The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1874-12-31
AsourHERN CURSE IN A NORTHERN

ble story was sent all over the couatry
on Saturday, from the environs of
Boston, upon whlch it is far from
agreeable to US to dwell, yet which
curries with it lesson too important
to be overlooked. a young girl,
child, indeed. jus, budding from child
hood into BirihUml aud belonging to
the very best clnss OF sGciety IN Mas.
.uchusrtts, WAS assaulted almost within
hearing of Ter fathers house, ON her
return irum an AFTERNOON OF pleasant
aud iunuccnt excic,se, by negro ruff
iau, hldruusly v mbuseti, ro. bed and lett
10 dis III :ie woods. Tue pour HirI .ia;!
strength aud Will enough left To reach
her home aud nuke tue rlnidehing
story known. A hot pursuit was in
slnntly organized, and. to the credit
| both ut tue pullc. nl.d uf Ii. citlz-h.
OF Eastern a-suclns.tts let 1t be rc.
corded, tho a:rucluns >conn,irrl who
bad committed tt.r decd was mrrcstcd
before midnight. H. now lies iii jail.
His victim. 1t is said. is hkcIy ~ rtcu-
yer, aud there ~, of course, every ren
son to expect That the most extrrlnr
punishment the laws will permit to br
| inflicted III such II case will ere long
proportion any punishment whatever
which the laws viii permit civilized
men to iufi e, in such case Will be to
the wrong done by The criminal, We
need not harrow up the fee ihgs Of onr
readers by demonstrating at length
1t is literally impossible for the most
vivid Inauguration to Over-atmte the
blight and misery bruugh, upon u fair
4 u /, H.. l,x,,
| pathos with which Churles Lamb has
invested the unnnrpy fate oi Rosa
mond Gray wutid tail short of the
bald, binhk, absolutely hopeless an
guihh of THIS c"iamity precIpitated in
an instant by the bestiul ferocity of q
human brute upon natures refined b,
the most cnreful culture und the mos,
genial inhu-uces OF the highest furm>
OF human civilization. Precisely il
proportion to til. rrhnen-nt and the
generosity vi his character will be the
in'enslty of the nglrg with which
! every mnscu'ine muu on reading ut
such crime uust feel himself ti,r,l,
| for tho execution upon the criminal,
not OF what wa com m0nly aud tameIy
call 'JusIice,' but OF that summary
AMI terrible vengeance which, III such
casea. Is the only appropriate shadow
and image of uu absolutely nnmttaiuu.
BILE Justice. We shall not insult the
manhood Of Massachusetts by hlut,ug
ii doubt that %hau This uu.rs ,,er;. ,;,..
| Known III any circit of Boston lie uut
demoraliZe,l hy he ghrul-likc nnd
emascnlatIng intld, r.t.s of that vulgar
fanaticism wh~,' tnt. lead Sumnrr
and the living Wcua.ll Philips were
the lifting types, men hearing 1t aei
their teeth hard aud inuged fnr one
hour of knnsn. with ITS hnsty ropes.
or of T-xns With its per-mp,ory cart
and rifle.
] Aud u0w Will all the men in Mnssn.
chusetts who ielt this divine rage, tins
s"cred aud virile wrath in the defence
OF helpiessness against fiendisb brn.
tally. of gracious and refined lnno-
crnce against f"nl aud gruveIlpg crime
tlnBiinE hot in their veiuA on 5 ,turtlay
last, ns they read the miserable stor,
Of Judge Low-lrs Outraged home, bnt
! 40 themselves ant their country the
WholtSuiue service of rrfi"ct,nR that
this horrible thing nt which Massachu
-e'fs stn"i@ to-day Hghast has been
stalking for years past by night aud bs
day over the length aud breadth Of All
the Southern States Of this Uulun? No
DOUBT there nre many men at tn.
South, hot ut spirit aud slow to learn.
who have once and again since the
close of the war manifested u dIsposl-
tlon to deal over harshly with the race
WHICH they and their f,thrrs before
them, and our fathers before ~, Ms
well ms theirs. we're trained to regard
aud 20 trr It H. Interior by the divine
appointment To the ruling rac.. of Eu-
/ rope, uf Aucrics,. aud oi the world
But the vast body Of the Southern
whites are Of another strait They
accepted the results nf the cIv;i war
honestly and mHnfu,ly. they knew
that the nrj jlrity o. tie Southern ne
groes were neither in themselves
savage md cruel, nor disposed to live
on Ill terms with their white fellow.
citizens. Bat they knew, too, TINT, ny
they are IN uil ignorant aud long bru-
talzed races, the lower pAsslnns are
especially strong. and the Intellectual
forces 10y which the lower passions, if
they arc to bc controlled ut ali, must
be con'rn led, are especially weak IL
the negroes. Ard tn, V looked forward
then with Il peculiar anxiety to the IN.
crnnse at the South al precisely such
lntoinrablt uilcnc-s against suclrty ny
TIN. which has jnst desoiatcd one OF
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