The Grand Haven news. [volume] (Grand Haven, Mich.) 1858-18??, 1861-10-30
Indignation Meeting of the Citizens
of Bunker Hill.


We have been furnished by leading
citizen of Bunker Hill township, Ingham
county, with the following proceedings OF
a meeting of tho citizens Of that town
ship, in regard TO the outrage committed
in that town, irrespective Of party.
At meeting held at the Shearer
school-house, in the township of Bunker
Hill, Ingham county, to take into consid-
Grafton the riotous outrage committed in
our midst, the meeting was organized by
electiDg II. b. Hawley, ESQ.,, Chairman,
and L. Angel, Secretary. The following
preamble and resolutions were offered by
+. S. Fitch, and after remarks by different
gentlemen, were unanimously adopted:
Whereas, On the night of the Goth
of September last, there was committed
by lawless mob a most foul and diabol-
ical outrage on the person Of Thomas G.
Etchels, ESQ, Of this township, by inveig-
ling him from his house at midnight, by
pushing him down, choking, kicking, and
otherwise maltreatiug him--by putting
n rope around his neck, with a slipping
moose, and dragging him by the neck SOW.
eral rods on the ground, and then hang
ing him ten or twelve times until all con-
seriousness was gone, deserves and enlists
our unqualified disapprobation and con-
domination. Be it therefore,
ReSolved, LIST. That we, as law abid-
ing citizens, will do all in our power 10
bring the perpetrators of this unprece-
dented breach of law and order to justice.
I'd. That while we hold that every
citizen is bound to support and abide by
all the laws of the land, it is the right Of
all under the constitution, to use all law
ful means TO work out the repeal or mod
ification of any law.
Sd. That we look upon this riot rs
one of the Legitimate ofsprings of the po-
litical immortality and fanaticism so alarm
ingly prevalent in the country, and il
ought TO unite all conservative men, with
out distinction of party, in an honest eff
fort at reformation.
4th. That the liberty of speech and
the press, guaranteed to every Ameri-
can citizen by the Constitution, must be
preserved in all its integrity, and any
abuse thereof punished by due process of
law, and not by mob violence.
5th. That we look upon the enuncia-
ton of The doctrine, by different ecclesias-
teal bodies throughout the Northen
States, as well as by many of the presses
of the country, both religious and politi-
cal, some of which receive large support
from the government, "Mat Tie wdr must
be prosecuted until Slavery Is abolished
an all tie Southern States" rs fraught
with incalculable mischief, inasmuch as
it most inevitably unites more closely the
people of the South while it moro wide
ly sunders those of the North.
9th. That we, rs neighbors and
townsmen of Thomas G. Etchel, extend
to him aud his family our sympathy in
their present trouble, and while we cheer
fully bear testimony to their good stand
ing as citizens, as well as to their strict
integrity and goodness Of heart, as neigh
bors, we give them the assurance that,
should they be molested again, the
"grand hailing sign of distress" will be
promptly and legally answered.
9TH. That we respectfully call upon
the proper officers of the county to use
cue diligence in bringing all concerned in
the outrage, to Justice, in order that 9th
ers may be deferred from the commission
of similar crime, and peace and harmony
restored in our community.
II. B. HAwLEY, Chairman.