The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1867-02-06
NORTHERN MORALS.

| In our yesterdays issue We complained OF the
Now York Evening Post for publishing para-
rranh ho.dcd "Anothur Nnrdor in Tnnncsan~."
Our attention having thus boon directed to this
subject wo Immediately found fertilo field. We
cannot take up paper from any city in the North
without observing most doplorable la1ity Of pub
lio (nnd, Of course nlso Of private) morals. Thus,
for instance, are told That within the past yoar
,hrso clerks employed in tho Boston Poatofico
have been detected in purlsining money from let
ters passing through their hands; that two OF them
wero tried convctod-and pardonGd; and that
| tho third, who chad boon operating for soms
months and ms caught In the act" is now held
for trial; but that "it is considered almost uscoss
to attempt 10 convict SINCE at the instance of pro-
| minent ctizons, tho pardonng powor Is so froey
| exercised" 30 also with tho much-yaunted Bos-
ton police. some Of tho lattor was indicted for
| robbery short timo since, but gave bail" or
course ho was not TO bo found when tho caso came
up for trial. During tho past woek tuo men of the
Boston police were in tho act Of robbins grocery
store. s'They had made most judicious soloction
Of tho groceries therein and for the lack OF bas-
ket, had packed thoir plumber in large handker-
chiefs. The case was reported, and tho grocer
testified that tho groceries wero his, but that tho
hnndksrohiefs Ners not. It ia said the officers in
question aro still on duty" .5r,
From these little episodes in Boston life, Says
the Baltimore Gazette, It will BIO noted with satis-
faction that tho excelont example sot to their fel
loN-citizens during tho lato war by Messrs. Bur
Lzn and BANKS, and by many other Massachusetts,
officers Of lcsser degree, Ia bearing It's appropriate
fruit. It was equivalent to liberal education to
discover that stars and ahoulder-atraps impreg-
natod the wcarers with so much virtue that Il
lenyened all imaginable vices into sne grand mass
OF moral eoDglomerate, and that what, would hnve
IN NV
therefore, moro sarupulous In observing tho pro-
copts OF tho Decaloguo, was in mon holding mill
tury commissions not only strictly honest, but
emincnty praisouorthy: 81, ~,
We can very woll imagine tho ineffablc satisfac-
ton with which BUTLEn surveys tho pictures on
his wallis; BANKS o cotton bale OF unusual din,en-
uions; this Massachusetts Colonel o service of
plate; that Massachusetts, Captain piano Whose
music MAS once heard in drawing-rooms thou:
sand mlos away; and NO can readily depict to our
pelves tho sanclimonious faeo with which certain
Presbyterian clergyman st.the North administers
tho Sacrament from stolen vessels or silvor that
were frat sanetifod to holy uses in South Caro-
lina. Those jewels diamonds OF tho frat Iater;
ths rings that load tho Angors of Massachusetts,
women; the cloak on the mantel-piece; tho mirror
that rofocts It; tho carpet on the floor; the books
that limo yonder shelves; tho group Of statuary in
yonder niche; tho ipnumerablo articles of pfriu
that arc TO DO seen In various Northern house.
holds-What nro these but precious. things OF
which officers Of Massachusetts regiments
despoiled the Egyptians OF the South after being
taught, by prosept and example, that It was their
plous duty 10 deck their wives and garniah their
dwellings, with Whatever was worth taking, whom
they could taks It With indpulity from those who
uere woak and defonceless7
: Girls arc whipped at Rchool In that Same pieus
r{ra nfutlt oil
grown up young ladies' not unf1oquentIy, But
thon they nro uhito l,elony to tho s!lsss worthy
soor and therefore oanno! find any Of the plilan-.
thropcs ts take their part. Niggor whipping is
tho only subject that can rouBo them from their
natural phlsgmatic oquanimity. sI ,..,- - 81
Has any ono ever heard Of e master, mistress,
or oyersoor whipping four-yoar old negro child
to death Wo haye lived In this slaye country q
/ great many years without having heard Of suah .
case. Yet, hers Is one JosL LINDsL1I, NO bog his
pardon, the Rev. JoHL !LrNDsLHY, of shelby, Or
leans county, Now York, who, few days ago,
was sentenced to the penitontlary at Auburn for
tho space Of four years and thrsc months, for the
srime Of manslaughter in the second degree. Tho
papers contain tho full particulars, ghastly and
aoul-harowing, Of tho murder Of little boy sbout
four years old, who WAS literally whipped to death
by his OWE father, and the said father olorsy
nAn-At lssst ho has the Royorend preax to his
nnme. .sE !s3i SO 's1i 'f'ta isttH Ii'i5i
We will not sully our columns with description
Of. tho rovolins scono presented by the handiwori
Of this unnatural fathsr.t This almost incredible
pieco Of cruelty was, pnrpotrated upon tho child
becauao ho woud not say his prayers, or would not
say ihom as tho pious father had wislfod and di.
rected. We arc not Of those who arc disposed TO
tako up llbel aud publish IT, juat beeauAe is sub
joct Is rniniater Of tho gospel; but in consider
Ing subj )eot like tho present tho fact Of tho cuI-
prlt being q clergyman certainly enhances his