The Sun.
London, England, 1869-01-04 00:00:00

given by a magazine, yet we will endeavour to deal
with them hereafter in these columns. One aspect
of the coming efflux of the English, for nothing can
now prevent this exodus, is of peculiar interest to
both branches of the Anglo-Saxon family, and
may have a mighty influence in re-cementing the
Northern Continent of America to the ancient
Fatherland. It is possible that Parliament and
the people may be blind to the all-important
necessity of directing the emigration wisely,
and even conceive the false notion of mis-
directing it, endeavouring to turn the tide by
libels and detraction from the United States
to what people call loyal colonies, as if the Ameri-
cans south of the St. Lawrence were of another
race from the Americans north of the St. Lawrence,
and that that river represented a line of demarca-
tion between inhabitants hostile and friendly to
Great Britain. Now this is the notion we desire
to combat, at the risk of wearying our readers
for that hostility is really generated by the
careful means used for its cultivation. Why
foster such a pernicious absurdity ? Is it wise,
we ask, to act on the grounds which are taken
for granted that a comparatively feeble country
is the friend, and a most powerful country the
enemy of the kingdom, both being the offspring
of Britain, and in reality brethren and kinsmen ?
To do this is to commit a gross political blunder,
nor that only, for it wrongs the emigrants in send-
ing them to an inferior instead of to a superior
country. Hence in libelling the States to foster
emigration to Canada a present wrong is accom-
plished to work.future evil ; the direction being a
blunder, the reason a blunder, and the effect per-
nicious. Nor is it practicable, as the committee
formed to pro.note emigration for the unemployed
of Clerkenwell will find, if the report he true, that
all subscribers to the fund are pledged to remain in
Canada. On this the Pall Mall observes It
would be a pity to place an interdict on the United
States, especially as the immigrants would find
that they were better off in the Dominion than they
could possibly be under the present rate of taxation
in the Great Republic," That is the theory, but
this is the practice :—" During the past year
23,345 immigrants arrived in Canada. Of these
only 3,631 remained in the Dominion ; the rest
proceeded to the Western States." As the exodus
we foresee will be such as to throw that from
Ireland and Germany into the shade (for the
pent-up masses only wait the outlet and the
example), we consider the question as one of
first-rate importance, worthy of the most earnest
consideration of English and American statesmen.
Through the sharp suffering of millions a mighty
good may result; and if there be a fact well estab-
lished in history it is this, that no such good can be
achieved except through such suffering. Holding
these views, we trust those of our readers who have
not reflected on this subject will bear with us while
we endeavour, after a long experience of emigration,
toshow the vastimportance of the subject to the Angl-
o race; indeed, that it may be made the antithesis
of a war between its two branches—if we may
use this word to express the exact opposite—the
one working the same measure of good for the race
iu creating prosperity and fostering kindly feelings
that the other would evil in the destruction of life
and property and in generating ill blood.•—Anglo-
American Times.

LYNCH LA W.

a community such as that of Britain the story
of what took place at New Albany, Indiana, before
daylight on Saturday morning, December 12, will
appear not only lawless, but dreadful in the ex-
treme, showing a. population inclined to substitute
their own bloodthirsty passions for justice, and mob
equity for the unimpassioned decree of judge and
jury. While all civilized societies will reprobate
lynching, now more than usually common in sparsely
settled portions of the United States, Europeans
are wholly unqualified to pronounce an opinion
on the wild justice there exercised who do not
understand the nature of the country where it
prevails. Generally, Vigilance Committees have
acted only in urgent necessity, and on the side of
order and security ; often, indeed, when such
action was indispensible to save the community
from falling, bound hand and foot to the mercy of
the worst classes. These committees have, in short,
been a combination of the orderly against the com-
bination of the vicious, an organization to prote
life and property against another directed at them,
both using the same unlawful weapons, freely apply-
ing the rope, the pistol, the dagger, and the lash to
strike tenor. But why, asks the Englishman,
who can form no just idea of the vastness of the
country, do not the well-disposed aid law to keep in
subjection the evilly-disposed by its stern adminis-
tration ? The best answer to this is furnished by the
affair in New Albany. Not long ago it was an-
nounced that the Canadian authorities had surren-
dered under the Extradition Treaty two railway rob-
bers, the one belonging to the celebrated RENO family,
the other a member of the gang, named CHAS. AN-
DERSON. They had escaped to Canada after a despe-
rate attempt to rob an express car, when many of
their confederates were captured, the train taking
them to prison being stopped by an armed band
(this Vigilance Committee), and the desperadoes
hung to the nearest trees. The Canadian authori-
ties surrendered FRANK RENO and ANDERSON, under
the promise of protection from this violence and a
fair trial, which was the more earnestly pressed in
view of these illegal executions by which so many
of the gang had already suffered. They were con-
veyed to New Albany and lodged in the prison
wherein SIMON and WILLIAM RENO were then con-
fined awaiting trial. The connection of the United
States with the affair then ceased, the State becom-
ing responsible ; and it is an error to suppose that
the Washington Government could have given any
absolute pledge of security further than in lodging
the accused in the strongest of the State gaols.
Throughout Indiana remnants still exist of an or-
ganization which styled itself the Regulators, once
numbering 700 or 800, but now reduced to little
over a third of that strength, though their activity
may be gathered from the fact that within the last
two years they have hanged some thirty supposed
criminals. These Regulators derived their origin from
the old Border state of society from which Indiana has
so quickly changed that a complex social community
has overtaken the rough and ready justice of back-
wood and wild prairie life. 'When recording the sur-
render, in view of these facts, we expressed an
opinion that the fate of these men was sealed.
Seymour is a small railway town about 50 miles
north of Louisville, where the railroad to Indiana-
polis intersects the Ohio and Mississippi line. For
more than fifteen years this village has been
the head-quarters of a company of despera-
does, of whom the RENOS, an English family of
a mother and five sons, were the chiefs. At
first the robberies were for the most part con-
fined to cattle and sheep, but by degrees the scope
increased, and the neighbourhood was kept in a
state of terror, and blackmailed with impunity.
Houses and citizens were robbed ; stores were rifled,
and cattle lifted by droves ; prosecutors were mur-
dered, and witnesses kidnapped and deported.
Two of the RENos secured positions as travel-
ling agents for Express Companies, which
made them familiar with the manner of
transporting and delivering valuables, and this
knowledge enabled them to effect some ex-
tensive seizures. A train was surrounded at
Seymour by an armed party in disguise ; the loco-
motive and express cars were detached and taken
two miles along the track, where the safe of the
United States Express Company was broken open
and $90,000 abstracted. FRANK RENO, the company's
agent, was there found, to divert suspicion, tied to a
chair and gagged. Not long after, in a similar
way, the robbery of $170,000 was effected, which
directed general attention to Seymour and the or-
ganization by which that neighbourhood was kept
in a state of subjugation. Arrests were made, but
the confederates, emboldened by impunity, openly
announced that if one was injured the town would be
destroyed. It was then that the Vigilance Committee
seized six of the criminals, including two of the
RENOS, and hanged them in the woods; and on the
capture of some of the robbers, who were caught in
their own trap while endeavouring for the third
time to rifle the safes of an Express Company, exe-
cuted them, The rest of the band were warned