Reign Of Mobocracy

Every community is a loser by permitting a mob to viólate the supremacy of the laws, and retributive justiee to a greater or less extent, will overtake ihose who countenance the lawless infiiction of injuries upon their iellows. It will be so in Lexingion. The spirit of violence let lose, will find numerous objects for its gratificaron. A letter from that city to a gentleman in New Haven says: "A porlion of the citizens of Lexington have formed themselves into a band, termed "the Regulators," painted and disguised os Indians, andthreaten tocrive every free black from tlie city and country. ""The'.r first depredation wnscommitted on the night of the 19th inst., when ihey took a black preacher, slrippcd and whipned hún, and nfterwads erave him a coatof tor and feathers. Every man feels it necessary to goarmed in self-defence, and nn obnoxious word or sentiment exposes one to the fury ofthe populace. To make this fact nppear more fully, the writer siates tint two wealthy citizens met, a day or two since, in the street, and disagreeing upon sorne matter connected with the late dislurbance, pistols were immedialely drawn, and would have been used but for timely explanation. 'The letter stafes that the worst passionsof the multitude were so wrought upon in relation to the lTrue. American' nnd C. M. Clny, that at the time of the Convention, it needed but the word of any one of the Orators on that occasion to have procured the most direful results, even to the 9hedding of blood. As denunciations and anathemas feil from the lipsof the speakers, the yells which the multitude sent forth were such as language would fail to describe, or the mlnd of man hardly to conceive of." ff" Don't fail to read those linea of Whïuièr on the first pnge. j .