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1869.the 8urge of the f bloody play in \nd still we lis-Knapp’s 1 ieces frombat-n.to pieces from oure replying. Fierc-t our guns held were withdrawn.863. A musket ine, another ands are fireing rap-tack t The shrillmgle are heard— at I Our boys art ; ire has become »ats are cor ning •ut steadily firing, are with us andcreek, in serried »de, and we so 1 two brigades It*, and we see tetorpien, ttnT'fiower 1artillery of i main road, isition, and fo help, noTo gleerear, loforthis fi i might, ___ knew our master couldit too—for agali je, falling upon u* and earnestness,! did bearing of the| 1 the storm of mw gain crushed ancclnng with might tition, rallying am to shudder to the wer ofthe resistingThe Meriden OutrageI.etter IrofFrom the Hartford Courant Meridenadvance with stiff slope of the, ouble quick, their ie breeze—the 4 hi dr battle cry and line following af-h former victory,it our brigade-linef death—repeated er seemed crash-ic enemy replied, of the hills, thethe^muzzles seem-ning*s flash, reso-rollT The leaden Down drifted the nd dashed to its ther into the flame * our murderous , and reeling, theyon Tuesday a man named Parker waylaid a man named Riggs, whowas hastening to the cars with his armsfull of bundles, assailed him with the butt end of a heavy whin, knocked him down, kicked him and beat him. The police took charge of Parker he confessed to an assault, was fined twenty dol-paid it, and dendoubt thinks he got off very chcsply, and so do we. A Mr. Curtis pulled the nose of a Mr. Churchill in a Boston car the other day, and he is now serving a two months term in the common jail fcr it Churchill had told Curtis that ne was not a as daman ; Riggs had printed a veryarticle about Parker. In Bostona slight assault as nose-pulling will hmtafter be regarded as too expen-luxury. In Meriden, if anybody isat any body else, he may knock and drag him out for twentyhim downdollars.1 tha Boston cate the judge, in giv-teatence, said the provocation could it considered. And this is the only rale tin a civilized community. No man bg allowed to take the law into his I hands, to bo judge and executioner. In a community where brute force prevails, no oof is sale ; the bully is king of the situation. Besides, .the remedy always increases tha disease. In a community where pcrscmte attacks are permitted, it suits the offensive words or action seeming to warrant or excuse them, are always most frequent. In the south and west where and when it was allowable to cowhide and shoot editors for personali-in print, the most unseemly and disgusting newspaper personalities were and 1 are most frequent. Lawlessness begets iwlestncss or all sort%the Boston case the judge properly that punishment ought to bo suited the circumstances of the offender. Mr Cortis would have willingly paW any-IT From the Enrroits Gazktt siuIm one of tho ever been our uriv left our homo in ] was in our minds tlt; friend* in this tow 'laces of popular 1 ere and felt the c that were thrown a our friends of othi and cordial greetin hand; the bracing from the Sound an through your aven *o Keyser’s. Wilao other points of ii Scofield, by hia coi carriages and very uted not a Uttie), t groves down on thlt; one other things c) caused us to glalt; heat of railroad t vanity and bouIhuc watering places (to of wickedness) an delightful seaport, aides for aa. mg, ]creation, with real has Norwalk seem*mer, nor the peopl dial. Not for one 1 e tarried herand we have fouhas been continual by the number and advantages, why ] more popular as a 1 an hour and tliree-bnt a-trifle longer It may be that yi have not been in1cannot now be saidNorwalk, under itsprietor, Mr. Foote, and putting his horwe may judge will bejreasonable flue, to that no money gtnaltywould have reached _Kunent he would feel, and the j used the statute to punish him b term in jail. The object of the mentoC assault Is the protection citiaeas,nnd that end is onlyte^nce that f thtcriiHorcrimemen, as not to be entitled to pro• In this Meriden outrage, the that tha assailed pnrtv is an editor nothing t6 do with tho rase. An cd-has the same right to protection thatnanufacturer has, and he can be reach-by law at well when he offends. We• word to say in defenfcc ol theii-of the pres ; personalities aretoo common ; yet public duty quite requires that the editor should be bold in stating facts and truths which con-the public. He is to be supportedthink it will le a debted to Capt. I3 BroLucre, for pnvil fast, we feel hke m body. We have heCongregational, Mlt;as, (and we kno enough to know U good preaching frc permitted us to hei good food, and alef not been tronbled the fever and ague the friends that on upon half the num sincerely hope that fsel that we meant a avrord, we have h nst tliink that wo h ghd : wo foel rente to our home* will put* to work foi woehj ago.itinue, the fate 1 balance, de-the brave fel-It was ten tad given out* i for the last Wig along the 'e must, boys, ire hoys 1 and from mouth to, answered that The eacmy ad reached us and they fell was peace, line they bad mbling us up, ned, had |iv-right, and prosecuted ana pun-Fff-| ished whenlie opinion will generally make a decant newspaper ; bludgeons never will. And the “criticism” of bullies, made wuh 1st and horse-whips on newspapers must cease. We are not more concerned ‘in this than the whole community. It is an outrage upon everybody when one manissaultsanotherlionlet that assault go unpunished do se into barbarism. The gooddegraded by everylawless brutaljty, no matter what thepro-n it. Lawlessness in a commuoi-tionr ia not justified by lawlessness paper.tews Pstaiscs,Ttf V. RlirVlin Af VsIt v.yre bettor f lunged a l'arkui neck and drovi us ltlark Point cro ardlv and unproKiggs. Smaitinbiiro for his disgr “uilonco the preaHas the e.xparimi much! To-day, preee of the land in no measured temptible thing,tocraUc bully, wtoersted in jail foisufficient season other bullies, wh dent, from the todignat ion which j —(we have not r in twenty that ce that the press is it will not rest ui
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Meriden Literary Recorder
Meriden, Connecticut, US
Wed, Sep 08, 1869
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