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Show Sani.cinaiiy. II. N. Ba-kin, lawyer, law-yer, is credited with enunciating the dx?trine in the City Hall, on Wednesday Wednes-day evening, that any man may resist an officer who attempt to arrest him, anl shoot him down if the attempt is persisted in, unless the officer has a leal process issued for the arrest. Ba-kin is not an ignorant man, though an unscrupulous one, and he knows so much better than this that it would be mere waste of time to produce arguments argu-ments for the purpose of enlightening him. He knows there is not an incorporated in-corporated city in the United States in which the officers are not empowered empow-ered to arrest offenders without formal pr03es being issued, and take them before a court for trial. He knows that a police officer woa'd rLk his star by refusing to arrest a person properly charged with an offence against the laws. But he threw out the announcement announce-ment before a large number of men, some of whom would like nothing better bet-ter than to have it so: while, doubtless, he would like a heavy fee for defending defend-ing a paltry suit where probably the entire fiue would not reach the fourth j of what he would demand for "pro-1 fessional services." We would like to know, under the circumstances, if this man is not indictable for inciting to a breach of the peace and to bloodshed ''. He has become mercilessly sanguinary of late, He would try by drumhead drum-head court-martial and shoot a fe militia mm for drilling contrary con-trary to an illegal proclamation: and by the above directly encourages violent resistance to lawful authority. We have had such lawyers here before who k new the orderly character of our citizens, and felt they were personally safe in Salt Lake City, yet who had as ! great an aversion to going north of-Snake of-Snake river as a dog with hydrophobia has of water anywhere. They had "practiced law" in the northern regions re-gions until the vigilantes began to enquire en-quire affectionately after them. Bas-kin Bas-kin knows he can "spread" himself with impunity here either in petifog-ging petifog-ging sophistries or sanguinary exhortations, exhor-tations, and so he presumes upon the quietness and orderly character of the people he traduces. We cannot hold I him up to a greater public contempt than is now bestowed upon him; bat we ask again if such a man for such a speech in sueh a place, is not indictable as an enemy to the public peace and safely? |