The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1867-05-19

| them, to publish it, rs such informa-
ton is of great practical Importance
to the country just now. Very rc-
spectfully, S. P.
An Attempt TO Incitc Mob Violence
Against MIR. Di Wis i'm New York.
Under the heading, ga Word of
Advice to Mr.. Davis" +" the New York
Ecemimg Post, of Wednesday, has tho
following ntrocious article:
MI. Jefferson Davis will, it is re-
ported, arrive in New York to-day.
AS it is possible that our journal may
fall under the eyes Of some of his
friends, we suggest to them the pro-
priety of urging the traitor chief to
the most modest demeanor while he
is here. The public is greatly and
Justly outraged at his release; it de-
sired and expected to see him brought
to trial, and condemned to. the Du-
nishment which the laws decree for
such crimes as his.
Phat he has not been brought to
trial for these crimes is, VIC think, an
injury to the country, and will prove
u source OF weakness hereafter to us.
But, as he has been released, de-
cent respect for public opinion de-
mands that he should go quietly into
an obscure place, and live there in
the utmost retirement. It is not fit
or decent that he should be seen in
New York at all. If there is nny
dark unvisitcd corner where he can
hide himself, let him stink TO it and
there remain.
If ho Is SO ill-advised and foolish as
to attempt any public appearance
here, he will, not improbably, excite
q public commotion and tumult.
When just laws remain unexecuted;
when great and atrocious criminals
are, by the connivance of the author
tiles, allowed to escape punishment,
the sense of outraged justice some
times leads the people to take mat
ters into their own hands, and to
deal that justice which is denied by
the courts and other authorities. We
do not mean to justify any such re-
sort to violence; but we know that
the public mind is deeply and pain
fully excited, not only at the release
of the leading and most impudent
and stiff-necked traitor, but also at
his shameless insolence in coming
here to show himself immediately
upon his liberation.
Our streets are still full of wounded
and crippled soldiers-the marks of
his crime. Thousands of our citizens
have seen the shattered wrecks turn
ed over to lis from the loathsomc
Libby prison; the poor famished and
frozen fellows who came home from
the horrible pen of Belle Isle to die,
or to live out n few painful years of
All know that these foul
prisons were not at n great distance,
but under the very eyes Of Davis;
when he looked out of his bedroom
every morning, he saw our
starving soldiers at Belle Isle; when
he rode out for his pleasure or health,
he rode by the Libby. Nor was his
heart content even to thus
starve and freeze to death our SOL
dlers, but he added insult to his tor
lures: "Do you not all know" said he
at Columbia, on the 4th Of October,
1861, edo you not all know that the
oAly way to make spaniels civil is TO
whip them?" "DOes any man be-
lieye," he said, ''that Yankees are to
be conciliated by terms of conces-
sion? Doe any man imagine that
we can conquer Yankees by retreating
before them? or do you not all know
that the only way to make spaniels
civil is to whip them?"
1t is part of his "spaniel' theory
to como at once to New York, when
he is released. Let his friends, of
whom ho appears to have some i'll
high places, warn him to be prudent.
He has no business here; he has no
right to walk our streets, to haunt
in the faces Of the widows
and orphans his crime and his stiff
ncckcd persistence in crime made.
Let him stink away, over by-ronds,
III close carriage. to some obscure
and unknown spot, and there hide
himself.
TIE JcIy Session. Speaker Col
fax expressed the opinion, few days
ago, that there would be no meeting
of Congress in July; and none OF the
radicals now here-including Bout
well, Ashley, Butlcr, Williams and
others, OF the Housc-bavc any idea
that quorum will be found present
in either branch of Congress Mt that
time. BY actual count, more than
half the Senators have either gone
to Europe or to their homes on tho