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The Mob SpiritThat able journal—the Chicago Daily Journal—in uii article under the above {lending, lias (he foil owing just anil pcvti-nunL rtmnirkf*, Wy coiiinmtul them to pub- 1lie oil*ccrs everywhere : ' 11The* spirit of mol? violence urnl usurp11* ^tion tebecoming (cavfvilly prevalent ibyoM *out some portions of the country. In lovru | it in unruKniiHLNl, and commits the moat a- | limning excesses, home ten men having in J a few months fallen victims to its blind and i Insane rage, In Wisconsin it Ims sc v cm I 1 j times raised its threatening head within n i horl time. In our own Slate, ivc have had ; some iu^hmces of mob violence or riotous dcmunsl ration. In Indiana it has been i\V most as bad as in I own, though less hi nod- • j thirsty. Jn Detroit it has shown iu bold j front to the community on two or three lt;tif* ferent occasions lately, and in Now York, Pintado!jdih^and Baltimore, a? well as in other cities North and South, it is no new thing for the mobncrats tp tafee the lav/ into their own hands, iWhen any real or fancied grievance ex* tela, it h attempted to ho remedied by vio-!ent proceeduvcr It seizes real or suspect- 1 ed olleiulors against justice and right, arul without any legal process of trial!. strings j them tip like ao many obnoxious reptiles^—It bn tier* down houses—invades the sanctity of home — insult* women—frighten? child! cn—Jiungs the men. The persons and properly of citizens aro Thus left to the mercy id Infuriated and pitiless mob*. and !to all intent#and purposes, the community 1 is ruled by a set of lawless men, who have 1 neither a proper idea of justice, a proper respect for human rights, nw a proper re- ’ gard for the hue endsancl designs of that human government that te organized ujjoti and operated by kw. civil and criminal. I There must Ix; ft reiwm fur this growing 1 tendency oil the part of the populace to re- • sort to mob law. ami we think we perceive 1 wlmt tlmt reason is. Our Jaws are good e-nough, but the officer* of the law are too of'ten 1 fncompricuCxiaii ' Criminate, whose guilt is ! obvious, oru too often acquitted and allow- : ed to escape unpuuifdicd, Judges are MM { —m'ipntrat# ignorant^ omiablet knavitk ami 1 eowartUp, owing to which facts, the public ] nrc losing confidence in the efficiency of our courts and criminal custodian*, and 1 when confidence Iti them is destroyed, the next step Ih jti!*t ttaestsite of thing* wo have \ been speaking of—mob law and the wrest ’ iug of offenders from the custody of weak 1 and uncertain officers. This is the result 1 of that terrible evil in our party politics of electing officer j, justices ftiui judges according to their party belonging* and parlv in- 1 rtnonce. There are but few mn polUtcmw lt;who are fit to act u* judges vv police ofltecrs. 1 Eveiybody knows this tu be iv fact. ilu order, the re fore, to counteract (he mob spirit of the time, nnd lo inspire in tlie ; mind* of the people that respect and coitil- i deuce tn our judicialT police anlt;l legal ad* lt;in Intel ratio us. which is necessary to ensure lt;their Mil'mission to them, t« must have more at re as to whftt kind of mm tve elect to administer the ttjftnes of justicey law andpunuthwinlj and the officer* of the bnv mtttf, by show in*; their capacity and cxer citing their a a tkority* ! criisdi oiii and extinguish Uiis terrible spirit of luwlossuoss and violence which threat- \ c»s the Mjhversioii of our entire system of ' govern cue n L ’
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La Crosse Independent Republican
La Crosse, Wisconsin, US
Wed, Aug 12, 1857
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