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Show Mild ''Insurrects." The mildest of mild "rebels, insurgents and traitors" trait-ors" were those eight gentlemen who were escorted out of the city as prisoners prison-ers by the Marshal and one deputy, on Thursday, for having been guilty of "rebellion and treason !'' What a wonderful thing it is to be able to use big words, and to call things by ugly names ! These terrible fellows, who had "aided and abetted" at the reception recep-tion of a fife and drum band of boys, didn't even cut the Marshal and his .deputy in pieces, salt down the quarters, quar-ters, and return them to town, as such ferocious warriors might have been expected ex-pected to do, for what else could you call such desperate men. cii or eight of whom would get up a formidable ''rebellion" against "the "authority of the United States ?" We tremble for the fafety of the nation ! It was well for the country that Judge Hawley was at his post, or President Grant might, ere this, hTe been compelled to call out "three hundred thousand morel" Only think; if the women and children who were at the band reception re-ception had armed themselves with broomsticks and pop-guns ! The result re-sult might have been awful ! The Judge should get a piece of plate in fact, a whole plate: a breast plate, or a soup plate, or any other kind, for his zeal and promptitude in suppressing this great "rebellion ;" and the Marshal Mar-shal should be made a Field Marshal at least, for having boldly captured them after the "wooden guns" had all been laid away. And then the unconsciousness un-consciousness of fear at taking them two or three miles from the city: eight of them, aad he only two himself and a deputy 1 We vote that he gets the old-fashioned parsley crown. Never mind waiting for the parsley to grow ; the dried article will do this time. |