Gallipolis journal. [volume] (Gallipolis, Ohio) 1837-1919, 1854-05-11
ExcITEMEN& M LOUISVILLE.

have details OF the excitement IN tha
city, on Saturday nigr.- During the
day, the city was full of exciting rumors
At might, an immense heeting Assem-.
bled at the Court House. The follow.
ing was the cOmmitteesPpOinted on res.
Olutions: J. H. HarneyNT. S. Bell,
Bland Ballard W. D. Gallagher. W. t.
Haggin, Edgar NeedhafS, A. g. Mum.
REsoLurIoSs ADoPrED..The citizens
Of Louisville assembled in public meet.
ing for the purpose OF giving expires
sion to their opinions respecting the
trial and the verdict of the jury in the
case of the Commonwealth VS.. Mat
thew F. Ward, recently tried in the Har-
din county Circuit Court, do submit to
the public at large, but more especially
to the citizens of the Copmonwealth Of
J Kentucky. the following resolutions AS
expressive Of their views Of the matte,
herein referred to.s.
| |. Resolved That tbe>verdict of the
jury. recently rendered in the Hardin
county Circuit Court, by which Matthew
F. Ward was declared iHRocent of any
crime in the killing Of William H. G.
Butler. is in opposition to all the evi-
dence in the case, contrary to our ideas
Of public justice and subversive of the
fundamental principles of personal Sc
cuFity. guaranteed to us by the constitu-
ton of the State.
g. Resolved, That the criminal laws
of this commonwealth should be so ad-
ministered that every citizen may feel
secured from insult. injury, and violence,
both in person and his occupation, and
that the omnipotent power of public
opinion, should at once be so directed
as to discountenance and condemn all
attempts to thwart the end of justice,
and to cause the practical realization
that man Staying is in fact the high
est crime known to Society.
8. Resolved, That the published evi-
dence giySn on the trial of Matthew F.
Wards 81 fS& beyends4l. question, that a
most estiAhable citizen and a most amia-
bic, moral and peaceable man has been
wantorfy and cruelty killed, while in
the performance of his regular and re-
sponsible duties as teacher of yenn..hl. !; !;
end Notwithstanding the verdict of a
currupt and -venal jury, the deliberate
judgement of the heart and conscience
of this community pronounces that Kill
ling to be murder.
4. Resolved, That the charge of vim
dictiveness and cruelty preferred against
the citizens of Louisville by portion
of the counsel for the defense of Ward,
is vile and unmerited slander; and we
claim that each and every impuiation
cast upon our esteemed fellow citizen,
DIR. D. D. Thompson, and our neigh
boris children, the pupils in Prof. But
ler's school, is utterly grounH.ss ana
unjustifable.
s. Resolved, Tbatthe pubic press of
this commonwealth should be SO con-
Quoted as to be recognized as the con-
servator of the public morals, and that
a failure of any portion Of the press to
rebuke and condemn an atrocious crime
against society, tends to debauch tie
pubic virtue, and to destroy the public
6. Resolved, That in the death Of
VIM. H. G. Butler, his family have lost
a most devoted, affectiolate, faithful
son, brother, husband, and aesher-the
cause of education a most accomplished
friend and advocate-one whose uflents
and requirements placed him in the
front of his useful and honorable pro-
fession, and that society has los he Of
its purest and best membes whose
life is unspotted by a i1s6lemish--
as gentle and noble Spirit as ever
breathed.
7. Resolved, That in tokeppf cur re,
spect and affection for, and as an evil
dence of our appreciation 9f W. H. G.
Butler, we will - measures
and present to his widow la substantial
token of our regard for her
9. Resolved, That we re Eet and con-
denim every manifeststioHof disorder,
and we exhort all good citizens by their
reverence for law. by their own self-re-
spect, and by their love of the virtues
70 him whose loss we deplore, to alb
stain from violence TO persons or proper
ty, and from every disregard of law
and order-remembering that society
cannot exist without order-and that he
whom we revered when on earth, was
incapable of meditating harm to any
one, and that every wrpg committed
viii wound his pure and lovely spirisss
THos. STRANGE, President.
GEO. W. ASDERsoS, Sec. -a
The following are the gentls ~,
pointed under the 7th resolution: j. II.
Harney, J. H. Haywood, W. D. Gal
lagher, B. Ballard and H. Bridges.
After the resolutions reported BY the
committee, for that purpose, were adop-
ted, several resolutions met the decided
appreciation of the meS&1g. One of
these requested the two Wards to leave
the city, another invited Nat Wolfe
to resign his place in the State Senate
and follow them, and the third reques-
ted John ]. Crittenden to leave his seat
in the Senate of the United States, to
which he was elected the past winter
Z BURs1xe OF EFT1efEs AND DISTURB