result. It was a singularly well-behaved mob, and they received the report
of the self-constituted committees with apparently perfect satisfaction,
and when they had made the round of the houses, gradually broke up into
knots and dispersed.

But the lawless spirit of a mob seldom arrests and controls itself. Having
once felt its strength and power, it is never satisfied till it measures
them against those of the legal authorities, and yields only when it must.
Hence, as a rule, the quicker "it feels the strong hand of power" the
better for all parties. Promising legal satisfaction, to law-breakers is a
very unsatisfactory proceeding. Obedience first and discussion afterwards
is the proper order to be observed.

The Mayor had hardly time to congratulate himself on having overcome so
easily a serious difficulty, before he found that he had not as yet
touched it. In the afternoon, the crowd again began to assemble, and this
time around the jail, with the avowed purpose of taking vengeance on the
students and physicians locked up there for safe-keeping. Having asserted
and exercised, against all law, the right of domiciliary visits, it was
but a short and easy step to assert the right to punish also contrary to
law. As they gathered in front of the jail, it was seen that a different
spirit from that which they had hitherto exhibited ruled them. The tiger
was unchained, and loud shouts and yells were heard. "Bring out your
doctors! bring out your doctors!" arose on every side. They threatened to
tear down the building unless they were given up. The inmates became
thoroughly alarmed, and barricaded the doors and windows, and armed
themselves the best way they could for self-defence. Attempts were made to
parley with the crowd, but they would listen to nothing, and answered
every appeal with loud shouts for the doctors. What they _intended_
to do with them by way of punishment was not so clear, though what their