The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1871-06-16

v5ToR H6aos M1Tii;F;;Es;T;o;;,;EW::: V;;o;::
tor Hugo has published; the folI6Rinn
letter intthe elnGcpdhHanc Bolqa, e.nr ri
SIR; protest against the declaration
OF the Belgian Government relative 10
the :van4nished { offs Baris. Il. iWhatsvei
may be said lor done; these VAN ouishei}
are political men.HtI waslnotWith thenhl
L eptltha iprincipl8 o. the Commute: :
dosNpt acoept. tho men, ,.sT, have piru
tested against their aots) Their violdndse
nave made me rihdiknhnt.i as the viti
lenceso8 the opposite party wouldvSi6
now.t he destruction df the Column. is
an aossot.Hghi treason toward tho nd.
tlon:ni.tbhof destruction ,oE the TIouvre
wouh have Been; IN actnf high trensoh
toward civilization. But savage. acssr
being unconscious, are not criminal acts.
Demency is adisease and mot q orims,
Ignorance is not the, crime uf, ikhdra
The destruction Of the oolumnahas been
Tor France sad hour phe 'destfuction'
or the Louvre would hSYe been etefhaI
mourning Tor all people But .uthe
column will be raised again y and .tlie
Louvre is safe. Paris lie. fetakanM TIA
Assembly has vanished the Uommtne
Who has mad aAthet18th of Mardh + W!hG
is guilty thu Assembly or thH Coft;hnhe3
History will tell. The burning of Paris
is aomonatfbhs! !fatt:sn But areEthef0 not
two 'fHoendiaries?a Net t,s Wait "a ,Hfdaf
to Judge. have never understood B}l-
horsy; and Rigault has astonished me
unto lndlgnati0n:v But to shoot Billio-
ray or Riganlt is D crime. eThose of 4he
Commune; .Johanndrf land La Cecilia,
who shoot tahildI Of fifteen .years,1are
oriminalA: .ThoEn Of the Assembly, who
SHOOT 1Nalles,n Bosquet. Parisel, Amou-,
roux, Lefrancais, Brdnet, and Dom
browsky, are cHmnala. 1Eefe the crime
is aa we'll in the Assembly as in the Com.
mune. First, to- all oiviliaed men. the
punlahment esiRI abominable; y secondly,
the exception, without Judgment ia infa.,
mous. .Jgdge, arsti then condemn, ;, then
exenate., ~ might then blame, but not
objnrgater You are, within the law, If
You Kill ithout Judgment, you assassi.
nate. return to the Belgian Govern
N. mentt, httb iisr wrong 70 refuse asylum,
The. law permits this refusal. the right
forbfds e. T, who write these lines, h6ld
as o maxih Pro. jure contra ieqem.
Asylum is :an Old right. tits the sacred
right OF the unfortunate. In the mid
die ages the Church granted asylum even
to parliddeah5iA iAB. to- ne,r Z tdeclare;,I
offer this asylum which the Belgian Go
vernmeat refnsea Where? In Belgium.
do that'holor to Belgium. offer asy-
lum at Brussels. 1.offer -it at Place des
Barficades No. (M. Hqgo's town resi-
denoe az ,Bruasels. Let o vanquished Of
Paris, les q member Of the Commune,
which faris has but little elected, and
which'I have never appyoved;l-27 let one
OF tneee men. were he my personal enc:
myA-sspeclnliy- II he is my pereonal enc
my-Rnotkuat MY door, 1iopenl ! Hs is
I. HsrShsnce, ,ba foreiaSas f. Il Reia;nms a1aS
I do not Belieye;1 il: i, I feel mysa3f f tba
brother Oh all men. and the ,aneat of M All
nations, At hll events, o afugitiye: of the
Compnne with ne Will be o yanouished
one with an outlaw; the vanouished 81
to-day with the. phtiaw of Yesterday
Two venerable things,.a lido not hesi.
tate tp say: One weakpeas proteoting,
another. II, 3 MIN :be an OUTLAW, 1T him
enterImy Lonse.I I defy, ,iwhomeoefsver It
be. 70 tear him from it, speak here Of
political men,. r. afqgitiYe of the Com
mune be taken at my home they shall
take me II he be given up I shalt fol-
low him. I shall set down with him on
the bench Of the accused. For the de-:
fence Of the right, the man of che Re:
public, who has been prescribed BY. Bo-
naparte. shall be seen by the side Of the
man OF the Commune, who is the van
quished OF the Assembly of Versailles.
l shall do my duty. Principles before
everytAingls r. may be. affirmed that
England will not give up the refugees Of
the Commune. Why place Belgium be-
low England? The glory of Belgium is
to be an asylum. Let us not take that
glory from her. By defending France I
defend Belgium. The Belgian Govern.
ment will be against me, but the Belgian
people will, be with me:, AT any rate, I
shall have my conscience. Receive, Sir,
&c. VICTOR HUGO.
Mrs. Moore is q Tennessee lady, and
when her little boy fell down O twenty.
four feet we'll, she .eimplY. grasped tie