Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1860-08-11
SALEM CoLUMBANA COUNTY, SATURDAY, AUGUST H. 1860

Potter reminds his superior that he lis subject to
o:ders' eud says ! hope to hear ftom you 6t on
early day.
The letter was received July 23d and mmedi'
atoly laid before Gov. Letcber, and Adjutont Gen.
eral Richardson wrote the same day to the valor'
Gus Capt. Potter that If the people of the vicin-
ity choose to tolerate such outrage tho Governor
has Official control over the matter On the
24th, Mr.. Athuey on behalf Of the citizens oi
Occoquan, telegraphed to Gov. Letcher ask ng
protection from threatened mob Of 800 men from
distant part Of the county. The Governor made
some feeble show of using the civil authority to
preserve the peace, but the Richmond Inquirer
pronounced the dispatch the most consummate
piece Of impudence and audacity that had ever
come under its notice. aud meeting was held q,
Bren,svie, Prince Williams county, for the pur
pose Of organizing q company to proceed :, Deco
qoan and haul down the obnoxious flag raised by
a set Of reasonable fanatics"
How the obnoxious flag and 'treasouable Sanat
les were maltreated by the Virginia chivalry, i
thus related by the Alexandria Gazette, a pro
slavery journal. 1t says:
% the morning Of tie 9th yesterday the Re
publicans hoisted the American flag and the party
ensign, bearing the names of Lincoln and Ham
lin. Al 8! O'Clock the Prince William Cavalry
Capt Thornton commanding, entered the village,
and ranged themselves in the neigh borhood Of the
POLE They were followed by company of about
forty strong under command Of Captain Fitzhugh
and Major Garter, who paying no attention
whatever to tho horsemen, quietly formed in o
hollow square around the pole, facing inward.
While this company was surrounding the pole, Mr..
Joseph. I. fanny advanced to the captain of the
troop Of horse and claimed protection FOR his prop
erty; upon which the pole stood
At the word Of command, James w jackson, a
Stalwart yeomau, sprang forward and gave the
Grst blow. Others followed, redoubIing stroke on
stroke. During the time there was no Interrupt
ton, the Republicans and Others who stood at
corners near by, would cry out, 'Ain't your OK
dull? Hope you're having good time &. In a
few minutes however, there was a cry Of Stand
from under = and the pole came to the ground.
Instantly the crowd gave three cheers, when the
Republicans responded by Three cheers for Ham
lin All were quickly at work on the fallen pole,
and in less time than il takes tc tell it it as chop
ped up and the pieces carried off. Tue Gag was
sent to Brentsvlle
30 soon as the hag-poe was leveled, Capt. Fitz'
hugh ordered about face, and hi. III pany march
ed off, saluted as hey went by with mingled jeers
and applause.
During the evening there was some excitement t,
and personal rencOunter to k place between Col.
Brawnor and Joseph 7. fanny, in which the lat
ter was considerably injured. The crowd cleared
away during the eyening, and at sundown all was
quiet.
The Republicans say they will put up another
pole on tho same site.
dispatch from Washington dated the 28th,
says:
a report reached here to night. through parties
who were at Occoquan yesterday, that the greatest
excitement pre7aiIet at that place when they left;
that several Republicans had been attacked, and
several fights resulted. One statement is that Mr..
fanny, a Bell and Everett man-an old settler in
Virginia, large property holder, and the owner
of the land where the liberty pole erected
was brutalty aasailed and beaten because he assert
ed that he had the right to declare his own princ-
Piles upon his own homestead, and to permit others
to exercise their rights within his own grounds
if it pleased him to DO s0.'