The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1862-06-24
The Execution in New Orleans.

The miserable hirclng Butler is playing lie
tyrant with = high hand. His savage instincts are
far ahead Of TIE most ferocous native of Daho,oey
or Patagonia A week two since as our readers
have already been informed, he had VIM. B. Mum
ford executed for tearing down the flag Loisted on
| the Mint by Com. Farragut. He died rs patriot
should dic-wih great GOODNESS and self pos session
An instant before he passed into the presence of
his Maker he calm i'll his deine amor and on his
countenance could be found no trace of the ort.a
he was passing through
Commenting upon the execution, the black.
hearted scribber i'll the Dctfa has the following re
marks. which copy because it speaks the senti
ments of the Nero Butler, and to show the vapd
and siclenins stuff now in the once eloquent
Southern Delta:
Mumford, tho ill starred youth whose name and
fate will be terror to all who inclined to trfe
with the Government or its sacred enulems in time
to come, justly received the reward of his treason
aud madness, i'll presence Of thousands of speeta
tors, announced in the Delta of last evening So
far our knowledge extends in the matter it is the
first instance upon record OF man being tried
found guilty, and executed for laying violent hands
upon our national flag aud the lesson it conyeys is
solemn, and WE TRUST, will prove "A Salutary
one. Mumford, though standing only as repre-
sentative OF parties equally guilty at heart as
himself, had the misfortune to minse little more
rashness with his reasonable intents than some
of his traitor associates, and paid the penalty
with his worthless life 1t IT, perhaps, of very little
Importance whether this individual trpraved in
hs nature lost all of patriotism and love
of country, be dead or alive, and the recompense OF
forfeiture which be made in the sacrifice OF person
al existence, is in degree compensation for the
| insult which he offered II great and masnani'nous
people by basely tramping their noble ensign uI-
! der foot And the Thousands who witnessed the
exit of this miserable person from life he had dis
graced must have learned il they had need of such
lesson that it is most dangerous to set ut defiance
a Government that from its very nature is self pro-
t.cting aud will at all hazards and under all cir
| cumstances, vndicate itself and avense the insult
| offered its flag
| Deuded men may have iattered themselves that
because a rabble a mob sometimes rules within
the narrow limits Of some important town cor
| poration. that there is power under the Govern
ment sufficiently potent to arrest their mad career,
| when their high handed wicketiness extends tn Il
violation of symbols sacred to great and powerful
nstion: but the example of yesterday must disabus.
| them of any such fallacy.
| The hauling down OF the alag on th. Mint a
much more cowardy act than entering the ranks. in
open and armed rebellion; for the perpetraioi
| might well hatter himself that in the alb
s.nc- of those who had either the will or the
| power to redress the insult at the instant, his
escape in the melee of Il mob leagued city
| nigh, be relied upon. But in this he miSjudg-d,
and never did justice overtake criminal more
| abandoned or punieh crime more revolving to the
sense of every honorable, high minded person
There could be rcprieve from tue execution of i
sentence 80 just and forever after 30 long as time
| shall continue, and the good old national Has
floats over the Union float will long after thu
seut race of traitors dead aud buried let hin
| who would violently lay hands upon il to haul !
down count wei, the cost by remembering the fat
of Mumford And least by your neglect, citizens
of New Orleans some OF your children may CONF
to the same bad end teach them that hauling down
the American flag il an act OF treason, and is sy
nOny nous with DEATH