The Mt. Sterling advocate. (Mt. Sterling, Ky.) 1890-current, 1895-01-08
The Messengers Unwise Tirade.

and misguided enough to delivei
itself of the following: (Th'
italics are ours.
News has just reached us thai
Thomas, Blair, our countyman
was recently incarcerated in the
Montgomery county Jail for shoot.
ing at his cousin Dick Day with
out sounding him, and while in
Jail awaiting the action Of the law
some of Mt. Sterling's citizens who
are cowardly outlaws and unprin-
cipIed debased fiends, without any
noisy protest from the jailer, took
Blair from the jail and murdered
him by hanging him. Such conduct
is sad commentary on the civil
cation of the citizenship of Mont
gomery county. Such people who
would either perpetrate or wink at
such an abominable deed, have no
regard for either human or divine
law, and are utterly oblivious to
fhe existence of human rights.
@This is not the first mountain
man that a Montgomery mob has
murdered, and ire haze no reason,
.jgdgiag from their state Of feeling
to1ard as and their past conduct,
that it UiH be the last. We 'cdIm
Morgan men to steer clear Of Mt.
-Sterliag If they are likely to take
y drink or commit q triUjdt 0fenSe
That wiU gre the leecheS Of the lar
there an excuse to take them into
r'RSt0dg; and iRJ0ct, ace do not be-
fjere the most derOUt Morgan man
rs safe ia the torn; SRCb IS the hd-
zred Of a portion Of her citizens for
oWF people IN general. Our people |
have extensively patronized Mt.
Sterling's banks and merchants,
and many of them have sOrely suf-
fered by it, md ne ShoW!d boycott a
form, where pubJic sentiment has not
yeached that higb standard in II,
&tGt WW guarantee, to ecen Nor
yGR citizen q fair and impHrjjoi
2riol under the form of law for any
breach of our statutes.
IF the good people Of Mont
gomery, and there are many of
them, fail to ferret out the perpe-
traitors Of this henious crime, and
punish them according to law,
che good and bad people Of Morgan
UiU 6n every acay hOld them reSpOn
s55le for their failure to eradicate
he 20WdHd their O1Cn goOd name.
We do not claim that Tom Blair
was free from shortcomings, but
we do know that he was a brave,
honest man, and as true "a friend
"a ever wore hat. He was made Of
such material that he would not be
a party to such a distardly murder
rs the sneaking cowardly scoun-
dreis were guilty of when they
hung him. Tom Blair left a host
lf friends in Morgan who mourn
lis untimely taking off, and the
f9ulness of it, and rhO are more
non likely to aoenge his murder.
We say let no guilty man escape"
We do not believe that the Mes
ienger reflects the sentiments of
'he people Of Morgan county in
he above article. We are extern
iiyely acquainted among Morgan's
rest men and we have certainly
them if they endorse l
Iuch incendiary sentiments as are {
implied and expressed in the above
trtiele. We know Editor { araway
md cannot understand how he =
.puld have allowed such an article
o creep into his columns.
Has the Messenger ever stopped :
o think how many mountain men
even Morgan county mountain
men are now, and have recently Il
'een, holding positions of trust and l
,rodt in Montgomery county?
Viii he stop and count how many =
athens of Montgomery county are
ither natives of Morgan or are
lear of kin to many in that coun- b
y. Possibl y the bitter hatred the
Messenger speaks of will vanish =
uto thin smoke if he will stop for u
moment to think on these and
one other things we might men v
ION did space allow, 81
Brother of the Messenger, we .
ia leave to you to say if the SEN y
ments expressed in your ar
cie are not akin to those which 81
.tuated the cowardly scoundreIs il
their fiendish murder of Blair. n
the sentiments Won EXPRESS are