THIS is what Thomas Goode Jones, ex-governor of Alabama, had to say on the mob spirit, manifest not alone in the South, but becoming increasingly manifest everywhere on the slightest provocation:— These mob executions are brutalizing our children, blunting our religion, and undermining our civilization. Can any one in the sound of my voice rise up and say that this is not so? We are undermining all noble ideals of duty and manhood. When we surrender to any local public opinion, which dominates in some places, that a sheriff is not9bound to take any risks even to loss of life or limb in defense of a prisoner, we abdicate all our past, and bow down and worship false and base standards of duty. Why should not the sheriff die at his post as well as the locomotive engineer, or the priest, or the doctor, or the soldier? We are setting a baleful example to our young sons, who are coming up around us, if we teach that when a prisoner is given to an officer, that officer is free to desert his post of duty because there may be danger in it. It is not like Alabama or the South to tolerate such a doctrine. Let us declare our faith as to this in our fundamental law.