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Since The Doors Of The Grand Union

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3
Month
August
Year
1877
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Public Domain
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Saratoga, were closed against the Hebrews, Congress Hall has becoine the new Jerusalein. Gov. Robinson, of New York, proved himself able to deal with the recent strike, and without oalling on tho President for help. In the State of New York there is i general law making cities and oounties Hable to action by or in behalf of any party whose property is destroyed by a mob. NOT as a matter of news, but as a matter of reoord and for the purpose of commendation, we give plaoe to the températe yet firm proclamation issued by Gov. Croswell during tho receut railroad strike at Jackson. COAL went up fifty cents a ton in New York on Saturday last. A contradiotion of the old proverb that " thoso who dance must pay tho fiddler." The miners and railroad strikers did the dancing, whilo the coal consumera will have the bill to foot. Senator Christiancy has written a long letter to Judge Leoompte, of Kansas, in whicb. he conrtemns the -" policy of force " adopted by the last adininistration, " approves the policy of the new adininistration," and dudares himself in favor of " home rule." That Senatorial investigating conimittee heaved considorable mud at Gov Grover, of Oregon, but didn't succeed in mnking much of it stick. None of his ducats were tracea to the pockets of avtiricious or impecunious legislators ? t , - 4 - , I am A St. Louis dispatch says : " Tlio most unruly members of the mob are nogroeB." Why not? Does n't the Civil Rights bill guarantee them the same rights that " whito trash " have always had, including the right to make fools of thom8elves. m I ► ■ - One Benjamin, resident of London, and tailor or ulster-maker to H. R. H., has discouuted Judge Hilton's order proscribing the " trade Jew," by postiag a card in his window that no goods will be sold to Americans without " a deposit." He meant an insult to "Americans" and to drive them out of his shop." Valiant Benjamin. ■ i i - - mm i i The Demócrata of Ohio go iuto the coming campaign with the following candidates For Governor, R. M. Bishop, of Hamilton ; for Lieutenant-Governor, Gen. Jabez Fitch, of Cleveland. It is to be hopod that the candidates are better than the platform on whicb they were placed by the nominating convention. The Ohio Demooracy are great at platform building. " What has become of tho cherished doctrine of State sovereignty, whon, at the first outbreak, Democratio Governors cry loudly to the Federal soldiery for aid ?" is the conundrum the New York Qraphic propounds. And this is the way the New York Sun cracks the nut, and answers a fooi aecording to his folly : " The cherished doctrine remaius unshaken. One Or more fools or incapables, in oflioo as Governors, do not destroy a great prinoiple, necessary to liberty, and fast anohored in the Constitution of the United States." Next. - - ■ ■ i ■ - Discussino the recent " Kailroad War " the Christian Union says : " Imrnirgation has brought to our shores and business has dispersad throughout the country a large number of men who have never learnod self-oontrol abroad, and who, while they are learning it, raust bo controlled by tho gorernment. We cannot thoreforo afford to disband our national pólice. It is good economy to keep in reserve a forcé sufficient to keep in order thoso who are not able to keep themselvos in order. The proolamations of the President would not have been inefficiënt, as they woro, if the mob had not known that there was no army to enforce them. We lost at the spigot in Pittsburgh many times more than we saved at tho bunghole by the false economy which roduced our army to n skeleton last session." And the Chri&Uan Union is not the only journal which bas charged the mob upon the reduotion of tho Federal army. The President issued no " proclamations " which he was without the moans of enforcing, and had the army been doubled at tho last session instead of being reduoed to a " skeleton " the mob would not have been awed by that fact or subdued any tho quicker. Tho mob knew little of the proclamations and Ie8s of the army that the President had " to enforce them." Tüe leaders in the strike countod on no serious resistanoe to their demands on the part of the railroad companies, and the mob soon overwhelmed the leaders. Mobs do not examine tho muster rolls in advance, for they becomo mobs without any prearrangoment or dosign. Mobs do not know the force of the State or national pólice or standing army, for they are composod of material not learned in the law and not absorbere of the daily logislatiou of Congress or SUte Legislatures. Tho mob at Pittsburgh neither knew nor cared for the President's proclaraations, nor had countod the number of raen he could cali to enforco theui. It is not a largor national pólice or regular army which is wanted, but more effeotive State and local pólice ; and not so much a largor local pólice oven as lass patting on the back of " strikers " of all kinds by citizons and business men, who, misled by their sympathies or by domagoguos, join in the cry against " oapital " and " monopoly " - even when oapital is a general blosning and monopoly does not exist - until tho " strikers " become a mob. If a regular army is te be relied upon to preserve order in tho future, with companies and regiraonts in the vicinity of evary railroad oenter or mine, manufaoturing center or mili, tho abolition of State and local govornmonts uiuat soon follow. Ia that what the Chrütian Union desires ?

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