Show IN A CHRISTIAN LAND F The Awful Outrages on Mol inon Missionaries FLOGGED WITH HICKORIES Marched Out in Their Night Clothes by a Gang or Southern Toughs DANVILLE Tenn September 26th 1838 Special Correspondence of THE HERALDOn the 2d inst the defeated mob who waited upon us August the 19th called again to prove they were capable of PERPETRATING AN OUTRAGE fit only to be charged to barbarians Between the above dates we were visiting visit-ing friends in other parts The firs outrage spead freely and the lady of the house visited by the mobocrats with a ready temper busied herself in addressing letters to those who wer guilty of joining such a gang including includ-ing some near neighbors in which she told them of their hypocrisy in assuming assum-ing to be friends yet Judaslike in loaned a lantern or pistol to use arousing quiet and peaceable citizen from their slumbers in the dead of night The very language used was quoted to them and caused a smarting most vehe that found an outlet in a ment denunciation of any one who would presume to say such a thing The cap fit too tightly however and the stronger the denunciation the more positive became the evidence of guilt a very common trait with the THIEF MURDERER OR FIEND bahind a mask So complete was this expose that the mobocrats said they believed w < 3 had spies at every house in the neighborhood for miles around With a little stretch we might quote The wicked flee when no man pur sueth or a guilty conscience needs ao accuser On September 1st we were to meet a Friend from home spend a couple of days together and separate for our abors Anticipations were pleasant in he hopes of seeing some one direct rom home who could tell all the news of > recent occurrence Our friend came and kindly remembered us with some resh fruit from Utah a luxury almost u too w great for n a Mormon elder strongly impregnated with corn bread and bacon Knowing considerable excitement prevailed we used every precaution to reach our destination unobserved in tho mobocratic neighborhood Bello is the rams of a town within five miles and we were compelled to credit this town with a doctor who HEADED THE FIRST MOB An election was progressing the day we made this trip and whisky as usual was used freely to influence voters and craze the country rabble Hearing of our presence in the country they doubtless doubt-less organized either at this place or on their way home because we did not I reach our destination until about 5 p m and that we thought almost entirely en-tirely unobserved The family were a little excited upon seeing us fearing a repetition of what had transpired but being so accustomed accus-tomed to mobs and threats we soon entered into a lively conversation and dispelled to a great extent the gloom we noticed upon arrival We sang chatted and prayed retiring retir-ing about 10 p m Several times the barking dog aroused us but being in a land of rats we paid little attention to the brute that was evidently doing what he could to keep friends away and not rats About 2 a m a companion turned to the writer and exclaimed THE MOBS COME THE MOBS COME and in a moment the ruffians began pouring into our room as fast as they could the leader with a lantern exclaiming ex-claiming with drawn pistol Surrender Surren-der Surrender It took no time to tell he was in earnest from his reckless demeanor and gruff stentorian voice 1 His movements demonlike impressed us at once as though he had been in the business before Turning to his men more than a dozen in number all armed and hideously masked he commanded com-manded Take them out men I Take them out at which they seized and jerked us from the bed refusing with awful oaths to let us even partly dress An attempt was made by the writer two or three times to get his pants but he was snatched by half a dozen demon de-mon at each attempt To talk to be heard was out of the question the voice being drowned with blasphemies all seeming to talk at onca reminding a person most forcibly of a sectarian hell Just as the writer was being marched through the door he turned and looked to seethe movements of the man of the house in the adjoining room when MOST BRUTAL SIGHT greeted his eyes As the man reached the partition door coming into our room a devil guarding the entrance with an uplifted club dealt a terrific blow squarely on his head staggering him and making the blood pour out in a stream upon the floor The captain I then turned to him and said If you step outside of this house before 6 oclock tomorrow morning we will kill you This was said for fear the man would follow the rest of us to the woods and avenge the outrage upon his rights as a citizen He had formerlysaid they never should take us out unless it was over his dead body On they marched us in our night clothes through the mud it having been rain lug the day before in fact for a week until we reached a large beech tree about forty rods from the house We had no chance to talk for the noise confusion and constant profaning profan-ing drowned our voices Halted under the beech the first thing said by the captain was We dont mean to kill you and then he commenced cutting beech limbs from a quarter to three inarters of an inch in tniokuess They were hastily trimmed the captain trembling with madness uely knots left told most awfully upon our almost bare backs later Orders were then given to Tenon U3 DOWS upon the ground in a row whiCh were soon changed to forcing us over a log near by The resistance offered brought a blow over the head with perchance a pistol or a club and we had but one alternative that was submission We offered to answer to any charge before the law when we were given to understand under-stand in their own language We will show you a little law We are law enough for you An attempt to reason rea-son only seemed to enrage them the with more and soon we were receiving awful fury lashes from the beech limbs about five feet long m the hands of an infuriated mob The captain who gave the most fearful cuts was a man that would weigh about 200 pounds and of a bony mate up Each lash made AN UGLY WOUND and many of them brought the blood as they came on us with all the force and vengeance a 200pound demon could command Heads on one side of the log and on our knees on the other we raised up once or twice to beg for them to shoot and end the affair but as we raised others standing around would shove a pistol in our very teeth Not noticing this they would strike us over the head with it compelling us to keep the head down A promise was sought to be exacted that we would leave the country but we remained silent an unfortunate circumstance because of being compelled to promise later One of the elders jumped to his feet during the beating but he was soon forced down again and received more lashes than he would have received otherwise heard from their own At one stage we men pleadings that we be let alone which were unheeded One of their off party sickened at the sight walked about a rod and in returning was reported which ported as a man coming up brought cries of SHOOT HIM SHOOT HIM DOWN until they were assured he was one of tha number Finally they Itt up and we were told to return to the house If uttered was The last thing they you ever show yourselves here again you will look up a rope We returned to the house and found the owner bathing his wound and blood on various parts of the floor the poor woman heartbroken cams weeping our shoulders upon We bathed our wounds with turpentine turpen-tine and laid down the best we could until morning when we left we hope never to retura Our stripes have had time to heal feeling as strong as and we are again ever How long 0 Lord holy and true and avenge our lost thou not judge blood on them that dwell on earth A hoisted land of religious liberty Jive us a little liberty and less boast SAILS |