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


Wo do not generally care to reproduce the
violent and vindctive language in which some
of the Northern press still indulge. It can
minister neither TO our comfort nor 10 our in
crest 10 know that there are men in whose
.Iearts hate cnn never bo quenchod. For our
part, we arc anxious to do all TINT can be done
10 restore those relations of mutual good will
which Gun alone secure peace and prosperity
for the future, and not to prevent the healing
and consoling work of time. Besides, tho tone
aud temper Of the Northern press have been
growing steadily kindlier and fairer.
But there is ono notable exception. Tho
Euening Post is edited by man whose hnir is
grey with the experience of long life, to
whom God has given those largo and generous
sympathies which belong to tho poet, and who
has, in the exercise Of his genius, clothed pure
and noblo thought in immortal verso. Surely,
if there was a man TO whom tho American peo-
plo might have listened for the eloquon. utter
unco of n lofty generosity-for the sweet plead
ing 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 30 full Of those cad contrasts
which touch even the most stolid natures, than
JEFFERSON DAVIS standing as q criminal be-
fore Judge USDERwoop, in Richmond
And yet this is Mr.. BnYAkr's comment:
Mr. Jefferson Davis will, it is reported arrive in
Now York to-day. As 1t is posf1blo that our jour-
na may fall undor the eyes OF some OF Lis friends
wo suggest to them tho propriety Of urging the
traitor chief TO tho most modest domeanor while
ho is hcrc. Tho public is greatly and Justly out
ragged at his rooase; il desired and eIpectod to SEQ
him brought to trial, and condemned 10 tho pun
ishment which the laws decreo for such crimes as
his.
II he is go il-adyised and foolish as to attempt
any public appearance here, he will, not improba-
bly,, excite public commotion and tumult When
just laws romsin une1ecuted, whom gre,t and
atrocious criminals are by the connifanoe Of the
authorities allowed to escape punishment, tho
people to take mattors into their own hands, and
to deal that Justice which iB denied by the courts
and other authorities. Wo do not moan to justify
public mind Ia deeply aud painfully excited, not
only at the release Of tho leading aud most impu-
dent and stinecked traitor, but also at his shame
lesB inBolence in coming hero to show himself i'm
mediately upon his liberation.
This is simply infamous. And yet this same
paper denounces ferccly the riot in Mobile,
oh1 Si"iAio Aot 1uu6o. iALhhi no' ohiy tno riBnt
to go to Mobile and speak, but to ''use the Bit
terest language he could command" and its
editor has just written letter to Gov. FRsToS
pleading most plaintively for the pardon of
KErouun. tho gold forrer n.tH
II such were the general temper of tho
North, reconstruction would indeed be very
idle world but we refer our readers with
Measure to the editorial of tho Now York
Times on the Mobile riot and the speech of
Mr.. GREELEY at Richmond, as better evil
dcnces of the feeling of our "countrymen."