The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1867-05-21
HUMANITY.

We do not generally care to reproduce Inc
violent and vindictive language in which some
of the Northern press still indulge 1t can
minister neither to our comfort nor to our In
terest to know that there arc men IN whose
hearts hate can never be quenched. For our
part, we are anxious to do all that can be done
to restore those relations of mutual good Will
which can alone secure peace and prosperity
for the future, and not to prevent the healing
and consoling work of time. Besides, the tone
and temper of the Northern press have been
growing steadily kindlier and fairer
But there is one notable exception. The
Evening Post is edited by man whose hair is
grey with the experience Of long life, to
whom God has given those large and generous
sympatbies which belong to the poet, and who
has, in the exercise of his genius, clothed pure
and noble thought in immortal verse; Surely
if there was man to whom the American peo'
ple might have listened for the eloquent utter,
ance of lofty generosity-for the sweet plead
ine of that humanity to which, in oil times and
among all people, the sorrow of great and
broken renown have been peculiarly sacred
that man ought to have been WILLIAM CULLEN
BRYANT. Surely, in oil history, there has
been no scene so full Of those sad contrasts
which touch even the most stolid natures, than
JEFFERSON DAVIS standing as criminal be-
fore Judge UNDERWOOD, in Richmond.
And vet this is Mr. BRYASr's comment:
MIR. Jefferson Davis will, it is reported, arrive IN
New York to-day. AS it is pqsSsble that our jour.
nal NAV fall under the eyes OF some OF his friends
we suggest to them the propriety OF urging the
traitor chief to the most modest demeanor while
he is here. The public is greatly and Justly out
him brought to trial, and condemned to the pun
ishment which the laws decree Tor such crimes Of
his.
Hhe ia so ill-advised and foolish as to attempt
any public appearance here, he will not imProba-
bly,, excite public commotion and tumult. "ned ea
atrocious criminals are by the eonmVsnce OF tne
authorities allowed to escape punishment, the
sense of outraged justice sometimes leads tne
people to take matters into their own hands, ana
to deal that justice which is denied by tne cou!ss
and other authorities. We do not mean to justify
any such resort to violence; but we know that the
public mind is deeply and painfully e1dtea, not
only at the release Of the leading aud most lmPu-
dent and stfnecked traitor, but also at hs shame
iess insolence in coming here to show himself I'M
mediately upon his liberation.
This is simply Infamous And yet this same
paper denounces fiercely the riot in Mobile
and claims for Judge KELLY not only the right
to 60 to Mobile and speak, but to ''use the bit
terest language he could command, I" and its
editor has just written letter to Gov. FESToN
pleading most plaintively for the pardon OF
KErCHuM, the gold forger.
If such were the general temper of the
North, reconstruction would indeed be very
idle world; but we refer our readers with
pleasure to the editorial of the New York
Times on the Mobile riot and the speech OF
Mr.. GREELEY at Richmond, as better evil
denoes of the feeling of our ''countrymen."