The Washington union., 1857-05-22
From the Albany Atlas and Argu.


oahs of mutual support and protesting TO against G
great body of the people for the purpose of controh
the government and the administration Of the laws 4
evil that produces nothing but disastrous fruit and t
continually
Ii selects men for Office In darkness and it carries thea
in not by public discussion but by secret combination
Weak and bad men resort TO this machinery to attain
place but when they attain position, they still 6Dl
themselves hampered and involved by the secret comb
nation to which they attached, and paralyzed BY Ia
superior will
IL win he seen that the mob of Louisville who awba
since claimed as Americans the right TO rule America
and who shot down in the street, fired the dwellings Ana
murdered the wives and children of paddles and DutA
men, with mpunity, have tried their hands at new Al
sumption Of law Read the account of the horrid bum
ing Of black prisoners in that city.
One Of the journals Of that city, speaking of the affair
says gravely:
Several shots fired and the force within retun
ed them by the discharge Of bank ca5blges This rRxrr
further maddened the already infurated mob
The mob OF encouraged by this salyo q
blank cartridges. If they had been public benefacon
about TO be received with military salue it would bav
taken just that form But the of their evil n
ntion lies deeper The Cincinnati Enquirer says
.The wholesale murders and bumings during q,
knownothing mos have been passed without an ~
hapaI
been defended and justified Political passions ha,s
blinded the people 10 their interests their duty and tb
obligation to the laws to the country, and to ,lstc
There has been disposition 10 forget these infamous
events, to pass without effort to inquire into to
the facts and yindcate the law, to patch up hollow
truce between the mobocrcy and the authoritiea To clos
the wounds without healing them. The inevitable IL
ects Of this oowardy policy exhibited in the ebe
which have during the last week disgraced Tint
city Unpublished murder and violence are ever sure t
repeat their deeds There il nothing difficult 10 ar
rest than mob which has received the sanction Of
those whose duty II is TO suppress it, There is nothing
to check and prevent in this country than tbes
awless displays when they properly One sue
cessful mob inflcts greater injury upon conmunt,
than war; pcstilencc, famine New Orleans never Su
ered half much by the great epidemic of 1858 as e
did from the election mobs Of 1855. The cholera was
but light visitation to Louisville compared with the
horrors of Bloody Monday"
Little children were part of the mob boys Of tenor
twelve years Of age who joined in the cry Of skill EN-
kill en- and who helped to light the bale fires under
the hanging victims.
Louisville is not alone in this subsection to mob rule
In reference to another city, the New York Evening Post
says
ii is onya few weeks since the whole country on the
line of the Baltimore and Ohio railroad was disturbed BY
an armed collision between the officers of the company
and some discharged conductors who would not submit
to the regulations provided by the company for the e
cunty Of property in the freight Several lives were
lost and the controversy finally settled without re-
establishing the moral supremacy Of the public auhori
ties. Both the have named that in Louisville
and the in Maryland the natural fruits Of thc
feeble but yexatous governments established in both
those States by the know nothings They had strength
enough TO persecute the people into rebellion but not
enough to insure snbornaiion Twice before this have
the police and judicial authorities, both Of Louisville and
Baltimore, been put to open shame by mos until now
the aid of the police is scarcely OF any more use as pro
lection to mans person and property than certificate
from his church pastor Sunday teacher When
community have learned that the public auhori
ties can be defed there those among them not long
In finding some sufficient pretext for defyng them and
there Is the end of popular government for despotm
follows anarchy as naturally the fruit follows the
flower "
The Post might have added that the rioters who at
tempted by force of to stop the trains the Bai
and Ohio railroad the same men who led the
election riots in Baltimore and pepetrated the boodsh
and violence which gave the authority of the city its
present weak officials the who when Prei
dent Buchanan passed through their city assaed his
riage with groans and with showers of stones
We do not desire to look abroad for evils, except
they relate to affairs at home and admonish Of The
license which crime boasts in our midst
II amidst the applanses and encouagcments
and women calling themselves philanthropsts that tho
reverend and rreverend orators of the antislavcy
spoke thus in New York
The Rev T. Hgginson, of Massachusetts {whe de-
clared-
All the learning in the world is not worth so much
as the poorest fiaoish which any slave gave his
master
Robt. Purvis black
" Looked forward with joy to the time when revolu.
ton should overthrow this atrocious government
Rev Andrew f. Foss, Of New Hampshire, (white)-
The slaves needed no arms from the North They
only needed to be let alone and they themselves would
twist OH their masters necks. Ii was what he would
do He would twist OFF any man neck who will hold
him rs slave. He drew flaming picture Of the day
whom there would be servilc insurection Throughout
the land =
VIM. Wells Brown (blaok) faid
He would rather see the slave cnancpaed by nsur.
recton than by any other way His prayer that tho
next wind or telegraph from South Carolina would bring
news of instruction by the slaves against their
tiers. He would like to see il though million Of men
should perish in it, and it should fail =
The Rev. Henry Garrett (back) said
g It will not always be borne Our people will not al
ways consent to be todden under foot they will arm
themselves day, il need be- to secure their rights
1t will not be costly armament ncithera apiece wB
dot armed rah boz ef lucie matches ne black F#
hare DE powe IA las hands.
Fred. Douglass said
Men wondered at the late poisoning at Washington;
but men who whip and prostitute their cooks and scourge
their nggers might expect TO meet death in the pot The
shareholders are crying to that we are trying to make
our nggers cut their throats and the reason they
know they deserve to have them cut To him sgn OF
announcement was so interesting the nsurection
the South
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