East Saginaw courier. (East Saginaw, Mich.) 1859-18??, 1862-04-22
From the New York Observer.
WENDELL PHILLIPS AND MOBS

From the New York Observer
WENDELL PHILLIPS AND MOBS.
Wendell Phillips was mobbed at Gin
cinnati, as we mentioned last week. 1t
was wrong, mean and inexpedient. Mobs
are often the arguments of cowardice,
sometimes of moderation, frequently Of
impatience, rarely the result of calm de.
liberation, very rarely the expression of
justice. Every man ought to set his face
against them, in public and in private
speak and act against them, and by the
stern power Of an enlightened public
sentiment discountenauce them, whatever
may be the provocation. 1t is better to
suffer wrong than do wrong 1t is better
to let wrong go unpunished than to
usurp unlawful power, and use it in the
name of justice. Wendell Phillips, by
bis reasonable utterances, would do little
harm compared with the injury done to
public morals, order, safety, and perma-
nent social peace, by a riot that strikes
down citizen without the regular pro-
cess of law.
But is there no remedy for the wrong
which such an arbitrator commits, who
goes into the capital Of the nation aud
into the peaceful cities of the land, and
blurts out his trea, on in the ears of the
patriot people? Is the patience of the
country to be tried, till its passions can
no longer be restrained, by the unbound
ed license accorded to this enemy of the
constitution, this avowed hater of the
Union, who glorics in having devoted
nineteen years of his life to its destruc-
ton? We have heard him curse the
Union with an intensity of malignant
bitterness that made every honest patri.
OTIS blood run cold. But even then we
would not have had an unlawful hand
laid on the head OF this enemy of his
country. And again we ask, is there no
remedy?
There is, and we are now speaking
words that the highest officers of gov
ernment have already embodied, we doubt
not, and on which they are acting, if they
are wise as they are patriotic. The rem
edy is the impartial application of la,0 aud
power to the dsunion traitor, whether his
proclivities are southern or northern
Mr.. Lincoln has the ability to command,
Mr. Stanton has the ability to direct; and
the country will sustain them in the
measures they may take to apply the
force of government in the work of self
preservation. Their attention we call to
the speech which Phillips made in Wash
ington, as published without criticism in
the New York Tribune. He said
"Now, / love the constitution, though
"my friend (Dr. Pierpont), who sits be-
"hind me has heard me curse it a hm-
"dred times, and snail again if it does
"not mean justice. Ihacs laJored nineteen
"years TO take nineteen States out of this
" Un,On, and if have spent any nineteen
"years to the satisfaction of my Puritan
" conscience, it was those nineteen years.
Unless within twelve months or
".twenty-four, Maryland is free State,
Delaware, and half Virginia, would to
God that building (the CapitoI, with
"the city of Washington, had been
"shelled to ashes last July"
Speaking of the origin of this rebellion,
Phillips declared that,
"It was nobody's fault" but that "it
lis the inevitable result Of the seeds our
/" fathers planted seventy years !" and
in another place, he says of the Fathers
Of the Republic, that they "darcd not
"trust God"
Referring to VIM. Lloyd Garrison, the
invetcrate disunionist who kept stand
ing, time out of mind, at the head of his
paper, the sentiment that the men who
framed the constitution had made an
agreement with death and covenant
with hell" he characterized him as man
who had done more,
In the Providence Of God, TO shape
/" the fate Of this generation than any
other one" and that he (PhilIips) was
"proud to sit at his (Garrison's) feet"
Such a man ought not to be allowed to
stir up disscnsion and scdition at such a
time as this. And il the government at
Washington, that has filed Fort Lafay-
ette and Fort Warren with secession
traitors, suffers such man to talk trca.
son in Washington, it loses the glory
that crowns the administration of Justice
when its IMPARTrALiTy commands the
homage of an enlightened people.
But II is amusing, even in its serious
ness, to read the fierce dcnunciations Of
the Cincinnati mob in the columns Of
those papers that have not word to say
when traitors Of another stripe are mob
bed ! IL DIR. Hawks should say in Irving
Hall, 81 have laborcd fifteen years to
take fifteen States out Of the Union"
and II the Union is not broken up in two