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must live through all time, or die by suicide.
I hope I am/am.html">am over-wary; but if I am not, there is even now
disregard for law.html">law which pervades the country.html">country.html">country--the growing
of the sober judgment of courts, and the worse than savage mobs
awfully fearful in any community; and that it now exists in ours,
of truth and an insult to our intelligence to deny. Accounts of
They have pervaded the country from New England to Louisiana;
the burning suns of the latter; they are not the creature of
non-slave holding States. Alike they spring up among the
citizens of the land of steady habits. Whatever then their cause
all of them. Those happening in the State of Mississippi and at
revolting to humanity. In the Mississippi case they first
not following for a livelihood a very useful or very honest
laws, was actually licensed by an act of the Legislature passed
to raise an insurrection were caught up and hanged in all parts
negroes; and finally, strangers from neighboring States, going
fate. Thus went on this process of hanging, from gamblers to
strangers, till dead men were seen literally dangling from the
sufficient to rival the native Spanish moss of the country as a
victim only was sacrificed there. This story is very short, and
has ever been witnessed in real life. A mulatto man by the name
the city, chained to a tree, and actually burned to death; and
attending to his own business and at peace with the world.
Such are the effects of mob law, and such are the scenes becoming
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