The Council Bluffs nonpareil. [volume] (Council Bluffs [Iowa]) 1857-1867, 1857-06-06
Strange Doinss in jackson County Iowa.

Our readers remember, the account of the
hanging of murderer named Clifford, by a
mob in jackson county, Iowa, some six
weeks ago. The men who did the deed have
now organized themselves into a Vigilance
Committee, and ordered the publication of
the following preamble and resolutions
'sThe first contains list of serious COM
plants or insinuations to the effect that the
proper officers have refused to prosecute
aggravated criminal cases, or lodged them
by going a duck hunting; that they have
meddled with the School Fund; that
they have been concerned in robbery of
county bonds and in smuggling some of the
Drainage Fund; that from their negligence
in prosecuting horse thieves, &C., they must
be connected with gang of horse thieves,
counterfeiters, robbers, and even murder
ers,: and that they intend to screen such
outlaws in the future, and ''throw their sup
port and monied influence, with what swind-
ling Of the county they can do, to carry the
sway over the people of the county, and to
roll in their silks and purple, and wealth,
at the expense Of the hard earnings of the
farmer, and the hard working mechanic -
The resolutions we print verbatim:
solved, That We. the Jackson County
Vigilance Committee, are determined that
the criminal law of this State shall be en-
forced in this county to the very letter.
Resolved, That the present Executive and
Judicial of this county had better resign
their Offices, and leave their seats for more
worthy occupants. If they do not they
must run the risk Of the consequences.
Resolved. That in every criminal case
now, and hereafter pending before the tri-
hun of fha
Committee of jackson county, will thorough
the proceedings Of our officers.
Resolved, That the wrong honored officers
whose names we don't choose to mention
here, shall never have another Office in the
gift of the people of the county, but we will
tell them to 60 a duck hunting.
Resolved, That whereas, it is the duty of
certain county officers to investigate the cir
cumstances and the facts concerning the
murder of John Ingle, and ere this, to have
taken steps to secure in the proper way, the
person Of David Mcdonald until he could
be tried according to law, we, the Vigilance
Committee, openly declare that they must
take the proper steps, and also publish re-
ward, with a full and exact description, so
as to secure that person, if not, we will look
after him ourselves, and if need be they too.
Resolved, That we, the Vigilance Com
mittee, of jackson county, State Of Iowa,
hereby inform all persons in Office or out of
it, that they must not commence process of
any kind against any of those who helped to
hang Alex. Clifford, for we believe that he
should have hanged long before he did.
Resolved, That we will revenge the un-
Just death of any one of this Committee, at
the cost of life or property.
Resolved, That We will punish with death
any person or persons joining this Commit
tee, whom we find has been or are concern
ed in horse stealing, counterfeiting, robbing
or numbering, and it appearing that he is
in as spy.
Resolved. That these proceedings be pub
lished in the Maquoketa Sentinel.
This preamble and these resolutions were
sent to the Sentinel Office, prefaced by note
from ii. X. Lands, Postmaster at Iron Hill,
jackson county, in which he states that the
Vigilance Committee is composed Of 800 Or
400 citizens, and that they are determined
that crime shall be punished at all haS ards.
Ha,rh Eye & Tel.
Ey Andrew P. Butler. U. S. Senator
lIVuu EoutA SdIOlluds Aleu Oh CNCA-
ing. This event had been for some time ex-
pected- his disease being an incurable drop
sy. Mr.. Butler was appointed to the Senate
in l847, by Gov. Johnson to fill the vacancy
caused by the death Of the Hon George
McDuffe, and has remained there ever since,
having Mr.. Calhoun for his colleague until
1851. For several years past Mr.. B. has
been prominent as one Of the extreme South
ernists, and was looked up to as model
ofthe boosted chivalry of the Palmetto State.
During the last session Of Congress,his name
was brought prominently before the people
in the assault upon Senator Sumner-that
assault having been committed by Preston
S. Brooks, nephew of Mr.. Butler. and ex-
cused solely on the ground of the language
used by Mr.. Sumner in reply to Pro-Slave-
nv speech made by the South Carolina Scna-
tor. But time has made impressive changes.
Mr.. Sumner after. a protracted confinement
at the very gates of the grave, is once more
restored to health while the rash and i'm
pulsive nephew and the venerable uncle sleep
peacefully beneath the soil of the State whose
wounded honor demanded such bloody atone
ment.-N. Y. Tribune.