The Arkansas advocate., 1835-10-02

for the sake of running his neighbor's crops, and thereby should let in the flood tide to sweep away his own property, his Ot0a l.fe, and the life of his children.
 To the man who sits down and takes T calm and collected view of onr general country at this time, the prospect is ominous in the ex- treme. From every quarter of the Union come rumora of riot and tumult, of abrogation of law and setting up of popular feeling in the place thereof. It has become a settled and avowed principle in the creed of many of our political men, that when the laws and popu- lar feeling clash, the former must give way. This principle is daily carried out and acted upon. The first mob, worthy of notice, con- menced in Charleston, Mass, some eight months ago. A catholic nunnery was leyel- ed with the ground Did the law assert it's majesty! f did mol. The ruin was comple ted-and then prosecutions were had, and what was the result! Only one young man the most innocent of the mob, was convict ed and incarcerated. This occurrence was was followed up by others. In every city of the United States, mobs have since then as- serted their supremacy over the law, and maintained q. In Baltimore and Washing ton, armed men have destroyed private pro- perty and annuIled the law. In Mississippi, law has no more an abiding place. The right of trial by jury has been annulled, and men have been hung in whole crowds with out the shadow of legal process. in Ark ansas q man has been executed in the same way. To rohat do aHtbese filings tend} We answer, directly to ANARCHY, REVOLUTION and SLAVERY.
 Ifany man will consider the revolution in France, he will observe that it commenced with mild and proper reform. The mob, however, were made the instruments by which 1t was to be produeed-and that mob had no sooner felt it's power, than 1t took a}t power into its hands The King and Queen were mardered-law, liberty, good order and religion were dethroned, and disorder, anar- chy, jacobinism and vice usurped their pla- ces. To the same condition our country is yerging. The ignorant and unprincipled mohs of the East have felt their power.- They have committed the most violent excess ses-they have tramFled the law and the mi nisters of the law in the dnst-and have gone unseathed and unpunished. Will they be slow to exercise the same power again! If we unmuzzle the tiger, will he refrain from tapping blood!
 Ne tell the people of the United States, that unless they look we'll to themselves, the day of their destruction is at hand. They are trying to destroy themselves. We do denounea as q traitor, every man who eEcou- rages, in any shape, or under any pretext, the putting down and abrogatipg of the laws. We disclaim every man who advises the peo- l pie to take the law into their own hands, 10 matter for what cause, no matter for what good reason, no matter to answer what end ofjustice, no matter how much good may for once ba done thereby. Ne say that every man who deprives or attempts to deprive the Yeriest wretch that breathes Gods atmos- phere, of the right of trial by jury, for any crime, is virtually traitor-not only to his country, but to his own best rights and dear est interests. Men who unehain mob, are like men who unchain the plague and the pestilence. It may rid them and their coun- try of their enemies and it's scourges-but 1t will also sweep them away in it's poisonous career. We should take him to be insane who should sit on the brink of q volcano, and throw into it the infammable matter to pro- duee an eruption, but we see men advocating mob law and anarchy, on the score of expe- dieney, (as if any expediency can justify overwhelming the law,) and we still suffer them to preach on.
 We are a free and independent people, l We make our own laws-and no power under heaven, save. ourselves, can annul and nullify them. Is It not madness, sheer insanity, then, to break them down, on the score of erpedieacy9 " hy would we he as senseless as the Hindu, and set in motion the popular impulse-to crush us and the law, as the car of Juggernaut crushes its victims!
 At some future time we will examine into what we consider the causes of these things. At present, we protest against every infrac- tion of law, no matter on what pretext-no