Word: mobs
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...single citizen "took the matter into his own hands" he transgressed the law of the state and of the nation, and, in killing Brown committed murder. Furthermore, he introduced into Omaha the principle of anarchy. The individual became superior to the government and to the law. If we want mob law in our country, why not go about it in an orderly fashion and end act an amendment nullifying the preceding portions of the Constitution? At least, it would give us some semblance of consistency. Under our present laws lunching is unequivocally illegal, unjustifiable and a crime. It might, indeed...
...wholesale regard for law and order coupled with an exaggerated emotional sense of justice do not always work smoothly in double harness. Doubtless, to the legal mind, an outbreak of mob violence is the uspeakable; correction of evils should be undertaken by the ballot--no matter whether the base offender against the primal law of harmony in the state die of old age in the penitentiary while awaiting trial for his deeds. Doubtless, Mr. Fairbanks, you are right...
...dare say that were a succession of 28 assaults and outrages by negroes upon white women to occur in any city in the country, eastern cities included, there would be some sort of summary justice dealt the criminals, and whether this justice were administered by legal action or by mob violence I assert it would be summary and immediate. Court action, after two moths, trial, in the case, failed. Mob violence, passionate, exaggerated, emotional, primitive justic, dealt with the case. Sol. A ROSRNRLATT...
...city with no "negro problem" has no right to take up a "holier than thou" attitude; but when he belittles as foolhardy the man who risked his life in defence of law and order, we can only regret it; and when even by implication he makes out a lynching mob as in any degree less contemptible than their victim, we cannot join issue with him too quickly. SYDNEY FAIRRANKS...
Furthermore, when the mayor of any city appears before a raucous mob which had not yet commenced violence, carrying in his hand a revolver with which he menaces as he orders dispersal of the crowd, and when this official happens to be a leading member of the law firm which has been hired to defend a negro identified as assailant of a white girl, who can answer for the safety of the foolhardy man? No wonder he was about to have been lynched...