Meigs County telegraph. [volume] (Pomeroy [Ohio]) 1848-1859, 1856-11-18
Stirring Them Up.


Yesterdays Enquirer, noticing an arti-
ticle from the New York Post, in which |
those emigrants who may hereafter proceed
to Kansas from the Northern States, are ad-
yised to go in such numbers and array and
so armed as TO make interference with them
indiscreet, says:
"We think the patience of the people
has been sufficiently taxed by these threats,
which have been followed by demonstra-
tions of a trailorous and revolutionary char
acter, and that the time has arrived when
these traitors and disturbers of the peace
of the nation should be held to some ac-
countability of their conduct. There are
a half dozen scampS for Vhom hcmpen
cords are already twisting. We Hope that
there actN be notarther indulg nee extended
them. W think Mat an eromple is needed
to Siowth0t there is law and justice in the
ldnd, and thu IN. m.uryeatS and hoaors can
not disturb the peace Of the country ~ til
impuniy,"
This is just as might have been expec-
ted. Law and order now demand victims
properly sacrificed. Tarring and feather
ing, riding on rails, setting adrft in rivers,
pelting with eggs and stones, robbing,
numbering men on the highways, is out of
date. Hereafter the law is to take its
course, and order will be made to prevail
Border ruflians will have no occasion to
put themselves to the trouble of going out
and hunting, shooting, and scalping Free
State men. That work will be performed
more quietly and effectively, and perhaps
with less personal risk, by the regularly
installed officers of the law. The traitor
Gus williams who desire to make Kansas a
free State, are to be captured, thrust into
jail, summarily tried, and hanged by the
neck until dead. "Hempen cords are al
ready twisting" for them. In a very short
time the cords will be ready. The Editor
of the Enquirer says so, and who has BET
ter right to know? He is mistaken, how
ever, as to the number for which the cords
are being prepared There are more than
a hundred in the filthy pens called jails, at
Lecompton, now waiting for the cords that
are to be their deliverance from that hide.
GUS place. They have been detained there
for many weeks in a deplorably miserable
condition; two have died of illness con-
racted there, and others are sick. The
crime charged against them is murder
This they are alleged to have committed
in skirmish with a band Of the Border
Rutfians. They had been prosecuted until
they could bear no more, and taking uE
arms in their defense, they were assaied
and arrested by United States troops, 8
jury OF their deadly enemies found bills
of mdictmenC against them for murder
and they were crammed into loathsomt
prison, where they are guarded by the
bloody Rutfians sent there from South Car
olina, and who instead of being in:erferet
with by the United Safes authority, wert
mustered into the service of the United
States. The poor prisoners need not be il
suspense as to their fate any longer. Hem
pen cords have been twisting for such al
they. The Enquirer hopes there will b.
no lurther indulgence extended to them
1t calls for an example to illustrate til,
power of law and order. String up th
prisoners. They deserve it for they hay
been interfering with Democratic "prnci
pies" They had the audacily to desir
to make Kansas Free State, which wa
contrary to Democratic principles, an,
5 when. they showed themselves in good GU
powder earnest, they were seized by tn
soldiers of our glorious country, and hem
: pen cords were almost in readiness TIL
election is over, and so string them up
; Hurrah for "Buck and Breck and Ere
Kansas" Let those who presume to NOV
upon any of the territories of the Unite
n States, with guns calculated to shoot taste
Il and further than United States muskets,
!, seized and strung up, for it seems that
. is not according to Democratic principle
u for American ciCizens to carry rifles
Those dreadful weapons that shoot s
> straight, and send a ball into a fellow scre,
: fashion, are subversive of law and ordel
: and suggestive of free States Emigrant
must be content with shot guns or
u strung up. Hempen cords are being twis
n |, ted for that class of men who use rifles
think that free states are better than slav
. states for poor white men. These are
/. dangerous class of men. They have a
10 ways been troublesome to the law and OF
!, l. der people who think that the greatest
" European institutions is King the grea
est essential to American Democratic d,
" yelopment is multitude of niggers, s.
stringtellow at work stringing them up
Cin. Commercial.