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Show jt iiui i. Phi li. '1 he aorount vlveu In the dlipatchei from I .nil villa, Kenteirky, of the borniug o! a mau and weman there ou Haiuiiiay nlui, la eurlloleut to chill the leader Willi horror. It il a blot upon our oivilnatl in that mob flru Ittb orlmei ctu be committed lu a land of anlkhtenmeut; tor tba In-tlinrlt In-tlinrlt of a a iple mutt ba law Indeed ta participate In luoh a prooaedlng. We read with a ihlver and reoall wltn horror Ir-oa lha .lalea af aavagery among taroerlaoe, but not even ibe recital re-cital of raunlbal feitlvltlee lurpaiiei the awlully brutal conduot of thin Kentucky mob. It Ii Idle toaey that the deed II a proleat aj;Blnat the vice ol whlob tha vlctlnia preaumably warn guilty that II waa a violent deelaietlou that virlua muat be anforoed. If that had baau tha one lha fiercely cruel fealarai would have bien omitted, even though the death paualty might have been In. dieted by lawleae methoda. It waa not a protett egninit wrong, but a deeper and mora eiirerue outburat of vice whloh led to lint terrible tragedy. The perpetraUra wara gratifying their fee!-luge fee!-luge of brutal revenge tor la that aec-tl aec-tl n of country Immorality and even the taking ol bumao Ilia la toe ordinary an aflalr lo awaken luoh Inteuae nondiahmai ai flllad lha breatU of Ike mob. We would not lay that public aenll-men! aenll-men! In Kentucky will iuob with ooin-placency ooin-placency upon thli proceeding, or will regard II with leaa than Itellng ol horror. Tba elala baa lla maaa af enlightened, en-lightened, noipllehle, educated people wbo have no aympathy wllb or tdtat of oontfonallno for aucb orlmae, hut until lha atata aulboriliea mete out evere, awlft and uuarrlng punlahmeot to every mnboorat within their bordere, w batever tha prateat for their law lata-neaa, lata-neaa, Kenttioky will ba claeaed In the puhllo mind aa dlanonored among the atatee lo being a place where the foul-eat foul-eat icenea of barbarliaa may be auaoied with omperallee Impunity. |