TIMES HAVE CHANGED BUT THE MOB REMAINS THE SAME // bizpacreview In 1838, a twenty eight year old member of the Illinois House of Representatives named Abraham Lincoln observed the frightening and dangerous proliferation of mob justice sweeping across the nation. In Vicksburg a mob had recently taken it upon themselves to hang gamblers. In St. Louis, a murderer named McIntosh, was “seized in the street, dragged to the suburbs of the city, chained to a tree, and actually burned to death.”
Times Have Changed But the Mob Remains the Same
Times Have Changed But the Mob Remains the…
Times Have Changed But the Mob Remains the Same
TIMES HAVE CHANGED BUT THE MOB REMAINS THE SAME // bizpacreview In 1838, a twenty eight year old member of the Illinois House of Representatives named Abraham Lincoln observed the frightening and dangerous proliferation of mob justice sweeping across the nation. In Vicksburg a mob had recently taken it upon themselves to hang gamblers. In St. Louis, a murderer named McIntosh, was “seized in the street, dragged to the suburbs of the city, chained to a tree, and actually burned to death.”