Washington telegraph., 1854-08-30
The New York Homicide.

Immediately after this melancholy occur
renee, notice Of which may be found in
to-day's paper, the New York Tribune"
commented on it with the unjust severity
usual with that paper where the South is
concerned The killing was done by a
Southerner; and none but Southerner, it
was said-none but one residing on Stare
soil, could have committed deed 80 horrid
A Northern man, says the Tribune" could
not have done it.
To say nothing Of the impropriety and
injustice of thus attempting to prejudice pub
lie opinion against the unfortunate prisoner,
how ridiculously false is the idea the "Tri-
bune'' would convey-that Northern man
is above doing such an act-that a North
ern man Il too civilized-too intellectual
too humanc-too much gifted with the heav-
enly principles Of higher law, to take the
life Of a fellow being under any circumstan-
ccs!.. Has BATCHELDER been forgotten
already? Do Southern men commit all
the murders We read of in the Northern pa
pers! Had GREELY no comment for the
numerous outrages chronicled by him in
the very paper in which he SANDERS the
South BY his fanatical denunciation Of the
prisoner in the Saint Nicholas Hotel trag-
edy.
But there are grades in iniq1ity and
although GREELY is run mad beyond re-
dempt;on, we have some hopes for the New
York "Eyeniug Post" although blackened
with the dye Of Abolitionisln. We thank
its editor for his just rebuke Of brother
abolitionist and trust he viii lay Us under
still further obligations il tie same way
The Post" says:
"No New Yorker can have read the fore
going paragraph in the Tribune Of this NOR
ming without modification. For our own
part, we are ashamed to be Obliged to admit
that there is any journal in this State ready
to make such narrow and vulgar appeal to
the prejudices Of community against a man
who is ii the custody Of the law to which he
may have soon to answer with His life. One
might infer from The tone VI the article that
murders were never perpetrated id Northern
States except by Shareholders We hold
slavery in a. low estimation a. any one, but
we do not believe it to be the only parent Of
crime among men. If The editor Of the
Tribune win read the sheet from which The
above extract was taken, he will find that
brutes are not the exclusive product Of any
peculiar climate or institution
For example, 10 that paper this morning
We have first IN account Of child killed in
Brooklyn BY its father in a drunken fit
Then we have the story Of an Irish woman
in Hector st. killed by her husband because
his dinner was not ready when he came
home. Then we have the attempt Of med
ical student, boarding in Third Avenue. to
poison a whole family: and lastly, the fol-
lowing instance Of brutality to horse
"a carman, whose name We could not as
certain. while passing through Fulton street,
became cnraged at bis horse for some cause
or other. and pulled out the animals tongue.
''Such are specimens Of the crimes per-
petrated BY our citizens on the same day
that the murder occurred at the st. Nicho-
las. With such state Of facts staring us
ID the face, how pharisaical, how wick
ed to attempt to arouse a sectional pre-
iudice in the community the effect Of which
will be to prevent the jury that may be
charged with the investigation Of the pris-
oner's crime, from deliberating dispassion-
ately, and to tempt the public to look with
undeserved suspicion upon the verdict they
may render.