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_ . _ y_ THE DAILY. MM PHONIX. Daily Paper $8 a Year "Let our Just Censuro ^?^^^^^^^M?^^^ Attend the True Event." Tri-Weekly $5 a Y;ar ' _ . ? ._;_,_*, . . ,tty. c ._ ?;._'_;_ BY JULIAN A. SELBY. COLUMBIA, 8: C., THURSDAY MORNING, SEPTEMBER 19, 1867. VOLUME HT-NO. 15G. i - ? .... THE PHONIX, PUBLISHED DA II. Y AM) Tai-WEEKLY. KYE11? WEDNESDAY/ It Of. M NC. BY JULIAN A. SELBY, ?J1*T? PRINTER. ;i Office on Ukin street, a few doors above Taylor (or Camden) ?treet. TERMS-^?JN ADVANCE. STJSS?RIPTIOX. Pailv Paper, six mouthe.f4 00 Tri-w^?kTc, " J. 2 50 Weekly, . ? " .'. 1 50 AOVEUTIM'.XEXTS . Inserted at 73 cents per square for Hie first insertion, and 50 couts for each subsequent. Weekly 74 cents each insertion. SST A liberal discount iriade on the above n?ies relien aioertisemenis are-inserted by ih* month or year. AGENTS ' W. C. Mooro, Abbeville. J. R. Allen, Chester. Julius Poppe, Anderson C. H. 8. P. Klnard, Newberry C. II. W. T. aims, Union. J. M. Allen, Greenville. Letter from Hon. II. V. Perry. || To the Editors of the Colianbia Phonix: Tho action of the rnmp Congress, the other day, in extra session, ought to convince every ode that the radical party have no intention of restoring the Union until the Southern States r.ro thoroughly radicalized, und will elect Sonators and members Of the House of that party. Tho Kentucky representatives-nine in number,tond all Democrats-^-have bee\i> T^erned -.heir seats in Congress? ?imply be :auso they were/-not Black Itepnbli .2.au3. If tlio Sonther.i States, under tho reconstruction policy of PresC ' dent Johnson, had elected radicals, and given any assurauco of their adr hesion to that party, no one can sap I poso that tiieir representatives would have berm excluded from (Joagrees.. In trio fall of 18G5, imo. of tho ?i-&% 'things done hy Congress was to puyae tho Situate, and exclude Democrautu enough from that body to give thom a two-thirds majority. . The question will be.for tho people' of the Southern Statci; to decide, in the coming elections, whether they nf cu to remain aa tboy. aro, or by .'.tiling conventions, adopting negro ?.?tirage and electing radicals, go back, into the Union. What 'advan? tage to the South will it bo to iu 1 crease tho BlackTlopublican majority in Congres*? How can wo bo bene? fited by strengthening tho hands of our oppressors? Wlmt interest can we possibly havo in being represent? ed in Con ess by traitors to the South-men whom we must scorn and despise ns Jndas Iscariot^ in po? litics? It isa sad and melancholy reflection on hurhau nature, to seo > men who inaugurated the war, and were going to dio in tue last ditch, now seeking to go back into the Union, stripped ?f evbjy principle and right which they vowed to de? fend, with Black Repnblikan collars arouiid i neir necks. Hotf disgusting to seo base, unprincipled white men seeking oflico and position by hypo? critically pandering tb the ignorant, criminal and ruinous prejudices and aspirations of - the' ?egro! I would greatly prefer seeing every office iu tho State filled by the honest, intelli? gent negroes, than by such unprinci? pled and shameless men. I once said to President Johnson, in reply to n despatch sent me, about Union men hoiug excluded from ?f? rico under tho Provisional Govern? ment, that I had mado it a ride through lifo to confide in the politics of no ono who wasnot morally honest and trustworthy in private life, and that my experience had taught me the fact that a man who had no moral principle could have no political principle. Hence it is is that we see those whov re foremost in secession, Vliilst seer : n was in the ascendant and tho .d to honor and distinc? tion, pow. ud position, now fawn? ing at tho. feet of. tho oppressor, whilst tyranny and oppression arc all powerful. 'They rare not whom they . T*. '."-I ,-~ ! serve, or what principles tliey advo? cate, provide* th bj can promote their own selfish views.- BUG they would ! even, have us b .Hr.'vc that the great in tcrest.s of .the country were foremost in their thoughts, , ' Immediately after it was known that slavery would have to be abo? lished, I'expressed the opinion that it would bo wiso and prudent to per? mit negroes, who had acquired a pro? perty and .educational qualification, to vote tn all the Southern States. I thought this would bo a safety valve for political sbcioty. It would gratify and appease the intelligent and most influential of that class, aud make them good citizens, instead of being disturbers of the peace. It would hold ont an inducement to all, who had any disposition or wish to rise above the common herd! And no ovil