Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1861-07-03
GEWe copy the following able and sug


gestive article from the Chicago Post.
The Mon AT MILwAUKEE.--Mobs are
the meanest of all institutions. When a
man is heard suggesting that mob should
be raised to do this or prevent that. it may
be safely set down that that man is a cow
ard mean enough to do any act Of mean-
ness, but too cowardly to assume the re-
sponsibilty Of it. We have had mobs in
Chicago, political, financial and social; we
have had mob law upon politics, negroes
and lager beer. The political mobs We're
the least criminal. We have seen the court
house in Chicago besieged; we have seen
the Mayor and his police locked within the
court house waiting for the attack, and we
have seen the assailants march boldly up
to the gates, and fire by platoons at the
temple Of justice. That mob was for the
freedom of selling liquor on Sundays, in
defiance of law. That mob was put down
then and the unfortunate actors in it We're
pursued with vengeance, but in the end the
mob tnumphed, and the Sunday laws have
become obsolete. A half dozen deaths; as
many legs and arms shot away, and our
German fellow-citizens put down the ''ru-
ritanical Sunday laws"
AMI now Milwaukee has had mob
Like our ool mob of 1855, it marched
through the streets with fife and drum,
straight up to the point of attack.
On Saturday the banks had paid out
largely the notes of certain banks, and after
bank hours the public were notified that
notes on these banks would not be taken
on deposit any more. This was sharp
financial trick, at the expense of those who
bad received the notes in good faith. The
mob undertook to redress the wrong. And
as mob always does, acted very stupidity.
They assaulted the banks, broke lesks, la
bles and counters, abused and matreated
the tellers and clerks. How that benefited
the mob or any one else is more than we
can figure out. Business was suspended,
perhapsto the greater relief of the banks,
and that was all. The Confederate army
will read with great delight that German
company of horsemen in Chicago compell-
ed the United States to pay them in adj
vance to secure their military services, and
that a mob of Germans in Milwaukee have
mobbed the banks and suspended the busi-
ness of that city. There will be- JOY through
out Secessiondom, and Gen. Scott may be
admonished to put down rebellion and out
rage at the North before he tries the work
at the South.
Wisconsin has Just sent two regiments to
put down rebellion in Virginia; will not
Virginia admonish Wisconsin to keep her
troops at home to protect the lives and
property of her own citizens from the wild,
reckless spirit Of characterization of some Of
her own people. Shots were fired yester-
dav in the streets of Milwaukee by volunteer
troops upon the mob, and the streets Of
that city last night and to day were held by
armed men. How can Wisconsin talk Of
Louisiana taking the mint, when portion
of her own people were attempting in open
daylight to plumber the banks in their owr
city?
We say again that mob is the meanest
and most absurd of all institutions. They
should not only be discouraged by all mel
of sense and honor, but they should be mel
and put down promptly by force. Above
all things let the spirit of insubordinatior
be crushed out at home. Let us have nc
illegal violence, or mobs in this land ofloy
atty to the laws and the constitution. LIE
the ringleaders of the next mob be shot
down at the first step. Let us have res
pect for the laws, and let US have all mer
taught that they must obey. must be sub
ordinate. if not, they be treated like any
other rebels,