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The Daily Dispatch: October 11, 1862., [Electronic resource], The secret society — movements in the Northwest. (search)
in the States north of the Ohio — and that opportunity will not be wanting so soon as the troops called for have gone to the South. A few days since we had at Lawrenceville an instance of the effect of the spirit of lawlessness which pervades society. A narrow-minded, bigoted, vicious Democrat, without any cause of quarrel, but athe writ he would kill him. That night this fellow and fourteen others, all Democrats and Knights of the Golden Circle, armed themselves, passed openly through Lawrenceville, and beat over to where the negro lived, shot him and stabbed him nine times with a bowie-knife, of course killing him. Law-abiding citizens were, of course, shey did right, "the d — d negro ought to be killed." The parties who perpetrated the deed move in open defiance of law and have sent notices to the citizens of Lawrenceville and vicinity, who condemn the act, that if any attempt is made to indict them, that they will kill every d — d Black Republican and Abolitionist about here.--T<