The Jackson standard. [volume] (Jackson C.H., Ohio) 1847-1888, 1868-12-24
Law and Order.

How strange II is that men are 80 Inconsistent.
Viewing the same transaction from different
stanapoints, they approve or condemn the same
kind Of transactions, as the case may present
itseft them. ,,e
That tho administration OF the law In this
country is miserable farce, Is becoming pretty
well settled. This has given rise to vigilance
committees, mobs &c.
A band of robbers IN Indiana were In the habit
Of taking possession Of trains rObbing the ex-
press, and numbering, II necessary. They were
90 powerful that It was folly to think Of punIsh-
ING them. Six OF them were arrested last sum-
mer. Everybody knew that they would buy
themselves of. and escape punishment 30
vigilance committee, mob II YOU please, took
them and hung them. -Four more Of them were
arrested In Canada and brought to Indiana. The
mob, knowing that they would never DO pun.
Ished by the law, hung them alSo. Whc eupon
the Columbus Journal becomes indignant, a'
follows;
"MoRE MuRpRRs ny Mona sixty or seventy
masked assAsslns calling themselye' Regulators,
proceeded from the town of Seymour indiana.
on Saturday morning, 10 New Albany took
forcibe possession OF the Jail of FLOYD county
wounded the sheriff and compelled lhe 1nilOr 10
unlock tho eel Of tour uneOnyicled prisoners
confined there, awOke these prisoners rom lheil
tlerp, led them forth and In the darkness ot tn.
night deliberately put them TO death. Assuming,
what Is a gfalult1ns assumption. thai Charles
Andersen aud Frank, Simeon and William Reno
were guilty Of the crime Of robbery We ere
unable 70 zee that the best wnv tO atone for I'll s
eflme was for seventy or eighty other men 10
commit she crime OF marder.
We arc either living IN this country under
Government Of laws or Of outlaws. Ouf nNes
and properly are either under the protection "
Courts OF Justice oF st the mercy 0f inasAsu
nObF. In Indiana all law seems 10 he at Az tnu,
and every clhsrns life IL Mt The disposal OF any
pcoundrel who h0oses Il charge HIN win ellhie,
and then organize hnnd Of fifteen or twenty
cui.thruata tu lynch him on fusplcion. II sun
Outrageous defiance oi law as that just witnessed
Al New Ailany, Il tolerated by pnbllc Sentiment
then We muRt admit that We are governed no!
tN lass but by nobP, % the people oi Tue hu hu
world assert II mIn, who are charged Win
crime Int who must be presumed 70 be Juno,
cent until they are proven guilty can DO wtesled
from the custody ~ the officers Of ihu Inv and
summAFlIv executed, without even the farm Or
farce Of trial, we had hetter cose the pFelel'se
OF having a Government At all, and ALLOW soG'stN
10 return 20 lie natural state. II tile Governor
OF Indiana does not have arrested and lrled lot
Ynnrder the masked aseassinu WlO murdered tue
four men at New Albany on Friday night, tli'
periured afielal should hlmself 10 tried a. al
acccseory 10 the crime of murder, after The met
aud ahonldf be convicted and sentenced 10 tue
States Prison.
Every loser Of law and justlee should raise HI
voice against these crimes and atrocities nt VII
ilans. calling Themselves Vlgilant COmmttees
40 that theIr acts of lawossness may be puhlsie ~
with the utmost IigOr OF the law. Such deed
AZ those Just perpelTaied bring tho whole nation
inlO dlsgfaee."
Now thlA Is eli very we'll But In the adjolnihI
column. and by the sldo Of thiI article, is th'
folovingi
"snme Journalists arc commenting olttefll
unon tie Jury that acquitted General Cole lof ~
homicide of Tliseoek. II Is admitted thal iils
cock vas the sedueeF Of Colek vile, HVslnl .ll
uuder ths cnise of friendship 10 Cole wlile Sol
WAS ahsent in the army. 30 long % the la'
provides no adequate punishment for the etiul
of seduction, public sentiment viii not eahesio'
The hanging of a man for making law fof htsi'
self and shooting down tho DESTROYER OF w ~
peace on eight. The provision 0f law Whisi
gives The husband or father A. hls sole retleu
an action IN damRgca against the actor ~ ~
Airoci0us crime, ls simply q mean and disho'ioi
ing insult 10 one so wronged."
Now there ls consistency for you, Il ls no
admitted that Hlseoek seduced Colot wife. An
one who has read the story Of lhii silly woman
must know that tit is all a lie. She told her hua
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