The Daily Phoenix

ARMING THE LOYAL MILITIA. - The bill authorizing the distribution of arms to the loyal militia in the Southern States, caused a warm debate in Congress. The real object of the ninth section, Senator Davis surmised, was to put arms into the hands of the radical Governors in the South, for the purpose of carrying their States for that ticket. Such a measure as arming the black militia of the South, while the whites are comparatively defenceless, in connection with a long series of oppressive and irritating acts, led Mr. Davis to say, also, that it looked to him as if there was a deliberate purpose to force a war of races. As there is never wanting a pretext with those who meditate the commission of monstrous crimes, the most exaggerated stories are related of the murder of "loyal" men in the South, while nothing is said of the at least equally numerous assassinations of conservatives. That exceedingly refined and dignified Senator, Mr. Drake, whose language in the Senate chamber seems to show such an elevated appreciation of the position he occupies, and the presence in which he speaks, said: "There were no such men outside of hell as the rebels, and the only way to deal with them was to crush them." The real offence of the South is, that she has submitted to the results of the war in good faith, instead of giving the pretext that was desired by her extreme enemies for confiscation and extermination. Do they wish now to goad the South into resistance, in order to consummate cherished hopes and plans?