The Wyandot pioneer. (Upper Sandusky, Ohio) 1853-1868, 1866-08-02
Connerbeads Sustaining

COpperheadS Sustaining the
Merrill Jury. The Bucyrus FORUM,
the Copperhead organ, stands by the jury
in the Merrill case and says the people of
Craw ford county will sustain them in their
verdict-that is the metallic portion Of the
people, we presume. 1t denounces the in
dignation meeting held I'm this place not
only as All '.ifrespohsible gathering" but
as ''friob," and in behalf of the respect
able gentlemen who composed that meet
ing we hurl this cowardly falsehood back
into the teeth of its author. ! But to show
that there is class of naeh In Crawford
county Who do not endorse the political
verdict of the jury, and who don't sustain
this Coppethead editor in his slurs and
slahders on the people of this place, we
take the following article from the JOUR
Nal, the Union paper of Bucyrus:
AcQUiTAL OF MERRILL.-A heavy clap
of thunder, at noon-day, from a clear sky,
would scarcely astonish our people more
than the verdict of acquital 10y the Jury
on Saturday, in the case OF Ansel DeFor-
rest Merrill, charged with killing his
brother. Fitzlahd u. Merrill, at Upper
Satdusky, in September last. To say that
such verdict was unexpected; from the
evidence, is but vei'y mild way of Civ
ing the opinion of our people. These
things were certain :-Fitzland Merrill Is
dead-he died from the effects of a pistol
ball fired by his brother-said brother had
threatehcd to kill hiin,-sh6t him and he
died from the effects of the shot,-atd ii
was reasonable to suppose he would re-
ceiye some kind of punishment. The Of
fence was committed in Wyatdot couiity.
where politics was ih fi6 wise CONNECTED
with it, and where his attorneys kfew that
the accused could not escape punishment
Of some kind; hence the case ffa: Brought
to this county for trial for the PURPOSE OF
bringing politics to bear to mitigate the
punishment of their client. A struck jury
Uf SO was called to try the case. 80 of whom
as usual here, were Cops: the Union man
was soon ruled out, leaving jury entirely
Cops. His attorneys, A. NJ. jackson and
L. NJ. Bartley, in their pleadings. went out
from the tistta1 mode of pleading, and
made political stump-speeches to the jury,
charging the deceased with being an Abo-
litionist, and that the defendant was De-
mocrat. Their reasoning. when logically
rendered, was this: Killing Abolitionists
is right; deceased Was ali Ab0lltioiiist
therefore defendant did right iii killing
deceased. These attorneys are how chuck
ling oyefthe sttllibility Of Crawford coui1-
ty jufies-=we i1ave the best Of Btidei1ce f0t
stating that deceased wits the only ote
who ever voted the DetiiUefatic ticket iii
the whole Merrill family. Still the srecia1
pleading of these attorheys had the desif-
ed effect. The eXcitemefit iii utir!town OH
the reception of thenew was great, and
every where were knots of met1 disclosing
thefii, ahd dehouhcii1g the fesu11 it Of the
trial: When the news reached Upper
Saiidusky the excitement knew no bounds.
At ain early hour, as we are Informed, all
the bells Of the town we're iaiig. the peo-
pie fiocked together without distinction OF
party, aid it is hinted that had the defefid-
att beein present, that sutflinafy tlhish=
ineht would have been visited upon him.
The Merrill family have left Upper Sah-
dusky, and a report reaches us they had
settled in. Mansfield, but have Just beeh
induced to leave that place by meeting of
the citizehs called for the purpose. -,