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The Daily Dispatch: August 27, 1861., [Electronic resource], Canadian opinion of Newspaper Mobbing (search)
k the truth, except when likely to please, but it does more than almost anything else to lower the American people in the estimation of all civilized nations. We care not what the destroyed journals published. If treasonable matter, then the writers ought to be punished in the due course of law and not by a mob. But if the matter was not treasonable, but only false and venturous, then its undisturbed publication ought to have been permitted. Its suppression by violence is a proof that in Concord and Bangor at least, freedom of opinion does not exist; and the complacency with which the act generally appears to be regarded would perhaps justify us in believing that other and more extended localities are equally unfortunate. Those who have anything to lose in the United States cannot remember too soon that when the mob's idea respecting the rights of meum and get confused, mistakes are likely to be made with property more valuable than that usually contained in newspaper offices. A
The Daily Dispatch: August 27, 1861., [Electronic resource], Jenny Lind in London. (search)
such outrages. Upon their heads must fall the retribution also. Who, that tells a people "the laws are silent amid arms," has any right to complain of their taking him at his word?--If the laws are silent, why shall the mob at Haverhill, Concord, Bangor or Easton, hear them any more than the Cabinet at Washington? If the laws sleep at all, they are awake to no man. If they are silent at all, they are silent altogether. If the President may suppress a public journal, without color of l in opposition to the will of the tyrant majority. If there is to be a suppression of free discussion at all, let it be done by some spiritual or secular autocrat — some Emperor, King or Pontiff — not by the people themselves. The people of Concord, Bangor, Haverhill, and, lastly, of Westchester county, Pennsylvania, would seem alike destitute of faith in the power of truth and of the first principles of toleration. May these be the last outrages committed at the North which it will be ou