The Portage County Democrat. [volume] (Ravenna, Ohio) 1854-1868, 1859-04-27

Seven men, coming from diff rent points,
urging their way with great difficulty through
almost impervfous walls of interlaeed and op
posing ,shrubbery, met at midnight beneath
the spreading branches of q cypress tree, at a
place called Laurel Swamp, in South Carolina
in the year IT.. They gathered sticks and
,leaves and made fire. The flames, springing
up from the dry heap, threw ared glare upon
their faces, which we're scanned and dis6gured
by the play Of bad passions. They were young
men--tbe 0ldest4not being more than thirty
Eve years of age. AS they stood in a circle
around the fire. they resembled a gronp of
vagabond English gipsies,f fresh from the stocks
|or whipping post They were armed with
sabres, knives. pistols and muskets. Their
faces were smutched with powder, their boards
and hnir long and Beglecteds their garments
tern BY coufict and the sharp teeth of the
cypress hedges The names Of these men were
respectively as follows. Martin Vantassle. Ma
tbaniel Herrick, Phillip Langford, Simon Ar
rowsmith. John Nicolson, james Pollard and
Timothy Becker ,rxsfS
vantassle, a tall. athletic. i'll visaged fellow.
was leader of these. fercesand iptractablespir
its. ,Unsbeathing bis heavy sabre, and plant
ing its poiut in the ground between his feethe
addressed his companions.
men, ne saio, m IN nard harsn v voice ,nat
nar"ohiIeu wen VIII ms sesela' Pres,'se ."'7 "e
are me. mere 'a'n,gns, 10 oi"u Ourselves 70,
getuer in Perpesuai le'lowshP ny soe'an es'
ana mutual ae.se,neaS ry ,.a' napu n.S as
ag,a ssIeaimiss aam sssr1 5an ,ne We've sworn al
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