The Hancock Jeffersonian. [volume] (Findlay, Ohio) 1857-1870, 1861-10-25
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Those who havo charged their
memories with the obligations, as
published, of the "Knights Of the
Golden Circle" and will take notice
of the fact, that the Marion county
"Ilnights' who have had their ex-
animation at Cleveland, declare the
most complete ignorance ofanything
looking like orirninali,y or squirting |
towards treason, in taking the obi.
cations, &C., will be prepared to APP
preciatc tho following from the
local" of tho Plain Deaior. The
demolition OF the defense OF Cour,
and CO Knights, we venture to say,
w6s not halt as completely done by
District Attorney Paine and Hon.
Il. p. Ranney, as it has been done
ty the following article, cnptioned
prNIouTEp MARI 'N.--Smart peo.
pie in Marion county. A par,icn
larry intelligent race of men abide
there without doubt. They sign
my7tclicus lap,rs without reading
them, and take horrid, bloodihirsly
osths without knowing anything
~ cut what they mean. They get
up societies 10 protect each other in
Il, having themselves and then swear
they won't tell anything sb"nt it.
asserting tunt IN case they should
hnrpyn To divu'ae they will cheer
m'ly unlcrgo the painful operation
.r' bri'g carved up into four ,xnc'
qnar', re-, and hnviGg them throwu
~. one at the NoriI, gate, one at
'hc Sauth Z lc. one ut tho ast gate
nd one AT H. West gate, at the risk
"f hoae icur quarters never getting
tog, thcr agaln. The four quarters
bcirg thus d,apc scd Of, the question
rht arise in an enquiriug mind,
what b comes of the hind quart Is?
WHIST gates rre alluded 10, We d"
no; know. tuT rhey are r;o'ab,y toll
lnt, g fer they take quarters there -
They rarely throw them ont, howev
cr. unlc they me bogu ln Cas-,
there are no gates convenient, fUui
pairs Of bars which ar, situated al
the cardinal points of the compas,
would doubtless answer.
Two members Of tina, cunning or
ganization in Marion county rccoa'
nize each other by tipping the hat
with the fore finger. Ono OF the
principal duties o! members appears
to consist in bring ont nights, to
ascertain probably whether any
member requires protection in tho
pcrilous occupation o' behaving him
self according to the laws and the
Constitution. When two members
have tipped the hat and the wink to
each other. one inquiries, "Wcre yon
out last nightl" Member replies, 81
was" "What did you sees" 'I saw
stvr" (Which way was il travel
ing?" "Towhrds Bethlehc m" =
Both are satisfied that each lie a
member of that hstute society which
protects each other in behaving pro
pcrly, and which resists with fear
lnl qnadripartile punishment any
member who says anything about it.
Marion county is remarkable
locality, and 1t may be customary
there for a star to travel all alone
towards Bethlehem at late hour OF
the night, but such a proceeding
would create some astonishmcnt
here.
They take b cody and impossible
oaths in Marion as calmly as they
would take their coffee. They get
together in a two horse lumber
wagon or in mill yard, of an
evening, and swear they won't sleep
wink until Lincoln is driven from
the Presidential chair, and then go
home to bed and slumber sweetly in
all the gushing and childlike inno-
cence of their natures. They don't
hesitate to affirm that they will wade
up to their knees in blood to aid
jeff. Davis in taking Washington,
utterly iorgetful of the ruinous effect
pantaloons. They think no more OF
wading through blood, down in
Marion, than a truant school boy
does of wading through O mud pud-
die. They rather like it. In fact
they swear themselves to the san
culinary undertaking with so little
reluctance that we are feign 10 De-
lieve that they are brought up to L
from youth, and that the brooks il
Marion county run blood and moth
ing else.
Ashtsbula is no longer exclusivel,,
entitled to the epithet "benighsed,
for recent developments prove tha
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