The Democratic sentinel and Harrison County farmer. [volume] (Cadiz, Ohio) 1851-1852, 1852-02-11

ELIJAH HOWELL,
WIN. c. GALLAHER.
Sheriff Boyd Immediately counsellod some
Of our lawyers on the subject, and also citi-
gems, and taking all things into consideration
believed it to be his duty to proceed with a
posse of armed men for the protection of our
citizens, and to quell the rioters. Accord
ingly the court house bell was rang, and a
great number of the citizens assembled,
when about fifty men were selected for the
purpose and armed with muskets; and be-
tween four and FIVE o'clock set out for the
scene Of difficulties. On arriving at section
No. Is, we found the citizen with whom we
conversed, considerably excited, as word
had came to them that the successful party
of the combatants, the Far down and Con-
neaught men, who had drove the Corkoui-
ans back, were determined to sleep that
night on section 25. The Cork men hsd
stripped their own shanties of their effects,
r and slowed them away in the n~eighboring
houses and barns for safety; and were stay
ing in the fields and..in the woods, having
abandoned their shanties. We, however,
learned there, that their assailants had re-
treated lack along the line of the road, in
consequence OF hearing that an armed force
of citizens were coming to oppose them.
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1.-THE tunnel on the road between Cadiz and
Jefferson, was of the opinion that if they
had not returned back they would not come
up to his section that night. 1t then being
late in the night, and no accommodations
for tbs number of men and horses of the
company, we went on to Jefferson and stayed
there until morning, and then went down
TO section No. 90, at Works saw mill
On arriving there we found as we did on
No. rs, that the laborers under Mr.. Cram
by had abandoned their work, and some of
them were in the woods and fields watching
for their assa;lants. 1t was then deemed
advisable that they should be collected to-
gether, and hat Mr.. Lewton should make a
speech to them, advising them Of what their
duty was, 1t was also thought proper that
some persons of our company should pass
down the line of the road some distance to
see what was going on. Accordingly Sher-
if Boyd, Mr.. Harrison Miller, myself and
some others went down the line as far as
section No. 10. AS we had seen above,
there was not any of the hands at work, and
they still appeared to be in terror of their
lives, and were travelling about in squads
in the woods and fields.
We visited FIVE shantees at one place that
had been completely stripped of their con-
t~ents==their beds destroyed or taken away,
their provisions used up or destroyed, and
their dishes and cooking utensils broken;
and one shanty we learned had been burned.
We also had a conversation with Mr.. Fox,
the contractor on Section 10, and he gave it
as his opinion that the precipitate retreat of
the men that came up from Steubenville, was
caused by the information by them received,
Of the Cadiz company going out to oppose
them in their course of destruction and an
noyance to those who were disposed to labor
and be peaceable. On the evening of Fri
day there were between five and six hun
dred passed through Bloomfield on their way
down the line, as we learned from the citi-
zens Of that place. The contractors on sec
tons 23 and Is, in Harrison county, and
!, also the citizens, state that the hands at
work on those sections are peaceable and
well disposed among themselves, and also
to the citizens, if they were let alone by the
Others who have been annoying them.
Although some persons may de disposed
to laugh, and scout at the course pursued by
Sheriff Boyd, on account of the course he
pursued in the discharge of his duty as he
believed, yet a large portion of the sober and
rejecting community will justify the meas
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