The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1870-02-09
CRIME NORTH AND SOUTH.

CRIME NORTH AND SOUTH.
In the proceedings of tho Senate, on
Thursday, it was mentioned that Mr..
Abbott offered resolution, which was
adopted, setting forth that violations of
the public peace are of frequent occur
renee in various Southern States, and
that protection OF life and property by
the General Government is the right of
every citizen, and instructing the Judi
ciary Committee to inquire what is the
power of the General Government in the
premises, and also to inquire into the
constitutionality and expediency of cs-
tablishing national police force for the
better enforcement of law. The resolu-
tion should have been amended by intro
ducing the words Northern and" before
Southern States. We commend the
Judiciary Committee, in their inquiries,
to include the city of New York. The
Herald, of that city, says that nothing
in the history of Christian cities-the
worst capitals in the worst ages of the
past-can equal or approach tho dread
full prevalence of crime in that metro
politan shamble. Scarcely day passes,
without its frightful story. It's city news
is, just now, only spared chronicling two
more murders. similar in character to
the Townsend bntchery, by the failure of
the murderous aim in both cases. AL
ready, in the one month of this year, it
has chronicled murder or attempted
murder for every day in the month, and
spired by a spirit of fiendish savagery
equal to the worst act men or devils
could conceive. It is not only that the
pistol and the knife are on all hands the
ready arbiters of every difference, but it
is almost as if some general madness to
kill had taken possession of certain
classes, and Us if this frenzy rioted in the
certainty that the indulgence of its
impulses was absolutely SAFE" The
New York Times has a column on the
same subject, in which it advocates Lynch
law. There is not locality in the South
where crimo is near as rampant as in the
city of New York. If it is "constitu-
tional" to establish police force in the
Southern States, it must be equally so in
the Northern-unless the Southern States
have not been SO reconstructed as to be
equal with the other States of the Union.
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A NOBLE DISPLAY OF CHARITY.
dents like the following exert marvel
lousy y-healing power on the warm
Southern heart. A writer, from Nash
vile, Tennessee, to one Of the New York
papers. says
''Tho Confederate orphans, sixty in
number, from their Home III Ciarks7iiie,
were brought here, on Tuesday last, to
give concert in aid of their Home, the
institution being entirely dependent
upon private charity. AT the rnilroad
depot, they were met by the Federal
post bands, in full uniform, which pre-
ceded them into the city, playing sweetly
and mournfully, therefore most appro-
priately, commanding the admiration
and constraining the enthusiastic ap-
plause of thousands. This practical fact,
with the elimination of that beginning
in the Federal post officers attending the
concert in the evening in full uniform,
where honors given were responded to
by tears of sympathy shed and contribu-
tions bestowed, has preached the Union
with decided power In all this quarter,
and been accepted as an earnest Of peace
and goodwill to come"