The Carlisle Riots

ElVën of the nrgroes concerned in this case have been sontenced to mpris onment in the Slale Penitentiary forthree y e ars. The punishment is spoken of by the Washington Patriotas uriduly severe. But there are several snlisfaclory rasons for its severity. In the first place the offenders were colored people. The prejudicps of a white judge, jury and lawyers, all iníkíenced by the pr.walent feeling of dislike in the community, would naturally lead the dispensers of law to look upon the oflencc in its most nggravated light. Color moy go a good ways, even with men who mean to be honest and impartial. The great body of the vvhile rioterf, concerned in the riots agninst the Philadelphia colored prople, we are told, werp never punislied. They were white men, and mobbed vegroes : in this cnse, negroes mobbed a white mnn - all thedifference in the world you see. Secondly, this mob was got up lo help secure libeity to human beings. Thie, in the view of judge Hepburn and his juries, we presume, was a circumstauce that called for severe retribution. What business had negroes to fight for liberty? The fact of their doing so ind'cated a spirit of insubordination verv hatcfu! donbtless, to the eye'i of tlie pro-sluvery men - a spirit wh'ch needed to be checked. Had the snme violence been perpelrated agaiust colored people by white persons to aid a slave holder in securing his slaves, we presume the ofTenders wo;ild not have bfen punished at all, or, very slightly. Alas for human justice! What can be ofien more unstable or unjust! (Lf A correspondent of the Free Press says that 36' per cent was recenlly ollered in ihaj city for Michigan Central Rail Road Stock.