could result from it, as I sup? posed very few, comparatively, would ever be able to attain the privilege, and when they did, they would always vote with tho higher and bet? ter educated class of whites. I ex? pressed a similar opinion many years j ago, in regard to recaptnring fugitive I slaves. I thought it well for society that when n slave had acquired such a love for freedom as to 'prompt him to Ileo to tho Northern States, and possessed .intelligence sufiloient to j make Iiis escupe, ho ought not to bo ! brought back. lu this way, the boldt* I daring ami reckless-thty who wer?' |-most? i likely-to disturb the public I peace-would bo out o? fhn country, ? and thero would bo greater safety I from those left behind. \ But tay opinio nih ns expressed was denounced by .those who are now i urging universal suffrage for tho ne . gro, or at least advocating the call of ; a convention, by which universal 1 negro suffrage is to bo established. I likewise advocated, ut the same i time, the propriety of permitting ne [tgroea to give testimony kt all cases in j our courts of justice. Tliis, too, was . storply resisted by those w ho uro now I willing to confer on the negro the ?.right of holding office, to get biypk I into tho'n''gl?rioTis Union," which I they once hated and despised so cor 1 dinlly. y In one of my previous communica? tions, I stated that Professor Agassiz j had proven conclusively that the uo gro was of an inferior race to that of the white: man, and had* ft different origin. In saying this, I did not iiir I .tend to insinuate, aa some of the' ne I groes seemed to think 1 did, that God was not their "father," as well as tho white man's futher. They aro cer' tainly both creations of tho same Al? mighty hand. ?h?y aro doTibtless, too, equally under tho protection of tho Jfmighty, and equally dear to ! him in their respective spheres i spheres in which he placed them and I for which he made fcheim The horse j and tho jackass are both aliko the j creations of God. He did not. create them of tho same type"or make .them ! one and the panie animal. Ho gave j to oue beauty of form and symmetry, I spirit and fleetness; and to the othei ? strength, onduranco and other vaina ; ble qualities. So he has distinguish ? ed between the negro and white man. j To the former he has given a black skin and a wooly head, greatei I strength and less brain. He ha.< ! adapted him to labor, and given him I pores which defy malarias and fevers, j To tho other he has given a whit* i skia and a head ol hair, less strengt! 1 and larger brain, adapted to highei j thoughts and greater intellectual im I provements. j But God loves his whole creatioi I equally, and it is to be presume! that he has tho same regard for tlx owl that he lins for tho eagle, and si I with tho horse and tito jackass, tin white mau and the negro, provided always, that tho ono is as faithful ii tho discharge. oMiis mission on enrtl as the other. It is by no means crime or fault on the part of th jackass, that he cannot run as swift! as the horse. He was not created fo such fleetness; and so with thenegrc ho has not been endowed by Go with'tho same volume of brain thu i the white man has, and he is not t ' blame, for being anublo to corapet -,-.-gj ? .-^--y- - 1 with Lim in., sc?enoe and knowledge. He is au inferior animal to tao white man. God made him such aa he is for wise purpof.es, aa he made tho ass inferior to the horse. It isas foolish to think of making poets? artists and statesmen out ol negroes as it would be to make a race horso OT a spirited cl J arger in battle ont of a jackass. You may give the negro tho right of suf? frage ana the right to hold office, and make l?m a legislator, and so jpn may enter the ass for,a fourmile heat, with the blooded horse, cor.you may mount him in battle for a charge on the enemy ; but both would be equally unwise and disastrous, for you aro attempting to pervert nature and the laws of God. Professor Agassiz, of Harvard ;?k>l lege, Massachusetts, tho most learned and scientific naturalist the world has ever produced, declares most confidently, after a life-time of thought and obs?r -it ion on the sub? ject, "That the negro and the white? man were created os specifically dif? ferent as the owl and the eagle. They were designed to fill different places in the system of nature. The negro is no more a negro by accident or misfortune than the owl is tho kind of bird ho is by accident or misfor? tune. The negro is no moro tho white, niftu's brother than the owl is .the sister of thc eagle, or than the ass is, the brother of tho horse. There aro," says the same great au? thority, "over ono hundred specific differences between the. boual and uenvods" system of tho' whito man and the n?gro. Indeed, their forms are'alike in no particular. There is not ?. bone in the' negro's body rela? tively of the same shape, size, articu? lation, or chemically of ?