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foundation in any fact. After the ress
of him had butchered five innocent and
unoffending citizens, the murderer OF
Gully was discovered in the person of
u negro fugitive from justice, who mis-
took his victim for an officer pursuing
to arrest him. That negro displayed
very little wisdom. Had he been wise,
instead of fleeing from justice, and
shooting the influential Mr.. Gully in
mistake for an officer, he would have
joined the Gully party and aided them
in practicing the great constitutional
right of local self-government in the
determination of their political adver-
saries. He would then have stood in
no danger of molestation by any officer
of justice. At all events, this is war
ranted inference from all the facts in
the case.
Now, there are those who assume to
say that the Tunes is not warranted in
the opinion that these facts prove the
state of that self-governing society to
be the state called barharism. What
is that stateP OF course it can only be
ascertained by comparison to the state
calleu civilization. The two are the
opposites of each other, and each is
more clearly marked as the distance
between it and the other recedes from
the point of likeness. There are many
distinctive indices of each. Ignorance,
superstition, savageness, cruelty, fero-
city, disregard of the personal and prop
erty rights of others, inhumanity, in
tolerance of opposite opinions, disre-
gard of law and an inclination to settle
controversies by acts of personal Vlo-
lence, such as dueling, bull-dozing"
and the GTqttnent1Int bGcuItTIu11 of the
shotgun, all these are indices of bar
barism. and the contrary of these are
indices of civilization. OF course bar
barism Is not wholly limited to barba-
rous countries. In every civilized
country where the civil law is broken
by acts of individual violence there are
barbarians. But the character of
society, whether civilized or barbarous,
is not determined by individual barba-
rians, nor by isolated instances OF bar
barism; it is determined by that char
acter of its members which predomi-
mates in the social body. If its polity be
representative, as in this country, its
character will be manifested in its regu-
lative administration; and in that or
ganized community where not only the
law is habitually superseded by vio-
lence, but where public opinion pre-
vents the execution of the law against
its violators, the predominant charac-
ter of society is the barbarious charac-
ter. The evidence that society in Miss
issippi is in the state of barbarism is
not in the DeKalb savagery, nor in the
Yazoo savagery; it Is in fact that So
ciety in Mississippi does not execute
lawful punishment upon the DeKalb and
Yazoo savages, but in its predominant
sympathy with their savagery acquits
them and permits them to be at large
to practice more of their savagery, in
which barbarism perceives no wrong
deserving punishment.
Mr.. Henry Watterson and other rep
resentatives of the more intelligentsort
of Southern opinion are quite right in
saying that to take isolated cases of
bloody crimes and hold them up as rep
resentative of the normal condition OF
Southern society is as unjust and abb
surd as it would be to accept Molie
Maguireism as representative Of the
civilization of Pennsylvania" 1t is
not in any difference between the bar
barism called Mollie- -Maguireism and
the barbarism called Yazooism that the
difference between Pennsylvania civiii-
zation and Mississippi barbarism con-
sists. The best evidence that society
in Pennsylvania is not in the state of
barbarism is found in the fact that it
has legally exterminated more than
twenty Mollie Mcguire barbarians. The
best evidence that society in Missis-
sippi is in the state of barbarism is that
it has not legally exterminated any
DeKalb and Yazoo barbarians, but has
indorsed its approval upon their bar
barism by its representative agents OF
public administration Chicago Times
lind. Dent.).