Plymouth advertiser. [volume] (Plymouth, Ohio) 1853-1988, 1854-05-27

During the forenoon OF that Sabbath OF
murders the young lawyer had been out
gathering specimens OF botany, and was
returning across :he public square, at
the instant the aitray commenced. He
stopped as if thunderstruck, the fow-
ers falling from his hand and stood fixed
as statue till the denouement of The ira
gedy; and then, as as he bcheld the assas'
stns hurry away to the grocery, and wit.
messed the unaccountable fear and stupe.
faction of the multitude, his thin lips writh.
ed into strange smile. He approached
the largest group knotied around the
corpses, and began TO lecture them in
Sor. of conversational speech, and, more
extraordinary sill, the burden of his re-
marks was justification to the murderers.
81 am astonished, my friends, such
was the substance Of his address-"I am
lrul astonished 1t your silence on an oc.
casion so glorious as The present. Your
lenders, the excellent chiefs and political
fathers of your country, men elevated to
high office by your votes, and enriched by
your taxes, have mercilully seen fit to kill
only three men, when they had the power
and right to xii! you all. And yet you do
not thank hem You peal loud huzzas,
you do not even follow them to the gro
cery although the wine is run free f)r
whole week I! Are you lost to gratitude
and all sense Of shame, or do YOU dare
to think they have done wrong! Can
YOU be such idiots as to deem it crime
to slay poor men? A common hunter.
dressed in leather, had the presumption
10 Chastise one of those rich robed gen.
llemen, for insul ing his atiianced bride
What right had u hunter 10 such beauti.
full girl ! All beautiful women ought TO
be mlstresses for your officers and polili-
clans ! And then you forgot the honor
accruing to your country, by such brave
! deeds ! The public papers will circulate
the story over the civilized world, and il,
will be read
GREAT ACHIEVEMENT AT FAYETTEVILLE !!
| One lovely Sabbath in July, while they
were worshipping God in their church,
their bank officers, their peace officers.
and their district judge, shot down with
pistols, and hewed to pieces with knives
three of their brethren, and they, the
aforesaid citizens, viewed the act in sill
ence they did not move 10 arrest their
gallant le aders-,hey were too grateful
for The exemption OF their own precious
lives 2
The voice of the speaker was inimita'
below, but musical, and piercing as 4
trumpet; and had he exhausted imagina
ton for means to arouse the deep indig'
. nation of the popular soul and heart, he
could not have conceived any bettet fittet
, to the end han hat feigneJ justification
AT its close, there swelled up a hoarse
}, halfsuppressed mutmur, like the commin
gled growl from menagrie of wild beasts
:, Let it burn on in smothered secrecy-the
Il conAagralion will blaze another day A!
{ for the student, he picked up his botani
=, Cal specimens, turned coo!ly on his heel
u and pursued his course homewards.
II Early the next morning, the coroner
inquest sa, over the dead bodies, and sh'
!, rumor having flown on the wings of th'
u wind, thousand attended on the exam
> ina,ion. By practice prevalent in Ark
ansas, attorneys were allowed TO appea
e on either aide. An even dozen were en-
IL gagged for the assassins. The gold of th
~ clique had already bought up all but one
; s. and that one was too insignificant for
: thought.
In the pride Of their wealth and power
l.. they forgot the small Office, the sign boar
lie and the uslreess name Of the student AL
k bert Willis; and yet he was present. Ii
e sa, near the head of the corpse that hat
le been John Curry, with face as pallid a
a the clay beside him, while smile writhe
lie like serpent, on his marble lips.
ir He did not speak or move once, durin
IL the examination of Witnesses; but, whe
Gen. Sanders arose, big with boisterou
to appeal TO the jury, Willis, fixed his pierc
D. ing glance on the countenance of the ru
ye fan lawyer, as if he would look hir
v. through. Four others, in succession
,e ,hundered their anathemas over the victim
ne while Bill Shelley stood near, noddin
of his appreciation of their bitter eloquence
v The coroner was then in the act OF sui
e. hitting the case to the sworn inquest, ,whe
ID clear, ringing voice thrilled, like SUN
in mons 10 judgment, through every ear an
heart
40 May it please the honorable cour. {
w w inquest, l have word to say again
=, ~ these dealers in wholesale murder 2
of The effect was electrical, agitating, av
full. Men leoped to their feet by dozens
no others started and trembled in mortal ,e
,ls ror; braves elulched convulsively the
rs daggels, and wild hunters sprung Il
as triggers of their trus,y rifles. Had II
rs trump Of ,he archangel sounded its la
of peal, The astonishment could not hav g BET
$50 greater. 1t was the stranger, the pa
ne student, the forgotten lawyer, Albert W
he lis, who had uttered the daring sentenc
in. and he followed i. up with a splendol
"a. diclion, force of unanswcrable logi
IT, and burning vehemence, such as nev