Editing Mob rule (section)

==History==
[[File:T2C, Fred Barnard, The Mob attacking Foulon de Doué, 22 July 1789 (II,22).jpeg|thumb|right|The mob attacking [[Joseph Foullon de Doué]]]]
[[File:Red Summer 1919 Omaha Nebraska lynching.jpg|thumb|African-American [[lynched]] by white mob in Omaha, Nebraska, September 28, 1919, during the "[[Red Summer]]"]]
During the late 17th and the early 18th centuries, English life was very disorderly. Although the [[James Scott, 1st Duke of Monmouth|Duke of Monmouth]]'s rising of 1685 was the last rebellion, there was scarcely a year in which [[London]] or the provincial towns did not see aggrieved people breaking out into riots. In [[Anne, Queen of Great Britain|Queen Anne]]'s reign (1702–14) the word "mob", first heard of not long before, came into general use. With no police force, there was little public order.<ref name="Clark">{{cite book |last=Clark |first=Sir George |date=1956 |title=The Later Stuarts, 1660–1714 |location=The Oxford History of England |publisher=Oxford University Press |pages=258–259 |isbn=0-19-821702-1}}</ref> Several decades later, the anti-Catholic [[Gordon Riots]] swept through London and claimed hundreds of lives; at the time, a proclamation painted on the wall of Newgate prison announced that the inmates had been freed by the authority of "His Majesty, King Mob".

The [[Salem Witch Trials]] in [[Province of Massachusetts|colonial Massachusetts]] during the 1690s, in which the unified belief of the townspeople overpowered the logic of the law, also has been cited by one essayist as an example of mob rule.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://amath.colorado.edu/carnegie/lit/lynch/mobrule.htm|title=Mob Rule and Violence in American Culture|website=colorado.edu|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100221030848/http://amath.colorado.edu/carnegie/lit/lynch/mobrule.htm|archive-date=2010-02-21|access-date=2010-01-20}}</ref>

In 1837, [[Abraham Lincoln]] wrote about [[lynching]] and "the increasing disregard for law which pervades the country – the growing disposition to substitute the wild and furious passions in lieu of the sober judgment of courts, and the worse than savage mobs for the executive ministers of justice."<ref>"[http://www.classicreader.com/book/3237/12/ Opposition to Mob-Rule] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090109025333/http://www.classicreader.com/book/3237/12/ |date=2009-01-09 }}", ''The Writings of Abraham Lincoln, Volume 1''.</ref>

Mob violence played a prominent role in the early history of the [[Latter Day Saint movement]].<ref>{{cite book |last1=Arrington |first1=Leonard J. |last2=Bitton |first2=Davis |author-link1=Leonard J. Arrington |author-link2=Davis Bitton |name-list-style=amp|title=The Mormon Experience: A History of the Latter-Day Saints |date=1992 |publisher=University of Illinois Press |isbn=9780252062360 |page=45 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=oMQgrBcI998C&q=mob&pg=PA45 |access-date=23 June 2018 |language=en}}</ref> Examples include the [[1838 Mormon War|expulsions from Missouri]], the [[Haun's Mill massacre]], the [[death of Joseph Smith]], the [[History of Nauvoo, Illinois#The "Mormon War in Illinois" and the Mormon Exodus|expulsion from Nauvoo]], the murder of [[Joseph Standing]], the [[Cane Creek Massacre]], <ref>{{cite web |title=Cane Creek Massacre |url=https://sites.google.com/site/tnmormonhistory/events/1884/cane-creek-massacre |website=TNMormonHistory |access-date=23 June 2018 |archive-date=14 February 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220214103609/https://sites.google.com/site/tnmormonhistory/events/1884/cane-creek-massacre |url-status=dead }}</ref><ref>{{cite journal |last1=Wingfield |first1=Marshall |title=Tennessee's Mormon Massacre |journal=[[Tennessee Historical Quarterly]] |date=1958 |volume=17 |issue=1 |pages=19–36 |jstor=42621358 }}</ref> and the [[Mountain Meadows Massacre]]. In [[Danite#Brigham Young|an 1857 speech]], [[Brigham Young]] gave an address demanding military action against "mobocrats."