The spirit of democracy. [volume] (Woodsfield, Ohio) 1844-1994, 1847-02-20

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ed, at least those Of them who had man.
aged to keep a footing during the re-
lentless prescription of the Regulators,
now began to look up, and hinted that
they had known of Jacks return from
the time of Stoner's murder, and had
aided and abetted his purposes in every
way in their power; furnishing him
with fresh horses when the noble ami
NAL he rode back from the States be-
came fatigued; assisting his flights and
concealmen,s, and furnishing him with
information. as well as spreading the
exaggerated stories about him. One
bluff old fellow remarked:
"You are fools who talk about Jacks S
being crazy! He's as calm and cold
as frosty morning up in old Kentuck
and his heads as clear as bell! He's
just got his lndian-fightin' and Tory
hatin' blood walked up in him by them
stripes! That's a blood you know
that's dangersomer than a catamount
when it once gets rip .
Jack was nov frequently seen, but it
was known that his work was only half
done, and that he meant to finish it, and
he was regarded with great curiosity
and awe. The five wretched men
were entirely unstrung and panic
stricken. They made no attempt at
retaliation, but all their hopes seemed
to lie in the effort to get out of his reach.
That long, heavy rifle haunted them
day and night. They saw its dark muz-
zle bearing on them from every bush,
and through the chInks of their own
cabins! .
One Of them, named White, who
was an lnveterate topper, with all his
terror could not resist his inclination
for liquor, and after confinement in
his house Of nearly three weeks, deter
mined to risk all and 60 to the store
and buy him barrel. He went in a
covered wagon, driven by a negro,
while he lay stretched on the bottom
in the straw. The barrel ofliquor was
obtained-he got into the wagon; lay
down beside it, and started for home.
All the way he never raised his head
until, near the mouth Of his lane, a log
had been placed on the side Of the road
which tilted up the wagon in passing
over it, so as to roll-the barrel on him.
He forgot his caution, and sprang up
with his head out of the cover to curse
the boy for his carelessncss. and at that
moment a rifle was discharged. He
fell back dead--shof through the eye!
The boy said that his master suddenly
cut short his oaths, and exclaimed.
There he isH' at the moment the gun
fired. He saw tai man with beard
hanging down on his breast and dres-
sed in SKINS, walking off through the
brush with his rifle on mis- shoulder.
The next man, named Garnet, about
two weeks after this, got up one MORN
ing about sunrise, and in his shirt
sleeves stepped to his door and threw
it open to breathe the fresh air. He
was rubbing his eyes, being about half
asleep; and when he got them fairly
open. there stood the gaunt avenger
beside tree in the yard--the fatal rifle
IeveIIed, and waiting till his victim
should see him distinctly. He did see
him-but it was with his last look! The
bullet went crashing through his brain
too! Long is SAID to have told one of
his friends that he never in single in
stance shot one Of these men till he
was certain the man saw and recogniz-
ed him fully.
All were gone now but Hinch and
the two youngest men of the party,
Williams and Davis. The two latter
were permitted to escape. Whether it
was from relen,ling on the part of the
dread avenger,-or that he had observ-
ed some trltiing thing in their demean-
or on the occasion of the outrage he
was thus punishing, which recommend.
ed them to mercy, now that his resent
ment had so deeply drank of the bitter
delight of atonement,- or that in his
anxiety to secure Hinch, he confined
his efforts and watchiuness to him
alone do not know. They made a
forced and secret sale Of their proper
ty, and cleared out during the night.
But it was for Hinch he had with pas
sionless calculation reserved the most
inconceivable torture. He had pas
sed him by all this time, while one af-
ter the other he struck down the tools
and companions of of his crimes. He
doomed him to see them falling around
him with the certain knowledge that
the avenglng hate which slew them
burned with ten-iold intensity for his
it must and would have it!
But when would the claim be made?
Should he be the next one2 No! The |