I mean the increasing disregard for law which pervades the country; the growing disposition to substitute wild and furious passions in lieu of the sober judgment of courts; and the worse than savage mobs for the executive ministers of justice.
In his Lyceum Address, Lincoln identifies a dangerous trend of increasing disregard for law and the substitution of mob violence for judicial process.
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