The Evansville daily journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ia. [i.e. Ind.]) 1848-1862, 1861-07-03
A paducah Outrage.

have hitherto been able to furnish them.
A Paducah Outrage.
Dr. Vile, who has been practicing ply
stefan in Paducah for two years and half,
called on US yesterday, and furnished the
following particulars of the manner in
which he was compelled to leave that city
It is proper to state, in advance, that the
Doctor voted for Mr.. Douglas for President
and had no sympathies for the Republican
party, or any of its doctrines. But, like
Mr.. Douglas, he stood up for the Union and
sustaining the laws. He could not see that
the administration had violated any of the
rights Of the South, and hence considered
the whole secession movement as unjustifia-
BILE, and ought to be put down. This seems
to have been the front of his ofending-no
more.
About the 14th of June, he received an
anonymous letter, dated Paducah, June
10th, which was evidently written in dis
guised hand, warning him to leave the city
to avoid trouble. Not having participated
in political discussions, and anxious to pur-
sue his EAOiCSSIOudl buSAnCSS NIuOuL us
turbance, he called on the Mayor and
showed him the letter This worthy, who,
by the way, is one of the most rabid seces-
sioniats in the State, could offer no other
advice than to pay no attention to it; adj
ding the comforting suggestion, that he
presumed it was written by one of the Doc
tors worst enemies.
No further attention was paid to the
letter. On election day, Dr. Vile, as be-
came free man and lover of his country,
went to the polls and voted for Judge Trim
bic, the Union candidate. On Sunday, the
23d inst, he was waited on by a selfcon-
stituted committee, consisting of George
Woolfork, James Tusk and Milton Kincaid,
who notified him to leave the town. DR..
Vile did not consider that they had ny
authority to compel him To leave, and con-
sequently treated their warning--as he had
the letteF-with indifference. On the Thurs
day evening following, he was waited on by
a committee consisting of George Woolfork,
James Tusk and Henry Jones. These trait
ors requested him to leave his office and go
with them. He refused, stating that
he had no business up street and did
not intend going. Drawing their pistols,
they informed him that be must
go or they would take his life and fur
thermore, if he made any motion Indicative
of intention to defend himself they
would kill him anyhow. By this time quite
a crowd had assembled, all of whom seemed
animated by the same feeling. Knowing
that resistance would be madness, he asked
permission to step up in his room to pet
something's to take with him. After con-
siderable discussion he was granted fifteen
minutes to make arrangements for his de-
parture. Throwing some CLOTHES hastily
in carpet sack he announced his readiness
to 60. He was escorted down the street by
some ten or twenty rowdies, who have as
sumed control of affairs in Paducah and
who have resolved to drive out every known
Union man in the city He discovered
that sentinels were posted at almost every
corner, who abandoned their posts on being
notified that everything was right. The
Doctor was escorted to the river, placed in a
yawl and taken to the Illinois shore and
laRded in the woods about 10 o'clock at
night. He started to Metropolis on foot
where he managed to arrive during the
night
The Government has pledged itself to
protect the Union men in the Southern
States. Here is a man who was driven out |
of Kentucky, solely because he was in favor
of the Union. Gov. Magoain of course will T
do nothing. Indeed he rather prefers to
have the Union men driven out, than other
wise. What are these loyal citizens to do /?
Turn secessionists2 1.-THE government will
give them no protection for fear of firing
the Kentucky heart, their only resource is
to become secessiohists and throw up their
hats for JEFF. Davis. Why can't the Adj
ministration throw aside all sqneamishness
about invading Kentucky soil and protect
the Union men of that State