The sea coast echo. [volume] (Bay Saint Louis, Miss.) 1892-current, 1900-02-10
In KENTUCKY,

In commenting upon the gath
ering of mOuntaineers in Frank
fort and before that act had cul-
minated in the assassination of
Governor Goebel> the Knoxville,
(Ienn.,) Sentinel used the follow
ing justitiably strong language:
That NANCY, mad and mutt
nous mol of rank and rancid
rapscalIions which was dumped
upon the little city OF Frankfort
Ky. in a desperate and damnable
attempt to terrorize its people
and intimidate the Legislature of
a sovereign State, was disgrace
to civilization, an insult to decen-
cy, a cowardly and contemplate
challenge to the manhood of citl-
zenship. 1t was riot run riot. 1t
was the very madness of madness.
1t was the acme of outrage. 1t
was mOnstrous.
We have no interest in William
Goebel, save alone that which we
feel for the Democracy that he re-
presents, but if William Goebel
we're a thousand times the bad
man his enemies picture him, he
would still be the personitication,
Of responsibility, the incarnation
of honor, the beau ideal Of purity,
the emblem and the al of virtue
in comparison with the leaders of
such horde of bowling hood
lumS.
1t is enough to make the mild
est-mannered mad to the mark of
misery to contemplate a spectacle
so laWlcss and so lost to sense OF
shame. They went out into the
toughest region of terror, where
the life of man is an unconsider-
ed and an unvaIued thing; where
power is principle and buckshot
the only trusted friend; where
neighbor sinks in wait for neigh
Dor and human hands are washed
in human blood, and they gather
ed themup these moonshine muir
derers, who, for free whisky and
free ride and the prospects of
free fight, were willing to go to
the capital Of their State and
bring disgrace and death and sor-
row in theirwake. They embow-
eled he'll, let loose its wrath and
directed it on the ctatthousc
They gathered thugs and throt-
tier C0ge ther, armed them with
Winchester rifles, and sent them
forth to parade the streets Of the
unfortunate city. so recently the
scene of blood's reddest carnival,
to freightcn It's women, to murder
It's men, to bIacke4 its good name
before all the worlQ.
And these are fine IN Il who
shout for principle. God save
the mark? They goA out INTO the
lawless strongholdSs Of Bell ana
Harlan and Knox Eand Metcalf
and Barren, and furr r.ish transport
tation and y inchestars and booze
to blood-bIind despes ADDE'S and
send them on to Frankfort, arm
ed. dlunked and dangerous dare
devils. to demand justice.N They
90 to offer a protest, they Ny-a
protest most remarkablel NTH
rifles on their shoulders, whlAey
in their bellies aud murder in Il kir
hearts, they go to offer pro, d
No british and benighted bant Af
sayages, no hungry and howA
pack of wolves, no demons, ghost
or gobling damned ever entered
a defenseless city to offer protest
! in manner half so threatening,
| loathsome and depraved. That|
the whiskey died out in them, or
their courage failed, and their
bastard enterprise was abandoned
when they got there was not the
fault of that evil spirit behind the
scenes which originated and engi-
neered their cut-throat expedi-
ton. They went not to protest.
the seating of Goebel. The ave