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Bruce posted on 3/15/07 9:29 PM:

According to an issue of Iron and Steel magazine, William I. Mann of Pittsburgh invented and patented a device for elevating and lowering blast furnace bells.

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Bruce posted on 2/13/07 3:16 AM:

The following gives some insight into Nelson Barbour's personality. Dr. N. H. Barbour, Of Rochester, N. Y. All I have read in the papers of my city of late has been, "Shoot the mob! Crust and exterminate it at the cost of life!" This was unthinking and indefensible, born out of an entire failure to grasp the situation which calls a mob into existence. I came down from Rochester filled with thunder on this question. I find that Mr. Graves has taken my thunder al away. I agree with him perfectly on every point put forward in that masterly address this morning. He suggested as a possible remedy for the mob evil, to legalize the mob and give it legal power and responsibility. The mob has already been legalized by God Almighty. If you do not believe that, go back to the God-given Mosaic code. By this code the people in every case executed a sentence calling for death. Read Leviticus, chapter XX, "And the Lord spake unto Moses saying, he shall surely be put to death; the people of the land shall stone him with stones. "Take him from the camp and stone him." There's your mob law, given directly by God Almighty. Jesus recognized mob law. "Let him who is without sin cast the first stone>" Here was the vital principle; only a slight restriction on the original Mosaic code. Paul was the ring-leader of a mob. You do not believe that? He even held the clothes of a mob while they stoned Stephen to death. He was acting merely according to the Jewish law, which entrusted to the people as a whole the execution of the death sentence. The reason why this principle appeals strongly to me is that public sentiment in a community is right ten times where a twelve-man jury, influenced by criminal lawyers—rightly so called---seeking to line their own pockets, and if necessary, to defeat the ends of justice to do that, is uncertain and perverted. You know many cases where smooth, unscrupulous lawyers have been able to defeat justice and set free the guilty. About ten years ago I tried to get before Congress a way in which to divide the black and the white population of our country without much friction. New Mexico was then a territory. I said that the government should take this territory, let the white popu8lation remain if it desired to, but make it a state for the blacks. Let them vote in this state; choose their officers and make their laws, subject of course to the Constitution of the United States. If the negro remains in other states and votes there, let him necessarily vote for those whom the white men have nominated. I f the white man remains in this state and votes, let him be permitted to vote only for the candidates whom the blacks have nominated. In this way we will get at the whole problem and get rid of any trouble about the equality of the races. They are not equal; never can be; and there is no use going on trying to make them equal before the law or anywhere else.The Mob Spirit in America, Chautauqua Press, 1903, pages Note: Barbour supported John Temple Graves' proposal to create a "Negro State" in the West.

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