The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1865-02-28
AFFAIRS IN NEW YORK.

SuVAI OAltnSS.
AFFAIRS IN NEW YORK,
A letter from New York, dated the
23d instant, says:
At meeting of merchants of this civ
TO- day, in Collector Diapers Office
Moses Taylor presiding, it was resolved
that measures be taken to duly celebrate
the recent victories in a manner common.
surate with the grandeur of the Union
armies over the rebel hordes. and the
appreciation felt by the people of this
city and the country at the fact Of tho
re-occupation of Charleston by our loyal
brothers in arms, together with the fact
that the flag of our country again floats
over the walls of Fort Sumter, should
be made apparent in fitting manner.
1t was voted to suspend business on
the 4th of March next, and that the busi.
ness community and people of the whole
country from Calais, Maine, to San
Francisco, California, be requested 70
unite in fitting demonstration of ioy
on that day.
The Boards Of Trade and Chambers Of
Commerce of the principal cities of the
Union, including San Francisco, have
signified their cooperation in this pa.
triotic movement, and the 4th Of March
will, undoubtedly, be observed through
out the land as day of jubilation and
as the peoples Union holiday. >.
The Savannah correspondent of the
Commercial 4dcertiser states that the
Union sentiment in Savannah is all
" bosh," and that the cargoes of supplies
sent from New York and Boston were
one-sixth for free distribution, and that
the remaining five sixths Yves sold on
account Of the owners o. the ships and
certain privileged merchants.
TREATMENT OF THE CONQUERED CON
FEDERATEs-HANDSO OFFER.
The New York Times has an article on
subjugation, which ought to have place
all to itself: 1t is the most refreshing
instance of Yankee impudence that We
have seen since the war. 1t says:
We hear great deal every day about
the necessity for Furnishing the Southern
leaders, and seine persons 60 so far as to
propose tie Outlawry of everybody in
the Confederacy who has held any higher
rank in it, service than that of colonel
But it may DO laid down as rule, die.
tatcd not simply by humanity and Chris
tianity, but by sound policy, that no
punishmonts whatever ought to. be in
ticted on anybody, except such as arc
plainly called for by q prudent regard
for our own safety. With those who
wish to legslate, or put the existing law
III force Tor mere purposes Of vengeance,
it is scarcely worth while to argue. The
spectacle of a whole people thirsting for
vengeance on large body of their own
countrymen, and seeking it through aet.
of Congress, is a barbarous and repuisive
one, repugnant to the spirit of the age,
and hostile to civilization. To suffer
anything Of the sort to be enacted on
American soil, in our day, would prove
that we had refrigerated instead of al.
vanced.
There are a number Of persons in the
rebcllous States who have been actively
engaged both in getting up the insurrec-
ton and carrying it on, whose position
with regard to it is such as to make it
quite certain that they can never settle
down again into peaceable citizens of the
United States, and would never, if We
allowed them to return quietly to the r
homes, cease to kick against the auth,-
rty of the Government and intrigue for
it's overthrow. Against these men the
rigorous enforcement Of the lac is smje-
raticely catlcd for in the interest of so
cial order; but we sincerely trust that
the list even of these will be made as
small as possible, and that the rest Of
the population will be let alone. No
penal measures whatever. as regards
them, we may feel quite satisfied, will lie
necessary to prevent the repetition of the
attempt of which we are now witnessing
the failure. The fulles. punishment fer
their offences, whatever they may have
been, has been already inflicted in the
prosecution Of this war. There is'some>
thing pueriie in talking Of administering
further chastisement for crime which
has already caused the slaughter or
manning Of two or three hundred thou
sand Of those engaged in it, and the de-
ISOLATION of almost n third Of shs;- tori
tory. With what power can we arm
ether courts or police that will impress
the imagination Of men and women Ike
those Of the South, who have lived
through the horrors of the last four
years?
And we ought to beware, above all
things. OF harassing them with the pre-"
sence of great swarms Of officials, most
of whom will doubtless, at least for a
while. have to be Northerners. Fora