Oroville daily Butte record., 1856-08-02
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istence has created and is now fostering in
community. No subject that has ever Agi-
tated the public mind, has been fraught
with so much evil, or given rise to such acri-
monious feelings, or excited the public mind
to such q pitch. Neighbors regard each
ether with perfect astonishment, and dis
trust and foul suspicion is engendered among
those whose intercourse has formerly evil
denced the most honorable feelings and
friendly relations.
The press, too, has felt the influence of the
mob at the Bay, and forget that their ap-
peals should be to the judgment of the peo-
pie, instead of their passions, and indulge
10 the most bitter and acrimonious feelings.
1t is almost impossible to open paper from
below, without reading the disgusting de-
tails o. lynch law execution, or the specu-
lations of mob editors upon the next victim
of the tyrants who now rule San Francisco
with the secret conclave and the bayonet, to
everlasting disgrace of our republican insti-
tutions. AS if to add fresh fuel TO the feel
ings already agitatiDg the State, the Allan
tic papers are now favoring the California
public with republication of their pro-
ceedings, and Casey and Cora have just been
re hung by the arrival Of the last Steamer.
Editors, who have remained tranquil during
the widest political excitements through
which the country has passed, have yielded
to the deleterious influence arising in San
Francisco, and given vent to their pent-up
feelings, in bitterness of language in strong
contrast with their former course. The at
mosphere is impregnated with lawlessness-
the times are demoralized-and the public
sense vitiated and perverted into unhealthy
channels. In proof of this, is the chronicled
fact that hundreds rushed to San Francisco
to witness the execution of the first Vigi-
lance victims. On tho circulation of ru-
NOR that some unfortunate individual is to
be hanged at q certain hour by the Vigi-
lance Committee, and men. women and chill
dren--old and young-hurry to the Vigi-
lance Bastile for the puopose of witnessing
the expected execution. The depraved
taste which seeks for its qualification the dy-
ing agonies-the throes and conyusions of
q fellow being hurried into eternity, is u
disgrace to humanity. When We fnd' wo-
men bringing their young children to feast
their eyes on the horrid spectacle-ladies in
their carriages with their lorgnettes ready
to be used to bring the object nearer-moy-
als, refinement and sensibility-in a word,
all the finer feelings of our Dature must be
at Allow ebb indeed.
The evil influences which this Vigilance
movement has scattered abroad, arising
from familiarity with blood, from the sight
| of thousands of armed men taking the law
into their own hands, or, rather, trampling
upon all law, and in the language of Jeho-
vah, saying Vengeance is mine" will not
be erased till another generation shall have
passed away, and principles of right, rever-
ence for the law, and respect for the COM
mands of God, shall have rooted out the
memory of the lavless of the San Francisco
mob. The safeguards Of the people in their
persons, property liberty and lives, are the
constitution and'laws Of the land. "These
are cast down from their high places in the
affection and regard of our citizens. and
trampled in the dust, and in their stead, we
have the uncontrolled will of committee of
twenty nine, enforced by three thousand
cleaning bayonets." The committee have
fearful responsibility resting upon them.
"NOt mere physical responsibility and ac-
cOuntability, bata responsibility which. in
their calmef hours, when excitement, and
passion shall have passed away-when in
aiter life they shall sit down to reflect on
their past lives--when age. creeping on
apace, shall silver Ger their locks, and the
messenger Of death shall claim them for his
Own-theu. when their own souls shall sit
in judgment on.their acts, will they feel the
weight of that moral respoasi bility. which
will weigh thsm down with a repentance
which We trust may atone for all"
eg- We have been shown Notice with
the heading Democratic Miners Conven-
tion," calling meeting in front Of the En-
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