The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1869-08-06
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LAW lessncss in kcntuclSy-TwCnty- five Men
Hanged by Regulators, and Many Driven from
the STATE.
correspondent writes as follows from Har-
rodsburg, Kentucky, to the Cincinnati CONNER
cial:-
Your readers will be incredulous when they
are told that within les, than twelve hours of
Cincinnati, in a radius of twenty miles around
this spot, more than twenty-five persons have
been hung by Regulators during the last two
years. probably hundred severely lashed, and
an unascertaned number ordered to leave the
county. But little of this has reached the public
prints. 1t is at the risk of life that this state
ment is now made.
On Saturday evening ten days ago, the town
was alarmed by fearful cries from Il wrctched
man who was seized on the streets taken out
side the corporate limits, and swung to the limb
of a tree, until plying hands next day removed
the fostering corpse. This man prayed and
pleaded that he might be allowed trial before
the courts of the county for any crime charged
to him. In the stiffness of the night his anxious
pleadings could be heard for half Il mile; others
some Observation-Disclosures TO reach the ears
of the parties who were binding the struggling
victim. They could not give the countersgn
and were promptly rcpused, while the man (sOn
of a former representative of the county in our
Legislature) was gagged and hurried to his
doom.
We hear to-day that negro was hung last
Saturday night in an obscure part of the county.
On the same evening cath inst.) the house of n
reSDecIaDle WIDOW Ill lHc JOWu was luNuucu DN
an armed and masked band. Narasdall, once
sheriff of the county, was demanded. lie was
seized, ordered to pay within five days a con-
tested claim of some thousand dollars, or that
swift Judgment would be visited upon him.
These deeds of violence, unrestrained and un-
opposed, are multiplying with terrible rapidity.
The trees are pointed out along any OF the roads
leading from this place, where one and some
times two wretched sufferers have been strangled
from the same limb. Some of these have, un-
doubtedly, been vicious criminals, well desery-
ing their fate if administered legally. The COM
munity are still ignorant of the reason why
others were hung and whipped. Our Gov
| ernor is aware of these transactions, but
| as yet has taken no steps to vindicate the law.
| Our Judges and State Attorneys are evidently
| intmidated by the boldness and strength OF
| the so-called Regulators, any number of whom
| are known, even to the schoolboys on the
! street. A sense of this stimulates the leaders
! with such audacity and activity as give cause
! for grave alarm to good and thoughtful citizens
Many of the parties comprising the band origi
! nally are said to be unusually law-abidng anC
order-loving men, who organized to rid the
| country of notorious pests persstently and re
peatedly pardoned, through weakness, or some
| other failing, of Governor Bramlette. Sucl
sores having been cured many of the Origina
parties would be glad to stay further proceed
| ings and disband; but being Oath-bOund anC
committed, and under enlarged numbers anC
new and daring leaners, they cannot escape
without certain perilous forfeitures. Where
| will this lawessness end ? What remedy cal
be called to our aid The authorities arount
| us are evidently inadequate to give relief.