The Richmond palladium. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1855-1875, 1866-10-11
GEN. SOL. MEREDITH.

when q mob Of about two hundred persons armed and
saupGsa :. me INTO The h.as ssd bsessap the NESTING
killed. they forced int, the stair case, and FOR
some nue kept the mob at bay, ssi 6Dak. mad good
their escape and reached the hotel with but little in
jury The General hit several times with stones,
and two Of the lcks injured him considerable on
the head and one on the arm.
I This sse most disxracefuf that occurred
IN all Eastern Inaiana and viii long be remembered
! by heS citizens. f7a go. s4 f+ @sss@ta
We learn that Colonel William Rckye was roughly
ndled by the mob for merely asking them 10 desist
and not mob gallant soldier ike General Sol Mere
dith- We do know what result Of all this viii
be-where il viii terminal and hat the finale of such
Of Law, and order. Are the people to stand
all this outrage? all this abuse, and quety submit 70
meet them with their own Weapons If nothing else
will do bat mobocracy let all into it, and spend
cur friends are to be struck down and beat, let Us
strike Down and beat their friends and continue the
work until they bare enough Of the play o-
We advise our friends To prepare at once for the
work, and not only prepare but go into it, and in less
han sixty days the matter viii be settled, and i will
shen be understood whether law and order shall pre-
vail or whether mobocracy will be sustained and be-
come the ruling power. y
re- We find the above in the Cam
bridge City Mirror, of the 18th, and pub
lish' it, in order to make some corrections
in the editors statements, and record our
condemnation of the outrage perpetrated
on the General
1t is true that General Meredith and
: Marshall Gooding came here to deliver
speeches. 1t is not true that there was
lady in the Hail. 1t is true that the
General spoke and that he-was interrupt
ed, and the meeting was broken up. 1t
is not true THAT the G eneral came ..near
being killed. It is true that the Gener-
al went into the stair case at the Hall,
and that he arrived thence safely to the
hotel; and it may be true that stones
were thrown at him, and that he was hit
on the head and arm by stones, but we
have no evidence that such was the fact.
The affair is di5graceful enough, with
out being intensified by downright lies
The only brick bat we heard of being
thrown, struck Robinson Morrison, and
by whom thrown, nobody knows, and Il
didn't go in the direction that the Gen
erai had gone, who was Men safe at the
Huntington House-having arrived there
under the escort of General Tom Ben
nett, who went into the staircase and
took General Meredith under his protec-
n
ton to the hotel.
Durin. the progress of the war, whilst
struggling to recruit the decimated ranks
of our gallant army, there was some ex-
cusein not permitting the VaIlandighams
the Voorheeses, and the DeveIins in ha-
rangueing the people to discourage en-
listrnents; but that day has gone by. We
are no longer battling with the sword, the
bayonet and bullet-we are again on a
peace footing, and engaged in settling
national difficulties by the aid of reason
and the free ballot. Freedom of Speech
and of tie Press" is one of the most
cherished principles of the Union party,
and the members of that party should
always guard with scrupulas care and
vigilance that sacred right of free peo-
pie, and not suffer it to be violated one
jot or little. Our glorious Union cause,
should not be marred by-snch disgraceful
scenes as occurred in our city on Monday
night last that furnishes the good name
of Richmond, and gives to such con-
temptible creatures as the editor Of the
Mirror, an excuse to stir up strife, even
to the shedding of blood Not content
with copdemning the outrages commit
ted, in firm and manly language, as an
independent editor of an independent
press should do, he gloats over it and
urges his partizans, to re enact the same
disorders-"spend the last dollar and
ch hn lac Of
cludes with this develish advice: ..If our
friends are to be struck down and beat,
let us strike down and beat their friends,
and continue the work until they have
enough of the playr' Had the editor of
the Mirror manifested one tythe of the
zeal during the Democratic rebel war. in
urging has Democratic friends to shed the
frst drop of their blood in crushing ont
the rebellion, that he now does in urging
them into a conflict to maintain freedom
of speech, we could now have some lit
tie respect for him and his counsel; but
he was found ''hammering away at the
other end of the line with his bosom
friend vallandigham, and declaring 1.-THE |
war failure" Instead of discounten-
ancing mob violence, he urges his friends
to prepare themselves and Ego into it,
and .prognostHates that the matter can be
thus settled in sixty days. Shame and
infamv rest on all who thus counsel, for
it is the advice of no one but mobocrat
at, heart, and who would instigate others
to do q mean act. which he himself has
not the courage to undertake r,aegs..
All good and orderly Union men, With
in the limits of our city, deprecate aud
condemn last Monday nights disgrace |
full work. We would not give rush for
our free institutions, if freedom of speech /
and of the press is to be trampled under /
foot. .s.~ -.,s.s.,s -s,,rf,9I
We are no friend to General NJ, a pres
ent political position-he has, We firmly /
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