The Late "riot."

In nnother column we give placo to a solios of resol utions passed by a portion of the students of tho Litnrary departnieiit of tho University, relativo to the ilisturbiince which occurred at the Ab.)liiion-']isunion meeting on Saturday aficrnoon and evoning last. A s'miiar series uf resolutions, declaring in favor of "freo speech" and eondemnicg the di.sturbance, have been furnished us on the part of the Law Cluss, which we havodoclined publishing, on theground that we had not heard the distuibance charged especially upon tho studentsi and that one series oí condemnatorv resolutions must suffico. As to tho resol utions we do publish, wo havo to 8y that wo tliink the sludents h:ve transcended the bounds of modesty and proprioty in attempting to incúlpate tho City autliorilies. It was the end of I their düty to excúlpate thomselves, and i an indictment of officials would como ! with a mach botter grace from a ineetnr of citizen?, as to citizens alone are they responsible for their official acts. Ia tiiis connection, we may also say, that we ace nformed that Mr Stfbbins took public occasion on Sunday afternoon to fathor the disturbanco upon our huinblo self, and alluged that it was directly incitod by the brief notice in our last issue, and that had that notico not appeared tho disunion orgies could have progressed undisturbed. We did not anticípate that ouc brief notico would raise such a storm, and we h".rdy think it entitied to tho blam.j Or praise; but be that aait mP.y e have no word to take back. It w.iS the truth and nothing but t:ie truth, if not the whüle truth. Ochave noted tho uttorances of chis sa.ne eet of men tlsewherQ, we earefully read their vosolu♦:.ons adopted but a littlo whüo ago at Adtian, and spoke knov,ing tho f uil meaning of our wcrds. And if our feeble warning hs.-j prtívented a similar setot resoluti.-jns being palmed oñ upon tho wptVá a3 tho espression o{ our goof'.'y City, we can almost excuse iho riot and consent to fathor it, eveu though t be achild begotten by raistake. The leading causo of the disturbance, howcver, was the bill posted on every street corner calüngtho meeting. And that every reader may judge for him. self be'twoen the incendiary character of tho official notico and our unofficial ne, we quote the bill enlire: No Unios : With Slavkholders Reltoioi'sly oa I'oLiTiOALLV. Present event demónstrate that an issue involving the libenies and prosperity of 'Our Country." is up for aultlanent - (God helping ue,) - for final settleraent. There are but two ideas, Lioerty and Slavery, involved in this contest. Heneo as a loieal neeeasity there are an i can be but íwo positiva agur8flive parties. The elave iiolder and his allies aa the representativas of cast.e and despot.iem, on the odc side; On the ütlier, the ouírage 1, plundered slave, and [lis fríen is, the uncompromising, remoraeless abolitionisls, as the rep'esentativi-s of Liberty, Morality, nnd Religión. Friends of Freedum in Michigan, in the spirit if this cali, ve invite you to meet in Convention, at Ann Arbor, aüirday and Sunday, Jan 26 and 27, at the Fres Church Parker l'illsbury, of Boston. Mrs. Josephine Griffing of Ohío. Giles B. Stebbins, of Michigan, will be among the speakers On belmlf of the Abolitioniets of Michigan. Ana Albor, Janunry 15. 1861. Had a bilí been posted couched n different language, even the roputatión of Parker Pillsburt and his aH?ociate social disorganizers and political disunionists would have iailed to créate any excitement, but the above incendiarv cali n a crisis liko the present, was a direct - if not a designed - invitation to tho result that followed. Now, for ( the riot" itself. It was a " free meeting," " free speech" was prombed, the iree pyblio ;rvited, and eympathizers, antisympatbzer3, and the curiona turned out. The UniOnloving appearod to ba in the ascendant, they took the organization into their own hands, got control of the mee ing, and the Pillsburyiles revolted and a row e ns ned. So fsays general report, and vre are inclined to think that the General is correct. But ''Free Speech" was not designed to be carried to this extent, henee the complaints of violence and mob law. Once, for all; this is the first mob toe ever incited ; we are no adviser of mobs; no believer in mobs ; no groat apo'ogit for mobs ; and don't beliove the disturbance amounted to half a mob, But if it did, tho thing is dona and wo don't believe tho doing of it has disgraced our City abroad any more than would the holding of a disunion medting and tho passago of disunion rosolutions. Had tho one not been attempted thero would have been no incitement to the other. " Free Speech" is not the proper name for licontiousness, should not cover thojutterance of disloyal and treasonable sentinaents; and an excess of -'free speech" is oftentimes as censurable, as inexcusable, as criminal, as other demonstrations against tho peace of the community. The getters up of ihe meeting knew the 6ensiliveneas of the community, they knew they were touching a tender spot, they designed to créate a sensation, they did it. We condemn mob iaw, and we con" i demn any and all persons who in this po' litical crisis will proclaiin a meeting lor i the purpose of rejoicing over the dissolution of the Union. It ia a law of nature that one should follow the other; we didn't ordain tho law and are not responsibltj for it. Such are our views, however, and if tbey.don't satisfy our readers we can't help it. P. S. We fear we have made the matter too prominent, and thus aided "the mob" in giving tho Pillsburyitea the thing of all others they desiro - notoritty; - but having consented to publisb the resolutions of the studente we eould hardly say less. These self-called but spurious reformers thrivoand fatten on persecution, and an extended notice of their proceedings is hardly lesa a God-send to thom than a mob, and thereforo both mobs an i ropoi ts are to be Jeprccaled.