Western Reserve chronicle. [volume] (Warren, Ohio) 1855-1921, 1856-09-17
WHOLE NO. 2O85.

abhor rascal and rascally conduct. 1
am STAKEHOLDER. and expect to live and
die one but I win never protect my
rights by yillainy.
Everybody knows, who knows any,
thing. what your Discipline says, and
ever did say concerning slavery. Eve
rybody knowswhat Washington, Adams,
Jefferson, Madison. Monroe and thou.
sands Of others have said of slavery
Now. man must say hurrah, hurrah,
hurrah for slavery. or he is considered
and styled a. abolitionist, and must
be murdered. There are several worthy
men near Rochester. who are afraid to
put their heads out of their doors for fear
OF being shot dead. merely because they
were born in this or that free State.
Do but hint that foreign Catholic,
Just come into the country. and who owes
allegiance to a foreign bloated despot.
should not be put into Office, and such
another cry and jeremiah lamentation
will be put up BY Office huntersI so much
of the whites of their eyes will be seen,
that you will have to give up the subject.
They viii quote the COnstitulion-quote
amendments to do, quote Holy Writ,
and shed large drops of tears for the
sweet, dear Catholics, and beg you to let
them vo.e, fill offices, manage the gov
eminent, DC. But the Methodists, den.
izens of the country. owners of the soil,
are brutally jeered, beaten with clubs,
shot dead in their tracks, tarred and Gri-
ven from their homes, families. property.
friends. for no earthly provocation under
the heavens.
Two of the mob spoken of, were school
masters. One taught school in Nodaway
county long time; and when he could
no longer have house to live in, the
people built him house, determined not
to lose his valuable services. When he
came into the county to teach school.
he was introduced by one Smith, who
said he had known him for fifteen years,
and thought he would do to teach young
children; but, sail Smith, he is a most
intolerable liar. This very school mas
ter and mobile is one of the lowest bred
of the human race; is vulgar, very igno.
rant, profane, and drunkard; will sit
down at his own table and drink with
negroes; Ike Richard the Third, his
right arm has been made to perish by
some Jane Shore; and take him as he is.
be is the lowest specimen of humanity.
The other school master do not know,
but some of his neighbors have told me
what he was and is. No man need covet
his fame and character. His associates
III the dirty Work-the beasily, brutal.
deyilish work of violence and murder
but too well proclaim his character.
FOR cruelty and injustice, nothing can
compare with the foul work at Rochester
save, Catholic tragedies. If 1 had
been one Of the owners Of tire church at
Rochester, | swear by the altar of my
house, by my country's altar, by all that
is sacred, That would know no work,
no study no pleasure, TIL had killed
the last man of that murderons mob
Surely company will be made up for
this very purpose. To look for redress
and justice to law, and law officers of
the State, would be worse than folly and
madness. II a man is free man, rather
than be abused, caned, driven FROM his
home. his property, his wife and children,
or shot dead in his tracks by ruff aas and
devils, let him sell his life as dearly as
he can.
l learned that it pleased some Of ,he
Southern Meibodists to hear cf the mur-
der and tarring also some of other de-
nominations. They are deeply pious
people. There is no doubt that the South
Methodists are the primary cause. if not
the instigators of great portion of the
violence, rObhefies, murders, and destrue-
ton of private property, of the last two
years. They conceive that wherever ne
groes are TO be found, that there is their
especial pairimOny, their field. That if a
man is to be found favorable to the faith
and doctrine of Methodism, they would
catch him in their own net, if there was
no 'Old Methodist Church" At present,
your Church catches great many. and
some even from out Of their fold. This
Tres Their, souls, They formerly hated
the Bapt:sts, Uniyersalians, and Camp
belIiles; bat now their whole hatred is
turned upon the ''oId Church. and not
a sour word is uttered against their old
Old Mr. aGlcmmens,. one of the preach.
ers of your denomination. lives hard by
Rochester, in Andrew county, and ex.
pect the next Thing to hear that they have
tarred or shot hiG. Last year, violence
was talked Of toward him, and fifty citi-
zens sent the rufians word. ift they dared
to put finger on him they would make
them remember the deed. They then
held back ss:as0e bas
Verify, believe all rights, civil and
VIII have to be surrendered,
or men must fight to the death for their
rights. - irs-7f
IUSTTCE -.