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BY JULIAN A. SELBY. COLUMBIA, S C.. SATURDAY MORNING, OCTOBER 3, 1868. VOLUME IV-NO. IGT.
THE .PHOENIX.1
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AGENTS.
Lexington-B. J. Hayes.
Bpartanburg-Hiram Mitchell.
J. U. Allen, Cheat er.
8. P. Kinard, Newberry C. H.
James Grant, Union.
Julius Poppe, Anderson C. H.
Interview ot tv Radical -willi Nr.
Stephens-A New Reason Given for
the Collapse of the Rebellion.
A few evenings since, I sent my
card to Alexander H. Stephens, not
with much expectation that he would
accede to tho request of a Republican
newspaper correspondent for an in?
terview. I was disappointed, how?
ever, for in a few minutes I was
ushered into his room. Timo does
not deal very gently with the ex
Vice-President of the Southern Con?
federacy, who so earnestly deprecated
secession and the recourse to force to
break up tho Union. Ho appeared
feeble, almost decrepit. His voice is
shrill and cracked. His face is plow?
ed into a thousand lines and wrinkles,
is pinohed and scared-looking. His
uneasy eye belied the quietude of the
rest, of hie features, and told of a
spirit still restless and active. After
replying to a few inquiries relativo to
his health, which he said was all that
he could expect at his period of life,
he opened a conversation relativo to
the South, and his own State moro
particularly, by the remark that ho
did not see much to be surprised at
in the condition of affairs in that
section. Ho could speak with cer?
tainty about Georgia. The people
there were anxious for pence; they
had had onough of war and blood?
shed; they were weary with the clash
of contending political elements; they
sighed abd longed for repose. "I
am," said he, ''but a mere observer,
so far a? politics are concerned. I
have r?tlr?d forever from public life,
and what I may say ono way or tho
other, is but an individual opinion,
entitled to no particular weight. I
represent no party, no faction, no in?
terest."
The old gentleman pleasantly gos
sipped on in this strain for several
minutes, occasionally pausing to whiff
<bhe small pipe which he smoked in?
cessantly.
"I have no doubt," said ho, "that
time will heal all our difficulties and
troubles, and. that under constitu?
tional laws we shall be as happy as we
once were."
This word "constitutional," hit on,
perhaps, accidentally, started him on
a new train of thought. His eye
brightened up, tho tobacco wreaths
curled up foster and faster, and ho
broke out rather impassionately:
The real causes-ideas-which ani?
mated and influenced the leadors of
the Southern people at tho outbreak
and previous to it of the lato war are
not, in my opinion, clearly under?
stood. It is my belief that fonr-fifths
of the men who led tho movement,
did not seriously contemplnto tho dis?
ruption of tho confederation of thc
States. Their theory, my theory, at
least, was that if wo could succeed ia
obtaining from tho North a recogni?
tion of tho Stato sovereignty princi?
pio, wo should all come together
again on equal terms and form a new
Union. Atter the fall of ltichmond,
you of tho North, even wo of tho
South, aud tho world generally, in?
deed, were astonished at tho collapse
of tho rebellion. It is a mistake to
supposa that tho South was physi?
cally beaton then, and that she was
utterly incapable of making any fur?
ther effort or of prolonging the con?
test almost indefinitely. JJuforo the
war, thc people of the South saw the
gradual centralization of power in
tho whole country. We saw that tho
Union, composed of equal and inde?
pendent sovereign States, was drift?
ing into something that hardly dif?
fered from a monarchy, except in
name. We placed ourselves firmly
against that tendency of the day.
We resolved to battle against it when
we saw that it could not be combat
tod by other moans. As I Baie! be?
fore, we never, (the majority of the
leaders,) never contemplated absolute
independence. Well, war came.
