The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1871-06-02

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ohttlo 6sE style. IL wfiA the aalsor p
deavorsP esoapal frog TIE .aiFefamaNh
which He pAecedRim Sn TueAday yPoen-
Ing. But while trying lard to muddy
tue waters. SO that he can escape, he
publishes evidence cortoborattye Of TIBET
We asserted. He aid publish the state
.ment. chat Wiley Dfaper yes ysanged until
he. 1aa daad;; hut il Ras in 4Spartaaaura.
Snss IT, 9n'ss adss I ;ss s1s
miles from Gross Keys. which latter
place is in Union. The only incorrect
locating this ddSraEe sthapnever occur
red, in Union instead of Spartanburg.
DR.. r. M. Smith, Representative from
'Spartanburg, called ct tho Union Office,
..juat tbs DAY 6efnyethH Publication, pfithea !
paragraph relative to tho assertion OF
the correspondent Of the Charleston
Necs. informed the editor (as this writer
hos the;best .Df !eyitisnce tory bs}ieying)
that Draper was alive and we'll, and re-
questcd him to correct the false state
hent that had been published in his
columns, q fsm days (tifteen days. the edi-
tos says nbefoxe. What did this. fairy
minded editor doe Why, he said: not
one word about what DR.. Smith had told
him, .hnt published the INSERTION on the
Neus' correspondent-that Draper was
aliHe and well-nnd Immediately reiterat-
ed ethe false assertion, based upon what
he said gentleman from Spartanburg
told him, that Draper was certainly
hanged until he was dead" In further
illustratio9 Of j his loye of truth and fair
dealing, he labors, in thia mornings
issue OF his paper, to perpetuate the
false statement in reference to Draper's
murder, by saying; ii..lWei have meyer yet
Been the han Who has seen Wiley Dra-
per alive" We have seen numbers of
| alive; and if the editor OF the Union was
half as anxious'te do jassioe to the peo.
pie of the up-country as he is to slander
and misrepresent them, he could see
plenty of men who have seen Wiley ORA
per alive. Will he say nolo TINT he be-
lieues Wiley .Dpper was murdered, as
represented in his paper s'on the 18th
day Of s.NoveR Rbet lastf", # he does not
now believe it why not come out. like on
honest man, and say to his readers that
his information WAS incorrect.
But the Union editor rneveri, denied
that the writ (hdbeas co,pus) hadsbeen
| disregarded" in the case of the Lalrens
|, ,pFi5onoFs, .'lof did 10 6ay tho pTiis6uers
had basn liberated" Well, what did
he say? Why. he said that ''if writs Of
hnbeas corpus were sued out, he never
knew it. Then he was ignorant Of the
facts OF the case. or he -toiY,llly ps,pe7tetl
them. He oan hang ON the horn OF his
choice. Neither one will hold him up
in very enviable attitude. He did say
:'We betiere oil the persons arrested are
Mt liberty. THE harder she struggled,
the, deeper she went" is an assertion we
read in our school boy days In reference
to land fowl that undertook to swim.
So with. the editor of the Union. /: The
prisoners in question had been arrested
long enough for the news OF their arrest
to reach Raleigh, N. O., and for the Sen
tinel to publish an account of the affair,
and for tho Union editor to write on the
7th Of December. o correction of the Sen
tipeFs versi0n Of Tint affair; aud vet at
that time he 6elisued, so be, said, that
they were all at liberty; How did, they
obtain their liberty? They did not break
jail that we ever heard of, nor were they
out on bail. What was their actual CON
dition at that time2 Why, they had
been arrested and dragged from their
homes to Columbia, in defiance Of writ
OF hd6eds corpus, and thrust as felons
into the Jail Of this County. witho5ns an
examination, and were, at the very time
that the Union editor pephed the sen.
tence above quoted, lying in Jail fright
here in this city," as ''every body In Co
lumbia, except this wide-awake, truth
loving editor. knew" and we beliepe he
knew it as well as everybody else did.
We well remember reading that asser-
tion the morning it was published, and
calling the Intention OF some gentlemen
then present to the misrepresentation it
contained. But he says they were not
committed to Jail by Esquire Solomon
till the 9th Of December So much the
worse for him and his party. It is not
the first instance an which prisoners
have been brought here and thrust into
Jail without an examination.
The editor snys We wish to injure him.
Not 30. We wislr. If possible, to have
Justice done to those whom lie maligns;
and it he will publish as facts things
that never occurred. and deny others
that have occurred, lie shall find, occa-
sionally, an effort made by us to set him
right, though success in the effort be un
n hi r.