Gallipolis journal. [volume] (Gallipolis, Ohio) 1837-1919, 1855-03-29
From the New York Times, March l2.l

FROM the new ork Times, March IL
THE FUNERAL OF PooLE.-We have
seen great many very large popular
demonstrations in this city at the funer-
ais of great and distinguished men; but
we remember none that exceeded in
numbers that of William Poole, who
was buried yesterday. The streets in
the vicinity of his residence in Christie
pher st.-the large open space directly
in front of his house-the windows,
piazzas and roofs of the adjacent build
ings, were crowded to suffocation; while
Bleecker street, Broadway, and all the
streets in this city and Brooklyn through
which the procession passed, were lined
by an immense multitude of spectators,
whose appearance and demeanor were
in the highest degree respectable and
decorous. A stranger, knowing meth
ing of the circumstances of the case,
would deem it strange that the death of
a man celebrated for nothing but his
propensities and faculties for fighting,
should call out popular demonstration
at least equal to that witnessed at the
obsequies of Jackson, Clay, or Webster.
Persons familiar with this city and the
peculiar features of this case, however,
will have no difficulty in finding an ex-
PLANTATION less discreditable to our peo-
pie than the naked facts would imply.
Poole had great many friends among
the class to which he belonged
prising not only the fighting men and
rowdies of the city, but the butchers,
mechanics and working men at large.
He had many good qualities, was bold
and fearless in defence of his friends,
lavish with money which he never
lacked, and was so generally known to
the great mass of the people that his
death under any circumstances would
have attracted attention and commanded
sympathy. But the tragedy which
ended his life was one of the most brutal
and fearful ever known in our city. It
startled the public mind more than any
similar event that has occurred for
years. A gang of rufians had laid a
distinct and premeditated plot to muir
der him. Half dozen of them, armed
with revolvers, assailed him when al
most alone and unarmed,-and failing
to provoke him, by the utmost insolence
they could use towards him, shot him
in cold blood. His own behavior under
the attack was forbearing and yet manly
to the last degree. While he betrayed
no fear even in view of the fearful odds
arrayed against him, he commanded bis
temper with unwonted coolness, and
submitted to the grossest insults to
avoid fight. His conduct contrasted
with that of bis rufian murderers,-l
and was very different, it must be added,
from bis usual deIneanor under similar
circumstances, ces,-commanded no slight
degree Of public respect; and during
the fortnight that he was suffering from
his wounds the public sympathy for him
has been constantly increasing.
But another element has had still
greater influence in swelling the tide of
public feeling. Poole was an Ameri-
can, and had taken an active part in the
crusade against foreigners, which still
enllsts so much Of public favor. This
crusade, powerful as it is in religious
and conservative circles, is still stronger
and more determined and earnest in the |
class to which Poole belonged. He and
Hyer were among the fighting men of
the American order, as against the bull |
lies of foreign birth;-and this fact had
very much to do with his death. I'll
has been felt and believed everywhere