New-York tribune., 1871-05-15

bis millions outnumbered his fingers and toes
Hang fve of the first men in the South In this
ouiet unostentatious winning manner, and no
mora w;l, want to be hung. We don't need
onv army or any courts; nothing, in fact but
a rome and perhaps cheerful epgram as they
ou,no off. Mr.. Phillips and Gen. Butler would
I've inst the men to do it, if they would march
70 the Gulf; they must themselves see that
they can't hang anybody, worth mentioning,
if they stay where they are.
This panacea is so promising that we beg
leave to suggest to the President to appoint
Hanging Committee, to visit the disturbed
districts during the recess of Congress, with
power to send for persons and papers; to read
the papers and to hang the persons. The COM
mittee need not be large, but it should nave
two heads-Mr. Phillips and Gen. Butler. Let
the Committee move slowly down toward the
Gulf, hanging gently as it goes. Mr. Philips
is not the man to advise @ scheme he would
not be willing to take the peril of executing;
we never knew him, in the most troublous
times, to shrink from any danger. 1t was
always with him q word and blow; and the
word first, then the blow was mt needed.
We have no doubt now that he is
ready to undertake this Southern mission
which he advises. We can almost see
him now executing it. He comes to
Southern village with his Committee. He
inquiries for the Assessors list. "WhO," says
he, ais your richest mani Show me your local
Vanderbilt "What do you purpose to dol
ask the villagers. al purpose" says Mr.. Phil
lips, to hang him, in the name of the Forty
% Second Parallel" "What fort" "Il be
hanged if / know what for" says the orator;
"what forf is a queer question in FREQ
country-has it never occurred to you TO
"scratch an ex-general millionaire Try
ait; you will find a Ku-Kluxw At mid
night. Mr.. Phillips and Gen. Butler track
the Dives to his lair, scratch him till day
light, and then hang him up in sight of
the camp breakfast table. No more Ku-
Klux in that region, but great terror falling
on all the country round about, and every
body asking Butler what he shall DO to
be saved from Phillips. Is not this a terrible
picture But it is not so frightful as 1t VIII
be to have Phillips coming round again, with
a new quiver of epigrams, in 1872, and jocularly
saying, 81 told you So" And, besides, it is
economical. Bir. Phillips will kill two BIRDS
with one stone he will dispatch an ex-gen-
eral and one of the millioDaires who would
else adorn a New-York lamp-post in 1S73-for
the mob that year, he blandly prophesies, will
"indulge in millionaire" Anybody ca1 see
that all such causes of indulgence ought to
be removed now.
Behold the simplicity of genius "Ishowyou,"
SAYS this admirable man, the two dangers
"Ku-Klux and corporations. hold in my hand
"the remedy. Hang five topmost Alpine South
"erners, smash all the Northern corporations
"and then come to me and will tell you what
"next to do" Alas, if We would only be wise
while we have this guide with us! If he should
die and not leave a stock of epigrams to last
at least fifty years, we would not give Con-
federate note for the republic. While he is
here let us utilize him. Let him have free
commission to play back and forth between
North and South-a destructive double-ender,
hanging the very rich and scattering the cor
porations. Only let him also remember the
maxim of the Persian Saadi: "a learned man
"without works is bee without honey. Say
"to the austere and uncivil bee, when you
"cannOt afford honey, do not sting"