The weekly hawk-eye. [volume] (Burlington, Iowa) 1858-1860, 1859-01-25
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| sas paper.
in The 0asette Of Friday Last vas an item
beaded "District Court" Of which the follow-
Ing b an extract:
Many persons from Yellow Speings tewnsbip
are said to he in attendance on Court With Z
Determination 70 secure conviction (of Hster) II
poaaible: and they are said to be mostly mem.
bers ct vigilance committee existing in that
township. Runlor says some Of them have
been very indiscreet. asserting thar II Safer was
net convicted they would lynch him. We trust.
however, that madam runner has spoken falsely.
aad ehas those men have no such design. Such
course would only bring trouble upon them
selves and add nothing to the moral character
OF our county. II an unbiased jury end the
man guilty, let him be punished Ia accordance
With the law made and provided in such cases:
u they 6nd him innocent, let that be an end
o. the matter, and let the man be suffered to
depart in peace. No other course should or
can be pursued in this community. IAwless
violence will not be permitted.
What 10 the proper reading Of the above par
agraph! 1t opens with the announcement tha,
many persons are in attendance upon the Dis.
trict Court with determination to secure the
sonrictioa Of q man arrested fot horse. stealing.
The reader is left to infer the means used to
influence the Court, but lest he should not, a.
the writer evidently desired, believe that an
effort was being made to overawe court and
jury and force conviction, he goes on to say
that "tbey" (many persons from Yellow Springs
township ''are said to be mostly members Of
vigilance committee existing in that township.
Rumor says some Of them have been very in
discreet, asserting that if Safer was not convic-
ted they would lynch him." 1t is positively as.
serted that number Of persons, most Of them
members Of q vigilance committee, are in at
tendance upon Court, determined to convict
man of crime. 1t is then said, the responsible
~ being laid upon the back Of Madam Rumor.
that'sone iudiscreet persons belonging to the |
Aforesaid vigilance committee have threatened |
to lynch Safer, if not convicted. Then after |
putting up very thin blind, by saying ave
trust Madam Rumor has spoken falsely" the |
writer goes on to deprecate a resort to lynch
law, reading the aforesaid "vigilance commit.
tee" homily upon the immortality Of acts of
violence Of this sort, and claiming that it was
better to give the man q fair trial before an
unbiased jury, Furnishing him if found guilty,
+ innocent suffer him to depart in peace, and
winding up with q threatening and positive
not TO commit violence, for ''is will
lot be permitted"
Yesterday morning we were greeted by
he following characteristic item, the unblushing
mpudence aud mendacity Of which can end
10 rival except in that paper:
"HoNEsT INylN."-Come, neighbor be honest
If you can't be honest, be as honest as you
an, and do not deal in such wholesale msrep-
Do not show yourself SO perverse in
sposition as to eschew truth altogether; and
articularly when you have nothing to gain by
o doing. How do you know what the "Ga-
ette thinks" about the "feeling Of the people
+ Yellow Springs township" We never uttered
ur thoughts relative to those persons through
he columns Of the Gazette, nor to you in per
On. We stated simply the rumor that was
float on the street at the time; and if we re-
,ember rightly, the gentleman who spoke to US
bout it, said he got the information from an /
mployee OF the Hawk Eye office. We did not
ouch for the tr1thiulness, because, coming
rom the atmosphere of the Hawk-Eye office,
&c thought it rather a questionable source
our attempt to make capital out of what We
id cay, and to prejudice the minds of your |
saders in that direction against US, was rather
''small potato" effort. Come, neighbor, be
onest heresfter,-honest, at least, as was the
indian whose painted likeness you hang out for
sign. There is no necessity for you telling
falsehood when truth will answer better
urpoee.
Is it not astonishing that SO shallow q vaga-
ond should infiiet himself upon an unoffend-
community in the capacity of editor of a
ally journal-educator Of the people and
uardian Of public and private morals! FRI
ay he sounds the alarm and declares that the
earest right under our free institutions, that
trial by jury, is in danger by reason of the
utside pressure of a vigilance committee threat
ming lynch law in case the Court did not con s.
let . criminal on trial And on the suc- ;;
.edng Wednesday, only four days having in 0
rvened, it is boldly denied in its whole length 6
ad breadth. We are at loss which most to
lmire, the impudence or the mendacity Of the !;
litor. The sangfroid with which he takes US ,
} TASK for "lying" ;s rarely equalled. 1t
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