^tsamo com-1 position, as that of the white man. The negro's bones contains -a c-far greatcr per oentagaof calcareous strtts than those of the whiteman. Bven the negro's blood is chemically a Very different lluid from that which courses in tho veins of the white man. The whole physical organiza? tion of the negro differs quite ns/ much from thc white mau as it does from that of tho chimpanzee-that is, in his bones, muscles, nerves and fibres. The chimpanzee has** not j much further to progress to become .a negro, than tho negro has to be? come a whito mau. This fact science inexorably demonstrates." ' It irfagreed, by all sci?utilie n?en who have turned their attention to this subject, that "the capacity, by measurement, of tho skull of the white mau is ninety-seven cubic inches, that is, the average of one thousand, or any greater number of skulls. Tho negro has sixty-six cubic inches; thc North American Indian has sixty-three oubio inches; the na? tivo Australiau has fifty-six cubic inches." Sir Charles Lyall, than whom there can be-no higher author? ity, says the feet and hands, the arras and legs of .he white man and negro are unlike in measurement. The hand of the negro is one-twelfth larger, and one-tenth broader,, than tho hand of the white man; bia foot is one-eighth longer, and one-ninth broader, than the white man's; his fore-arm is one-tenth shorter; and the same is trne of the bones from the knee to the ankle. The skeleton is unlike in the wholo in weight and measurement, and unlike in every bone of'it. In the most ndmirablo speech of tho Hon. W. Mungen, of Ohio, lately delivered in Congress, (and to which I am greatly indebted for much that I have said,) it is boldly asserted, on the authority of scientific men, that the world does not afford au instance of a mulatto in thc fifth generatioq. The hybrid race becomes extinct, after tho fonrth generation, unless they have intermixed with one or thc other of the original races. So it it with all animals. The mule does not breed ot. all. The wolf and jackal, the dog and fox, have produced hy brids, which always become extinct ii: the third generation. These animals like tho negro and whito man, wen regarded, at ono time, as only differ ont varieties of tho same species. Hw experiment shows them to have beei ! different creations, os it does the ne? gro and white man. I repeat what I have said in a for? mer article, that i have ever been the friend and protector of the,negro through life. This my former slaves will vouch for me. My house-ser? vants, eight or ten in number, _ have never left me, end ore still living with me on the same terms they did whilst slaves. It is because I wish well to the negro, that I am unwilling to see him placed in a false position. Ho is unfit to exercise the right of suffrage, and will become the dupe and tool of base and designing men. A war of races <vili ensue, and the negro, being the weaker and less intelligent, will be exterminated in such a war. Ex? tinction will be the result of this great boon, bestowed pn thom for the so'3 pajpose of strengthening the radical party ! GeneMnBenjamin F. Butler said to me, eighteen months ago, that 'jill the radical party wished was, to -have "impartial suffrage. " He said that wo might declare that no one should vote, unless he was a graduate of the South Carolina College. All that the radicals then thought of was equality between the races. But now,. . they oro determined to have tho negro vote, in order to radicalize thoSonth. In the negro convention which sat tho other day, in Columbia, it was claimed that, in the next Presidential election, there should bo placed on the radical ticket J. negro, either for President or vice-President. It was contended, too, that the lands should be divided into small farms, so that each head of a family might get a homestead. If tho land-owners re? fused this division, then their lands should be taxed S J heavily as to force them to part with them. There is considerable ingenuity in this scheme of .confiscation. The whites who vote for a convention, to avoid confisca .fcion on the part of Congress, will lind themselves nicely caught by tho ne? groes in convention. As I have al :ready said, they will find that, after sacrificing their honor, the. rights of .the State, and tho principles of self government and constitutional liberty, they'havo lost their lands into tho bargain. Another scbemo of the