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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 prodiote 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,
to show the vast importance 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
in creating prosperity and fostering kindly feelings
that the other would evil in the destruction of life
and property mid in generating ill blood,— Anglo-
Ame rie an limes.

LYNCH LAW.

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 iu 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 prott
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 terror. 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 railvvay 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 RENDS, 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 znur-
Births,
dered, and witnesses kidnapped and deported. COCKISURN —On the 2d inst., at 9, Scarsdale Villas, Ken-
Two of the RENDS secured positions as travel- sington, the wife of Frederick Cockburn, Esq.,
ROWSELL IT the 29th of a
ling agents for Express Companies, which daughter.
at 43, Cathcart-road, West
made them familiar with the manner of Brompton, the wife of W. Rovvsell, barrister-at-law, of
transporting and delivering valuables, and this I a daughter.
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 he
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

One of the most telling bits of satire is this ex-
tract from an American pap3r :—" The Renos and their
fellow victims belouged to a gang that robbed express
companies without being directors. If they had been di-
rectors, theirs would have been a capital opportunity; as
it was, it became a capital offence."

General Grant started from Boston, on the 18th
1 Dec., and will go thence to Philadelphia and Baltimore,
reaching Washington in season to bo roasted for the as-
sembled multitude on the 4th of March.
A new company named the Burleigh tunnel and
mining company, has been organized at Fitchburg with a
capital of 8120,000, for the purpose of silver mining in
Colorado with the Burleigh rock drill.
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GRE Marriages.
EN-HERBERT On the 29th ult., at Our Lady's Church, St. John's- wood, John Philip Green, of the Mid-
dle Temple, barrister and of Bombay, to Theresa, the
J
second daughter of J. R. Herbert, Esq., Royal Acade-
mician.

HILL—Thes:ER—On tho Ist inst., at Combe Down, near
Bath, James Lodger Hill, of Ogle Castle, Northumber-
land, and of Southampton, to Mary, third daughter of
W. 11. Tucker, of Trowbridge, Wilts.

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that their names were enrolled, and that they would
be lynched without mercy if any attempts at revenge
were made. On Friday, Dec. 11, about 100 men
arrived at New Albany, a large town in the ex-
treme south of Indiana, on the Ohio river, opposite
Louisville, and waiting- till the next morning, at
three o'clock attacked the gaol, seized some of the
guards, and effected an entrance. The Sheriff, who
refused to deliver up the keys, was wounded, but
the premises being searched, they were disco.
vered in a drawer. A warder was com-
pelled to point out the cells of the RENOS, who
were taken out and hanged to a post near the
prison ; then SIMON RENO and CHARLES ANDERSON
were in a similar way executed, the former fought
desperately, knocking down two or three of the
Vigilance men ; the latter begged but was refused
time for prayer. Indeed the lynchers had no time
to spare, for they feared even to delay for the full ac-
complishment of their purpose, which was to hang
another man confined on a charge of murder, and
they left the gaol, having only carried into effect
their main object. The people of Seymour assert the
impossibility of obtaining justice and suppressing
conspiracies against their lives and fortunes, ex-
cept by counter conspiracies such as that by which
the RENO gang was destroyed. The thieving ramifi-
cations are so considerable, and have such a tend-
ency to grow, that they defeat justice not only by
intimidation but by the security given in the assur-
ance that one of the confederates cannot fail to be
enrolled on the jury, whose business it is to hold
out against other jurors to the end. Finding by re-
peated trial that their readiest method was to oppose
to the robbers even a more audacious mode of pro-
cedure than their own, they took the unjustifiable
measures we have recorded. While joining in the
condemnation so general in the United States of
these proceedings, we wish the position to be under-
stood in Europe. Through Lynch law, California,
from a pandemonium, was erected into one of the
most orderly States of the Union ; through Lynch
law all the great ruining States and Territories be-
tween the Missouri and the Pacific are gradually
undergoing the process already completed in Cali-
fornia, and although nothing, theoretically, can jus-
tify such a system, an overwhelming practical ne-
cessity may enforce its adoption. When we con-
sider the phase through which the United States has
passed, that of a civil war which raged over so
many States, followed by the disbandment of
masses of soldiers trained to rapine and bloodshed, it
must be confessed that never before did any coun-
try more quickly settle down into peace and
order. That it could wholly do so, however, is
beyond the bounds of possibility. Hence, the
growth of such bands as that of the RENOS at
Seymour, the Ku-Klux Klan, the Knights of
the White Camellia, the Arkansas and Tennessee
Militil, which, after all, are but counter-organi-
zations, and the revival of these Vigilance Com-
mittees. While, then, agreeing to the full
in the sentiments expressed by the Philadelphia
Ledger, we maintain the force of what the people
of Seymour urge, and the factthat, instead of show-
ing the lawlessness of the citizens of the Union,
these exceptional cases but prove the truth of the
general rule, that no nation under such circum-
stances ever before showed a finer example of order.
" Mob law, Lynch law," says the Ledger, " or any
..
extra judicial law, here, is always wrong and dan-
gerous,
and especially dangerous to those who re- I
sort to it, as well as to those in authority who con-
nive at it or give occasion for it. An unorganized
in )I) is always undiscriminating, blind, heartless,
brutal, and cruel, eager only for victims, and utterly
reckless as to justice. A mob organized under the -
Lynch code may be less blind, less brutal, less cruel,
but it is no more to be trusted with the adminis-
tration of justice than the other, and the mere ex-
istence
of it is a reproach to the community where
it exists, as well as a disgrace to the law, the courts, . ,
and the authorities. The next most dangerous thing
is an unjust judge, who makes use of his high office
to do things which brings the law and the courts
into contempt and distrust. The parties, however,
who are ultimately responsible are the people them-
selves,
for in this country they make the laws, they
choose the judges, and they create the public senti,
ment, which either enforces the law and insures the
good conduct of the judges, or else encourages such
acts as nullify the law, and make the judges reck-
less
and dangerous." The affair as regards FRANK
RENO and CHARLES ANDERSON is likely to give rise
to a diplomatic correspondence, although the United
States are blameless in the -matter, and can do no
more than express regret that Indiana was unable to
protect prisoners against so sudden, and by it
unexpected, an attack ; and as there can be no doubt
that both meti were deeply implicated in a conspi-
racy which struck at the very roots of society, their
fate cannot excite any great amount of commise-
ration.—Anglo-Ainerican 7 imes.