Holmes County Republican. [volume] (Millersburg, Holmes County, Ohio) 1856-1865, 1857-01-22

idle advice, and let me beg Of you to be
guided by it."
But Tuesday, the sOth, was one Of the
most anxious and exciting days of my life.
We were sad at seeing our household
goods scattered around us; for though in
form voluntary sale, it was in fact a for
ced sale-not brought about, either, by
one of those providential events when the
Great Father calls an earthly father home
to rest, but it was forced upon us by the
oppression of proud and cruel men, who
neither feared God nor regarded humanity.
Our little children We're grieving over the
sale of the horses and colts, COWS and
calves, pet lambs and playthings, which
they had been accustomed to call their own,
and which they had become attached to,
as farmers children often are. To increase
the gloom and desolation caused by this
general breaking up and scattering of those
old and familiar associations and subjects
10 which our hearts fondly chung, our kind
neighbor, Mr.. Feltner, called late in the af-
ternoon with a message from another friend
" neighbor, that we must Immediately
prepare for the reception of Committee
of Vigilance, which was coming with the
most hostile intentions. This seemed to
explain the mistake published in the papers
respecting the day ofsale And now came
trouble to my wife and her female friends,
who urged me to leave the house and them,
as they supposed that the mob would be
appeased if made certain of my absence.
Ny little son, however, with courage be-
yond his years, desired to go to the store
for more powder and lead, and to call in
the neighbors who had repeatedly and in
the kindest manner offered their services
whenever they might be required. This
was the course l had resolved upon, and
which was promptly adopted.
Our firearms wee loaded and put in Or
der, neighbors were ready and responding
generously to our call, when another mes
sage arrived. AT any other time it would
have been sorrowful in the extreme, for it
told that man known to us for many
years, of naturally sweet sympathies, to-
wards whom we had never entertained a
feeling Of unkindness, had been suddenly
summoned, under the most solemn circum-
stances, from drunken debauch, in fit
of delirium tremens, to his last account.
But this man was one of the most active
If the prosecuting Committee of Vigilance,
and his death put an end to all apprehen-
sions of danger; so that my wife and the
female friends around her, who had just
now resolved not to lie that night, after
offering up their gratitude to God-not for
the fate of the poor victim of intemper-
ance whom they most sincerely pitied, but
for their own deliverance from what seemed
an impending alamity-retired to sweet
and undisturbed repose. The story was
quickly circulated, and the next day the
whole neighborhood rang with wonder at
what was considered signal interposition
of Providence in behalf of justice and hu-
manity; and just before the setting of the
last sun of the year 1856, the remains of
this poor misguided and unfortunate vic
tim of that vice which is increased by the
idleness incident to the great evil of slave
ry, were brought by his mourning relatives
and friends distance of eight miles, and
buried by tie side of the grave of his wor-
thy and excellent father in the quiet little
village of Paris, almost within sight of my
own peaceful home.
Yours truly,
JOHN G. UNDERWOOD.