The Lansing state Republican. [volume] (Lansing, Mich.) 1855-1874, 1861-10-23
The BUNKER HILL AFFAIR AGAIN.

LIE DUNkkH I'LL hffAlh dGAlN.-
The Journal man has been out to Bunker Hill
on q voyage of discovery, and has picked up
number Of items intended to deepen the atrocity
of the hanging affair. He gives list of "sus
pected" persons, including many of the most re-
spectacle and law abiding citizens of that town.
ship. Among this number he mentions the name
of Sias " oodland, but is careful not to mention
that he is man supposed to have been without
an enemy in the world until the occurrence of
this transaction, and that he had his house wan
tonly destroyed by fire few nights after for the
sole reason that he was suspected" The
Journal has not q word to say at this outrage
upon claw and order" o no! 1t couldn't make
political capital out of that!
The Journal now says there was no enmity
existing between Etchell and Mr.. Clark. When
it has told few more contradictory stories, will
it be kind enough to inform the public which one
to believe? This last statement Of that paper
accords with one given by one of our correspon-
dents-namely, that Etchell was hung for the
reason that he was q secessiOnist, and for no
other reason whatever. The statement Of the
Journal that Etchell was not secessionist is also
contradieted by the following:
AFFIDAVIT.
State of Michigan, O.
Ingham County,
Personally appeared before me John E. Spen.
Ger, of the township Of Vevay, Ingham County,
Michigan, who being duly sworn deposeth and
| saith that during the last summer, while IN con
versaton with Thomas G. Etchell, Of Bunker
Hill, has heard him say that the South was right
in their ebe.lion, and that he hoped to God they
would overpOwer US and gain their lndepend
ence: also that Capt. P. McKernan deserved to
be branded in the forehead Nth a red.hot iron,
or any other Democrat that uould go and Fighi
against the South.
(Signed.l JOHN E. SPENCER.
Subscribed and sworn to before me this l4th
day Of October, 1851.
II. L. HENDERSON, Justice of the Peace.
We predict the Journal will be mum with re-
gard to this proof of Etchell's guilt as traitor
Such facts don't help it In making political, Sc
cession capital, by sowing the seeds Of dissen
sion and hostility among the people We vii
correct statement We made with regard to tn
politics of the leader of the mob. Instead o
voting for Breckenridge, he voted for Dougla
and johnson. The Journal win keep dark Of
this question too. There would be too mucl
friction between this fact and the successful pc
litical working of the subject. The statement o
"F. s. F." that there is an organized band o
men in Bunker Hill pledged to hang certain
prominent Democrats" and also of the Journal
that there is scarcely q town between here ant
Bunker Hill that could not number from on
to Eve leading men who have been singled GU
for lynching when q sufficient confidence in pub
lie opinion shall seem to warrant the perpetra
ton of these crimes, We believe to be Is falls
as the base lie that Etchell was hung "becaus
he was democrat.
If the Journal ever gets through with thi
Bunker Hill affair, and the various Methods
Conferences. We hope it will astohish it's reader
by at least one onslaught upon traitors in arm
against the government. Such an event in it
columns would be as rare as a frost in do
days"