Show A HARVEST following press dispatch indic indicates ateA the existence of a condition in the sec c from in which it emanates that roughly corrected or it I 1 p produce pl awo c disastrous consequences new ew york nov 21 the worlds greensboro N C special special says the greatest excitement p prevailed availed in winston winsten owing to threats made by negroes of that place to mob the most prom anent and influential democratic lead ers for political activity at the polls on the day of the election the f following ollow lug is a specimen of the cards received by these gentlemen you are no notified titled that yon have but ten days to leave this town if your carcass be found here after that time you ou will be swung to a limb and yo your U r kouse house burned COLORED CITIZENS 11 in the bible a figure is f frequently used by which political wickedness is compared to crimes of individuals against chastity and the names given to those crimes are ottea of tea applied to the political immorality of the me nation this oriental metaphor Is pregnant with philosophical significance for there is a striking analogy between the condition of a nation possessing system of government which permits the same to be subverted in a corrupt wicked or violent manner by its own citizens and the state of a woman who has completely abandoned chastity both are vile and each represents among nations and individuals respectively the lowest depth of degradation when A body politic lays aside law and seeks to accomplish its wishes or execute its ita vengeance upon any portion of its own citizens without regard to legal principles and restraints it becomes in scriptural metaphor a harlot and as the steps of such creatures lead down to hell bell and as their course of life is productive of nothing but misery so mob law is the seed of odthe the wind which ripens into a harveston harve whirlwind if the government of north carolina is not able to prevent one class of citizens from risi rising ap and banishing another class no matter bow great the disparity of numbers between the two classes then are the days of her peace numbered and her prosperity near its end she can preserve herf her political virtue only by protecting all her citizens from unlawful banishment or violence when she f c cause in se no longer affords them that protection her chastity as a commonwealth is gone eone so with any other state or nation mob violence is a tearfully effective means meau of debauching debau ching public sentiment hence of undermining public safety A people who witness the continuance and especially the triumph of methods quickly lose all reverence ence tor for law or respect for order and wig with these there also disappears the fear of god hence individuals are let left t without those restraints ou on ji human u ma n notion action by which alone human beings are controlled and the prevalence of anarchy prevented multiplies the spirit 1601 oi murder and encourages the deye develop p meat in the community ot of all the evil passions it makes men brutal bruti fl revengeful and treacherous aud kiudules insatiable fires of lust and hate during the war of the rebellion livili civilized zed modes of warfare were generally pursued pur dued except in those regions where had prevailed to the extent of exterminating an important element of the population in missouri the most revolting and barbarous modes of parrying carrying on the struggle struz gle were indulged in the laws of civilized warfare were set at delf defiance tance while murder rapine the destruction of female vir tue and every crime were perpetrated by neighbor upon neighbor the I 1 sections from which the mormons cormons Mor mons had been driven by spots mobs were pre emigen eminently aly those in virch human pas sion an and d d depravity epra vity seemed to have no limit when aroused and licensed by bv the war proving the effects which are produced and which remain in a community that permits mob law to |