Daily Ohio statesman. [volume] (Columbus, Ohio) 1855-1870, 1867-05-23
The Mob az NEobiIe-Its Origin in
Other NIOIlR.

The Mob az NEobiIe-Hts Origin in
Other NIObs.
The newspapers in, the interest of the
Radical faction are overfiowing with In
dignation at the rough treatment Judge
KELLEY, of Pennsylvania, received at
the hands of mob at Mobile. The
same papers, so enraged now at this
exhibition of mob violence, less than one
year ago palliated, and portion of them
went So far aslto justify similar outrage
at Indianapolis, on the President of the
United States.
Judge KELLEY is q Member of Congress,
and made part Of that Radical majority
that denied to the Southern States the rights
guaranteed to them by the Constitution of
the United States. The white men he adj
dressed at Mobile, loyal and disloyal, Union
and Secesh, were, by his vote and that of
his associates, denied all representation in
Congress, aud were then, as now, al
though the war is at an end, governed by
officers of theiArmy who claimed and ex-
ercised the power. to dispossess aud to de-
prive of their offices, the men elected by
the people in pursuance of the laws and the
Constitution of the State of Alabama. In
his remarks to the people, thus smarting
under wrongs, Judge KELLEY was intem-
perate, and, upon some of the crowd show
| ing signs of Indignation, he threatened them
with an armed force of United States SOL
diers, This threat increased the excite
ment until unlawful acts were committed
and blood was shed. The yainglorious
orator, who,s but moment before, stood
without fear before the audience threaten
ing them with vengeance, as soon as the
tumult showed2that there was danger to be
|apprehended, covered before the, storm he
had by his own violence raised, and acted
like all braggart towards do, fled from the
men he had but q moment before defied.
When President JOHNSON, during the
last summer, earoute to assist in laying the
corner stone of the monument to the late
STEPHEN A. DOUGLAS, was invited to par
take ofthe hospitalities OF the city of Cleve-
land. he was insulted, by a, lawless mob,
equally, if not more insulting in their re-
marks, than was the Mobile mob to Judge
KELLEY. For this treatment of the Presi-
dent of the United States, there was no
word of .censure from the Radical press.
! The fiendish spirit evinced at Cleveland,
was subsequently, thrown into the shade
by the great outrages committed by the
Radical mob at indianapolis. There the
President of the United States, when re-
quested to address his friends, was received
by band of rioters, urged on by the
leading Radicals, with Kisses and oppro-
brious epithets, and denied a hearing. A
pistol, said to have been aimed at his life,
murdered one, of his friends. But few OF
the Radical sheets denounced this outrage
all of them denounced the President as the
cause of the murder, because, forsooth, he
wished, on the Invitation of his friends, to
address that portion of his constituents,
then and there assembled. fss
+ Under no circumstances are we the
friends of mobs or of mob law. We de-
nounee the mob spirit. at Mobile, when
leveled at Judge KELLEY. as we denounced
that at Cleveland and that at indianapolis,
when directed against President JOHNSON.
All of them were wrong, and utterly inde-
fensible, and we cannot denounce the one
without den ouncing the others.
| During the six years last past, the Demo-
cratic party has been the frequent subject
ofmob violence Men were arrested, with
out warrant and without crime, and incarec-
rated in prisons-newpape offices were de-
stroy ed, and the Democratic papers suffered
to be published, were often subjected to a
censorship by military tyrant, with less
brains than would be deemed requisite to
even edit seven by nine Abolition Sheet
These things, defended by Radical ora
tors, on the stump and in the pulpit, and
encouraged by the Radical press, have
brought forth as legitimate fruits the mob
violence at Mobile, and at Cleveland and
Indianapolis. Judge KELLEY was one of
those who, if he did not openly applaud, |
failed to condemn, and President JOHNSON
failed to use his high position to put down
that spirit which during the war led to |
the outrages which lead to mobs and to un-
lawful arrests. Checked in the bud, the
men killed at Mobile and at In
might now be alive, and we can
not view the outbreak at Mobile but as
an offshoot ofthe fellsspirit of lawless mis-
rule commended by the Republican press,
when brought to bear upon Democrats,
aud only condemned by Radicals when
brought to bear against the members of
their own party.