The Evansville journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ind.) 1866-1870, 1868-03-25

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/ the Kentucky shore, Ia bidding an al
/ fectionate farewell to sheir Democratic
( friends and taking a parting drink,
! Messrs. MeffOrd and Carney we're de-
/ tanned until some gallant country fei-
l lows, who had received information
/ Of the raid, came into Newburg
/ bank, shot at and killed Carney, and
wounded Meford. 1t is a great pity
/ the job had not been completed
at this time. It would have then re-
ceIved the cordial endorsement of
every loyal citizen of this County.
In due time there was intense eX-
from all parts of the county, as well
rallied frantically to the rescue.
! strong guard placed around it, and
Carney's body, placed in an OK wagon,
was hauled up town and left there
/ during the night. The next day the
| excitement continued. Everybody to
whom the least suspicion of disloyalty
1 attached was arrested, and a great
many unwarranted acts were,
as matter of course, committed
and publicly made everywhere. About
the middle of the forenoon a guard
was sent to remove him to the Mill
tary Hospital, a large and furious
crowd following, yelling and hoOting
at terrible rate. The soldiers.
however, about seventy or eighty IN
number, mostly cOnvalescent, who
had so ungallantly surrendered the
\ hx,c II.
~ spelling for a fight, blocked up the
door of the hospital and threatened
! to shoot anr one who should attempt
TO bring Milford into it.
La the meantime, the excitement
was growing more intense, and the
cries of shoot him." hang him,
ETC., were gaining volume and mo-
mentarily becoming more appalling,
1t was under these circumstances
that Mefford was again shot and kill
ed. There is little if any room for
establishment. Nothing less could
have been expected. He had been
guilty of a crime for which nothing
less than the surrender of his life and
home in eternal perdition could ex-
plate. Duncan did nothing more
than hundreds of others were anxious
and willing to do at the time, though
after sober, second thought, they
would shudder at. No one nor at
tempts a justification of the act In
itself, though every unprejudiced per-
son, must admit that circumstances
far less aggravating have often palli-
ated grayer crimes.
This is probably regarded as polit-
ical prosecution, as the following cir
cumstance fully proves: A short
time after the action of the Grand
Jury In this case became known,
drunken Democrat, whose whisky
had got the better of his discretion,
said By Cd | knew when we
got 81 De nocrat 9 Grand Jury, these
things would be attended to- +"
Judge Parrett, contrary to prece-
dent, / believe, assumed the response
bility of placing Duncan's bail at the
moderabe sum Of two thousand dol
lars His bond has already been
signed by about two hundred respon-
sible citizens of this county, Repub.
licans with probably few exceptions.
The indlscreet portion of the De-
mocracy express their qualification at
this arrest in unmistakable language.
The time has come" say they. for
us to be revenged for the persecution
that we endured during the war Eff
forts, / understand, were made to in
diet other parties who assisted IN the
pursuit of Mefford and Carney. The
only wonder is that these efforts were
not successful, as with very little i'm
provement the present grand jury of
this county could, be induced to indiet
every man who served in the Union
army, for murder in the first degree
Mai. A. L. Robinson made an eff
fective speech to the citizens of Boon
vile, last Tuesday evening, After
his return to Evansville, the Hon."
S. NJ HolcOmb, OF Gibson, and DR..
A. A.. McReynolds of Newburgh,
made an attempt to reply to his
speech. Neither of these last men
toned politicians " are distinguished
for long ears, but their braying leaves
no doubt of their jackass antecedents.
Nathan Pyatt, an illiterate old seal
lawag who has done the dirty work
for the Democracy Of this county for
many years, is about to be rewarded
by receiving the nomination of his
party for State Representative. He is
the man who assisted Sol. COker in
precipitating the celebrated Wide
Awake riot, in NeWburgh, In 1860, /
and then ran off and hid\in cellar. .
Frank Bethel, Esq, of New6urgh, !
is prominently spoken of as the prob /
able Democratic candidate for Sheriff. 1
| 1t has been the custom IN this county
to allow the same person to hold the
Office for two terms Whether this
rule will be suspended in this in
stance, is not, Of course, definitely
snttInd Il unrla amount IN o roro1n-