The Greenville times. [volume] (Greenville, Miss.) 1868-1917, 1884-04-12
The RIOT.
szgeutiEs summary.


an account fer salvage for three
days destruction aud terror. First,
we have saved our jailfull of mur.
derers. We have killed forty.fiye
innocent men and wounded aud
maimed 145 more, all to save our
ljailful of murderers. We have
burned our fine courthouse. with
records of three-quarters Of cen
tury, creating confusion which a
whole generation win not suffice
to settle. But what is that BY the
side Of q jailful of murderers saw.
ed from popular excitementi We
have converted just, popular
impulse against the prostration Of
law before crime into a war be-
tween an unorganized people, in
censed to acts Of blind vengeance
against the authorities who killed
them to protect the murderers.
I'VE have planted in the peo-
ple's minds q cause Of innocent
blood crying from the ground,
but we have saved our jailful Of
murderers. We have lost all, but
not our jailfUi of murderers not
having saved even our honor.
The reign of law aud order is re.
stored in Clncinnati-the law and
order which makes murder the
safes. trade and which has made
impotent the administration of
law against crimes of atrocity.
We have yindicated all practical
forms and rules and traps and
tricks which make the trial of a
murderer farce and degrade the
Judiciary, to the sole end of hav.
ing known and proved murderers
saved from conviction and Of pro
noting the trade of criminal law.
ycrs. Is any citizen Of Cincinnati
satisfied with this salvage, except
the jailful ofAnurderers and the
terminal class and criminal law.
yersi Is there a decent citizen
| who feels that these slain citizens
should be UNANIMOUSLY buried az
malefactors, while tho jailful Of
murderers are TO behsld innocent
till, after an exhaustion Of all
means to put witnesses out Of the
way and to fix juries and of every
trick Of law, they shall have been
convictedf
| However unfortunate their &C.
tion, the mass Of the men that
moved from the meeting at Music
Hall to the Jail and began an at.
tack upon it we're moved by an
impulse on the side Of justice and
law against the reign of crime DO.
fore which the law had become
impotent. Unthmking persons
speak Of such popular impulse as
| a crime, forgetting that the right
| to protect itself against crime il a
right of society and is conferred
by it ON it's agents and that society
does not lose its rights because its
agents have become impotent.
The movement was a terrible mis-.
take, because 1t was made by q
sudden impulse, without organiza-
ton or plan or material. Let the
sober Judgment Of the public keep
. just discrimination between the
| hrst impulse of the people and the
subsequent acts Of blind ven
geance Of q crowd maddened by
bloodshed. This affair is wholly
different from any other couflict
batween rioters and authorities In
| this country and must not be judg-
ed by any Of them. 1t was not a
movement Of workmen against
Iworkmen and against the property
or corporations which were irving
| to get along without them. Nor
was il like the riots against the
draft. Those were rists against
law, Justice, public sentiment and
property. But this began in the
uprising of the people on the side
Of justice and law and order,
| where the administration of the
law had failed to serve the public
safety.
HThe feeling which suddenly
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