The popular hatred against the Shivery Abolitionists, in the United
States, continues to be exhibited occasionally in acts of violence. On the eight of the 30th of July, the printing-office of an Abolition paper, the Philanthropist, published in Cincinnati, was sacked ; and the editor, Mr. Birney, a lawyer and an accomplished gentleman, narrowly escaped with his life. Several negro-houses were tern down ; and no attempt was made to arrest the mob until they threatened a building in which two of the city banks carried on their business—then the Mayor interfered, and order was reestablished. On this the editor of a New York paper remarks- " It was only when the fury of the multitude, in searching for one of its vic- tims, seemed likely to endanger a building in which there were two banks, that the civil authorities thought proper to interfere. The disturbance of the peace was nothing, the act of breaking open the dwelling of a private individual was
nothing, the plunder and destruction of his property was nothing, the hue and cry after his life was nothing; but when the hoards of a monied institution are in peril, the majesty of the laws wakes from its slumber and interposes its shield. Then the Mayor, who had looked on quietly while all these outrages were committed, comes fin th and tells the mob, in a 'determined manner ' that he will order the police to shoot the first person who offers violence to the building. What a commentary on the depraved state of public feeling! Hu- man liberty and human life are neither respected by individuals nor shielded by the laws, but the gold of the great monopolies which corrupt the people is to be 'protected at every hazard. You may break open your neighbour's house if you will, and destroy his goods, and hunt him as a bloodhound hunts his prey ; you may do this with impunity, provided you respect the banks; but if you touch their safety, you will he informed that you are going too far. It is for their benefit, and not for that of individuals, that laws are made and ministers of the Jaw appointed. Insensate! not know that the anarchy you encourage, when it bus reached its maturity, will disdain the lesser prey, and pounce upon the very treasures you so anxiously protect."
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