Eureka daily sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1871-1887, 1883-03-30
An EARNss ~AssEMBLAGE.

There is something profoundly sug-
~cestiye in the manner in which the put.
ragged people Of Uniontown. Pennsyl-
vania, congregated for the purpose OF
saving TO the world that they repudiated
and denounced the action of the Court IN
releasing Lyman Dukes without punish
ment. Assembling in the town school
bopse. without noise or hustle, there
could be seen written upon the face OF
every man walking to the place Of assem-
blage the calm, but imperative, demand
that the offender should seek a future
home elsewhere. Underlying this pur-
nose. as plainly manifest as though YER
bslly uttered, there was al expression
OF pain that a great public calamity had
befallen them. There was an air OF stern
purpose, tinged with humiliation, upon
the features Of the men that indicated
nerves braced up by a deep internal ex-
element. which could find vent in action
alone. and would be tolerant OF the few
est words only. Toward evening people
BEGAN to straggle into town from the
nearest country districts, with sober,
earnest faces, as though they had come
through the storm to perform a solemn
duty. Shortly after ! o'clock a special
train came in by the Southwest road,
Ioadod to the stops with men from Con-
nellsville, Dunbar and other points along
the road. 1t had been intended to hold
the meeting in the open air, but on ac-
count OF the cold weather it was decided
to meet in the schoolhouse. The school-
house bell was rung; the band turned
out, and in ten minutes the large exhibit
ton hall was packed, floor, gallery and
aisles, as the Courthouse had been dur
ing the most exciting days OF the trial.
A solid mass Of men, who could not get
even standing room inside, toiled out to
the foot of the first fight Of stairs.
Resolutions OF condemnation were
adopted by the assemblage in such terms
that the Philadelphia Ledger remarked
that his punishment, except for the mere
breathing and eating and sleeping, is
worse than death.
Among the few who spoke to the reso-
lutions was Rev. n. ?. kere, whose
words, quoted below, will echo in the
ears of their subject as the clang OF
funeral bells as long as he lives to recall
them:
'.yVell may parents trembie for their
daughters when twelve men can be found
who are so base, so lost to all sense OF
manhood, decency and honor as to rem
der, directly contrary to all the evidence,
the verdict which acquitted Lyman Dukes
of the murder OF Captain Mutt and OF
responsibility OF the terrible blot which
he had attempted to put upon the fair
name Of his family. May the names OF
the jurors go down to posterity as the
black list Of Fayette County, to be re-
membered only with shame and mex
pressible disgust; to be remembered
throughout the State as those who had
committed the monumental act of in
fanny; and as for Nicholas Lyman Dukes,
may ne 20 iotth " 4ealu, do o"ih 49,
what it is to bear upon his brow the
brand of a murderer. May he learn that
there is a punishment which no bribery
can avail and no treachery turn aside.
Let him 90 forth to learn chat when he
shall stand in the presence Of purity and
innocence, his conscience shall sting and
accuse him of the lowest forms OF licen-
tiousness and debauchery. Let him learn
that the curse Of Cain is upon HIM,
whithersoever his footsteps may go. Let
him learn that the hand that penned such
letters as he wrote to Captain Mutt Is
the hand OF a cowardly assassin. Let
him learn that, all in all, he is a man
who would shame the most abandoned in
habitant OF the internal regions"