Year followed year, bringing to us
and to you moro nuc? moro bloodshed
and misery, and desolation and ruin,
By and by, tho moro thoughtful of
our people saw that we were arriving
precisely at that sttito of things, to
resist and ward off which we took up
arms, and tbat the experience of Eu?
rope and of tba Old World rvaB to bo
learned by us. A comparatively few
men at Richmond ruled the entire
South. We battled for an idea against
despotism, and battling on in fan?
cied security, we awoke one morning
and found that wo had the most ter?
rible despotism in tho world our?
selves. From that moment, while
Leo was still commanding armies of?
tener victorious than defeated, tho
Confederacy was beaten.
It was much tho samo with us as it
was with you in Washington-power
bad become centralized and the reins
were held by ono or two men. When
wo on our side saw this, our people
lost heart; we asked "what are wo
fighting for," aud we gavo up tho
contest. There was no arrangement,
no understanding; the sword was
laid down by a sort of tacit consent
that we had departed from our first
ideas of the war. We had abandoned
the course we bad mapped out, aud
there was no return to it.
Mr. Stephens said nothing moro
on this subject. It was hardly my
province to urgo against Iiis theories
in the action, or the speeches of some
of his followers and associates to
seek for arguments to be used against
him.
In reply to a remark of mine rela?
tive to tho Ku Klux organization in
tho South, he said:
"Well, if there nra any armed
secret societies in the Southern
States, I am not aware of their exist?
ence, personally. If there is in thia
world anything I do date and abhor,
it is secret political bodies. I do not
think there are any in Georgia. In
fact, I do not kuow anything about
i them at all, except from what I see
in tho public prints. You know my
record against tho Kuow Nothing
party. I have not changed in any
respect since then, so far as such peo?
ple are concerned. I am under the
impression that it is all puro imagiua
tiou, except probably in portions of
Tennessee. It may bo tbat excitable
young men in different sections of
tho country formed themselves iuto
oath-bound clubs, in the hope that
they would become component parts
of this Ku Klux Klan, which was said
to have existed somewhere. An effort
was made in tho Ashburn trial to
prove some such fact, but in my opi?
nion it utterly failed. In my own
State every mau does just as he
pleases, says what bo thinks, and no
one interferes with him. I look on
all these stories as manufactured
purely for political purposes."
Mr. Stephens appeared very anx?
ious indeed to throw discredit on the
tales of outrages and riot cumiug up
to us almost daily from the South,
and sought to impress on mo the ut?
ter falsity of them.
I questioned him somewhat on the
Sulphur Springs mission and Gen.
Rosecrans' proceedings there. He
had the utmost confidence, ho said,
in Rosecrans, and believed him to be
actuated by very pure and patriotic
motives. He agreed with Rosecrans
fully in tho professed objects of his
mission, nnd thought that the men
who sigurd that celebrated manifesto
were siueere in their professions.
I had intended to ask Mr. Stephens
some questions on other points; but
several friends called on him, aud I
was obliged to leave.
I make no comments ou his state?
ments and opinions, but leave yon to
infer his sentiments|on the situation,
generali}*, from his own words, which
I have retained as far as possible.
[ Washington Cur. Raleigh Standard.
COFFIN.-A colored radical, somo
? what rampant in tho cause of his
party, on repairing to bis crib a few
mornings since, found to bis inexpres?
sible horror and astonishment, a
coffin snugly stowed away inside the
crib. The door was still locked and
every log in its proper place; which
fact seemed to puzzle enffee no little
as to how "tho terrible thing got
there." Ho cannot reconcile it to
himself that hi1 mau bauds had an
agency in placing it there; but, on
the contrary, firmly believes that
somo invisible power is at tho head
of it, and intended burying him alive
unloss ho gavo np radicalism. It is
needless to add, that so powerfully
have his supnrstitious fears been
acted upon, that he cannot bo got
within stone's throw of tbo crib, nor
will he utter one word in favor of his
former eherished principles. He is
now a Democrat. The above is no
Ku Klux-story. Every word of it
can be sustained, if necessary.
I Chester Standard.
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