New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1879-07-03

Qini9 life in his muddled brain, mostly in fear
| of popular violence upon his arrival. preacher in
Jersey City last Sunday, discussing this same Hull
murder, is reported, with some vehemence, to
have said that if the courts did not do their duty
and hang Cox, he should be tied up to the nearest
| lamp-p0st by the indignant popuIace This eyre
| gous error in ethics Is no novelty. On the con-
trary considering the country at large, it is to be
feared that the rude justice which Is called lynch
ing is altogether too much approved by the public
mind and that appreciation Of iii no longer con-
fined to the South and Southwest in which regions
it first came into fashion. We take ground pre-
cisely the opposite of that of the preacher above
alluded to. If Cox, after fair trial, should be
acquitted, he should be restored TO liberty If sane
and protected by the full force of the State. Be
cause there has been one murder, why should there
be another If courts of justice not what they
should be, it is our business to reform them. And
meantime let US hear more at least from the
pulpit, Of lamp-posts and ynching; unless, indeed
We are ready to give up pulpits altogether.
Somebody DESTROYS of winning immortal fame
a prophet has predicted that within five years
Colonel Robert G.. Ingcrsol would be a regular
minister of the gospel This has travelled through
the entire newspaper press OF the country, if it
were probably true. or as if it Of much i'm
portance to anybody except TO Colonel ngersOl, If
it were true. Unfortunately for the prophet, his
prediction has reached the eyes of the Colonel, who
has written a letter, being INTERCEPTED upon the
subject, TO a man in Allegheny City, in which he
says: There is Just as much probability Of my
becoming a believer in the religion of ancient
Egypt az in Christianity" This is probably true
also, because the Colonel says that he has gone
over the ground to the best OF his ability long ago.
What he wants, perhaps, is a little less confidence
IN his ability ani that he is hardly likely to ac-
quire. So long as q man continues TO think himself
wiser than the best portion of the human race, he
is not in very favorable condition for listening to
the Arguments oil others.
The Fall River strikers began their campaign by
an assurance that it was far from their intention to
resort to violence. quiet course would doubtless
have been the wscst, but the leaders in such affairs
usually find it difficult to manage the spirit which
they have unbridled. 1t has proved so in Fall
River stones have been thrown freely at houses
where obnoxious workers we've quartered, and but
for the uterpostion Of the police there would prob
ably have been "A serious riot. A young man,
weaver who chose to 20 on with his work IN the
MILL was also brutay kicked and pounded by the
strikers. There may be such thing as large
strike without illegal violence; but il so, we have
yet 10 hear OF It. The tendency of such enterprises
is rarely, if ever, peaceful.
The Democrats have gained an apparent advan-
tacc by their success in GRIPPING the efficiency Of
the Department of Justice. This looks like q well
laid scheme to propi5iate the moonshiuiug vote the
counterfeIting vote, the smuggling vote and the
vote in general Of that industrious class Of our fell
low citizens who thrive upon the successful evasion
or violation OF Federal law. 1t should be remem
bcged, however, that the criminal classes are
originally. naturally and essentially Democratic, 80
that the party will only gain because fewer Demo-
Gratis will be deprived of the right Of suffrage by
previous engagements at hard labor in the various
State prisons.