WHAT JONATHAN FOUND
till the men took part; and at last a crowd with guns and scythes and pitchforks marched down the street and took charge as vigilantes, and said the meeting should go on. And in peace. It was a case of fair play. And so it did.
You could see that the sentiments was changing. It wouldn't have been possible to hold that meeting a little while before. It wasn't easy now. Any one, no matter who, that hung out a Union flag would have been mobbed. And there was no vigilantes then to see fair play. There was only one kind of fair play a little while ago.
In the middle of the Square, Kratz, the editor of the Union paper, got on a box and made a speech:
"Enough men," says he, "has gone out of this neighborhood to make a regiment. But the most of them have gone the wrong way. And there are many more who would go that way if they weren't afraid of powder and lead. That's all that keeps them here eating us up who have hardly enough for ourselves. I'd
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