Rensselaer Gazette, Volume 3, Number 39, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 18 January 1860 — The Results. [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

The Results.

Wherever there is agitation there will assuredly be brutality, either physical or mental; It makes little differance from what that agitation arises, the end is the same. At the time of the Kensington riots in Philadelphia, in 1844, the feeling through all the country ran so strong against the Irish, that the quiet and innocent suffered alike with the noisy and the guilty. It was the same with the feeling against the negroes in the Northern cities years before, and so it will always be, where tho passions of inen are excited, and law fails to check them. Every day the Southern press chronicles cases of the most brutal assaults, tarrings and featherings, lashings and exilings of those who are supposed'tt' be inimical to Southern institutions. In all such no-law proceedings it follows that oftentimes the innocent suffer. A mob is no tribunal, arid before an excited multitude it i s of little consequence whether the prisoner be guilty or not. Though each individual composing the mob may be responsible singly, yet collectively there is no responsibility. This mob-law is rampant through the whole South, and as an example to show the blindness of its action, we cite a case that occurred at Eufala, Alabama, a few days since. A Dr. Mulroe, belonging to South Carolina, the owner of two plantations and negroes, thinking to turn an honest penny, started to sell a new patent plow. At the above place he fell into the hands of a mob, calling themselves a “Vigilance Committee.” Before these self-em-powered law ministers had time to do the necessary tarring and feathering, a person who knew the doctor at home recognised him, and by powerful intercession got hi«s out of their hands. This is bne case of many, growing out’’of a spirit that, if not immediately checked by the law tribunals, will lead to anarchy and confusion through the entire South. We will venture to say that the daily record of these outrages has done more to exasperate public feeling at the North, within a few weeks, than the institution of slavery from the very beginning. Some of these brutalities come to us in a shape almoat impossible for belief. One instance in which a passenger was pushed from a train at full speed on the Mississippi Central Railroad, for expressing an opinion not in accord with his listeners, relative to tho John Brown affair. We can hardly believe that such things can occur in a civilized land, and yet they stare us in the face at every turn. If they are not denounced, and stopped, no man’s life is safe while traveling South of Mason and Dixon’s line. A gang of ruffians can band themselves together for purposes of- robbery and murder, and. on detection, by pleading that the robbed and murdered was an abolitionist, go scot free. This mav do very well for a while, but there is always a conservative element in all society, and if we understand anything Qf the matter, these Southern " Vigilance Committees” will sooij ftad themselves on the wrong side of tho question.— N.. Y, Atlas, Dm.

THE RENSSELAER GAZETTE. RENSSELAER. IND. Wednesday, January is. iB6O.