are doing more
mischief than they will be able to atone for. Their
incessant and impertinent intermeddling with the most
delicate question in our social relations is creating
the most indignant feelings in the community. The fiery
discussions they are exciting are calculated to provoke
the very riots which they deprecate. Let these madmen
forbear, if they value the tranquillity of our country,
and the stability of our Union. We conjure them to
forbear their maddened, parricidal hand.

An article like this in the _Union_ was well calculated, and probably
was intended, to encourage and stimulate the rioters, and accordingly
they assembled that same evening in greater force than before
threatening the destruction of the _Era_ office. The publication office
of the _Era_ was not far from the Patent Office; and the dwelling-house
of Dr. Bailey, the editor, was at no great distance. The mob, taking
upon themselves the character of a meeting of citizens, appointed a
committee to wait upon Dr. Bailey, to require him to remove his press
out of the District of Columbia. Of course, as I was locked up in the
jail, trying to rest my aching head and weary limbs, with a stone floor
for a bed and a water-can for my pillow, I can have no personal
knowledge of what transpired on this occasion. But a correspondent of
the New York _Tribune_, who probably was an eye-witness, gives the
following account of the interview between the committee and Dr. Bailey:

Clearing his throat, the leader of the committee
stretched forth his hand, and thus addressed Dr. Bailey:

_Mr. Radcliff_.--Sir, we have been appointed as a
committee to wait upon you, by the meeting of the
citizens of Washington which has assembled this evening
to take into consideration the circumstances connected
with the late outrage upon _our_ property, and to convey
to you the result of the deliberations of that meeting.
You are aware of the excitement which now prevails. It
has assumed a most threatening aspect. This community is
satisfied that the existence of your press among us is
endangering the public peace, and they are convinced
that the public interests demand its removal. We have
therefore waited upon you for the purpose of inquiring
whether you are prepared to remove your press by ten
o'clock to-morrow morning; and we beseech you, as you
value the peace of this Di