Pioche daily record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1872-1876, 1872-10-24
A MODERN CLAvERHOUsE.

During the reign of the Stuarts in Eng
land the most cruel and tyranical meas
ures were taken to coerce the non-con-
formists or covenanters of Scotland into
adopting the ritual of the established
church. This unfortunate people were
prosecuted, shot down at their own
doors, tortured aud subjected to every
calamity that devilish ingenuity could
devise. Among the men who were con-
spicuous in the commission Of these out
RACES was the celebrated Claverhouse, an
officer of cavalry, who made himself a
terror to the people by the frightful cru
elites of which he was the instigator and
the principal actor. The crimes and OPP
pressions of this man have been handed
down to posterity in history and en-
balmed in the deathless pages of Sir
Walter Scott. The worst parts of this
mans character seems to have found a
modern imitator in the person of one
Newton Long, who is terrorizing North
Carolina. We wonder what the people
of Nevada or California, or any Northern
State, would say, if, while holding reli
gious meeting, a body of United States
soldiery were to surround the building
where the meeting was held and dispers,
the a5semblage by force of arms? Sucl
a proceeding would excite public indig
mutton to white heat, and the punish
ment of the perpetrators would be yer,
properly insisted upon. Yet this yer.
outrage was committed in q Souther,
State, and not murmur or an expression
of disapproval is heard As proof o
this, the following extract from the vii
mington On G. journal will be. sufli
cient. 4..
The following letter. received las
night, comes from a gentleman of the
very highest character and position, anl
well known to us personally. His state
ments may be relied upon as strict,
true.
"On Saturday, the 21st inst, grea
| outrage was perpetrated in this count,
| by officers and soldiers of the Unitet
| States Government. While the King
Mountain Baptist Association, bod,
representing over 5000 COMMITMENTS
was in session at Bethlehem Church, on,
| Newton Long, Deputy U. S. Marshal
and one Archibald Moss, who seemed t.
anti tv I do,
! accompanied by squad of armed UniteC
States soldiers, detailed from Col Hart
command in Lincolnton, surrounded tn,
church, and forbade the people to leave
Long and Moss were both drunk, ant
Long cursed and swore very freely. Th,
proceedings of the Association We're com
pletely broken up. The pastor of thu
church went out and underworld to per
suade them to leave, and on their refusing
to do so the Sheriff OF the county arrest
ed Long for disturbing the religious as
sembly The soldiers cooked their gum
upon the Sheriff, and commanded Lon,
to come out. Efforts We're made to in
duce them to behave, and they wer
| promised that they would not be arreste
for further violating the laws of til
|
they would quietly leave the churc
grounds. They rode off in the direction
of the spring and many members of tn
Association returned to the house, think
ing they were gone. But they soon re
turned, and were galloping over tn
church grounds with their guns and pis
tolls, and broke up the Association tina
evening. When the people started HON
they found the roads picketed by so
diers, who were under Longs command
and even women and children were al
rested with guns pointed at them, an
compelled to wait the pleasure of TIL
fellow Long, before they could get home
Moss, l am informed by an eyewitness
cooked his pistol at a Young lady VIII
was driving off in wagon, and threaten
ed to shoot her if she did not stop a
once. The whole proceeding was an out
rage upon religious liberty, perpetrate
by officers and soldiers OF the Unite
States Government. The excuse the
rendered for their conduct was, that tn
We're searching for one Mayberry. VIII
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