Delaware State journal and statesman., 1861-05-21

There is mob ahead waiting for you, and you
llad better go with u.s." alluding to another OIL
iicer who had joined him.
Having no desire to encounter or he the VIC
lim OF a mob, assented and walked on with
'hem down Catharine street for three or four
squares One OF the officers then turned of,
anu went with the other to the Mayors office.
During our walk | had some conversation with
thc ofncer and expressed my utter surprise at
lne existence of the mob and my then belief
that it had been instigated by the false state
ments in the kilograms and newspapers as to
the object of my recent visit to the South. The
officer also told me, he had arrested me for my
own protection. | remained at the Mayors Of
nee till the arrival of Mr.. Henry, with whom /
had short conversation, and then left with Il
friend.
must add that the conduct of the police
officers was both courteous and judcious, and
not having a sufficient force at the station to
disperse or control a mob they protected me
from its violence by wisely evading it.
did not see this mob, but from the state
ment of others, it was between two and five
hundred in number. That it was pre-arranged
in consequence of communication from Will
mington, cannot be doubted, for il had organ
| lied for the sole purpose of assaulting me- and
selected its position on 10th street, about three
| squares from the station, where | should in a
passenger car, have been entirely defenceless.
1t was utterly impracticable that such a mob
could have been SO collected and arranged be-
tween the time of TIE arrival of the train, and
the few minutes afterwards when was called by
the officer out Of the passenger railway car,
| without previous information that was COM
| ing in the train
The car was stopped for moment, about
two squares from the place | left it, and was
inquired for, and being told was at the sta
tion, it was permitted to proceed withoutfurth-
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| the further action of my intended assailants.
am we'll aware that in cities and large
towns, there will always be men ready to in
stigate and embark in lawless action, but it
can scarcely be considered evidence of strong
attachment 10 the Union, when a mob can be
collected in the city of one State to assault
citizen and representative OF another on the
false statements of unknown persons by tele-
graphic, or other communications in the news
papers.
That escaped danger greater than then
realized, cannot doubt, but do not hold the
deluded men who composed this mob in Phil
adelphia, as morally culpable as do the press
of Philadelphia, for the mode in which it
sought in its reports of this affair to slur over,
paliate and encourage, and in some papers
even to justify mob action.
1t is true that single paper, snch action is
condemned in an editorial, but in the same
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action on two previous occasions, utterly false,
and intended as justification OF the action of
the mob in the particular case.
Perhaps when one of their own citizens has
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