Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1859-11-05
MOB LAW IN KENTUCKY.

THE Cincinnati Commercial Of the GOTH ult.
gives the following particulars Of the ~chivalric
conduct Of Kentucky gentlemen toward white
women. l3l.r. .... .ll ssa|
Last evening. about halfpast seven O'Clock, a
mob of some thirty men entered the printing Office
of VIM. S. Bailey, Newport, Ky, and pied a con-
siderable quantity of type, broke one of the
press est and carried off the 'forms," on which the
outside of the paper was being printed. There
were no persons in the Office at the time of the
visitation, except Mr.. Bailey and his family.
His four daughters who set type, and Mrs. Bal
ley, were present, and begged without avail that
their property might be spared. The press would
probably have been entirely destroyed, but those
who undertook the job found it dirty work, the
ink soiing their hands and clothes. Mr.. Bailey
was warned that he must leave town, and quit
attemptingit to publish a raper there, or that he
would be roughly used and his property demol-
ished. When the mob first appeared. tley in
formed, Mr.. Bailey that they proposed to abolish
his incendiary sheet. They considered the COM
munity unsafe where such a paper was tolerated,
and so forth. Mr.. Bai!ey's paper does not rank
very high among the journals Of the day, but he
ana MS Iuuily udSO ioh6 opchb ~ upoh uuhJ
labor, and earned with it their daily bread. The
paper has been, we believe aJamily production,
Mr.. Bailey writing the articles, his daughters set
lima the type, and his sons making up she forms
and working the press. His daughters who have
made a humble livelihood in this way were not,
we are Informed, exempt from such insults, last
night, as foul language addressed to them could
convey. This was perhaps the most gross and
coswardly part of the pitiful transaction. We real
ly do not think the peace and prosperity of the
citvsof Newport or the State of Kentucky, would
he imperiled by the continuance of the publiea-
ton of. Mr.. Bailey's paper. II might be much
better for the town if it were understood that all
opinions and their free expression were tolerated
there. 1t is not likely that a single one of the
mob owns a slave, though our informant declares
The men engaged to have been respectable in
appearance" Aisuggestion being made as to the
nolice, it remarked by one Of Mr.. Bailey't
daughters that most Of the police were present
and if they did not positively aid in the destruc
ton of property, they certainly did not attemp'
to do their duty, but were passive spectators o.
the lawless scene. 1t ia a question whether Mr.
Bailey can find airy protection under the law, and
the thing most likely to happen is the continued
suppression for some time of his paper by mol
force. .6The people and authorities of Newpor'
haze a grave question to consider. 1t is whether
there is to be freedom of sreech and of the press
in their midst whether an industrious family
who offend against no municipal regulation, mo-
l,v of the Commonly ealth of Kentucky, shall b'
nrotected in their property; or whether there il
n he intolerance on tho subject of slavery, backe(
by mob violence"
mot content with the effort as detailed above
an The next day the mobocrats held a public meet
ing. as a preliminary to further action, which re
suited as follows.
I -Snrn.e one in the crowd moved that the office 81
removed 9 to Cincinnati, which was carried by
large majority. The crowd then started to tn
printing Office, some three squares distant. b.
the time they reached the place, their number
ware increased to some one hundred and nifty
Mr.. Bailey appeared at one of the windows an
concentrated with the mob, at the same time sta
ting that the columns of his paper were open t
all who felt themselves aggrieved' The leader 0
the mob informed him that the best thing h
could do was to 0 pen the door, and allow them t
remove the goods and no harm would be done t.
him or his family. This he refused to DO; where
anon some one procured a piece of scantliug
Nth which they battered the door open. Tn
house WAS then entered, and all the printing mate
rial carried down stairs and placed in a wagon.
They then underworld to get the press dow
stairs. but were foiled in their efforts BY its gettini
fas. in the stairway, where they left it. Abou
this time one of the girls procured a bucket file
with y,ellow ocbre, which she scattered over tn
crowd nearest the house. This seemed to have
moving effect, for they Immediately left with thei
plunder and proceeded to the ferry boat, with tn
view Of transporting it to the other side of To
Ohio river; but they had no sooner reached tn
wharf than they changed their mind and threw
everything into the river. Some of the bette
disposedIcitizen attempted to stop this, bot thei
efforts. we're without avail. A meeting was after
wards boId. land a committee o. h''y app'irse
.bo.S doty a. is to sec that The Free South shal
not be reestablished in Newport. -sN .-'!a-