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The Daily Dispatch: April 7, 1863., [Electronic resource], State of Affairs in Michigan--Bibles and Bullets (search)
ould deal justly to amended "nothing extenuate, or aught set down in malice;" but what was their astonishment when, after a brief introductory, to hear him propose to take a vote of the meeting to see how many of those present would "assist in hanging the Copper-heads of that county." At this juncture the Democrats present withdrew to the street, where the Abolitionists followed them, assaulting them with pistols, knives, bludgeons, and, in short, with everything available — instantly killing Robt, Lake, and seriously wounding — Malhill and Thomas Mooney. In that immediate vicinity the most intense excitement prevails, and more bloodshed is anticipated before the affair is ended. The Democracy of that vicinity are not the attacking party; they stand on the defensive, and the consequences of inaugurating civil war at home rest upon the Republican or Aboildor party, hired on by one who has professed to be a teacher of the precepts of "the meek and lowly Jesus" The responsibility of