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But, Aagain, affairs have come to a similar crisis. An
untoward event has precipitated action. And we
cannot too much deplore the causes, remote &
immediate, of the deed of violence that was done in
our Sister City. It has wrought to a high pitch the
feelings long pent up there. This act of violence was only one of
a series; but it was one more than could be en-
-dured. The doings of months & years are called up by it.
The feeling shown is not all on account of Mr. King [James King];
though his is a marked case; & how any one
can speak coldly, or heartlessly, indifferently or flip-
-pantly concerning it, it is difficult to understand. It is no
excuse to say; we did not like him as a man,
or fancy him as an Editor, or think him the best
specimen of a public man in the city. – What! is any man we happen not to l like; not, or who is
not exactly an Editor to our taste, to be shot down; & we have no
regrets to utter; & no tears to shed but those & shed only the tears of a crocodile!! The question
is; – was he a man? – a citizen, – & free from crime? If so, he
stood on a par with any other citizen, even with your best friend & your model man; – & in his fall, fell
every other good citizen.

It is to be hoped the body of the citizens will act
wisely; see that strict justice is done the criminal; – by the
courts of law; – &, if not, by themselves –; and that they will