The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1854-05-30
THE ROYTON MOB.


We gave our readers yesterday full partic-
ulars of this climax of the outrages Of sboli
ton. II this lesson does not arouse the Nor
thern people to the necessity Of putting down
abolitionism with strong and decided hand
we may look upon the ultimate triumph OF
that mad fanaticism in the Northern States,
and with 1t, of mob law in general, as inevi'
table. In all calmuess, we can assure the PEG
pie Of the North that they are likely to be the
chief sufferers. If abolition does get the up
per hand. When danger menaces the South
upon her own SOIL she will know how to meet
Il, and she will deal with 1t SO thoroughly that
twill never give trouble again, but, before
that period. the streets of many q Northefn
city will run red with blood. We have al
ways believed, and are more and more con
firmed in the conviction that the North 70 u
bear the FIRST brunt of the bloodshed 10 wh'ch
the abolition agitation tends. There are hos.s
Of faithful and gallant spirits in the Nortn
who, when the trial comes, will go into the
streets and settle the question between loyal
~ and treason at the point of the bayonet-
There is no other other way of dealing with
mobs, and the more promptly and the more
effectually the military riddle them through
and through with ball and cold steel, the
more true humanity will be shewn to society
at large There ought to be no false mercy
manifested on such occasions as that at bos
ton. And we may hope that none will De ex-
hibited to the scoundrels who have murder
ed the U. s. Marshal As Boston has repu i
tation of being city of law and order.
we shall wait with some solicitude to see i
the wretches, whose hands are wet with the
blood of U. s. officer, are ultimately to es-
cape, by some legal bubble, and add another
laurel to the triumphant treason of abolition.
The Boston Post gives an account of the pro-
eeedings of the meeting at Faneuil Hall, on
Friday night, from which we extract the fol-
lowing
Speeches were made by F. w. Bird, OF Waipole
remarkable more for his slang than for bis elo-
ouence or eleeance;-by John j. Swift, young
man very full OF wrath, who told the people they
must not let the slave be carried out OF Boston;
that there no law TO keep him, because the pas
sage ofthe Nebraska bill had inflicted ll3 stabs on
the fugitive slave law, and it was too late to talk
about compromises and giving the audience the
assurance that he should be always on the SIDE oil
Liberty;-by Wendell Phillips, who would have
the slave set free in the streets of Boston, and con-
graduating the audience that the city government
was with them, which had instructed the police not
TO interfere; that to morrow must show whether
we will do duty that there is no law In Massa-
chusetts, and the sovereignty OF the people must
begin; that the audience must keep their eyes on
the fugitive and lose sight OF him in the street.
but be on perpetual guard; that Boston must re-
deem herself of the stain for allowing Sims to be
carried back, and concluded by reiterating his eau
ton to keep his eye On them;-and by Theodore
Parker, who commenced by calling the audience
'fellow subjects of Virginia" because there is no
NORTH the line of the south running away to Canada;
that there are two laws the slave law and the
popular sovereignty; that Boston once resisted law
onthe ground that what was not just was not law,
and arguing that they bound to resist the law
and rescue the slave, moving that when the meet
ing adjourn il adjourn to meet in Court square the
next morning at o'clock.
V0ciferous cries were raised OF Tonight to-
night I" and Mr.. Parker, after vainly endeavoring
to bring the audience to adopt his motion, moved
that they go to the Revere House and call upon The
slave catchers to night. The mob spirit seemed to
allay, aud Phillips again took the stand, to en-
deavor to throw the aid of his eloquence on the
troubled waters. His appeal was that they would
defer every thing till tomorrow, when he would
20 with them and rescue the slave IN broad day
light 1t was in their power to block up the doors
90 that they could not get him OF. The best men
sympathized with their cause; what M called the
best men, for he counted them the best men VINO
were ready to trample law under their feet. ihey
would injure their cause with such men by violence
and, zeal that would not keep till morning would
never tree slave.
He was here interrupted by voice from the gal
lery, stating that mob of negroes had assembled
In Court square aud were attempting rescue
moving that the meeting adjourn, which was I'M
mediately acted upon, and the immense mass pro-
ceeded to Court square.
The greatest criminals in this hOrrid out
break, are not the ignorant rufiians who per
petrated the double crime of treason and
murder, but the malignant and pusillanimous
wretches whose inHammatory appeals raised
q storm which they could not put down,
who urge others into dangers which they ne
yer share, and who are now calling ON the
Boston authorities to protect their cowardly
carcases from the Irishmen, whose just indig-
nation at the foul murder of one of their
cOuntrymen, has led the agitators to fear that
they will have in their own persons little
taste of the mob law which they are SO fond
of arousing against others. Parker, Phillips
Co., deserve hanging infinitely more than
the actual assassins, and it is an infinite pity
that they cannot be made to suffer for their
crimes Fear is the only motive by which
they can be governed. Parker once said that
fhslwhOle Yankee racewas race of towards.
1t was cowardly libel that he uttered, and
the reason that he said so was because he
judged others by his own cowardly heart
Were it possible to put such men as himself
and Phillips in the least personal peril were
there moral certainty that treason in Bos.
ton would receive as summary justice as trea-
soa in Great Britain, these abolition leaders
would never breathe the word abolition to
their dying day.
We honor the President of the United
States for his firmness and decision in this
matter. Let him see that the laws are execu-
ted, and the country will admire and be crate
ful to him. He cannot show too much ener
gy and decision in case like this, for the
time has arrived when it must be settled whe.
ther the law or the mob is to be supreme in
this Government