The Idaho world. [volume] (Idaho City, Idaho Territory) 1864-1918, 1867-03-23
From the s. +. Examiner.l
NOW ND TR E N /.

Society cannot exist without law and order.
To uphold the majesty of the law and sustain
the constituted authorities, in all legal acts,
is the duty of every citizen. Especially is
this duty imposed by the Democratic creed.
The Constitution of The Union lies at the
foundation Of the platform of Democracy.
To protect this from violent encroachmen.s
and forced construction, was, with them,
sixty years struggle For upholding that
grand old Chartee during the war, some were
thrown ia prisons, the houses of others were
mobbed, their persons outraged, their fami-
lies insulIed, their property destroyed, print
ing Offices we're thrown in the streets, and
every outrage that malice and cowardice
could suggest, was. perpetrated by official
and unofficial Radical mobs. The govern
ment cannot long exist where such things
are tolerated. ntwhile tits the duty of all
10 uphold the law, it is somewhat disgusting
TO be obliged to listen to the amount of vir-
tuous indignation expended in certain quar-
tcrs agaiNst those engaged iuithe recent DEM
onstration against the Chinese. A cores
pondent in the News Letter INDUCES in
remarks on the subject so telling and~appro-
pirate, that we cannot forbear to reproduce
them sss, .s....ee.s,
EDITOR News LETTER: It would be amusing, if
the dulefuI hOmiIies of the sanctimonions press
lpOn the Irish. China mob of Tuesday. and COM
pare tlIen to the rejocings expressed by the same
fionrnals over the acts OF the mob of April 1865,
when several newspapers were destroyed by it.
The two occasions fairly illustrate the mmutabili-
" OF principle, and furnish condemnation and re
proof to those who justified the one and condemned
the other The mob OF 1866 was as lawless as
that of 1867, for the simple reason that mob law
il the antagonist of social and municipal order.
Those who justified the first may be said to have
originated the latter, by declaring the impunity
of all mobs who c0mmib violence upon the person,
even to the death. and to the property, even by
arson, of political or personal adversary. The
Ignorant the lawIess. and the vicious were then
led on encouraged by those who now condemn the
same class Perhaps one.half of The five hundred
Irishmen who constituted the anti. Chinese mob,
as a labor demonstration, were among the th0us>
and more vino suddenly gathered in defense of
st. Marys Cathedral to save it from threatened
destruction to revenge LincOln's assassination, by
the mob of 1865. These men were then taught
lesson in mob law. They knew what terror an in.
fuliated band of lawless men, rnoppOsed by the
CITY authorities, if not encouraged by them, and
instigated by bigOted press, could inspire in a
peaceaOle community, when vengeance was dis
rected against a numerous class of citizens un-
conscious of crime or fault. On that day and
night of terror, when cowardly ruflans had
DESTROYED the Offices of several newspapers, and
several citizens the surviving press, including the
defunct Flag, were gloatng over the ruins, and
only regretted that individuals had saved them>
selves BY fight. The disposition of the Federal
troops, by Colonel Drum, saved the city from
blood and carnage. The police did nothing eff
iectual. The city authorities have even refused
to take proper steps to vndicate the injured law,
or to repair the damage to individuals, though
appealed To- but have left the city the perpetual
prey 20 every lawless band which may choose to
assemble and commit, upon any pretext, untold
outrages. But let.us not be told by the press of
the day that such acts are fraught with injury to
the fair tame of our law-abiding city, for she has
no such fame or that the material interest OF the
State will suffer injury from such acts, if pnpun
ished-ior this same press which, in 1865, urged
on the mob to violence. would to morrow repeat
the dsreputabe act to crafty political bigotry or
private gain. When it was treason in 1864 s to
question the acts OF Lincoln or the Government,
and we were ruled with Provost Guards as spies,
and Alcatraz as the Bastile, in 1866 it ansact
much applauded for an editor of a city paper to
take down the portrait OF President Johnson by a
hired negro, and toss in the lumber room, to make
way for that ef jim Nye, of Nevada, who damns
the President ana the Supreme Court, too, in the
same pcstilental breath. Let this class of news.
papers repent of their sins before preaching their
newborn piety.