The Davenport daily gazette. [volume] (Davenport, Iowa) 1856-1869, 1857-06-30

Il appears from the following, that Iowa
u mot the only Western State disgraced BY
Regulators and "vigilancc Committees"
But our mobs have ct least the excuse, gen.
orally, and being intended 20 accomplish
good by rcmedying great evils. This Indi-
ana mob appears TO have neither had good
motive nor good action. Its acts as emu
mented below have been terrible, and they
illustrate the extremes TO which mobocracy
lead:
Associated gangs Of thieves and dc<pera-
docs are almost - dangerous in this State
q they ever were in Arkansas. The Vim
cennes Gazette says: ut has been rumored
that gang of thieves, robbers, counterfeit
ers and desperate characters generally, has
is headquarters some where al0ng the Wa
bash botton, in Crawford county, III. Ii Is
said that from their hiding place, they sally
forth 10 vinccnncs and Tcrrc naute, steal
ing whatever they can get their hands upon
-horses and money, they seem "a have .
particular desire Cor.
The Regulator who cruelty murdered
Bingham, IN Monroe county, Il appears have
maintained = rule VI terror in that county
Er = long time, committing the most terri
bic outrags~ with impunity; every one who
became obnoxious 90 these villains, Was
treated with the most Larlarosss cruelty.
Only four out Of tho fifty who whipped
Bingham u dcath--becausc he had the cOur-
agc 10 serve warrant ~ constable On one
of their mcmbers-hsve bscn identified and
arrested. In their examination Ct Bloom
ington, the evidence disclosed numerous in
stances of similar outragrs by tho same gang.
upon other highly respectable citizens, who
barely escape with their lives. Upwards
u thirty persons have been cruelty scourgesl,
some eight OF nine u them females! Sew
crAl houses had been burned, and in one in
stance, Sl00 that bad been laid up by very
old woman, was stolen.
Last winter m industrious, respectable
and inofcnsive old man upwards Of seventy
years u age, . cripple bent with eye, wss
taken from his house, naked, and dragged
over the ffOsen ground and fences into the
woods and tied 10 = tree and kicked and
struck him with tLeir lists ard &cnslrIcd nim
with rods, until he WAS lacersted frum head
20 foot. lie sunk 10 the ground iisaensible.
For soae days the physician pronouncsd his
6te uncertain. At the same time they a.
saulted and beat al the msnbes Of his
family, the old lady and . little boy and
girl. They took the led with thsm ard tied
him to tree nsar BY whsre ~ 6thss IVES
and scoaSGed him also.
Mr.. Holland, respectable merchant, was
spending the night with sick family, In
Smithyille. The Regulators psrcsiving him
through the window, rushed into The hos,se,
seized and dragged him out about Lalf
nile, with his son, small boy, and tied them
TO tress about tn o. twelve feet apart, and
stripped and scourged them Numerically.
Mr.. Holland was terribly cut from the top
81 his shoulden " his knees. The scourE-
NJ was about similar TO that given 10 M.
bingham, and would probably have resulted
In his dsath, II his constitution bod not been
able 20 bear more suffering.
The details d Binglams murder ere msst
revolving and shocking. Il b hardly cssdi-
bic that such iicnds can exist in civilised
State; that they should b. able 70 coatinus
thsir barhaross o0taGn Or weeks end
months and nnally cscape III pannishment
through ths nsahss a ths nv, snd By pes-
juries, y sullcisnt TO DESTROY IL coincidence
IN he psosscsino Il Nv "a III asslosi-
tie.
They took poor bingham sbost ouastsr
n nile 6u@ ths hoans - It'd hin ~ . |
ire. He I'D q soothing bat M Dirt
drawers asd sae1u whsa ~ took NJ.
They scourged ~ lbe soue ~ befse his |
'oice appsa1sd 70 sink. Mn Itoard H. |
several iinss exelain, a0-l4-o - IT |
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