Daily Ohio statesman. [volume] (Columbus, Ohio) 1855-1870, 1868-09-25
FATAL CASUALTY.
Seven Loaded Frefght Cars Pass
Over a Mans Body.


and ran over man named Nicholas Kahn
a freight conductor on the G. C. s. G. rail
road, crushing and mutilating his body il
J terrible manner. io - si's''ika .is'-A
He had been round the depot nearly al
the evening, and had been drinking, appa
rently. but, as one told uss pawas perfecti,
: able to take care of himself" just before
the train came in he went out into the
freight yard, east of the depot, intending
to get to the caboose car of his own train
to go to bed. 1t is thought that as he was
passing the switch he was knocked down
by the rear car. .tr1a 49,. .3E Z ~
: When lie was found he was lying under
the train, the wheels of the seventh car
resting on his neck, his face turned up
ward. From the appearance of the track
it would seem that he had been dragged
some distance before the train stopped.
He leaves a wife and babe few days
old, in Cleveland, where he resided.
THE OUTRAGE ON WEDNESDAY, NIGHT
We have been blamed by several of our
Republican friends for what they call our
'..hasty and imprudent remarks "on Wed.
nesday evening. 1t may be that
we were "hasty and imprudent.'
A procession of Democratic soldiers
in a Democratic city is assaulted
from four or five different points, in wards
strongly Republican, and to denounce it as
dastardly, outrage is "hasty and i'm
prudent."' A man who had fought four
years in our armies in ndefense of our Union
and flag is hit in the face with rock and
the sight of one eye entirely destroyed; !;
another has three OF his teeth knocked out
by stone, and to claim 'saneye for an eye
and tooth for tooth,"- is sshasty and im-.
prudent" But, says Mr.. Republican,, you
mustn't mind it, it was done "by boys"
How do you know this? Who set the
''boys" on? You Republicans who have
for years been teaching your young
men and ]" boys" that y Democrat
was a traitor and a rebel, and
deserved to be hung ION sour apple tree,"'
or shot down like dog. This is the nat
ural and necessary result ofyour teaching
You call us to-day the Ku-Klux Democ-
racy, and say that we are aiders and abet-
tors of murderers and assassins, If not
e-oopASSAtAo
say that every soldier who does not believe
as you do, as to the policy of this Govern
ment is 'hospital pimp,"a "skulker,"
''bounty jumper" a s'coward,n q "White
Livered Boy in Blue" "Blue Boy in
White" and the like, and your "boys" and
young men believe you, and believing that
a Democrat lis but little lower than the
de In 70 half = I,a III
duty to kill or main as many as they can.
Yet if the strong arm of resistance is raised
you say don't trouble us, sit is hasty and
imprudent,"r US have peace."-eyt =
All over the country these outrages are
being perpetrated. Not meeting is held
at which there is not some one hurt. At
the Democratic meeting in, indianapolis,
on Wednesday, Major John Kilgour, Of the
White Boys in Blue, while endeavoring to
keep his men from chastising the ruffians
who were stoning them, was struck in the
face with hatchet in the hands of a Radi-
cal, his nose split in two, and he disfigured
for life. A party of Democrats got on to a
train at Anderson, intending to go to the
indianapolis meeting, when they were
fired into by a Radical and one of them
shot dead. sEassEzs' aIz.@ vEsC TIs
Gen. Willich, in his speech at Tiffin, on
Wednesday night, said the people of the
North own eight thousand millions of dol
lars. OF this the Democrats own about
fifteen hundred millions, which we will
confseate and take from them, and this
would just about pay the cost of taking it
from them. ''You may think am joking,
but don't. No, am in earnest"
These outrages in Columbus and Indian
apolis, .and-the speech of Gen. Willich at
Tifin, all occurred on the same night and
at about the same hour
Thus, by preeept and example, you Re-
publicans teach your 'boys" and men that
Democrats may be shot, butchered, stoned
and robbed, and Ito denounce it is to be
''hasty and imprudent." The man who
does not in his heart as well as by his
words denounce these outrages is a party
to them. v
g The Columbus correspondent of the Gin
cinnati Gazette, speaking OF this matter,says
that stones were thrown, but attempts to
palliate it by saying that the Grant Tan
ners have been stoned every time they
turneI out We might jretort by using
what is now the Radical excuse, "boys."-
We simply content ourselves by saying
that if, as has been reported to us, the COM
mandant of the Grant Tanners knows
who the person is who threw the stones,
and he will report the same to the, Mayor,
the Marshal, the Colonel of the White Boys
in Blue or to any Democratic citizen, that
person will be promptly and severely pun
thisished; but no one ever heard of it until
assault on Wednesday night. We denounce
all these outrages. The man who would
throw stones at q procession of any kind,
without other provocation than party mall
ice, is coward who would be murderer
if he had courage enough, and isno better
than the devilish bushwhacker we used to
hang on sight. There is no need of these
outrages. The campaign in this city has
until now been conducted with an absence
tof bitterness that led the people to
believe that better counsels were prevail
ling, and that the same liberty OF thought
and speech would be granted by each party
as it asked for itself. We may have said
III JUG ueal anu uSAcIIemeHl VI tne lnOmenI,
| and smarting under the insult. more, per-
haps, than any one man ought to have said.
T. If the Republicans are honest in their de-
nunciations of these stone throwing ruff
fans, let them, as citizens, join with the
! Democracy in offering reward that shall
/ be the means of bringing these villains to
! Justice. Then, indeed,l will all bitter feel
ing be allayed; then, indeed, weshall have
peace --.---.--.-.
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