| 512 wishes will not be unheeded, but that the Elders in this city and vicinity will be prepared to make every reasonable sacrifice, and "as giants, refreshed with new wine," go forth and proclaim the everlasting gospel to the children of men, that the world may be left without excuse, when the heavens shall rend and the earth shall quake; when the Lord shall punish the inhabitants thereof for their wickedness, their hard speeches and their rebellions.
Awake! ye saints of the Most High, ye ministers of the sanctuary, ye anointed ones, assert your dignity as servants of God and by faithfulness, diligence, and patience render yourselves worthy the high calling-the authority which has been placed upon your heads, and hast to carry to your fellow mortals, who sit in darkness, the light of the gospel, the blessing of salvation which shall raise them from the ruins of the fall, the degradations of sin, and set them on high, even to be kings and priests to our God and his Christ.
Murder and Lynching.
We are sorry to have to record two instances which have recently transpired, where the laws have been superseded and four persons unlawfully executed.
The first of these occurrences took place in Ogle county, in this state. It seems that suspicion having rested upon a number of persons for horse thieving, &c. The citizens had warned them to quit the state. This aroused the desparadoes [desperadoes] , who determined to be revenged, and a gentleman of the name of Campbell was shot. This occurrence aroused the entire community who made all possible search for the murderers, but did not succeed. They, however, captured several of the gang and took them to a grove to await the decision of the multitude, the following we copy from a corespondent of the Chicago Democrat.
"A more respectable assemblage of individuals could hardly be convened in the northern part of Illinois. There were ministers, doctors, lawyers, farmers, and mechanics, and amongst them men whose weight of character was sufficient guarantee that no single step would be taken which was not justifiable and even absolutely necessary. Before this tribunal the prisoners were put upon their trial. The examination was conducted with a calmness, a gravity, and deliberateness which could not have been surpassed had their responsibility been augmented by the obligation of an oath, or if they had been controlled by the fear of the pains and penalties of perjury. After a full investigation it was unanimously decided by the company, of whom at least 250 must have been present, that John Driscall and William Driscall had conspired with others to take the life of John Campbell, and had been accessary [accessory] to his murder-and that they were guilty of many other criminal offences [offenses] previously committed. Whereupon it was moved that they should be shot forthwith, and the motion was unanimously carried. At their request a minister of the gospel was provided, and an hour's respite granted for the purpose of religious conversation. At the expiration of the hour, the sentence was carried into execution, and without a struggle or a groan they yielded up their respective spirits to Him who gave them. Thus died two hardened ruffians, whose whole life had been one uninterrupted career of crime and wickedness.
The other circumstance took place in the state of Kentucky. The following are the particulars:
Maythe and Couch had been confined in the jail at Williamstown, Grant Co. Ky., for the last three or four weeks, charged with, and no doubt guilty of, the attempt to murder Mr. Utterback the Droyer. Mr. U. it seems, has been lingering in a miserable state-his throat having been horribly mangled-at a tavern a few miles beyond Williamstown, on a much traveled road, and an object of commiseration with every passer by. He is a citizen of Bourbon, the next co. to Grant, and where the excitement has been increasing ever since the attempt to murder him. It being now problematical however, whether Mr. Utterback might not survive-although in such restored situation as to be neither useful to himself nor his fellowmen-the uncertainty increased whether the utmost penalty of the law would be visited upon the prisoners, nothing less than which, it seemed,
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