The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1867-12-12
COLUMBIA.
Thursday Morning, Dec. ,l2, 1857.
Crime Everywhere.

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peculiar to any section, aud yet there
is portion of the Northern press
which, amid oil the. changes wrought
by the terrible events of the past
seven years, remains morally and in
tellectually immovable in their life
long prejudices. These journals are
immersed in the same binding jea
lousies and ahtipathies with respect
to the South and Southerners, in 1867,
as they were in 1856 and 1860. II
seems for them them impossible either to
appreciate the virtues which our peo'
pie displayed in the trials of war and
the severer trials of conquest, or to
realize the profound tragedy of their
fall and tho unspeakable perils and
pathos of their hopeless situation.
But crime is not confined to the
hapless South, as the following para
graph, from the Boston Post, abun-
dainty proves:
"Crime is terribly prevalent in New
England. Every few days our staid
cities and quiet towns are startled by
some deed of blood, some revelation
of beastliness or of rascality. Even
our Southern brethren, living in the
midst 'of anarchy and turmoil,
might, with reason, sneer at the mo-
rality of New England-as shown in
its daily reports of crime"
This is spoken of q section Of the
country which claims to be the centre
of civilization. The fact that crimes,
many of them dark and terrible, are
committed in New England, does not
warrant the assumption that crime is
peculiar to that section; but the fact
ought to suggest to the philanthro-
pists and humanitarians hailing from
that region, the Importance of giving
more attention to home affairs, and
less to those of people distant from
them and who have endeavored to
mind their own business asking only
to be let aloue. John Quincy Adams
gave very striking instance of the
insincerity of the far-of philanth
pists; being ca!'ou on by New Eng
land clergyman for donation in be-
half of foreign missions, he declined
to give anything, at the same time
affirming that there were two promi-
nent clergymen in his own town who
were mortal enemies to each other.
81 would give," said the ex-Presi-
dent, "any amount that may be re-
quired, to teach these gentlemen the
true principles of christianity; that
their lives might be better illustra-
tion of Christian doctrine" And so
tits now; great deal of money could
be wisely appropriated to this end in
New England ut the present time.
But there are some journals out
side of New England, that ought to
know better, which cannot emerge
from the can't and animosity which
preceded and brought about the late
war. The New York Eoeninq Post
makes the unseemly shooting affair
between the two relatives of Henry
A. Wise and Pollard, an occasion of
repeating an old stereotype fling ut
Southern chivalry." The Post re-
fers to the parties in this fracas, as
"two or three Virginia bullies, who
have been disgracing the city of
Baltimore by street fght-one of
them, Pollard, the truculent writer
of several volumes, which he calls
history, and the two others, relatives
Of Henry A. Wise, and apparently
worthy scions of the stock" It's right
to characterize rs it sees fit, the acts
OF these men as individuals, is un-
questioned; but it betrays n most
detestible vulgarity of malice towards
whole people, when it speaks of
them as sprigs Of chivalry, and points
to them as representative examples
OF a. practice which, in civilized So.
ciety, is rapidly growing out of ia