Arkansas intelligencer., 1843-11-25

negro, IA fiend, truly, who deserved the utmost
severity Of the offended laps,) was hurried from
the county Jail of this county, and burnt at the
stake--and not even bill ofindictment was found
by our grand jury against the we'll known parti-
cipants in the actl Recently, respited criminal
was taken from the Jail of neighboring county,
and executed by the poPuace--and we have heard
of legal proceedings against the leaders of the
mob. In the counties bordering on the western
frontier, the Lynchng process, for years has COM
peted with the civil, almost to the exclusion of the
iatter-a fact notorious in those regions, and which
the writer IS prepared to prove. Last winter, a
stranger was shot in Buc haman county, in endea-
voring to escape from hogging, the penalty of a
suspicion Of being connected with counterfeiters
and no investigation made of the matter. In In
dependence, recently, it was declared by two of
the most influential citizens of that place, that had
they been present when certain of the participants
in the Chavis affair were arrested, those persons
should have been Immediately executed--the wri-
ter has reason to believe it was no empty declara-
ton. AS it was, they were maltreated by the mob
linen too, who have since been proven to have
had little TO do with thar ransacton-while others
were coerced to make statements, under pain of
death, which ultimately may convict the innocent.
These are facts which can be sustained by ire.
tragible teslimony-and it is but iustice when we
are considering the causes which lead to the as
peTSioh VI s'ouSatidutlC writers. mat We should
consider them. and utter against them our con.
demnation. TO pass them silently over, were to
admit tho validity Of what is not true-that thew
are the offspring of form of government which i:
is the interest the anti-repubcan to vify.
Though Lynch Law is so common in this
country, it is by no means peculiar to ia fact
which our calumniators seem entirely to overlook.
n fact the re is reason to believe that the very
term is of European origin. In late work Oh
Ireland (Thuckarys 8 Irish SKetvh Booh,} wa q 70
informed, in substance, that "there is in Dead
mans Lane, Galway, 'raw head and bones
over door, commemorative Of the following ira
gic affair. In 1903, the Mayor of Galway, James
Fitzstephon Lynch, came to the knowledge of Il
murder committed by his son, some years before
at sea. Hereon, the Gu prit, was arraigncd before
his own father, and sentenced to death.-The clan
Lynch, however, rose in body to rescue the
young n,an, and avert such a disgrace from their
family, but the father, another Lucius Junius Bru.
tus. frustrated their designs by hanging his son
with his own hands!'' If this case did not give
origin to the phrase; it certainly deserved the ap-
|plication.
Alison himself admits and laments tho frequent
occurrence Of popular outbreaks in Europe--lhat
even the hero of Waterloo himself was "reviled
by ma jorty Of his countrymen, execrated by
the Mob, narrowly escaping death from their
hands," Yet .he existence of msrue in Europe
cannot apologize for its existence here. Recrimi-
nation can effect but little of good in any case,
as "two wrongs can never make right Let
then, being satisfied of the necessity of the su-
premacy of law, to our ultimate we-beng as
nation, use every eXertion to maintain that su.
premacy, and abide the issue. J.