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Show mciii.xc U.Min: tho aliove Iieatflng the Xew York Sa(unli 'Mde, which is alwats Instructive and lias become be-come n very v-duable jolilical and fluaniialjounuv, lias tbe foIwing well written article oa a sulject ot interest to the loopleof Utah: A lyncher Is loo often a brute. If be was a lush b-f.ire he Isreame a ljncher, he must Isy -vM hU maa-bo, maa-bo, hiscouraze and bis reasoa, an.1 consent to ut hiiusf on a level with cowardly assailants of human beiaas who hsppen to lie helpies because obnoxious. True, all lynchers are not alike; for there have been east when 1 ws hdple-ts of justiflahui lyneh-lnc-as in tbe days of tbe viaiiann) committee In Nin Kr.ncr-eo that was sitnidy JusU8aI revcslutlOH to retore the supreinsc.r of the laws. Bu lynching by government is more bae tlian that nctised by a few blackguards black-guards In a vllUcr. All transgreufcms of chartered sillliomj by th.e . missioned to exercise such autboruv according to the letter of tbe Uk, in compliance with momentary iMr-sentinient, iMr-sentinient, resulting in injury to the persons of those under the popular ban, are nothing eise lharf pure H ndh-togs. Tbe kidnapping of Hthtens during tbe late civil wir bv alleged inilttarr luthoriis.triaUiif ririlans by court martial, and the murders comniitted t'.v military eomlHtssions were of this character. Tisy werelbelrantlations oftiie passions if the hour into cruel ami bluodi decls by men without tbe autborKynfsocietx to sit in Judgment uim Uieir feilow inen. II at it Is on tlie moral rather iLan on political iioinls that your true Ivneher is most sensiriro ami most anxious to displavbrsdisaimrovalivfsll ,...- ofallepmlwickeiliHsx IleKaeeonl ingly, verv quick to ihsect the mp-posed mp-posed ins of o-berx, loa.1 in his denunciation de-nunciation of lUm. and iMtaUy c-aer Ut Income lhe instrument of koine brutal iKintshmeut siie-esled by the gnwnessofbisowninlnd. Heises-ecially Heises-ecially nHiecrne.1 for the protection .f the family virtue and deeply shocked by any tale of immodesty, not to say licen'iousnes,, jn , neigh -borhood. and he feels that any disclosure dis-closure of onenses of this sort fr-nbhesn fr-nbhesn license to ruffianism which m Justice to himself, he cannot aesr-lect. aesr-lect. Weobsene.lrecer.tlv in the daily papers a minute account of a lynching lynch-ing which exhibits the exquisite sensitiveness sensi-tiveness of the lyncher upon these moral points in a sery striking manner. man-ner. Two young women, not m f their teen-, were walking with their friends In the neWs. A large number of the selfoostttutedKiiardKiw of the home, of lbiidimy,bHK.MinB this ttagrant exhibition of immorality, feh in duty bound to proceed at once to correct it, according to their own lufi, cone-pHon of JusJi-e, and witbojt waning tor tbe tloa ami nnrenam processes of the U. The, accordingly accord-ingly clubbed tbe genUemen away, stripped the young ladiesnd earned theni, riding on tbe edge of a Itoard through tbe MreeU, fulowe,I by an admiring concourse of Uackgusi. Uaiingterfomied this brave act of chivalry they, no doubt, returned to their homes oaasi-iotts of having vin J ScateJ their own thamcter, from ,nT future iniputiti..,, of evd eonduet ta tbo direction they had thus so noM, condemned, and enrolled their names among tlie "most prunioem cliaeiis" of tbejiUce. But If tbe lyncher is alwavs Mrone on mere morality, lie u eve M- w when h comes to religion. t;tve him a chance to prove hK own pure fuh and 1 will Krally wqieoutant-Ihtlediflerences wqieoutant-Ihtlediflerences of opinion tourhiu'g our relations to our Maker in the Uoo-1 of ibow who degree wth h(U It was chiefly for this reason that the chuieb and fcsate were duoreed tbeyare todax under all American constitutions. History show, that as I ng as they were yoked locether viotent nn.1 eoan-e ehurehmen we Soreterdesirinzto eini, Hw.worj "f the State io lynch the eutnuan-lively eutnuan-lively !!,. di-eniers. 