Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1858-03-13
From the American Missionary.
MODS AND VIOLENCE IN KENTUCKY.
BKREA. KEN1ucKy. jan. 10. 1858.

BgREA, KENTUcKr, Jan. 10, 1898,
] have to communicate another trying piece OF
intelligence. last Saturday, the l6,h, Bro. Fee
was again modified at Lewis chapel, u place about
% miles from here, in this county, Lear the
Kentucky river. He had been thereonce before
by the invitation Of a number Of respectable citl-
Gems, ard was there with Bro. Jones, the colpor.
teur, to fill his second appointment. lie learned
the morning after his arrival that there we're
threats of a mob, but requested his friends not to
90 armed, as some proposed, telling them ne
would meet the consequences.
While he was preaching, 90 or 40 armed men
rode up, and sent one of their number into the
house TO demand that he should desist. lie re-
piled, as he has usually dono in such cases, that
he was peaceably exercising his constitutional
right, and requested the person 10 be seated until
lie had 6nished preaching. The messenger re-,
turned to his company, who then rushed in and
seized Bro. +. and Brother Jones: they tried to
extort from Bro. Fee n promise that he would
never return, threatening to duck him in the
river till there was no breath left in him. Failing
in getting q pledge, they mounted their horses,
one of them taking Bro. Jones 10 behind him,
and rode about two miles to the river, and descen-
ded into a dark, lonely ravine upon the bank. NJ
the foot they halted and made another effort to
induce Bro. Fee to promise TO leave that part oil
the country and not return. He at length goi
their attention and commenced talking to them,
tSiiiuR tucm ut COuu uOt mdkc u piOuBo ~"
might conflict with future duty. Said he, 1T is
not impossible that some of you may yet want me
to come and pray with you. and should hate &c
be under q pledge not to do it." lie also told
them if he did this from fear of theis violence
thew themselves wouli not respect him. and re
minded them of that great meeting. when they
all must be assembled to give an account Of 'the
deeds done in the body" At length one of then
said, They did not come there to hear a sermon
they must attend to their business" They ther
proceeded a little way further to thicket OF
the bank of the river. They here odered Bro
Jones to strip: be pulled off his coat and vest an(
stopped. They jeered him, and told him to 'stIil
his linen" They removed all his clothing excep
his shirt. Then bending him over, they turned
that up, and one Of the leaders of the gang pro
ceeded to whiu him upon tho back, with a syca
more switch or s~witches-these grew large an
heavy. Every blow left its mark. His wound
AS seen afterwards by others, are OF no Sigh
character. Bro. Fec expostulsted with them
but in vain. When they had satisfied their c%ruelt,
upon Bro. Jones, the man who piled the whip
approached Bro. Fee, told him il he would no
promise never to return, he would be treated fv
times worse. Well. he told them he would NEE
his suffering then. They compelled him to remov
a part Of his clothing. He knelt to receive th
blows, and then, for come unsccountable reason
they desisted without striking a blow. They the
ordered them to start Immediately for their horses
and, remounting, they escorted them about fv
miles to a place called Buffers Factory, an
and there left them. They came about eigh
miles. and put up for the night at the house OF
friend, where Bro. Fee preached to the family
He says he never felt more in the spirit O
preaching. and never spent q happier night thai
the one which followed. Bro Jones %suffere'
greatly under his cruel whipping.
O. B. WATERS.