Monongalia mirror. [volume] (Morgantown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1855, 1855-05-12
MOB LAW I'M MISSOURI.


From the 81. Lsuis Iatellgeaer eAprii IL.
ExclTEMeNT IN PLATTE CouNrY.-
In another column Of our paper will be
found detailed a descriptiothof some vi.
oleut and vehement proceedings III
Parkyille, Platte county, Of this State
last Saturday. It seems that the Purk.
vile Laminary newspaper, conducted
by George s. Park and W. y. Patterson
had enthusiastically ofsnsiyeto Ger:
tain citizens ofthat vicinity on account
gifts imagined prucliyiiy toward Free,
spilism. In other words, in the cant
Language Of the resolutions passed by
the citizens, it was a nuisance which
stheysresolvedto abate. They didabate
it, in, quite a, summaryway too. They
proceeded to the office,tnre the press
from The building, mounted it with a cap
labelled .Bnston Aid,,.smarched il de.
liberately through,he streetsofthe town
and tossed it iuto the Missouri river.
They had determined mt only to
reak ,heiryengeance onthe mute wheels
and levers Of the printing press, hut 10
give the owners thereof taste oftheir
wrath also. They dragged Mr.aPstter.
Sun, one ofthe editors ,fthe Luminary
Into the streets, forced him to witness
the destruction of hisBfopsrty, aud then
prepared 10 tar, fsatiler. ndride hin
ierlairail. But agaariian and projecting
angel was sent To saws the unresisiing
man from the martifyine disgrace and
punishment ready u be inAict-
ed IN him by the entaged pppulace.-
His deyoled wife cling To him'to the
last--.s,uck TO him like leech," as a
brutal eyewitness aud narrator Of the
srele expresses t-aild endesyored TO
dsfsud him by her feeble strength from
the fafy of The crowd She succeeded.
Hei frail form was an efsctual shield,
aud saved her husband from the ir,Aic-
tionof a personal soa'rage supposed to
be ct nnlyifor villains. lgti
AA.
BuiWhile he was SPAR d the disgrace
.oftar and feathers, he was given to un-
derstand that he couldremnili no longer
in Parkyille. The mob resolved itself
into aicommitlee, aid resolved thatifhe
and his colleague, Mr. Park, werefauud
in The county at Tie end nflhree weeks
they should fsllow their pres. and sfiId
a grave in the wasesIoflhe Missouri
Mr.. Park was absent al the lime, and is
perhaps indebted % the fact for his ex-
from The same humiliation yis-
tited on his associate. wv ~
We scarcely know how to speak of
these proceedings That The Lnminary
may nut have been sufficiently pro-slave-
ry in its sentiments for the Latitude and
locality Of Platte county seems to have
been the head asd fr4n, ofits offending.
Therefore it WIS voted q nuisance aud
ssummarily disppsedsof Th. Luminary
was 10, an AbJlitionist paper, nor. were
its q owners, MeEsrs. P ark aud Patterson
| Freesoilers. One iof ,hem-Park we
fbeleiye-is thg owner ofslayes, and no,
at all likely n publish opinions which,
%s.s so si4aS seras y
his own. But the Guminary spoke
M hard and Bitterwdrds against theiem,
igrunts to Kansas from the North. II
;didnot calltliem shirelingsn and white
Slaves bought up and sen, ont by
Northern capitalists 10 plant the s,and-
ard ofFreespiIism on the oilof Kansas.
Ii welcomed al settlers with open3 arms
andlenc6ursged emigration 10 the new
Territory frpn all quarters, because lie
owners saw,herapid settlement Of Kan
sas by ipdustriVus aud thrifty etnigrants
would augment The trade and advance
the Interests of lie border towns and
cities Of Missouri. For ihis.,bey were
spotted" tiled by q self.cunslituted iu.
ryi fUand pe!ay j, condemned, and order
sedstbSleayelbe State. ss.sg,. : =.
We think the Platte county people
when they come 10 reflect coolly on
their conduit will be heartily ashamed
oft. Its unworthy the liberal spiril
l.ofgthe age and unhecoming the chiyalric
character qfsAlissourlans; ye, they are
not so much 10 blame for the affair as
I7thnso ,vhni In 10 A;,vesti1afad II ilts Is.