The daily union. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1845-1857, 1854-09-29
'TNII t''V I''Nd ITEy NVP'TK'I
THE MOB SPIRIT OF CHICAGO.

Senator Douglas Of Illinois, and Lieutenant Governor
Willard of Indiana, have both publicly advocated in the
city of Chicago the principle and policy Embodied in the
Nebraska BILL in the very teeth of the furious cutlery
which has been directed from that quarter against its sup
porters and friends As 10 be expected while the
froth hung upon the lips of rabd sentiment these gen
tenen have been bespaered with its Ith They have been
nsulted hooed subjected cockpit ribadry and in the
case of one of them least been compelled desst from
speaking by the merest gang OF brutal rowdes and
headed fanatics in the world instigaed by hgher-aw
presses and counenanced by the whining hypocrisy of the
sanity ree-so leaders We cannot believe that the better
class OF citizens engaged in this barbarous upon
who had the inalenable right to defend his cause how
ever weak and lettering may have been and could justly
claim the protection Of law against the optages Of false
factional sentiment The intelligent morality of city
like Chicago could descend to the wreched yupe-
ration and beasy insult and oarish abuse and abomi-
nable ndecences that have sgnazed for all time come,
the abolition phaanx Of that city with its hireng emissa
ries and patisan press.
With this measure as with any other public measure,
there grounds OF argument plausible and broad ON
either side and principle involved which be preju-
deol to public interests the and the moral
effect and political justice of this principle of esab-
lished and undispued craftsmanship men, in fact
who are acknowledged leadg intellectual spirits of the
agehaye sought the field of dispuation and sustained
this principle with zeal and earnestncss that bound
the eeryescence of its ranng Jror has subsidized and the
level of sober nationality been again assumed.
Who in his sober senses beleyes that men of this stamp
after long lives OF eminent worth of uuarnished integrity
and political usefulness have suddenly fallen the fatal
wave Of some magic wand The low of dsunion-
ISM eachery and renegadism from the pale Of Christian
excelenees-haye been suddenly transformed into de-
mons void of all human virtues and fit only be CHASED
with the brute the oucast and the Arpold7 Neverhe
less the spirit that leaps the throat of Douglas
American freeman before American auditory to
claim the right of free speech in doing denounces and
assaults more ag onhaJ OF the citizens of the United
States cut-hroats swindIes traitors &C. 6c6t for
nothing, meriting nothing destined nothing bat the
rope of the hangman.
Where them let ASA is the vaunted freedom of repub
can institutions-where that fruit of the harvest sown
in revolutionary blood if honest man. in the light of
day and his conscience approving the features
of the odious measure and believing il based in eons
tuonal and moral justice may cherish honest opn-
ion without being assaulted traitor TO his God and his
country or not give utteance without the peril of life
and limb
A few moments calm reflection win convince the truly
American mind that the bounds of prudence are over
reached that the vitality of our sociel Organization
threatened that the mpulsive tendency Of free insti
utions stands well in need Of counerbalance when the
Trainer of bill endorsed by many of the sagncous
Of the age is denied the liberty Of speech in the nine