The Ohio Democrat. [volume] (Canal Dover, Ohio) 1840-1900, 1863-03-27
Colonel NIedary's Comments Up
ON the Destruction OF the Cri-
sis Office by a Mob. ~

sis Office by a Mob.
From the Columbus Crisis, March III
We honestly confess that, could we do
so with any propriety, we should very
much prefer passing, unnoticed and un.
needed, in our columns, the disgraceful
and cowardly transactions of last Thurs.
day night, by which some six or eight
hundred dollars of our property was de-
stroyed. If we have labored hard to
earn the small amount to the eyes of
many, we can, if health and freedom from
mobs, and the still more contemplate
Provost Marshals in the West, permit
earn the amount over again, and it need
trouble or affect no one but ourself.
But the affair being one of public no.
toriety and of great public concern to
every other man, rich or poor, and more
especially to the former, so far as mere
property is concerned, we cannot escape
the proper notice of the affair, as part
Of the history of the times and the weak
ness and wickedness of the public au-
thorities, who either do not desire or are
wholly incompetent to any longer pro-
tect the lives or property of the citizens.
Of all disorders we despise those
among neighbors the most-of all wars,
we hold those called civil wars in the
greatest adherence, and during life
time we have denounced them, abhorred
them as q matter Of principle; and aS
we loved country and the family of men,
we have ever shrunk with loathing from
the man, who, in public or private posi-
ton, dared so far forget God and hu-
manity as to advocate either local disor-
der or national 'blood.letting. And,
sensitive as we know we are, to person
al dishonor or national disgrace, we nev-
er saw the day that we would prefer
risking, for time, the charge of pro-
per want of spirit, for the virtue that
would come after it, if we supposed we
should involve living soul except our
self in trouble. Mere personal risks
we always take in our own insurance Of
flee, and involve no securities.
But let no one mistake the fact that,
because we so strenuous1y advocated
peace under the lGW, that we are. sub
n,tssSonast when laws and constitutions,
oaths of Office and oaths of morality and
religion are thrown aside, and trampled
with impunity and contempt in the dirt.
Our peace doctrines go no further than
the law, and the prompt and reasonable
settlement and adjustment of difficulties
and dangers originating from a misun.
derStanding or misconception of the law.
When all these fail, and mobs and bur.
glars seize the reins Of State and govern
as the beasts of prey govern each Other
in the forests, then submission is meanel
and more dastardly, because more dan.
gerous and destructive than that resist.
ance which God and nature vouchSafed
for self-protection.
We desire to be explcit-we use the
term 'law and order" in no cravan, COW,
ardy spirit-not in supplication for sell
not even for family or friends, but as
a warning to those who should heed it
and heed It in time, who cowardly and
craven.like rush on to destruction, when
perhaps, least they know it, This is all
the meaning there is in our use of the
term, and we think we can speak truly
also for our friends,
If, however, Governor Tod, who lives
and stays in sight of the destruction O
our office, with his officials around him,
has lost either the poWer or the aoiU tC
administer the law in o spirit of fairness
and justice, or at all; if Abraham Lin
coin, the Commander.in-c of the ar
mics, has given over the country to b.
governed by the brute passions of Pro
vost Marshals aad the country subject.
ed to anarchy and a thousand little des
potisms, beyond his control or desire tt
control, and the whole. country living
under mask of "false pretenses" anC
barbarous pretexts, the great upheavine
masses only want to know it, and tn,
original elements of great, powerful
and intelligent people, pledged to liber
ty and public order, will re-right th,
wrongs, and in very short time briny
order out of chaos, and public and pri
/, Misrepresentation out of the ruins of i'm
becility, rotting about our ears through
the timid counsels of besotted ambition
Let no one fear or tremble for the re
sult-after the summer storm the sui
shines more brightly, the birds sing NOR
sweetly, the green verdure Of a goo'
Providence glistens and glows NOR
cheeringly. 'Tis but the impure ant
death -drugged elements that the storm
has carried away, to give fresh libert,
to life and more sweetness to death.
If here and there tender flower ster
should be broken, the little maiden vii
kiss it a farewell and plant another in it
stead, and rear it with more sedulou
care. .....
But cries one, twill storms not alway
/ come 7" That depends on you and
and all living. By good and virtuou
deeds moral storms are put long wa
off-may never come. Courage, firm
ness, justice, daring to do right an
damning the wrong and the doers Q
wrong, are the principles Of Gods mora
atmosphere, and the only salvation of
J free people. The willing slave to pow
er usurped, and the mountebauk VIII
! holds the rod, have no ears for truths
t for truths are as worthless coin to them
be not surprised, therefore, if they ca
/. not understand. s.ftf
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exciting articles on the subject of th