Philadelphia Inquirer article on 25 October 1862
Your special telegraphic despatches [sic], last night, informed you of the most painful intelligence received here, yesterday afternoon, from Schuylkill, Luzerne and Montour counties. In seems that in certain regions of these counties known as the “Collieries” an organization has existed for sometime past, reaching back for perhaps two or three years, which has steadily and stubbornly resisted the due and proper execution of the laws of the land.
During the past two years, it is asserted, by gentlemen of veracity, who are perfectly acquainted with those regions, that there have been no less than seventeen most cruel and atrocious murders committed there, the murderers escaping the penalty of the law for the reason that no man could be found with courage enough to execute a legal process on them! ThYesterday afternoon the regular train on the Dauphin and Susquehanna Railroad, containing a number of men on their way to Harrisburg to enter Camp Curtin, was stopped and entered by an armed mob, who offered “protection” to any one who would accept it, and who wished to join the mob in resisting any attempt to carry off drafted men.
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Your special telegraphic despatches [sic], last night, informed you of the most painful intelligence received here, yesterday afternoon, from Schuylkill, Luzerne and Montour counties. In seems that in certain regions of these counties known as the “Collieries” an organization has existed for sometime past, reaching back for perhaps two or three years, which has steadily and stubbornly resisted the due and proper execution of the laws of the land.
During the past two years, it is asserted, by gentlemen of veracity, who are perfectly acquainted with those regions, that there have been no less than seventeen most cruel and atrocious murders committed there, the murderers escaping the penalty of the law for the reason that no man could be found with courage enough to execute a legal process on them! ThYesterday afternoon the regular train on the Dauphin and Susquehanna Railroad, containing a number of men on their way to Harrisburg to enter Camp Curtin, was stopped and entered by an armed mob, who offered “protection” to any one who would accept it, and who wished to join the mob in resisting any attempt to carry off drafted men.
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