New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1884-04-02
AN UPRISING ON THE SIDE OF JUSTICE.
DEpIoRABLE RESULTS OF A MISTAKEN But MOI
CRIMINAL IMPuLsE-"J JUSTICE AND LAW AM
oPDER NOT RFsTOREDp

DEpLORABLg RESULTS OF MISTAKEN But NOT
CRIMINAL NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. AND LAW AND
ORDER NOT RESTORED
CINCINNATI, April 1.-The following is the
substance OF an editorial in The Commercial Gazette OF to-
day. which ACCURATE presentment or the stuauoD
here and has attracted much attention;
"The time has come for taking an account for SAL
vage for three days' destruction First We
have saved our ailfu Of murderers. We have killed
fortyfve innocent men, and wounded and manned i4o
more--all to save our jaihul OF nurderers' We nave
burned our fine courthouse, with records OF threequar
ters of century. creating confusion which whoe gen.
Grafton will not suffice settle But what is that BY tho
side OF alful muTderers saved from popular excite
menti We have converted just popular impulse
against the prostration law before crime INTO war
between an unorganized people, incensed 10 acts
of blind vengeance against the authorilies
who killed them to protect tho murderes'
We have lost ALL but not jalful OF murderers nos
having saved even The reign OF law and order
is restored in Cincinnati-that law and order when
makes murder the safest trade, and which has made I'M
potent the administration Of law against crimes Oh
atrocity We vindcated all practical forms anu
rules and traps and tricks which make the u1s Oh
murderer farce and degrade the Judiciary to the SOLO
end OF having known and proved murderers saved Iro
conviction, and OF promoting the trade of criminal
lawyers Is any citizen OF Cincinnati content with THIS
salvage except the iaiul ~ muTderers and the crh
class aud the criminal lawyeraf ls there decent cuIeh
who feels that slain citizens should be UNANIMOUSLY
hurled AZ naefactors while the jaul of murderers arc
to be held innocent TIL after exhaustion OF all means
put out OF the way and to hx Jce ana Oh
evefy trick of law they shall have been convctedi
THE FIRST UPRISING ON THE SIDE OF JUSTICE.
However unfortunate their action, the mass OF men
that moved from the meeting at Music Hall to he isiland
began an attack upon Il were moved by an impulse on
the side Of justice and law against the reign OF crime
before which the had become imp0tent. Unthinkng
NJ oh a
getting that The rglt tc protect itself against crime IL
right OF society and s conferred by it ON its agents. and
that society does not lose its rights because ns>agehs
have become lmpOtent The movement was terrible
mistake because IL made by sudden Impulse wth-
ont organization or plan material Let the sober
Judgment OF the public keep ustdiscrmlnasn between
rho first nue Of the people and the subsequent acts OF
blind vengeance Of crowd maddeneo ~ o0oushsu'
This affair Is wholly different from any oter eohct pe
ween rioters and authorities in this country and must nos
he Judged by any of them IL was not or woSnen agsss
were tlvng tO get along without them Nor was II nks
the riots agan- the draft Those were r0ls assiS' o
law Justice public sentiment and property bul thls
began I'm an uprising the people the side OF Jusuee
and law and order, where the aamnlsI5uoh q, ,et 1s
law had failed to the punnc saHy.
The feeling which suddenly impulse o. movement
" as in ~ 9ctpS without Oreanzaon deberation in
city where the of supporting the regular ovs
was true representation ~ healthy public sentimens
Neither experience, observation nor puons
iRst hss thS tsssN' as Rs'p erm
nal law on the side of Justice law and orders They
have seeu that its chief end is give immunity 10 u-
derer The Berner verdict is but incident n THIS Ia-
ure OF Justice The OdlOus verdict IN the 8ernef u
not so bad as that mbece quibbling Of the supreme
Court which twice set aside the verdict o muide In tno
McHugh case.
THE ACTION or THE PEOPLE MISTAKEN But MOI
CRIMINAL.
1.-THE feeling of the mass stood before the Jail En-
day night was that whch.pervaded the whole people s
action was mist aken but its feeling no crime for
was the public sentiment. Not before In America has
there been such An array people and justice on one side
and of police force and military support ON the other.
such an array was most deporabe. To fire into such
neore for the protection OF muderers against justice
was fearful thing command Against popular mass,
having no worse impulse than justice against murderes
there was no eat take desperate hazas OF troops Vi
NJ the nubc safety or of property Who does not now
wish that the militia had not been caIcd lbiO the yat
Wbo would not gladly exchange the present situation 10!
one in which the who hrst attacked ulc Jdii nau
taken ont and hanged every man-slhyer Inc rsuonA
probabity they would have stopped Win the oAo
cution Of n few OF the most notorious murlerers.
aAs the case now stands justice and law ana oruer aro
not restored That abandonment Of law which Is re.
sponsble for the uprising OF the criminal elass tuFnea
this INTO an opportunity for arson ana pllage lho cur
zen soldiers simply obeyed ORDERS as they were oounu 20
do under penalties. They are not o3ec's " any
ard order s now enlisted the side or tba autnorles
in putting that which at the beginning was l.s own
REPRESENTATIVE. Pnlio sentiment which has ons oeen
Iu11aDt az tho IA lure OF the courts 10 administer
tiae and at their radiation 10 the trade OF mo GRIMM
swyer has now the addition Of lasting resentment Tor
tie angter OF innocent citizens 10 save aIu Ot mur
dcTers."