Daily Iowa State Democrat. [volume] (Davenport, Iowa) 1856-1859, 1858-01-28

the City Council would he allowed upon the
grounl-and that must leave. told him
what has before been ftsted. and ", at 10
not necessary for me to repea. tere I soon
got upea pile of lumber to speak to the
crowd. which did. Mr. Klug told me tha,
1t was Dot the popular mind Of he Germans
as psOple. th.t should leave. Some one
called for No l's, who rallied around me-
Ill had known that had 80 many friends
on the ground should have arrested Mr..
Hardiag npon the spot. do not know the
numbsR of voices raised to incite the crowd.
and my impression was that the crowd
about e were hostile. and were, in spirit,
with Harding, with the exception of
two osahree. More than one person told
me thu ] must leave the ground, but do no,
positively know any Of them but Mr.. Har-
ding, hs manifestation Of the crowd was
decide hossile-as if they intended l
shsAh ieave ts place--ssd I think ,Asir
actions were after the manner Of . mob.
Cross sramined-Some ofthe persons who
first met and warned me against going to
the fire, seemed to be " friends. They
said that the Councilmen had been driven
from the spot, and that no member of the
City Council would be allowed there | did
not run through tie crowd, tut perhaps
walked in a hurried manner took it that
Mr. Harding represented the crowd about
me, which manifested disposition that |
should leave the place 10 which had come
to discharge my duty as Il citizen Mr. kluy
and some others tried to pacify the crowd
Mr.. Harding did not place lis hand upon
me. did suppose that the crowd -ympa
thized with Mr. Harding, and as to him. !
think no man could have mistaken his man
ner toward met was hostile 10 not
think that Mr klus tie. TO persuade me
that tie crowd was not antagon site towards
me, though he mag have been informing
them that was not Responsible for the aa-
tions of the Council No one tried to create
any disturbance while | was 81 king 1t
is u fact that Harding came TO me in a very
threatening manner had not the slight
est iIea but that the intem ion Of Mr.. liar.
ding and the crowd was to run me from the
ground. Did not ktow that / had any
friends about me except the gentleman with
me (Mr Hays and Mr klug, until the No.
Is came up. When Slr Hardin first came
up to Inc there was not much Of : crowd
about me, but the moment ne comm enced
addressing me- a large one gathered When
the No. Is were called for concluded that
| had some friends about, and when the
cheers were given, | noticed several Ger
mans cheering, but DO not think it was Joined
by all present | think that If had made
one step towards leaving tho ground,
would have been hooted, and run off;
think So most decidedly | saw Mr.. Lage
but he said nothing to me; but Harding
said much in regard to the action of .ne City
Council
Ti-ecs Termination Resumed-I made no
direct reply to Mr. Harding, and what said
was addressed to the crowd. had wrong
impressions of the nature of the difficulty
when l went upon the ground-thoueht it
proceeded from the firemen, No Is. | think
there was nothing in my manner which
would excite crowd.
ho IL
DEFENCE.
C1To KLyG Sworn-I was at the fire on
Sunday morning, and was present with the
Mayor when he came.upon the ground Mr.
Harding advised the Mayor that he had bet
ter leave and not get into any difficulty
| Mr.. IL. g manner was excited We had al
worked mach about the fire, and were som,
heated | saw the Mayor got very angry
| thought Harding merely advised him t
! leave, and tried to explain Mr. lis Ian
guage to the Mayor Think Harding take,
freely, but not extremely, though lie mad
no attempt to excite the crowd against th
Mayor or any one else.
Cross eraniined-Har.'ing old the Mayo
he had better leave and not get into any dii
ficulty. lie tiiarding) had worked hard a
the fire, and had become excited Gu
blood was much in circulation. Don't rec
ollsct that he said anything about the Cit
Government There was no engine ther.
Did not see Harding strike or push any bod,
Saw Cannon laying down but saw 10 on
touch Lin, and saw no hostile demonstrate
towards the Mayor saw crowd runLin
after somebody No one but Harding aJ.
vised the Mayor to leave the ground.
Defence closed
After short summing up on both side
Justice Eagal held Mr.. Harding and M
Lage to bail in the sum of $500 to appea
at the next sitting OF the Grand Jury.
Dittel was dischai ged, there being no e,
id-nce against him.
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