Cooper's Clarksburg register. [volume] (Clarksburg, Va. [W. Va.]) 1851-1861, 1853-10-26
AN Indignation Meeting In Washing
ton County.


ton County.
It appears that some person in WASH
tngton county, Md. who disapprove oil
the verdict In the Swan case have been
holding " indignation meetings." by way
demonstrating the dissatisfaction hereat.
The Boonsboro Odd Fellow has an ac-
count of what it says was one of the "a lar
gest and most respectable" meetings ever
held in that place, to denounce the ver-
diet. The meeting was held in the acad-
envy on Monday evening. The Odd Eel
ow says:
:. The verdict of the jury in the case OF
the State against Robert Swan so exas-
Perated and aroused the indignation OF
our citizens and those of the country
around, that they could not refrain from a
public demonstration of their disapproyal
and disgust at this unfair and unjust YER
dict.
Never was there verdict rendered in
the halls of Law and Justice of our coun-
try that was so generally unpopular and
unsatisfactory, and never was there iu-
~ that have been denounced with more
common consent than the Jury in this
case. We attended the meeting, and are
prepared to say that we never witnessed
more orderly and peaceable gathering
in our life for so large a one. When the
meeting was called to order the utmost
decorum prevailed. No epithets nor in
decorous language was used, but the bu-
siness dispatched in calm and firm man
ner in a very brief space of time. Mr..
Daniel McGrinley presided Messrs. John
Stonesifer, John Cost, Elias O'Neale and
Jonas Davis, Vice Presidents Josiah
Knodle and James w. Monroe, Esqs.,
Secretaries. Resolutions were passed Sc
yerely denouncing the jury and Messrs.
Price and Thomas. the two latter for GER
tain alleged remarks and applauding the
course of Gov. Lowe for his determined
efforts in bringing the case to trial, and
Mr.. May, and other cousuls for the State,
for the ability with which they prosecuted
it.
After the transaction of the business the
meeting adjourned in usual order and for
med in procession, headed by the effigcs
representing the twelve jurors, and pro-
coed through several streets, after which
they halted in the square, and there con-
signed to the devouring element the twelve
representatives of the jury in the Swan
farce. Nothing occurred during the entire
ceremonies Of disagreeable nature. and
by o'clock the crowd drawn together
had entirely disappeared, and the town
left to enjoy its usual quiet, as though no.
thing had occurred during the evening
A word of explanation here may be pro-
per to place the people of this region in
the right light before the public. The
jury were not denounced because they
they did not find Swan guilty of murder
in the first degree, but because of an entire
'dcQuiftaL.
We learn from the Hagerstown Mail
that II similar meeting was held in that
town on Tuesday evening in the Court
House. VIM. Il. Boyd. Esq. occupied the
Chair. assisted by Messrs. r. Bennett and
]. B. Thurston, Vice Presidents. and j.
w. Heard, Secretary. Such disorder and
confusion existed at the meeting, so much
indeed that officers thereof determined to
hold another meeting on the same subject
in the Public Square. this Saturday af-
rernoon, at two o'clock.