Litchfield enquirer. [volume] (Litchfield, Conn.) 1829-current, 1844-05-30
= No. 1. WHOLE No. 9s7
THE MoB-MoB-spTRIT.

are COOL enough TO ve6S0U ABOUT tueult must SHOCK
every sober, rejecting mind. s5
The origin of thismob is we'll understood. How
ever other questions may have mingled in, and in-
fuenced, the immediate cause Of It arose from ~
waltOn and ruthless attack upon an assembly Of
Native Americans by party OF Irishmen. Il 3 eeS
We are 10th at any time, or under any circuu1-
stances, to palliate violence I'VE know OfnOthing
which could induce US to defend q mob. Yet if
ever men were justified, in the first instance, in re-
senting, and resisting to the utterm0st the Native
Americans were. They stood on their own soil.---
They met together peaceably in the open face Of
thus acting, brute force was exerted to rOut them
that failing, friends and brothers were shot dead
and their flag the flag Of the country, torn bcfore
their eyes by Alien and murderous hands, This
if the best accounts are to be relied on-is true
statement, and who does not feel, if he had been
present, and had witnessed these outrages that
stoutly and promptly, he would have resented and
resisted them. For our part, we do not hesitate
to say, that we should repel such assaiants as we
would the invading foe who trod our shores!
Solar the = Native Americans" have our full and
entire sympathy. Much as we may regret the me-
cessity under which they acted, we cannot condemn
their action ON the first day of the assault But ON
Tuesday and Wednesday wider and fercer pur-
pose controlled them, and the city Of Philadelphia,
and the picture of those days presents bloody
vengeful, revolutionary spirit, the remembrance Of
which fills us with horror, and brings to our Lips.
the most savage wars of Europe between civilized
nations in these latter days, scOnan, the temples
God, Libraries and the School-house have escaped
the wrath Of the conquering foe Whatever else
fell beneath him, they were protected, and he who
should have insuted the former or defaced or fired
the latter, would have been disgraced. Here, if !
any where, this should be the unwritten law in the
hearts of our whole people. And we grieve once
again, in lives to record another instance in
this country where Americans have been utterly
beside themselves.-so brutal-as to vent their
vengeance against defenceless women, School.hou-
ses, Temperance shops, and Temples devoted to the
worship of God On "Wednesday the Sth, in Phil 4
adelphia, these things were done. Churches were
burned to the ground the nuns compelled to leave
their places Of abode: Libraries made bonires off,
School houses destroyed private houses gutted;-
and human lives, as well as human property sacri-
feed Against this inhuman conduct, we most
solemnly protest! Against this fiery spirit Of law
less revenge, we would bid our countrymen lift up
their oftest and sternest voice Of indignation as
alike fatal to our fair name, and the safety and per-
NANCY Of our Institutions! stsss sg'.s5 Ia
We have stated what we believe to be the fnssne-
diGte origin of this Philadelphia mob. The true
cause lies deeper and we must look it full in the
face, and master it, or it will master us. We may
shirk it for time; we may trim, and by resort to
expedients, check its effects but they will break
out, and deluge Our country with misrule, if not
destroy our government. unless we root out from A.
mong us that canse itself. ae sea}g
Whence is it that foreigners are often led into
these afirays! Why are they insolent, lawless, or
revolutionary in spirit! They do not, as a general
rule, bring this disposition with them. In their
old homes, the majority Of them had no vote; they
knew not there what their government did, and
never il they were thus informed, thought of inter-
fering with.tr questioning its action. How comes
it, then, that all Of sudden, they are thus changed
and filed with an arbitrary, mobbish and sanguna.
ry temper? The reason is this--that the dema-
hNaA nE4 kAA Aaa 1A.Asn. 49, H.
caring fig for their substantial good, but wishing
simply their votes, fawn upon and fatter them in
every way until they are taught to think that they
have full right to say and do as they please. Nor
have they stopped here Who puts it into aliens
heads to obtain by fraud right to vote. Whoa
Who, by falsehood, and trick, and downright polit.
ical knavery, makes them believe that, while one
party is their protector another party is seeking to
rob them Of every personal right they enjoy and to
degrade them as serfs in this free land! american
demagogues do all this, and if the bolt Of public
indignation could be made to fall, 1t ought, in
the right quarter, it would fall red hot, and with
rending effect, upon them. They are the source Of
these evils. From them alone they spring. The
naturalizing laws may be detective; but were it
not for these demagogues and the hateful reckless,
partizan feeling which they create. in order that
like sctm they may rise to the tor amid prevail
ing agitation, should not feel these defects nor
the alarm do at the increase of the foreign vote.
The alien has no baser foe 1.-THE country no direr
curse. is o-sE ~ ~
Nor is this ALL Though the evil Of their action
is felt just now more wildly in this secondary
cause, yet it is by no means confined to the aliens
among US. Our breath is rank with the foul poi
son Of awless partizan spirit-the very spirit ON
which demagoguistn breathes and lives. For
what the condition Of the public feeling, in
sequence, at this time! Why, for the last twelve
years this partizan spirit has been growing and
swelling, until aOtc It has spread in every State,
latures converting cur Government into afnere ma.
chine to uphold and advance the interests, not Of
the country, but of particular set of men or of
| party This Is the effect of it Laws are made OF
set aside-measures passed or rejected--the tariff
| the currency, slavery, anything and everything
| tempered with--just as they may promise to ad-
vance some partizan end. The real business of the
State or Of the nation Is not cared for. Business
men at home and abroad do not feel that there is
safety, or stability, practical wisdom in our leg
islation Nay, so far has this spirit been carried,
that the present House Of Representatives Of Con-
gress, fit educator Of rnobs, has dared to violate
law which every sane reasoner must regard as con-
stitutonal, and the present Executive to sell the
patronage Of Government to the highest bidder,
and solemny TO propose to the Senate the violation
of treaty, fhe sacredness of which no honest man
can dispute! Here is lawlessness and corruption
at the fountain head. That it should spread wide
and deep need surprise none. Yet mems counten-
ances are filed with horror atthe story ofthe Phil
adelphia mOb-Only one symptom Of a sCiske spread
Diseases narrated, and lip forth their denunci.
atoms as If behind that-at the heart Of ouF nation
and in the nation tself-fhe e&cess efparey spirit
THE RULE or DEAGoGoGuIs1s--svas not the
source Of that evil and Of all the evils. moral and