Columbia Phoenix, 1865-05-01

Prophetic- Wendell Phillips. Wendell Phillips is the greatest of all the negrophilists ef New England. He is as loose of principle as all the rest. A ! friendly correspondent thinks it well to re? mind Wendell of bis opinions and prophe? cies. Here, accordingly, follows an ex? tract fron) a speech which be made in Boston at the beginning of the war. It ia of mixed order-philosophy and prophecy: '.To-morrow's breeze, when il sweeps from the North, will bring to us the echo of the first Lexington battle of the new ?.evolution. Well, what shall we say of mc.h an hour? My own feeling is a double one. It is like the triumph of sadness - rejoicing and sorrow. I cannot, indeed, congratulate you enough on the sublime spectacle of twenty millions of people educated in a twelve-month up to being willing that their idolized Union should risk a battle, should risk dissolution, in order at any risk to put down this rebellion of slave States. a "But T cm sorry that a gun should be fired at Fort Sumter, or that a gun should be fired from it, for thi.? reason. The Ad? ministration at Washington does not know ita time. Here are a series of States gird? ing the Gulf, who think th.it their peculiar institutions require that tbey should have a separate Government. . They have a right to decide that question without ap? pealing to you or me. A large body of people, sufficient to make a nation, have come to the conclusion that they will have a government, ef a certain form. Who denies them tbe right? Standing with the principles of '76 b?hind us, who can deny them the right? What is a matter of a few'millions of dollars or a few forts? It is a mere drop in tho bucket of tbe great National question. It is their-? just as mueh as oura. I maintain, on the princi? ples of '76, that Abraham Lincoln bas no right to a soldier in Fort Sumter. "But tho question comes secondly. 'Sup? pose we had a right to iutcrfere, what is the good of it?' You may punish South Carolina for going out of the Union. That does not bring ber in. You may subdue her by hundreds of thousands of annie?, but that does not make ber a State. There is no longer a Union. It ia oo'.hing but boy's play. Mr. Jefferson Davis is angry and Mr. Abraham Lincoln ia mad, and they agree to fi Wit. Ona, two or three years hence-if the new? of the afternoon iaeorreat--we shall hara gone through

a war, spent millions, required the death of a hundred thousand men, and be exactly then where we are BOW-two nations-a little more angry, a little poorer, and a great deal wiser; and that will be the only difference. We may just as well settle it now aa thea. "You cannot go through Massachusetts and recruit men to bombard Charleston or New Orleans. The Northern mind will not bear it. You serer can make such a war popular. The first onset may bc borne. The telegraph may bring us news that Anderson has bombarded Charleston, and you may rejoice; but the sober second thought of Massachusetts will be, wasteful, unchristian, guilty! The North never will endorse such a war." Wanted to Hire, AGOOD WASHER; to aesist alto in cook? ing. A whit? oas preferred. To one well recommended, liberal wagea and a permanent situation secured.. Apply at this office, j April 29_ ... S? Banaway, FROM the subscriber, a NEGRO MiN, bia .WIFE, with two CHILDREN. The man is about fire feet high-the woman six; the latter may be knows by a aeald or aaked place on the head. Of the children, the eldeat is a boy of little more than two years; the other a trirl. a little more than one. The complexi?n of the man and woman is inclined to yellow; that of the youngest child very light. ONE HUNDRED DOLLARS reward is offered rar their apprehension. Address Rsv. T. HENDRIX, April 29 8?_Columbia, S. C. SSt3?l3T edt? Scott, Auctioneers, Brokers and Commission Merchants. O?ee en Assembly Street, between Washington ana Plain Streets. PROMPT attention given to sales of all PROPERTY", MERCHANDIZE, PER? SONAL or REAL ESTATE. SPECIE BANK BILLS, STOCKS AND BONDS bought and sold. Liberal advances made en private eales. April 28_ ~WJMLm FlSHBR, General Engraver and Printer. SEALS ead CARDS done in the latest style. ALSO, CLOCKS and JEWELRY" repaired, at bia residence in Lumber street, between Marion street and the Asylum. April 26 f 3* F. EUGENE DURBEC, Auction and Commission Merchant, Office Assembly Street, Bt tween Plain and Wash? ington Streets, WILL give prompt attention to the ania and pnrehasc of REAL ESTATE, STOCKS, BOND 5 and all oth-r articles of PERSON Al* PROPERTY. MERCHANDIZE cr PRODUCER at either private sole er auction,. April 17 ^