1I, ,n inerira w 3ro i, .Unger, or a least we ouht too l ,)nN from assauH. by the State upns-llBtouoj.mlonsof upns-llBtouoj.mlonsof anv tf Mr IssoUe, whatever those opinion, auj be. Hut bowl, ft , lbe rncn finds him-elf in acsord with a vast overn helming body of his follow ayl ns,and learns that it h ,v,, convenient, and, perba,., IOTJnaUe to him or some of his kind, to abuse o-. ptibly. to destroy, k, happen to diner from him He regards re-gards consUtutlons and laws.nd lbe great iindpte, of human freedom and of religion, toleration embod,! In our InstMtftiensno more than does thereaker of tbe pres-ntllonw Ipresentatites the rules that have been h-ld sacrts! for a hundred years. Ae have been noiieinc fjr -. na a year lynehings, ln v,,, parts of the country, of certain premiers premi-ers of the Gospel of the Chnrch known as the Church of Jesus Christ of L. terl,ysMlni Thy8u,rtip,rt, of the world. In all free ecnairle, of Iroi-.sueh as liigUnd, all frcandi-navssn frcandi-navssn eoun!. .usd SwltaerUntl, they are beard ., other men on similar rnisswo, are ti Whtiim. tMf hearers aeeept their teachijp,, nos is a question which no govrnmn no oommanhy, and. certainly, no lyncher, Isprmitted to be concerned I in. But In this country, such is the in-t in-t ease religious zeal on th ,,,. twain kjwe.-o-d-r of ruftlans,tha: the preacher who preaehe,. what the raf- an never beM lwfor,, rwtaulM( ruOau does not choose to believe esrrlas hi, life in his hand. The erv Uct that th, preaeher aPpMr, ,', under circumstances v, threaSenwg .is am4 evidence of his r-rsona! ! eourage. fahh, heroism, and laanyr , hke devotion. But then are nsttallr ' only one lor tj ..r.lai tbe most i three preachers together, while there are many, ofienUmes a wnlti- I tile, rf the p'ous blockheads who long to kill somebody for the sake of what theyprexnd to them-aslves them-aslves Is the love of Christ. Mnd so we see that in Alabama an JTenneVsee, and various other places, during tbe last few years tnee preachers have been shot, tarred and feathered, docked, drowned, beaten and ridden oa rafls, their few friends exiled, their bouses helmed, their families abused, and the prevailing religion of those -peaeeful communities" thus very effectually ef-fectually protected by tbe substitution of lynching for tbe law of tbe land. Doubtless tbe lynchers In these cases were much encouraged by tbe aJHude of various great men and a great porHJul party In the hisiory of our ouuolry. They could look back to a lime, not very distant, when the Know 2oth!ng party lynched the Itaman Catholic Church, "when they attacked its nunneries and monasteries, burned Its edifices, proscribed socially ami politically its priests and people, and were very anxious to get a general anthoriiy to lynch it under the forms of law. They might have seen, also, that Mr. Ulmunds, united wHh a Urge number of other sainlly Christian leaders in Congress, and wHh the aid of a devout bench of ftupnxne Court Judges bad actually Mtceeeded in tbe Know Nothing pUu, now directed towards another church, and had, in verv truth. lynched it 1) law. Tbe trouble w ih this church is, not that iu doctrines nave been in'.ell-gemlv in'.ell-gemlv examined and found to be bad, not that its teacuings are unpatriotic and aubversHe of social order for tbese the 1 nebers hiencercond-sceuded hiencercond-sceuded to look at but that Its ieople have some properly wjikb may be plundered, that lbe lute redeemed a desert and made a lanlen, which may he ssiaed, that they are few and distant, and may be denoun'ed without with-out dangrr, and, above all, that they have no totes either in Congress or In tbe etectoral college, and any capital thai may be made by assailing them ia dear gain. The luse politicians, who are seeking to prosit by this crusade, cru-sade, ran only bs eUssol with tbe lynchers above mentioned." |
