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anddisarmed the enemy, wili financially ruin us? - Is not the Government as able to pay tin'sbounty as it would have been to# •have continued the war at fourmillions per day?There is a way in whichVVo think so.this*that the valiant Generaldug8ditches’and threw up brers1 workw . ...near his residence, intending to imitate his Southern brethren, iiby dying in the lastbounty can be paid without bringing “financial ruin,” unless it heto leading rebels.. Let the largeplantations of the leading traitors of tho South be.confiscated and sold to the highest bidder forcash, and the proceeds handed over to the veteran volunteers—let the former owners of these landed estates be punished for :• treason, as they should be, and the Government will not benecessary,my Jditch. After Humphrey's arrest,, and while confined in this citv,he was very humble, and seemed. ' * * •to regret having taken part withthe enemies of liis country; but\ ,since lie has been allowed toi . •at will through Greonerangeand Sullivan counties, he seems. ' * lt;to be more bitter and turbulentthan ever, and Union men who* • # * *have in the least helped to serve their country, either in* the field*‘financially ruined,’ but strengthened, both financially and in the confidence of those who defended and preserved it. We hope to see Congress act justly in de-or at home, may expect to be. theirecipients of his’enyehomed hate.* »The . Reason Why.—In N rthciding this important question.the tn'iianapo’.i* Journal.The K. G. C.’s Still Live.'1Tf.rbe Haute, February 1.Strange things occur, but none more astonishing than the proceedings now going on in StiTli-\.van county.A'ndrew Humphreys, of Greene, who was tried and convicted with Bowles, Milligan aud others lor treason, whilst Bowles, Milligan and Horsey are suffering the penult v of their crimein theO li: o iCarolina sixty-four out of every hundred of the white population can neither read nor write. In South Carolina seventy eight out of every hundred of the white population is in the same condi-j t-ion of ignorance. This is the effect j' j * 4 ' * . , * • . • .oft he presence of slavery’, now happily abolished. The lordlyslave holder with his vast landed¥»ot course scorn to send his Children .to school with the children of the poor white trash.. The poor whites could not support schools, without the aid ( of the: wealthy. These latter sent their children to Northern schools and therefore felt no interests at home. This]tlt;.unnappyl( T- , . ! condition of thing3 degraded andI emtenUary,.Humphreys ]S4ros- brutlUi2ed the t £ of theecuting Samuel McCormick and {„tlt;other Union men of Sullivan county for false imprisonment.A court of conciliation washeld on the 30th, at which the parties appeared, but did not conciliate.lt;Other Copperheads have also sued Union men for discharging their duty under the authority of the United States. Humphrey’s attorneys are Ex-Judge HannaandjSam. Hamill.Terre Haute.Humphreys vs. Samuel McCormick.—The Indianapolis Journal says: It will be seen from our letter from Terre Haute, that Andrew Humphreys of Greene county, has commenced suit in Suili-van county against Samuel McCormick and other Union men ofthat county, for fake imprisonment. It will be rememberedthat Humphreys was arrested, arraigned and tried, with Bowles, Heffren, Milligan and Horsey, for conspiracy against , the Government of the Uniled States, aswell as other charges not neces-i tsary to state. The proof, as relates to Mr. Humphreys, shows most conclusively that lie belonged to the conspiracy; that he wasa third degree member of the Order of American Knights, and that he attended the State Convention of' Knights in this city, on the 14th of June, 1863. Itwas also Droved hv witnessesproved by who were not impeached, that on the 4th of June, 1863, Mr. Hum-plireys was in Sullivan county at the head of an army of four hun-' . i ;dred men, following, a detachment. of United States soldierswho had impressed a horse for' JL. ♦ 'the use of a'- sick soldier,- arid .that members ,of he mob army urider Humphreys wanted’ to kill Mr. Cowgill, a Deputy United1 States Marshak as well asHany. other man who would attempt to enroll Cass township in • thatcounty. . : :Humphreys was s jor.GeneraFat a'rrieeting of thleading Knights, and was to'have. '• ; • *•;f.P /• A • 7 i - i .»,:•/».».1 / i-1, command'.of the southwestern dLwhite population in those States. These facts throw volumnes of light upon the real character of our Democratic politicians who have shown themselves such in-plexible advocates of domestic slavery. Intelligence is fatal to their aspirations, hence they have always been in favor of the propogation and extension of slavery. But for our free school system, where our boys learn to read and reflect, the miserable, impudent demagogues of that party would have enlisted our whole population in favor of the Copperheads, in the war against the rebellion. Take any strong Copperhead locality and you will findThat the inteligence and morals of the people are below tbe average, and it is upon that class who do not read, that the Demo-crat most relies for his support.The slave States where the hon-» * .est aspirations of the poor were ever repressed by the power of the slave holder, the Democrat always regarded as the paradise, of politicians. .Hence their .anxiety to introduce the divine, institu-* # ' , * . « , i •tion into the Territories, and thefree States. With its introduc-* . lt;• ' .tion, the free , school, the poor, man’s college, wop Id have disappeared, ignorance and Democracy triumphed as in the South. Such men as Jeff. Davis, Toombs,Rhett, and others would ha lorded it over both black and white. Thank God slavery is abolished in the South, and Yankee ‘school books will now. find a market there, and after one or two generations, modern Democracy willV * „ . , . - - * «*• •*have -.eased to exist, and will.be remembered, only for its crimes1 -■ a + 1 •' - ‘ 'againsthumanitv.1itt111{1i1r111. %rcitst1IIBrigham ,Y oungThe. Mormons.is reported to have 185 wives. Silas Reeder 129, Jeremiah Stern, 111, Job Billis ‘ 93,': Julius Huffman 81;, and Gideon,Ruffian .84. Theslt; eii fclemeri w .suppose, are, the nobilities of Salt/Lake. ^ Brigham’s” oldest wife is,not over 49,i . : * . t . lt;• ' ‘ - . * ; • ; * . ■* : . * *«and.his youngest not above 14, while he is the survivor of no fewer .Than 38- spouses. SilasReeder, ^10 . next inimorig' the Saints,' as might ,be supposed,is so apt tp; forget the names of his wives that he has to call them in- The'l —. Imassesi ^ iin fie'JT-.icIt»3s:3C1jtlt;t1*■crcIcrcs£ttft{]tllt;a.c1r.tcou I try fiaye only, orielwife, and5 • * t * ”' ' •! ^ ^ *• r : ■ * * .r‘» s ^ayeraevirion of*the Stalo, and it ir. *a,,l i i4a chiT-rC.i- *« -wX*t
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Worthington Gazette
Worthington, Indiana, US
Wed, Feb 14, 1866
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