Pomeroy weekly telegraph. [volume] (Pomeroy, Meigs County, Ohio) 1860-1866, 1861-08-30
A Tory Editor Tarrei and
Feathered.

/ For twenty years or more it has been
the amusement of Southern shareholders,
, and their Northern seryiles, to tar and
feather, and otherwise maltreat minis
ters Of the gospel, editors, and all other
opponents of slavery. But the times
seem to have changed somewhat, On
the Goth inst, at Haverhill, Massachu-
setts, Ambrose l.. kimball, editor of
the Essex County Democrat, II notorious
and violent tory sheet, was tarred and
feathercd, and rode on rail through
the streets Of the town. The authori-
ties did all they could to prevent the vi
olcnce, but the excited populace could
mot be controlled
Kimball finally made the following
declarations: II am sorry that l hare
! published ,rhat I haze, aud promise that
l-I uiW accer again either publish articles
against the North, or IN taror 81 secession,
so HELP ME GoD," on which he was re-
lease ! land conducted to his home
This is, we presume, the first instant c
of a pro-Slavery man being maltreated,
It will probably cause good many peo-
pie to have different opinion of the
process of tarring and feathering, than
when it was all performed on the other
side. In this respect it may do some
good. But as we have always held
mobs to be an evil, we cannot give our
approval to them, even on the theory
that good may result.
Hundreds, and even thousands, of the
best men in the land, have, in the last
twenty five years, been brutally NAL
treated by such as this editor and his
clan. During all this time we have
protested against the outrage and lived
and labored in the hope that the popu-
lar sentiment would eventually become
corrected, SO that the entertainment of
the sentiments of the heroes and sages
of our Revolutionary era would not sub
ject an honest man to the fury Of a mob.
That time has come in the Free States
The popular sentiment is most thor
oughly regenerated, and the strong ten
dency is. now that the true character of
the instigators ofthese outrages is known,
and the terrible effects Of their long rule
felt in the ruin of the country, to retail
late upon them in the same mode that
they have SO long used to insult and in
timidate quiet and peaceloving citizens.
But We cannot give our assent to this
manner of redress. Better far to en-
dure the presence of these now thor
oughly unmasked enemies of free Gov
ernment, and even tolerate their impo-
tent efforts at treason, than to suppress
them by illegal means.
Revolutions in popular sentiment
don't 60 backwards. No less than four
papers were destroyed by mobs in Gin
cinnati, and the best citizens that city
ever had were hunted from their homes
for the expression of sentiments against
the rule of the slave power, which would
be too tame now to find place in any
independent paper in that city or in the
State. The popular mind need not pro-
gress much farther in the ght direction,
until these tory sheets will be starved out
for want of support. And it would, in
our opinion, be far better to let them
run their natural course than to sup
press them by mobs. We hope, there
fore, that the friends of the Union will
not bring reproach upon their cause
by resorting to the use of unlawful
means, even to silence the preachers Of
treason.