Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1861-08-10
or a re.t,lent sheet IN concord.

Suppression ola Peatiient SHecs ''
From the Manchester American Extra Slh
The returned volunteers of the New llamp'
shire first. having had some experience IN
fighting rebels in Virginia. took snort hahd
AZ it, yesterday, Mt Concord, Ill cleaning oat me
Democratic STANDARD, low, vile, secession
sheet, published by the Palmer family, ana ea'
tied in part Ivy them and in part ny Hon. Ed'
mund Burke. The affair took place ut four
O'Clock Yesterday afternoon in the presence OF
at least Eve hundred citizens. The soldiers
were provoked into it by the offensive charac'
ter of the paper.
The facts, as nearly as We are able to learn
them, are as follows The soldiers had pick
ed up copies of the Standard OF different
dates containing reasonable language, which
they did not relish. Some Of it was quite too
scurrous and basely false to go down at all,
the import of which was that "Old Aoe moo
ont in Virginia shot down innocent women
and children on the doorsleps for wearing Sc,
cession bonnets," &c., SC. The soldiers called
upon the sub or local editor, Mr. Palmer tor
copies of The paper, that they might look 1t
over, but were repnlsed and sharply threat
encd,
Yesterday afternoon some half dozen gath
erlng around the office, one OF them went mo
il, but got ordered out, and had an AK DrHil-
dished over his head. Soon alter pistol was
heard to go off inside OF the office By and
b. the three Palmer boys, printers Ill the Oh,
fice-T. ~, b. f., audi Charles W.-showed
themselves at the front windows, daring the
crowd TO enter, one having an AK, one gun
and another Colts revolver. One siI' $
| ",rhe whole crowd and the whole OF Concord
can't put us down, and we defy you TO enter
| the office" at the same time striking Win his
AK The excitement outside then hogan 10
| increase The city marshal entered the once
and ordered them TO place aside Their arms
and said they should be protected lhey re
| fused to comply.
Immediately a large number OF soldiers ana
citizens followed up to the head OF the stairs,
the doors being fastened, when young man
| named Clark, from Concord, pushed III tIe
panel of one of the doors, and loOElng III, was
fired at the ball passing through his cap and
grazing his bead. Then instantly several
shots we've fired through the door upon the
crowd, one ball taking effect i'll the arm OF
soldier named Franklin Hersey, of Dover, Co.
A, Capt. Bell, and another hitting the hnger
OF Marshal p. Hurd of Croydon, Co. d.
The doors were then broken in, when the
Planners fled up through the scuttle and took
refuge in an adjoining office belonging to MI
Seth Eastman. The crowd then took posses,
sion of the office, and scattered the type and
printing materials into the street. Such as
would burn was made into bonfire. Not
case, stand, galley, or a single article OF furhl.
ture was saved. The printing presses and
stones, even, were broken aud otherwise dam
aged.
Although the building was guarded by a
strong police force, the Pamers were hunted
out, and would have been terribly used, if not
killed, had it not been for the exertions OF
Warden Foss and some of the police force
assisted by the citizens. However, while be-
ing taken to the marshaPs Office in "double
quick" they got most roughly handled by the
crowd, every one hitting them where he could
get a chance. One of them got his eye badly
bruised, and they all got most severely pun
meled. The excitement being somewhat
abated, they were then placed in carriages and
taken to tile state prison tor safety, where they
now remain.
BY the prompt and efficient exertions of tht
warden and police, they were saved from
coat of tar and feathers which was prepared
for them. The streets were illuminated in thu
evening by the burning tar in front of the OF
fee but the crowd, however, was very civil
and orderly. There was no disposition to in
terfere with the Patriot Office although tn
l proprietor showed too much guilt in request
! ing the city marshal to detail sufficient polio
2 force TO guard and protect them from apprt
: hended danger.
The soldiers, after the shots were fired ,wer
to work coolly and took down the blinds of til
windows, and sign boards, attempting in som
instances to procure their arms, but were II
strained from this by their officers.
II The Palmer boys say they were encourage
: ter, and that they had received the promise
one thousand men from Manchester, in case
danger, and that if they do not come up to tn
Z scratch, and help them out of their preser
! trouble, they will expose them.