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...many riots are occurring. The papers are filled almost daily with the account of some mob violence. The latest incident on this path to anarchy is the attempt of ex-service men to stop by unauthorized force the German opera given at the Lexington Theatre, New York...
...should be set in motion as soon as possible. One or more nights of German opera is infinitely better for the morale of the nation than such a disgraceful disturbance. If the country is to continue being run by laws rather than by the whims of demagogues, this mob spirit, must be quelled...
Neither of his letters makes any definite statement, save that he is not surprised--an assertion with which I have no quarrel; he only implies by turns (a) that a lynching mob should not be punished by law, (b) that, apart from the question of whether they should be punished or not, they are normal citizens, acting from good motives. Both these doctrines seemed to me too mischievous to pass unchallenged; and I attacked them with arguments which he gives no sign of having read, and certainly has not answered. But when I read in his second letter...
...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...
...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...