Mobocracy is a fearful spirit that is roused to action by a greater variety of elements than either of the unfortunate propensities of human nature. Based upon the boiling anger of those who put this ball in motion--reason is dethroned--reflection paralyzed--justice unheeded--mercy banished--the laws disregarded--power defied. It is the volcano of human society--the earthquake of social order--the whirlpool of brutality--the vortex of destruction. It is fanned by fell revenge--inflamed with burning fury--propelled by reckless impulse--delights in human gore--revels in demoniac confusion--rides on the tornado of faction--snuffs the whirlwind of discord and provokes the indignation of all peaceful citizens. Occasions rarely occur to justify these sudden demonstrations of disorder and more rarely result in good. Deliberate action is usually the best to remedy evils that exist in fact--most certainly the best to cure those that are only imaginary. Thus reasoned the Sages and Heroes of the American Revolution and governed themselves accordingly. After petitions and entreaties for redress failed to remove the wrongs heaped upon them--a systematic and dignified mode of resistance was adopted--not mobocracy. They could then appeal to Heaven for the justice of their cause and elicited the admiration of gazing nations in the course they pursued. Among those who put forth their noblest exertions to advance the interests of the cause of equal rights was William Irvine who was born near Enniskillen, Ireland, in 1742. His ancestors removed from the north of Scotland to the Emerald Isle. His grandfather was an officer in the corps of grenadiers that fought so desperately at the battle of the Boyne. The grandfather of General Wayne was a brave officer in the same service. The noble descendants of both were in the same corps in the glorious cause of American Independence.