ne? groes,. t promulgated in their recent convention, is to havo nothiug taxed but properly. This will release the negroes from all taxes, as they do not own property. Then, the property of the State is to bo taxed, to estab? lish free schools ami colleges all ovol* the Stale, for the education of their elli laren, without expense to the ne? groes! Again, they declaro in con? vention, and have .made it a part of their platform, that the old negroes, and infirm negroes and paupers, aro to be supported by the property of the white men, instead of taking carn of their own aged parents and pauper kindred. In the twelfth article adopted by this radical negro convention, they avow openly their purpose of disfran? chising all who havo served in the Confederate army, or aided and abet? ted tho war. They are disposed te take a step, and a wide oin?, beyond the radicals in Congress. The white radicals have disfranchised only those who have filled public offices; but the black radicals aro determined to ex? tend it to all'who were in the army, which iruludes almost the entire white population; This will be accomplished in that convention which the while people are-going to vote for-a con? vention to disfranchise themselves, confiscate their property, and place tho State absolutely under the control of the negroes. Was there ever .such folly and madness heard of before, in the civilized world? In sack-c'otL and ashes, they will havo to repent ol their stupidity and dishonor. This negro radical convention fur? ther demands o revision of our laws and tho re-organization of our courts They, a set of paupers, ignorant and debased, aro to govern the State, ant tho white mon, who own all tho pro perty, are to pay tho expenses of tin State. They sr eak of building rail roads! No doubt a thousand scheme! will be concocted for spending tin white man's money, for the beuelit o th?! negro, before they .proceed to taki it from bim by force or fraudulent le-, gislation. Horrible, most horrible, is the future of our poor State nnd de? graded people. No one seems to ret?- ? ize our true situation. It is now as it was in the days of secession. We are standing, like idiots, on a maga? zine of powder, flourishing in our hands a fire-brand, and laughing at the beaut if ul ring of ribbon it makes in . the dark. The explosion will qome, must come, sooner or later, and' bring with it universal death and de? struction to the people and property of the State. In Liberia, whero there is a nation of negroes, sent from the United States, and whero they have formed a Government, no white man is , allowed to hold office, or vote at any election for any office. This is wise and proper; and they have thought it necessary to make this exclusion for their own peace and prosperity. Hn? not the white men the same right to exclude the negro from the right of suffrage, when they know that the negroes have a majority in the State, and will scize^the Govern? ment of tho State, if permitted to vote? It is idle folly to toll tho people of South Carolina that capital and im- * migrants will flow into tho State, when reconstructed on tho Black Re? publican platform. On the contrary, as soon as this negro government is organized, every dollar of foreign capital in South Carolina will be with? drawn, and not ono cent will como here seeking investment. Nor will any foreigners movo hore to settle, under negro rulo, and the confusion and disturbance which it will give rise to in tho State. "Mr. Calhoun predicted, years ago, tba!, if the negro was set free, the Northern people would insist on his right of suffrage, and if allowed, the negroes would seize the Government, audthe white people would have io leave tho State! Ho further said, that, tho former owners would loso all influence over their freedmen, . whose sympathies and partialities would bo for North? ern men and vile emissaries sent here to control them. I think it is pretty generally acknowledged, even now, that all control of the negro, in the coming election, is already gone from their former masters. Gen. Hampton and his friends had just as well try to control a herd of wild buffaloes in tho vast prairies of the West, as the negro vote of Columbia. B. F. PERRI*. GREEN vi IJ,F., S. C/. July 27, 18fi7. ?';._ , .j_'_ ' FISHER & LOWRANCE, . COLUMBIA, S. C. FLOUR. EXTitA FAMILY FLOUR, from now wheat, for sale by , Juna 8Q, _ FIHHER A LOWBANCB. Cotton Yarns ! . FOU ?itte by.ITSHEn it LOWRANCE. June 23 Bolting Cloths. BEST ANCHOR BRANDS, assorted numbers. _ ". " May 2?; ' FISHER A LOWRANCE. _ Soda Biscuit. FREM! SODA. RUTTER and MILK CRACKERS. OINOEU CAKES, NUTS, ftc. For salo bv FISHER A LOWRANCE. "Mav 24