The daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1873-1877, 1875-08-10
Tuesday. August 10. 1875.
Williamson County Outrages.

TheSt Louis Globe Democrat, esmmen-
ting on the Williamson, Illionois, outrsges,
has this to say: -~,r, ---..,~1t
No MAN sAFE-THE AssAssINs MASTERS
OF THE sITUTIoN.
I'VE hope the state authorities have
not failed TO adequately estimate the ext
eency of the situation. Our special advi-
ces indicate fearful state of affairs No
man considers himself safe. There is no
security for property. The assassins are
rampant and complete masters of the stu
alton. Good citizens are overawed, and an
exodus OF all peace-loving people is
threatened. Surely, if there ever was
case which called for executive action, this
is one. Where the honor Of a state is so
absolutely involved, no man could be found
who would question the propriety of such
a step. That q nest of murderers and ban
dts should be able to perpetrate their san
culinary deeds and deiantly maintain
themselves in the heart of a civilized and
densley peopled state is blot which Hill
nois cannot afford to bear upon her es-
cutcheon, and she should lose no time in
wiping away the stain. We believe Gov.
Beveridge will find in the constitution of
the state ample authority for his interpo-
sitiOn, and the people at large will Nh
doubtedly sustain him in his endeavor to
drive out the ruffians who lord it over
Williamson.
On this subject the Cairo (Ill.) Bulletin
remarks:
REASON WHY THE GOVERNOR SHOULD ACT.
1.-THE attention Of the governor is called
30 kka . ak ek,a
last victims Of the Williamson county ven
delta, we're Republicans. This should
arouse him into action. DR.. Hinchcliffe,
who was killed some time ago, was Dem-
ocrat, and it didn't matter; but Sisney
was Cepubliean, and the governor should
now interfere"
WANTED "A DEAD NIGER.
Referring to the astonishing inaction Of
Governor Beveridge in relation to the Will
hanson county murders, the Cairo Bulle-
tin says:
"A dead niggeris the hope of Williamson
county. If the people of Williamson will
raise purse and give it to some negro
upon condition that he will go to William
son county and permit himself to be as
sassinated-shot through the window as
Sisuey was, or hung to tree as was old
man Vancil-the problem will be solved,
AS soon as his stark body is found, the
devil will be to pay all over the country,
and somebody will be arrested on suspi-
cion, even if all the army of the United
States is necessary to make the arrest.
Dead white men don't have any effect on
Radical governors and other office holders;
it takes dead niggers to arouse them into
law enforcing action"
The State Register thus points out
WHAT ILLINOIS NEEDS.
What Illinois needs now,is live, active
governor. In all the northern states
where Republicans have elected governors
this want is felt very seriously. In Penn.
sylvania, the coal region was in anarchy
for months, and the Republican governor
took no effective steps to restore order.
None of the northern Republican Cover
nors propose to assert the power of a state
to suppress local disorder for the protec
ton of the people, lest by so doing they
bring discredit on the federal interference,
with local troubles in the southern states
On the contrary, they are much more like
ly to call upon the president for militar.
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