Year: 1863

ton county, says the K G. C's are max
ing themselves desperately busy in his
neighborhood. NEARLY the entire Dem
ocratic party have gone into it. One of
their leaders boasted the other day that
he had initiated eighty in one night.
They are arming themselves as fast as
possible Men who are not able to pay
their debts are buying revolvers. We
know their leaders and most of their
dupes What the result will be, God
only knows"


What does this general arming por-
tend? To what must it lead? What do
the directors of the movement intend it
to lead to? Men don't buy arms and
turn out in parties of 80 to 200 at a mo-
ments notice for nothing. There is
deadly mischief in it which nothing but
the prompt preparation and organization
of loyal citizens can avert The danger
of collision at home is not past. On the
contrary it is greater now than it has
ever been, for the X G. C's are more
fully armed, and are showing, as in Rush
and Morgan counties, more evident
desire to provoke it


Again, to Illustrate the completeness
of the preparations of these disloyal So
cieties for collision, we may mention
an occurrence in our city. The night
after the attack on the Richmond Jefer-
Sonian by a squad of paroled prisoners,
the conductors of the Sentinel went to
General Darlington and begged for mill
tary protection, fearing that the same
squad, then in our city OH their way
home, would attack their Office. Tie
General promptly gave the protection,
as was his duty. But the Sentinel men
were not content with that. They sum-
moned the help of their secret societies,
and in ten minutes fully two hundred
men, armed, and ready for fight, were
collected in the building. We do not
blame them for summoning the help of
their friends against mob, for it was
their right, and we should have done the
same thing. But could any loyal man,
in danger of disloyal mob, summon to
his help, an ten minutes, q fully armed
band Of tlco hundred men? We suspect
not. 1t is to this ample preparation
for a collision, which in so many places
the members of the same order are try
ing to produce, that we call the attention
of loyal men. The State is full Of armed
members of the K G. C's, srorn to dis
loyal and criminal purposes, as they
hare themselves testified IN open Court,
and it is the dictate of prudence no less
than patriotism that they should not be
allowed to prosecute their purposes with
impunity.


it is easy to excuse the sudden and
preconcerted arrival of the SentiEel's
friends when the Office was threatened
by mob, but is it SO easy to excuse the
fact that they aoere ready? They didn't
know anything of any mob, or the danger
of it, one day before, yet here they turn
out fully armed directly How came
they to be ready? How came they to be
armed? How came they to be SO well
organized that they could communicate
an order in ten minutes to 200 men
This can't be done in a day. 1t cant be
done in u week 1t is the work of time
to bring men into such promptness Of
concerted action, and still more the work
of time to arm them. Is it not evident
that this band is precisely of piece
with those that turned out so promptly to
rescue deserters in Morgan and Rush
counties, and is equally ready for similar
demonstrations? 1t came out this time
for proper purpose, but its state Of read
mess fits it equally for a bad one. A
stick can be used to burn house as
readily as cook a beef steak when it is
once set on fire. Its members have re-
peatedly admitted under oath that Its
| character could not be revealed without
subiecting them to criminal prosecution
and the 200 armed men who were SO wei
prepared to meet mob, are just as well
prepared to meet a party of soldiers ex
ecuting the laws.


On Friday night the K. G. C.'s O.
Greencastle entered gunsmith shop anc
stole several guns, and for some days
past they have been arming with revol
vers, just as they have been in many Other
places.


How this arming has been done the
following from the Cincinnati Times vii
explain:


During the last fortnight quite mum
Der of lndianians have visited Cincin
natl and made extensive purchases o
pistols, &c, paying good prices, and onl,
limiting their outlay by the amount o
funds on hand.


On Monday the establishment of Mr.
Griffith, on Main street, was entered by
several of these persons from the Hoo
sier State. A person present, who sus
pectcd their designs, entered into con