M'arthur Democrat. (McArthur, Vinton County, Ohio) 1853-1865, 1863-03-19
GREAT DEMOCRATIC
ANTl-MOB MEETING

Pursuant to a call of the Democrat.
ic Central Committee OF Franklin
County, an immen0e meeting Of the
friends Of law and order was held at
the Court-House, in the City Of COL
umbus, on Saturday afternoon, March
| 7, 1863 Tie meeting was called to
order at two o'clock, by William Dom.
igan, Esq, Chairman o! the Central
Committee, when the Hon. Otto Dres
el was elected President, aud JOhn
G. Thompson Secretary.
Mr.. Dresel, in most appropriate
terms, stated the object of the II eet-
ing it was 20 maintain law and or,
der; to consider ways and means to
preserve and protect the life, liberty
and property OF our people.
Tue Court House was crowded, and
tho yard and street in front of it we're
luIl. Hence, an adjournment to out
doors was moved and carried, where
the meeting was held Judge A. G.
Thurman, E. F. Bingham; A G.
Hibbs, W. NJ. Savage, and Micheal
Treanor, were appointed a committee
to draft and report resoI utions express
i've Of the sense OF the meeting,
During the absence Of the commit
tee, the following gentlemen were
successively called out, and made able
and effective speeches, which were
rapturously applauded. Governor Me.
dairy, Colonel Manypenny, and Sem
atot Kenny.
Judge Thurman, froG the commit.
tee, on resolutions, then made the
following report, which was adopted
by a unanimous vote Of that vast as
semblage Of tIeemen:
PREAMBLE.
On Ihe night of the 9Th, inst a mob
of about one hundred persons, COM
posed Of soldiers and citizens distin-
gnished as soldiers, armed with re-
volvers and swords; broke into the
editors rooms of the Crisis newspa,
per and destroyed whatever property
they could lay their hands upon, and
in various ways injured the building.
They afterward repaired to, and at
tackled the Office of the Ohio States
man, and only desisted upon the pc.
lice and some citizens rallying to its
defense. They also, as we are inform.
ed, threatened destruction of the
WeSbote. They, manitestly, intended
to suppress, by illegal violence, the en-.
tire Democratic press Of this city,
These acts were planned and executed
with such secrecy and dispatch, that
tho Crisis rovms were sacked, and
the attack upon the Statesman Office
begun before the existence of the
mob was known to any considerable
number OF our law abiding citiz ms,
and thus defense Of the CriSisrooms
was prevented. That these deeds
were instigated BY persons who dared
not take an open hand in their COM
mission, we have good reason to he
lieve; but until we shall have further
and accurate information upon this
point, We forbear to mention names,
lest We should wrong any one who
may be unjustly suspected. These
outrages are the natural consequence
Of that fatal disregard of the Constitu.
ton and the laws that has marked
the course of our Adminish ations,
Federal and State, ever since the war
began, and OF the false and Aagrant
assaults upon the patriotism, motives
| and purposes of the Democratic party,
daily INDUCED is by the Republican
press and Republican politicians
When the public authorities, sworn to
support tue Constitution, set the ex-
ample of violating its.most sacred pro-
visions when citizens guilty OF no
crimes against law were illegally ar
rested, transported and Imprisoned
when the writ of ha5eas corpus wa