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Show ILLINOIS AND UTAH. There are two counties in Illinois, which, according to the Chicago papers, have engaged a "reiyn of terror" for nearly two years, during which time tire,Uij-su--n persona have been kill' I, M?vfr:tl wounded and olhtra shot at. hit riot hit. The victims vic-tims have li-n ambuscaded in a cowardly manner, nud shot at from thickets and through windows. One' man wsis HMniiuunattd as he was riding home from church by his enemies hidden behind a fence. Another was shot while pit winy in a field, another while riding ulung the highway. Another w:n killed merely because he Wiis supposed to know too much. Two victims were called from their beds and shot by the light of their nwn himriH. WitneeseH of these oloody tragedies have been warned aut of the country, and one of them phot at for not leaving. Honest people peo-ple are afraid to denounce the murder, mur-der, and the officers of the law are intimidated. These deeds of violence and vengemuv have been going on lor nearly two year. yet nobody has been hanged or punished, and the Chicago Tribune nays that the population popu-lation of Williamson and Jackfon counties is cowed by the ruffianly class. This terrible state of affairs originated in a family qnarrel between two families named Bulliners and Hendersons, but it has spread very extensively, and seems to have divided a considerable portion of the population of thene two counties into rival classes. "Honest citizens speak cautiously, with bated breath, of the UUriUI HUH DIHDIUJtO VI.QIU. keep uocandlra lighted in their houses hous-es after dark, for fear of giving some blood-thirsty ruffian opportunity to firo at them through the windows. We have not spice lor a further report re-port of these on traces; yet as an evidence evi-dence of the civilization ot the present pres-ent day in a great central populous state, they are worthy of BOme consideration consi-deration from the pretsof the country, which has recently devoted much indignant in-dignant attention to a deplorable event which happcutd among the mountains moun-tains of a bonier settlement eighteen eight-een years ago. The result of Buch a statoof affairs in Utah as now exist iin Illinois would probably be the establishment of martial law here, if not Iho annihilation or driving out from their homes a large portion of the people. We are well aware that ruffianism in Illinois is no excuse for the Mountain Meadow massacre, but would like to see the popular indignation indig-nation properly distributed and brought down to the events of to-day. |