The Aberdeen examiner. [volume] (Aberdeen, Miss.) 1866-current, 1884-04-10
EDITORIAL MATTER,
From rrI.we ekly issues 0 I Mon day a nd Friday
Cincinnati, DanvilIe, COpiah.

Far be it from us to rejoice in the ca
lamities of others, and even thoug
OhIo's Senator has risen in his place t
| denounce our people; to question thel
civilization; to arraign them as brawler
and murderers before the world for tn
achievement of ignoble political ends, j
gives us no pleasure to note the grea
calamity that has befallen the prou'
metropolis of his own mighty State. Ye
there is Divine providence in thi
tbing-the finger of fate and the whispe
of warming that scoffers and slanderer
who have no bowels of compassion fo
their neigh bors, will do well to heed
Just as tbs caldron was simmaring; jus
rs the witch broth was brewing int
which cold-blooded John Sherman OIL
villifcation intent was crumbling ant
pouring more vile things than Shake
spears hell>cats ever dreamed of--nis-
erable birthlings of his own icy hear
ard gall.reeking brain and tongue
thirty thousand infuriated men arose il
beautiful, princely Cincinnati, to an
nounce that the civilization upon which
this self sanctifie1 demdgogue so pridad
himself was q farce, and that the courts
were impotent; the iuries were venal
and that the protection of life and liber
ty that had been delegated by the masses
to the few under the aegis of the tablets
of the statutes, must be reclaimed even
though the very foundations of society
should be riven, and the so,called tenn
pie of justice should be given to the
flames,
We make no point against Cincinnati
there is no community on earth that
can abide the unroofing OF its social and
political system in unkindly spirit to the
scrutiny of those who are endowed with
the iackal's instino : who in their horrid
quest seek only the thirgs upon which
horror feeds; for we know if closely and
in rancorous spirit sought, unseemIy
things may possibly be found on the
very altar steps where the best and pur.
est worship; but this great tragedy at
Cincinnati may teach our slanderers tc
keep an eye on their own lintels, and
cause them to remember that every com
munity has its bad and violent men nc
matter how pure the general structure
of its social fabric may be; that every
community may be goaded to deeds ol
vengeance through long suffering nomat'
ter how thoroughly instilled are the les
sons and precepts OF patience; that every
city is slumbering volcano that may il
time upheave and rage in remorseless
blood seeking fury.
While the people of his own princely
metropolis were shooting down theil
citizen soldiery, and the citizen soidlery
were shooting down those other citizeu'
branded Us rioters; while the court housC
of Hamilton county was burning will
all its priceless records; while the Gov
ernor of great Ohio was assembling al
army toprotect Ohioans against Ohiolns
Senator Sherman was at his post in tht
Committee room on Privileges and Elec
tions, examining witnesses with view
to demonstrating to the world that the
people of little Danville, Virginia. werC
lawless savages, and gloating over th'
testimony taken in New Orleans by
which he hoped to be able to brand thC
populace of the village of Hazlehurs
and the industrious, progressive, ant
peace loving community Of all Copial
county, Mississippi, as murderers ant
outlaws.
The lesson is fearful one, and we be
lieve that the people Of America will rea(
it aright-will remember that to eacl
community while the world iogs on mus
be allotted proportion, great or small
of lawless men; that in America, excep
for climatic influences, the strange tenn
pering OF soil and sun, men average vel
that while outbreaks may occur an(
will occur until the end comes, tn,
masses are law abiding and peaceful
but that in every community the aveng
ing spirit turks or sleeps that sooner o
later will be aroused lawlessly to vindi
cate the spirit OF the law.