^g^|
our rig?ajrt^|
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WASHINGTON, I). C., -!:;^H
To-day is the great fete '
Jackson Democracy, who e. -c<?V|
tho day with grrtit zeal. < >^B
the chi General was in a p.-e :ot!H
The thennumeter, last night, v<j|flj
degrees below zero. Tbe *~\i',;f.-Wt
free negroes, who abound i-.vvAU
sands, must be vary great, r.s mm
tremoly poor and imp 'mm
The politic;a:i's-'yjr- consii 1, JHBQfiSEflH
deepest mi ; 'JB
dent and the Congress to e i sH
evident that there is a va3t^B5MWHHH
tween the ideas of the ?V. si.li^M
ideas of the radicals. A few d;?\^BMW?
an editorial, with (?notations from the i^H
dent's speeches in the wiuter of lSCO-1^^
was published in the Intelligencer, of this
city, calling attention distinctly to the fact
that the President never hail professed to
be a radical Abolitionist, but had always
manifested a conservative sud national
posit i and th it thc radicals had no right
to expect, hitit to adopt their policy, lt ia
said this article was au official publication,
and evidently means a great deal. It is
the reply, in advance, lo the radical erv of
treachery. There sectus to 'oe no doubt
but that the President wants to put hi*
administration on the m.? i conservati^
basis possible, and to do ail : .. eui jj-m
South; but the obstacles be bus 1 >^H
ter in moving in this dir. .'-'??Af?
mense to man, whether you ca mm
or Kaiser. A President 'JaL\
power without 1 1 pl osent JL\
Die President uudersl :iui\>a%]
for lie is a of e.-ti wAm
sagacity; luis ~Mm\
mm\
Thc people of th;; '^K?EHg^SSH
crazy
negro. All politics t;,!^B
idea. v9
au<l he t i 1 . 1 ^HSSE(5^fi2i
to certain
cut some of the ground !V-^B
radio ?ls. Thc South .-.h.-uM^|
dence in the President, as an ?? 3BM
have in it's goner d. The -; < f"J|
position to survey t'ne v. hoi" :e 'it-m
knows what can be done, and v"\ -;^H
bc done. Ile docs not fear a l.reJH
thc va li.\ds. but he oitmo! i-^H
caitic it is bis interest to a^nliJHJ
sive, and to throw upon tHein ; :<c?Vj
of breaking up tho party, lt is ' AvJ
dent's interest to build up c. al
vat ive national party, becausc^-t^M^^H
be the natural head of this l''"'H
t'ne radical party he is an :l^?'JJjfJHH
day last,^
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