Solicitor Daniel informs us that he
has never feared that Dowden would
be lynched and that he believed that
the people of the county would have
protected the prisoner and that he
was perfectly sale in Halifax county
J1 . ..
The news now goes abroad that
Halifax county people are a lawless
set. iNothing could oe wiuer 01 me
truth. The people of this county in
herited those law-abiding principles
which makes mob violence impossible,
and the sunshine of heaven never fell
upon nobh r, more loyal, or truer citizen-;.
Another fict is this. Dowden is
taken right to the borne of lawjers
who raised the m mey to effect the ap
peal and placed in a jail where more
prisoners hue e-eaped from than from
o'ir jul.
The removal of Dowden puts asiain
upon the fair escutcheon of the county,
because it says to the world that we
were about to engage in a lawless act,
and in the name of every law abiding
citizen of the county, we most emphat
ically denyit.
The above is taken from the Wel
don News. Having been reared in
Halifax county and knowing the spirit
and temper of its citizens as we do,
we honestly endorse the words of our
contemporary. There are no braver,
better, or more upright and law-abid
ing people in the world than those of
old Halifax, and the assumption im
plied or expressed, that they would take
the law in their own hands and resort
to mob violence is an insult to them
Their past record is a complete refuta
tion of the slender. It carries -its own
. indication.
Arnold's Bromn-Cellery for headaches.
If tried will not he found wanting, locts.
NASA POOR OPINION OF SOUTII
KliX REPUBLICANS.
