Lynching Law:

LYNCH LAW: A few weeks since we noticed the murder of a Miss Thornton of this county, by one of her father’s negro men. -The negro was lodged in jail-having of his own free will confessed the crime. The case was called at the last term of our Circuit Court, and a day set for the trial. When the day came on, much to the surprise of every one, on application, a change of venue to Greene county was granted. The mur- der had been attended by the most diabolical and aggravating circumstances which the imagination can conceive. Yet, the heart-rended parent and outraged community had permitted the law to take its course till it arrived at this point, when they would stand it no longer. Accordingly, on Wednesday night last, about 12 o’clock, a number of gentlemen, from the neighborhood where the foul deed had been per- petrated, comprising, from what we can learn, some hundred or hundred and fifty, of the most respected citizens, came to Livingston, and some of them, entering the jail for the purpose, they said, of committing a negro they had with them, got possession of this boy Dave. Others imme- diately ran to their assistance ; the keeper of the jail was held in duress and the negro was borne off by the infuriated throng. We were unable to learn what the punishment reserved for the negro was, but it was intimated that he was to be burned on yesterday in the neighorhood of Mr. Thornton. It is proper to remark that the Sheriff, one of his deputies and the jailor, were at the time on a trip to Wetumpka, with Robinson who was sen- tenced at the last term of Court, to the Peniten- tiary. the deputies, however, which were here, are entirely free from censure. We cannot approve this high-handed measure, for, aggravated though the case was, while we have laws we should abide by them. [Sumter (Ala.) Democrat. LYNCH LAW.-A few weeks since we noticed the murder of a Miss Thornton of this county, by one of her father’s negro men. -The negro was lodged in jail-having of his own free will confessed the crime. The case was called at the last term of our Circuit Court, and a day set for the trial. When the day came on, much to the surprise of every one, on application, a change of venue to Greene county was granted. The mur- der had been attended by the most diabolical and aggravating circumstances which the imagination can conceive. Yet, the heart-rended parent and outraged community had permitted the law to take its course till it arrived at this point, when they would stand it no longer. Accordingly, on Wednesday night last, about 12 o’clock, a number of gentlemen, from the neighborhood where the foul deed had been per- petrated, comprising, from what we can learn, some hundred or hundred and fifty, of the most respected citizens, came to Livingston, and some of them, entering the jail for the purpose, they said, of committing a negro they had with them, got possession of this boy Dave. Others imme- diately ran to their assistance ; the keeper of the jail was held in duress and the negro was borne off by the infuriated throng. We were unable to learn what the punishment reserved for the negro was, but it was intimated that he was to be burned on yesterday in the neighorhood of Mr. Thornton. It is proper to remark that the Sheriff, one of his deputies and the jailor, were at the time on a trip to Wetumpka, with Robinson who was sen- tenced at the last term of Court, to the Peniten- tiary. the deputies, however, which were here, are entirely free from censure. We cannot approve this high-handed measure, for, aggravated though the case was, while we have laws we should abide by them. [Sumter (Ala.) Democrat.