North Branch democrat. [volume] (Tunkhannock, Pa.) 1854-1867, 1863-07-29
sH- We make the following extract from

r. We make the following extract from
a private business letter, from friend IN
Nicholson. Comment is unnecessary. Al
most every Democrat in the county has, in
one way or another suffered wrong insolence
or abuse from this spirit Of intolerance ana
tyrrany exhibited by the abolition iana'Tcs
who " dressed in little brief authority, cut
such fantastic tricks &c"
NICHOLSON July Goth, 1868.
HARVEY SIcILEK ESQ,
~ 1s5s must tell
YOU of the manner in which our boys were
treated at Benton, Oh Friday last, at Nag
ger Worshipping Pow-wow. e. A. Grow
and some half d, zen preachers were 20 all
dress ,he people of that vicinity, and some
Of the Boys were anxious to hear what they
had to say. Leroy Bacon, Ernmet Pratt, De-
catur and Arthur Bacon, Milton BerJtmln,
Edwin Stephens and others, Went over, and
were met with by in>u!rs from the start
Such as: " The c"pprrheaas from Nicholson
have come uv,r We will thrash h-ll out
Of them b,E,re they get home etc. But the
b w. (as YOU know, were determined To give
them no chance to find fauli,) deit rnined
irm the start, and agreed amongst Them
selves they would not talk politics that dar
After numerous affrunts, and about the tin e
rhey were ready to start f'r home, Emmet,
Arthur, aud DtcItur, went over u grocery {,
kept BY man by the name OF Wheeler
As they went IN a man called Dickson, |
think, followed them in. Enmei asked Tor
Wheeler but he was out. H. then turn" q
and went out A. he was gong out, Dick
son Kicked him. He pail n attention t, it
thinking il in fun. But Dlck>"n followed
him up and c"llrred, striking him when he
commenced. He s,un hpored Mr.. Dickson,
but immediately some dozen pitched On En-
met and pounded him crnrly. Enmrt cried
| enough, and the rul ms tiLa v LEI HIM up
At the same time. Lrpv r yn lis, (he
brave soldier by who hld IN the wo"d> at
| Chancelnrv.llr, aud was taken prisoner after
his R"gt. hal gomez pitched on Arthur,
| striking hm several times. But the mu>s
ended there. The boys got together IN the
| tavern preparatory TO start, when they
were followed up by the rutfian d cltson, who
came i'll again; pulled off his coat, threw it
out doors, winch was the signal agreed on, }
when in rushed the party eated with their
great and glorious victory. 20 annihrlate the
enemy but there stood the hnvs and there
was some very suspicious looklng things
which would probably &" off. And ths
mighty hosts Of Nisgprdun included that
"dlscreton was the better part Of valor,"-
Our boys were allowed to depart in peace -
am infrmed they also attempted to ''pick a
mu>s" with another party, an nld!Sh man
but he k 'ot backing a"ay from them, urgln.
| them 10 let him alone. until he had gone far
enough, when he coully drew revolver and
told them he had backed far enough Al
though there were some 8 or 10 at him they
too took the sober second thought, perhaps
their votes might be needed, it might rem
der some Of them unfit to exercise the right
Of suffrage. HIS il come TO this Are We
on the verge of anarchy and civil war here
at 'me2 2 Cannot man 60 peaceably to a
place and hear the questions of the day dis
cussed, without b ing in danger of his l:tr
ID" our opponents mean by this that they are
determined TO array al who do not think as
they do in open deadly strife, if they do
| Let them beware for | warn them they
are on a slnmbering volcano. The smorhcred
fires only want spark, and we will be all
buried in one common rnin cannot think
and write on this subject without feeling my
blood boil in my veins.