Word: mob
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...that England's interference was not justifiable. The policy of England in South Africa is tending to tear the races asunder, to destroy all relations that ever existed between England and the Boers. Furthermore, the few instances cited by the affirmative show no more proof of a state of mob law in the Transvaal than our 127 lynchings last year prove that the United States is in a state of riot...
Professor Josiah Royce of Harvard University, is to address the Prospect Union, at 744 Mass. avenue, Cambridgeport, this evening on: "The Psychology of Mobs and other Assemblages." A philosophical study of mob action of deep interest will be presented. The lecture will be free to men. Harvard men invited...
...Boston in 1811. He studied at the Harvard Law School and was admitted to the bar in 1834. Events soon arose which changed the course of his life. Seeing a printer, who had come forward in favor of the abolition of slavery, in the hands of an angry mob, his sympathies were aroused in the cause of anti-slavery. Anne Green, who afterwards became his wife, had espoused the anti-slavery cause, and he was moved by her influence. With his marriage ended his law practice...
...knowledge of military law is indispensable to a man who commands militia. For instance, he must know when he may, or may not, with inpunity order his company to fire upon a mob. The lectures will sometimes be illustrated by stereopticon views, some of which will be from pictures taken in the Civil...
...laid down their clothes at a young man's feet, whose name was Saul." He said that these witnesses laid down their clothes at a young man's feet, whose name was Saul." He said that these witnesses left their clothes with Saul because they feared that in the mob they might be stolen. Accordingly they left them with a man in whom they had perfect confidence, who they knew was in sympathy with them...