, 1860-04-16

xEL1NOI5.
For some weeks past small Border RuiGan
sheet puhliahcG at Go1conda. Pope county, ILL.,
nols. l.as bo:n trying to ;ucite mob To tar aud
tes:hcE, or Otherwise lynch, Il minister Of the
GOSPEL III ssid Pope cs1'nt:y, i.a:asd J-4NEs u.
WEST, T::a Gc!co:da Ntra'a, w:;cl by tho
syay kocps at the head Of its columns. "For
Prssid:rt cf 'is ta;tcl S'1tcs, s7EpEES \.
DoccLAS,' originally charged Ar, West with
circulating iaccadiary documents" through
out Popo cour:-, aud iniir1at;ng that some. Of
the said documents had been sent acrozs the
Ever 10 Paduc2ll, Ky. The Utra1d chilled III.
Vest A. imp Q: B,al,'' and suggested tha, 4
martyrs garment MSS being manufactured for
his use. The following vas The first editorial
ssnrulng given to Mr.. Vest in tho columns of
that paper Of da:r.. 9th:
g.tcor ct u. sra ensa:t IL Ian neea
ias ezra wcat 5: i a, to to,uc over to crueuan
n: n keacess II he a> 10 particular d.4Tr to wear
s"a "sd yaat ss' @ 6 ss:@ 1es se
The further history Of tho case is about a.
follows; Ir: Wost procured The certificate
Of sonc twenty CT lis ueighbors in Pope coru-
y 'o h:s pcaccabac, iaw-abiding md religious
character, AMI, bsiug native Of Kentucky,
he obtained also letter from sone Of lis
friends IN that State 10 the same putport.
1he'e he Incorporated in lettar to the H.
quis1to7'gcneral Of tl:a Golconda Herald, assur.
4ng bin that 10 had dons nothing which made
Ain a.neaaula TO the laws Of either Illinois or
Kentucky, 1rt maintaining distinctly lis right
to believe that h!arery is a great national
crime which sioHld be removed at the earliest
day possible consistently with Tic public SAFE
~ TITO knight Of tic tar bucket thereupou
stflt up TO u lliamscn aud johnson counties
1or coua.cr-corlihcate, which be managed in
some way to obtain. Twenty or thirty sigma
t:rcs were appended to n statement taking
is:ua with Mr. Vests bill q: health as citen
hy his Eeisllbors il Pope county and his
.sieods il Kentucky. Armed with tlis docu-
me1t, tic Herald of tho 3oli, ,lt. returned 10
1hc nt1ack in a three-column article, in which
The nlildest penalty proposed for the obnoxious
Clergyman was his immediate expulsion from
Pope county. Here the sasa rests, 50 far Us
We are advised. Whether Mr. West has been
tasred and feathcrcd, duckcd in the Ohio, or
merely bauislled from lis home with conlisca.
ton Of lis goods, We arc unable to say.
Tho nf{ifnr If {Eo Co1n.r1. TJM.31
sioub:edly borrowed lis ideas Of American
liberty from Mr. Douglas recent scheme for
white mans slave code. lie has, however,
'outrun his principal. 1t becomes us to inform
him that tue new sedition bil is not ret law
tina! persons cannot be punished in Illinois
ut present for their opinions, nor eycn 70, ef.
iorts to propagate their opinions-that WHO
ever lays riolent Lands On Mr.. West for any
odense Of Ills which yet appears, is an ou:lav,
Liable to Indictment and imprisonment. The
fact that it might be difficult 10 enforce the
lawain TINT rart Of the State against tho leader
and actors in pro.s]aycry mob, while it adds
1othe coTardice Of tle TRANSACTION, abates not
q particle from its Helonious character, We
give cot &C to Mr.. II. Il. u1SAx {the editor in
question: aEd to those who may abe: hin in
his war on poaconble clergyman who lns
been charged with 10 crime, that # they exc
cute the violence they threaten, they shall not
escape Tue reckoning public opinion las in
store for them however successful they NAV
10 in eyadin3 the criminal code Of tho State
in which lllcy live.