The Richmond Indiana palladium. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1854-1855, 1855-05-04
Number 20.



storm in Arcadia. Madison county. in this
state. on the 18th inst, the lightning struck the
high school edi6oe and killed four boys. pu-
pills who We're sleeping IN the house. One of
them is son of F. L. Ridgely, Of this city
Tho office Of the Luminary, . newspaper
published at Parkersvine. and which is sus-
pected of trsesoilisn, was attacked last Satur-
day by over two hundred citizens of Platte
county. who destroyed the type and fixtures.
and threw the press into the Missouri river
The editor was absent, which saved him Of .
coat of tar and feathers.
The mob then held meeting. and passed rss-
olutions. declaring the paper nuisance, de-
nouneing the editors, and threatning their
lives, ifthey dared tor eturn. rs well as ali other
free -soiers also forhidding any Methodist
preacher 70 preach in the county, pain of
coat OF tar and feathers for the FIRST offence,
and hanging for the second,
The following letter, from the Platte -Argas,
gives the details of the recent mob At Park
VILE, Mo, by which innocent men were rob
bed of their property, and themselves brutslly
treated. In the whole course of our expert
enee, we have met with nothing highly
. speed with unmitigated villsiny, The Louis
vile Journal which denounced the whole
transaction, says
1t does not appear on what ground the I'm
paper. and We have heard. though We know
not whether the information is correct. that it
| was not freesoil paper-thst 1t merely con-
tended tat the EN- grants from New England.
j sent out to Kansas by the New England Aid
Societies; should be allowed to go quietly and
by the ordinary means Of conveyance TO the
place OF their destination and that the Mis-
sourians had no right To go over the Kansas
line on the day of the election in that Terri
! tory and give their votes At the polls.
We publish the letter without further COM
, ment.
"Nought but itsslf can be its parallel" ="
/ Here is the document
From the Platte Argus Ex,rs, I6th.
+ Intense Excitement, in Parkviiic, Missouri
PARKvILLx. Mo. April IA, '55.
Mr. EDITOR: The spontaneous upheayings
of an indignant and outraged community
4 were manifested here to-day. in decided
manner, To tell you that the Industrial
Lumlnary,' newspaper owned by Geo.
Park and w. J. Patterson in this town, is a
Free soil sheet and has been aiding aud abet-
ting the Eastern Abolition societies in their
abortive attempt to Abolitionize Kansas. for
the past year is to tell you what you already
know. You also aware that Park has a
large hotel in this place. kept by Freesoiler
imported from Illinois, and devoted to the
in the neighborhood determined ''to abate the
nuisance" How they managed to notify
many. and keep it quiet, don't understand
but about o o'clock this morning, we were
surprised TO see about ten or fifteen of our
most respectable country acquintances ride
into town and go to the printing office and
put Patterson undor guard. Park, it appears.
had other heard of it, or his good luck had
prompted him to go to the mouth of Blue
river. in Kansas Territory.
At 12 O'Clock, about two hundred men
had arrived. The press was very quietly
taken down and paraded into the street.
The crowd was called to order, and Patterson
was brought forth to receive his sentence-
One speaker staled that they all were aware
that they came there with tho firm determi
nation to black, tar and feather. and ride on a
rail G.. S. Park and w. J. Patterson, but that.
as Park had escaped and left his scape goat to
suffer for both, he wished the meeting to de-
eide wha. should now be done with the pri.o-
ner. Another speaker declared his voice was
for mercy; not that he had any excuse to offer
for Patterson. for he despised him as strongly
as any man could, but that Patterson's wife
throughout the morning had hung 10 him like
eech; tha. she now held on to him, and that
we could not inflict the punishment without
gross violence to her feelings, aud perhaps
rudeness to her person. lie therefore, for the
sake Of the wife, moved vote be taken to
remit the tar, feathers, &c, and set Mr. Pat
terson n large for the present. The vote was
accordingly taken, and small majority went
in favor Of the prisoner; he Mas. therefore,
set at large. The following resolutions were
then offered and voted on singly, and not one
/ dissenting voice was heard ON the ground
Almost every one voted in the Affirmative.
aud they voted with vim" too, tha. show
I ed theY were IN earnest:
Resolued, ]. That the Parkville Industrial
Lumlnary is nuisance, which has been en-
dured too long, and should now be abated
+ q That the edi .ors. TO wit: G. s. Park and
w. J. Patterson, traitors to the State and
county in which they live, and should be
dealt with such.
3. That we meet here again. on this day
three weeks. and II we find Park d. Patterson
in this town, then, at any subsequent time,
we viii throw them into the Missouri river,
and. if they go TO Kansas to reside, ue pledge
our Lon1r men, to follow and hang them
wherever we can take them
4. That, a. the suggestion Of our Parkville
friends. we will attend to some other Freesoil.
! ers not far off.
5. That we will suffer no person belonging
TO the Northern Methodist Church to preach
in Plate county, after this date, under pen
atty Of tar and feathers for the first otfense
and hemp rope for the second
s. That we earnestly call on our sister
counties throughout the State to rise in their
might and clean themselves of Freesoilism.
Z. That our peace. our property, and our
safety require US 8. this time to do our duty.
g. Tha. we request every pro slavery paper
in Missouri and Kansas 70 publish the above
resolutions.
The press was then shouldered, with
white cap drawn over its head. and labelled
Boston Aid.' the crowd following in regu-