Democrat and sentinel. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1853-1866, 1863-04-15
An Oasis In the Desert.

ihc Eatoii lOlo) lNeSlSter, rcpuDh-
can paper, has the following just and
sensible remarks upon the recent mob
proceedings at Richmond, Indiana, and
Columbus, Ohio:
The office of the Jeffersonian at Rich
mond was 90 cleaned out" by some two
hundred paroled soldiers, who were de-
tanned 10y misunderstanding with the
railroad company, and obliged to wait
over ON their way home. Finding
copy of the Jeffersonian, containing senti-
ments which were distasteful to them,
they proceeded Immediately to take the
law in their hands, by destroying the
office In connection with the mobbing
of Mcdary's Crisis and following so hard
upon that outrage, it compeis question.
and involves a principle demanding our
serious attention. What the pccuniary
damage may have been is n small matter.
The moral degeneration implied in
attack of that kind is a cause of alarm
What NAV have been the offensc of Media
~ or the Jeffer>onian Is not TO the point
Americans have long enjoyed the eigh-
:eenth century to very little purpose, if the
light and progress have not taught them
that at any time, under any circumstan-
ces, with whatever provocation. or for
whatever crime, mob law Is an insane
resort 1t il never right.
1t is Murdniy. Two hundred excited
soldiers to attack an unarmed and unprc-
| tcctcd man.
1t is dishonest. The wanton tlestruc-
ton of hard-earned property is in if.
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sponSible mob, half crazy with rum, is
proper judge in any matter.
IL is fatite. Tfany man imagincs that
proceedings of such 4 kind foster loyal
| sentiment, or, IN any wise assist the gov
er,,mcnt we beg him TO dismiss the idea
Loyalty, by its very derivation, Is sub
mission to law Let not loyal men there
| fore, imagine that because the fierce
passions of the mob have been this time
directed AGAINST sheets with which they
have no sympathy. the matter is aside
from their duty or interest. There i no
| law. but utter lawlcSsncss no LOYALTY but
diSloyalty to every principle of good gov
| ernmcnt, III mobocr:itic outrage
While it works no good result, it incyi-
tably runs TO evil and disaster And
| that by the very nature of the case. Sin
must work misery. And ii will While
human nature Is weak and wicked enough
| to resort TO such measures, other human
nature will TO: b. slow TO remember that
the sudden alarm, and with il pcrclancc,
the midnight torch, are a sword of double
edge. They will not stop TO think that
when both edges are cutting, ii is civil
war; nav, more, household war, street
war. neighborly collision, tumult, blood
a reign of terror.
| One feature In both cases alluded 10 de
mands instant attention. The parties
ENGAGED were Inlroled soldiers Mcn
sworn 10 allegiencc to their government
arc found using tlie arms and equipments
of the government to take the -idministr=,-
ton of law out of the hands of the gov
crnmcni How do we know, who can
tell. which man of us in Eaton, may find
himself the victim of revenge OH the part
of :, soldier who may persuade his COM
r;llcs to help him in the attainment of his
own private enls
1t may seem almost work of SUPERB
ro.ation to say so much on plain, well
settled matters of long established truth
principles that all the world is familiar
with, and that nobody denics-but the
times seem TO demand IT.
1t il said-by Mr.. Ferguson rs we
heard it-tIlat threats were made :it Rich
mond of visit here for the purpose OF
destroying the property of the Press. Ii
is, therefore. our business. Should any
evil result from these threats, the commu-
nifty will bc.,r in mind that the Register
warned them. and eNhorted every man,
as one soul, to resist to the last, any sucl
application of drunken frenzy among us.
If any man thinks, in his conscience,
that the Press is an unfit paper 10 be
published. let him, like a man, and on
his OWN responsibility. accuse Mr. Fergu-
son before the proper authority. and provo
his case, or failing in that. take the con.
scUucnces But no NAB u Luton