The Davenport gazette. [volume] (Davenport, Scott Co., Iowa) 1841-185?, 1850-03-21

serve the facts. Upon the day Of Miss Holland
death, wrote her father informing him Of tb'
mourniul event, and saying, would net have
sermon preached, for presumed he would desire
10 have her removed to his family burial place
upon which occasion the regular service coult
be perfomed I told Mr.. Kelly this, when de-
sired him TO sing and pray with us. II Mr.. Ho!.
land had come az I expected, and removed hi!
daughters remains, il would have been done with.
ont parade or noise, for be Is poor, and the world
heeds not the movements OF the poor. The mot
would have found an empty grave, and straight.
way would have opened up the most revolving
scenes OF violence. With what profit may We
contemplate this case, and how eloquen'ly does
it appeal to The community, in opposition TO the
hot haste with which some men may be made 70
believe lie and act upon il, giving their victims
no opportunity 10 be heard in their own defence.
Some may think the term mob, is not applicable
to the assembage ofto-day, but it never was more
appropriately applied. In the light of the fac'
which have stated, lei us examine this question:
In the first place, they acted ,rintom right. II
was my hands the father entrusted his daughter,
she then became a member OF my family, and
became her legal protector while alive, and after
her death the Just guardian Of the sanctty OF her
grave. No one had Alright 10 desecrase that spot,
or to touch il without my consent, or the consent
of her relatives, and will here remark, that what
ever consolation they NAV derive from reflection
upon the deed they have done, the sorrowing par
ents will return them no thanks for thus opening
afresh the wounds, which her death had inflicted.
In the next place, they acted wittout reason. A
shadow ofreason would have caused them TO come
to me. and received the satisfactory evidence,
which it is perceived. could have given them
1t would further have led them TO have invoked
the interference of the legal authorities upon a
matter OF so much moment. lfthey were in the
pursuit OF justice, they would have exercised the
God-like attribute Of reason, and have calmly
awaited the Issue TO which this might lead; tins
noble attribute is trodden beneath the feet, the
most execrable passions move them 10 tie COM
mission OF the blackest crimes, and the laws Of
God and man are alike set at defiance.
In the third place, eonardiy spirit distinguishes
the mob This is especially applicable TO an nl-
lawful assemblage of men in this enlightened age,
when the ample provisions Of civilized statutes,
founded as they are upon revelation and Science
are so adequate 10 maintain the harmony OF the
social fabric. BRUTE force is not now recognized
as the les, o courage, bnt even when IT was-in
the barbarous days of feudaIism when the law Of
blood was universally recognized, tthe spirit cf
vengeance allowed to its adversary the right OF
tioi by combat. and he who measured swords
wi foe. forfeited his claim to courage or hon.
or if he took an undue advantage. But we need
no better illustration ofcowardice than for twenty
or .hiitv ren to arm themselves with the iinple-
ments Of death. and swear vengeance against one
defenceIessh being. and that without notify
ing him of his crime. or giving him an oPpo funily
10 defend himself mean 10 defend himself, not
with deadly arms, bat in Just and truthful way.
Some may say that The intention of the mob
was not bad. but we know the intention was bad.
they avowed il to be so. theg declared their in
teaton to destroy valuable property, and perhaps
life. if they did not find the body OF one OF my
family in grave wbicl, they opened without law
or an horiiy. have shown il might have been
taken from thence, without any infringement OF
social or civil law, bni still without ins es'gatng
the matter lis absence would have been sufficient
TO them. Even the circumstances had not been
as have stated them, others which aie quite pos
sible. should have rendered an investigation ne.
cessarv. Some enemy 10 our Institution might ex-
hume a body from the grave for the purpose o
turnia. a,poa as those men who are so exceedingly
anxious 10 revel in our ruin, and in fact, some
such deep derrasiiy as this, is all we fear.
A word in conclusion 10 the person or person,
who have BY their misrepresentation. excited
the usually good and peac cable German citizens
of this village, to this violation Of law and har-
mony.
I, as we'll as the faculty Of Medicine witt
whom have the honor to be associated, are
men of peace. We are engaged in peaceful
and benevolent calling, and all our efioiis since
we selected this favored spot temporary or
permanent location, have been directed 10 con-
cilnte feeling Of opposition. which 10 some
extent, perhaps, has been justly felt. With this
view. we pledged our honor at the opening OF
the Medical School, that no act OF ours should
merit the ccnsure of the community. ne hare
redeemed that pledge, and we now reitera'e and
renew il, and this ought to be enough, and is,
to any reasonable being. Against the SANDERS
which you have proclaimed IN public places
against the moral and religious character OF
strangers whom yon do not know-of Students
OF a mos; noble science, who never did and new
er will do YOU any harm,-we most 30 EMMY
and sincerely protest. You say these things,
with full knowledge OF the condition of pof-
ton OF the public mind--vou know the possible
effect to which they may lead, and you there
fore intend il. Can we say nothing, do nothing.
that will appease the incendiary spirit which
we have been dcprecating! lfIhe community
shall look on in silence, then indeed may we
perish, and the temple Of Medicine reared by
friendly hands, be ruined by flames, but we re-
ioice that our science shall suffer no harm. As
long as disease and suffering afiict the world, it
will he The high and heaven-born duty OF the
ph Musician to administer relief, and though Van
dal hands and hearts unopposcd, may revel in
destruction, more beautiful temples OF Medical
Science. will rise like the Arabian PhGnix from
the ruins, and other men more eloquent, minis
ter ut shrlnes whose strongest prntccten Will De
the recollection by generous and injured CON-
munity of the brutal wrongs which we suffered.
JOHN r. SANFORD.
A lady walked into a store yesterday,
and mildly inquired f,r 's'Aose- contractors" !"
The idea penetrated the woo! Of the clerk nt