Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1867-05-29
An Attempt to Incite Mob Violence

An Attempt to Incitc Mob Violence
..s Against MIR. Davis in New York.
Under the heading GA Word of Advice
to Mr.. Davis the New York Evsniag Post
of Wednesday has the following atrocious
article: -
Mr.. Jefferson Davis will, it is reported, ar,
rive in New York to-day. As it is possible
that our journal may fall under the eyes Of
some of his friends, we suggcst.to them the
propriety OF urging the traitor chief to IL the
rmIost modest demeanor while he is here. The
public is greatly and justly outraged at his
release it desired and expected to see him
brought to trial, and condemned to the pun
ishnent which thelaws decree for such crimes
as his.
That he mas moi been brought to trial tor
these crimes is, we think, au injury, and Will
prove source of weakness hereafter to us.
But as he,has been released, decent res.
poet for public opinion demands that ne
should go quietly into an obscure place ana
| live there in the utmost retirement. l5 IS
not lit or decent that he should be seea in
New York at all. If there is any dark un-
visited corner where he can hide himself, let
him stink to it and there remain.
If he is so ll.advised and foolish as teeat-
tempt any public appearance bcrc, nc Will,
! not improbably,s excite public commotiop
and tumalt. When Just laws remain un',xe-
cuted, when great and atrocious criminals
are, by the couniyance Of the authorities al
lowed to escape punishment, thesense oil put
ragged Justice sometimes. leads the people to
take matters into their own hands, and to
deal that Justice which is denied by the c'urt
and other authorities. We do not meaa to
Justify any such resort to violence; but we
know that the public mind is deeply and
rain!ullY excited, not only at. the release OF
the leading and most impudeat and st'ff.necF-
ed traitor, but also at his shameless insolercc
in coming here to show himself Immediately
upor his liberation. ;,
Oar streets ore still full Of wounded and
crippled soldiers-thc marks of his crime.
Thousands OF our citizens have seen the shat
tered wrecks turned over to u. from the loeth-
some Libby prison :. the poor famshed and
frozen fellows who came home from the
horrible pen of Belle Isle to die, or toliye
out few painful years Of suffering. All
know that these foul prisons were not at q
great distance, but under the very eyes Of
Davis; when he looked out oi his bedroom
windows 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 vas his malignant hear. content evento
thus starvc and freeze to death our soldiers,
bu. he added INSULT to his tortures: ''Do you
not all know said he at Columbia, on the
Eth Of October, 1864 "do you not all know
that the onl7 way to make spanicls civil lsto
whip them ?" Does any. man believe" " be
said Z. thai Yankees sarc.t to,be. conchiated by5
terms Of concession? Does any man iraag-i
inc that we eau conquer Yankees by retreat
ing before -hem-or do you not all kaop that
The caly 1cay 10 make spanicls cirisis to 'sAip
them !" n
+ It is part of his spaniel" theory to come
at oncc to New York, when he is released.
Let bis friends, OF whqm he appears to have
soma in high places, warh'hIm to be prudent.
lie has no business here; he has no right TO
walk our streets, to ilaunt himself in the
face; of the widows ard orphans his crime
and his stiff.necked persistence in crime made.
Let hin, stink away, over by roads, in u close
carriage, to some obscure and unknown spot,
ard there hide himself.