Union County star and Lewisburg chronicle. [volume] (Lewisburg, Pa.) 1859-1864, 1864-09-03
FOR PEESIDKyT.
ABRAHAM LINCOLN
FOR VICE PBl>IDENr,
Andrew .SOii iin~On.
The Fishing Creek Rebellion.

The Fishing Creek Rebellion.
The Wbiskey lnsurrccti5n Of West;
Pennsylvania-Shay's, Burr's, DORIS, and
John Browns rebei4Ious-and he .iu6e-
pendent governments Of Wyoming, Of
Falkland, South Carolina, and of Utah,
all came TO nouGht: they were ''coereed'
into "submissiou" by the strong hand"
Of the National Government To this
catalogue We must now adj the name Of
the fishiHy Creek Conspiracy, away up
the classic stream Of that Dame 10 the
Northwestern part of Columbia county,
Penn'a. 1t is inhabited by people ecner-
ally civil and hospiia bic, but 10, the most
intelligent in the world, If We may Judge
from the fact that newspapers Of the Col.
Tate grade of Intellect are the political
Bibles Of the region. We have not the
exact fsur,s, bu, Benton, Jackson, Fish
ish Creek townships, and the vicinity, gave
Buchanan, Breckipridge and Woodward
about ten votes 10 one against them, while
but one out Of ten'vOted to restore 10 the
Soldiers the right Of suffrage.
Wrongly biased by the politically blind
OF the country, and iufluled TO madness
by the basest fslsehoois weekly told them
respecting the Admipis,ration, many OF
the peOf le there proceeded to Illegal and
trsitorous ac's. Rev. + p Eyer, while
holding regular religious meeting, vas
broken in upon By q drunken Job, who
told him "he might preach if he was a
Democrat, bu, not if be was an Abolition
is,;" they seized, aud attempted to hang
him, and be only escaped By fight.
Boosting as they do of"Free Speech Jet
they denied the right to Ed J. Rodeu-
bsugh aud other Uniouis's. Buildings of
prominent Union men we're burned down,
doubtless By their political opponents.
Drafted men, from the first, abscohied, or
banded together to eeade or resist the Jaw.
Firearms were procured, and alleged mil
itary defences prepared. An orgauization,
supposed to number Goo, was maue,
doubtless somewhat on the plan Of the
secret conspiracy recently exposed iu ln
diana. Capt. VIM. Silver, an enrolling
officer, while on du'y, was shot from his
horse, but not killed. O;ber persons of
known loyalty were also exposed to the
loss Of life, and the aDuoyances were in-
cressiug. Emboldened by these acts, and
encouraged By their party leaders, lending
them said and comfort" the deladed
handful really thought themselves host
They more openly defsd "Old Abe and
oil bis imps," declared they had plenty
of men who could draw bead at three
hundred yards, and empty saddles as fas,
Is Uncle Sam could fiji them. Daring
the Government, they were as much in
insurrection as JEFF Davis when be "oaLy
asked 10 be let atone"
These overt acts became so uotorious,
that, about the close of August, Gen.
tEAl SUuCu ctHt II
small bu. varied force, to attack this
Richmond of the Columbia county De
mocrscy. He "moved on the works"
but found them as bare of fighting men as
Virginia is ~hen Grants army has passed
over it. The "ferce Democracy" who
could boast so loud among peaceable peo-
pie, aud burn tarus and shoot (from am
busb) at single men or squads, had no
hearts to meet the blue coats Of the "ty-
rant Lincoln" in fair fight Some of the
creates, bOas,ers fed to Canada (where
'oey can not vote against the Government,
even 1t they will lot fgh, for it, while
others were very blapd-iuvited the ofi-
GERS to dine-and said i, was all mis-.
take -. And thus exploded the Fi.hirs
Creek Confederaey.
Tue reckless Bloomsbury editors and
tricksiers who led more honest neigh
bors into This ridiculous but bad -miuence,
Are justly chsrgeable with all the i'll feel
ins aud expense Of the affair They may
uy 10 laugh it cf as u ke" or scare"
but the facts are too we'll known. A re-
peiiion OF a hundred is as much be
condemned as rebellion of a mi ion.
Many persons have suffered the ext me
penalty Of the la" for crimes no er ter
than this. May the lesson teach be I
'creek nation" to confie no more in ,bos, I
Who provoked and encouraged them into
griesous error, left them 10 their peril.
and called them fools for tbs Cause,