Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1846-10-02
The 0 her Civil War in Illinois.

The Springfield Register of Friday last,
says:-
We have been informed that deputition
from Massac county, waited on Gov. Ford last
tuesday, with an application for militia force
10 protect about one-halfof the citizens of that
county against the other half.
ut appears from the statement of the rcn-
uemen who were here, that some time last
summer a Dutchman was robbed in Pope
county OF about $500, that suspicion fell
on ceTtaln persons, who were arrested and
confessed to the robbery after being threaten
ed with death, and who implicated other per-
sons In all about fourteen, who were all ar
rested, and about $4,000 Of the money recov-
cred; that certain citizens of Massac county
were IN Pope at the time, and returned home
under a state of excitement minated with
the notion of driving out all suspected per-
sons from their W county. A meeting was
called and a company Of regulators formed,
who proceeded to arrest certain suspocted
persons and to put them TO torture TO make
them disclose their confcderates. The mode
OF torture adopted was TO tie a rope around
the body and twist "A stick in it so as to tight
en- 1t at pleasure. In this manner they manr-
led and crushed their victims in a most shock
ing manner, and succeeded in extorting from
the sufferers, such information implicatinr
others as they were pleased 10 demand.
"ihe Information against others, though
eNtorted by torture, was deemed SO authentic
as TO warrant the regulators in ordering all
such persons to leave the county under the
penalty OF severe punishment. Aconsidera-
Gle number were severely whipped and or.
dered of. Some of the sufferers obtained
wrlts tor two Of the regulators, who were ar.
rested by the sheriff, and a large posse wa.
called out to guard the prisoners; but a large
force OF the regulators soon assembled anC
compelled the sheriff 10 Discharge them
lhe regulators then proceeded to order III,
sheriff and his posse to leave the Stale, an,
they ordered all por-ons 10 leave, under Sc
we're penalties. who had spoken against thei
proceedings, to the number Of about tire
hundred, including several Justices of tn
peace and other officers of the county.
This is the account on one side Of tn
sc. We suppose the account on the othc
| side to be, that a gang of robbers, hors
thieves and counterfeiters have got into ii
; county, and that the citizens have determine
! to drive them out. Still there can be no G.
/ cuse for their violence against the officer
who have only been acting in the dischar.
! OF their duty, or against other unoifendiI
citizens, whose only crime is that they ha,
not been able to see the proPrioty Of me
, law.
, "In this state of the case, we understan
that Gov. Ford has appointed Brigadier Gle.
| John L. Davis, Of Williamson county, wi
t is known TO many Of our readers az a memb,
Of the last Legislature, and has ~instructe
him to proceed to Massac county and cnqui
into the merits of the quarrel, and to act a
corJing to his best Judgment. As the seer
of these difficulties Is SO far from the seat
= government, the Governor was compelled
= invest General Davis with very extensive di
, cretionary power, TO act accorting to ciTcun
: stances as he may find them"