Daily Ohio statesman. [volume] (Columbus, Ohio) 1855-1870, 1864-04-22
MOB LAW.
Desperate Abolition Riot at Green.
viIIe-Union Lenguers and Soldiers
take Possession of the Village
Outrageous Mal-treatment of
Citizens-Reign of Terror
i'm Darke County.

Citizens-Reign of Terror
i'm Darlke County.
We are informed by reliable gentleman
who returned to this city yesterday from
Greenville, Darke county, that for several
days past perfect reign of terror has been
inaugurated and carried on in that village
by the members of the Loyal League, aided
by squad of some thirty or forty returned
soldiers belonging to the Goth, 10th and one
other regiment. The abolition fanatics of
the town first got the soldiers intoxicated,
and then instigated them by the basest and
most wicked misrepresentation to "clean
out" the Democrats of the town.
One day last week a drunken soldier as
saulted and nearly killed an unarmed and
inoffensive citizen, for which he was arrest
ed and fined one hundred dollars. Ex-Con-
gresham WILLIAM ALLEN prosecuted the
offender on behalf of the citizen, and he be-
ing prominent Democrat, the Union
Leaguers directed all the prejudice and
malice of the soldiers against him. Still
urged on by the fanatics, the soldiers to the
number of thirty marched into the town
on Monday, with their guns and other
weapons. and were about to attack the Of
flee of Mr.. ALLEN. A few law-abiding men
assembled to protect the life and property
of their fellow citizen. The soldiers, aided
by the Abolitionists, gathered number of
store boxes filled with fire wood and erect
ed barricade in the street, from behind
which they fred upon the office and the un-
armed citizens about it. Only two citizens,
who were armed, stood their ground and
with revolvers returned the fire of the SOL
diers until they were shot down. The SOL
diers then entered the office and complete
ly Quilted it, tumbling the furniture, books
and papers into the street and destroying
them. They also caught Mr.. ALLEN, and,
as we are informed, disarmed and beat him
most shamefully.
Having achieved this feat to the intense
delight of the Abolitionists, and becoming
infuriated with their work and the whisky,
they commenced an indiscriminate assault
upon all citizens who were designated by
the fanatics as "Copperheads." A number
of citizens were halted on the street by the
Union Leaguers upon some pretense, when
the soldiers assailed them with stones, clubs,
knives, and all sorts of missiles and weap-
ons. They took possession of the liquor
shops of the town, and drank and destroy
ed at their pleasure. A country gentleman
came into town with several thousand dol
lars of bounty money, collected to relieve his
township of the draft. He was assailed by
the mob, dragged from his horse, severely
beaten, and narrowly escaped with his life
and the money of his neighbors. His horse
was led into grocery and pawned for the
whisky the rioters consumed. The terri
fled citizens closed their shops and houses,
and gave the town up to the furious and
frenzied mob, in whose possession it still
was when our informant left.
Greenville is the same place where a
Democratic newspaper Office was sacked
by mob of Union Leaguers few weeks
ago. Nothing was then done to bring the
plunderers to punishment, and they have
since become bold enough to defy all law
and maintain a reign of terror equal, in au-
dacity and wickedness, to those which in
years gone by were occasionally commence
ed by the regulators and desperadoes in the
frontier States of the South. In those
States and times, instances frequently oc-
CURED where whole communities were for
a season panic stricken and kept in COM
plete subsection by a few desperate and
lawless men, who murdered and plundered
the unarmed people at will. Events are
almost daily occurring in the State of Ohio
which show that such instances are not
confined to the half civilized States of Ar
kansas, Missouri and Texas.
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