92 demonstrations that the moral courage of one man is able to withstand the rage of the infuriated crowd. ••The murder which had been perpetrated on the Mohicans had aroused the feelings of the white settlers in that neighborhood almost to frenzy. No sooner did the report reach them that some strange Indians had been arrested and confined in the New Philadelphia jail, than a company of about forty men was oranized at or near Wooster, armed with rifles, under command of a Captain Mullen, and marched for New Philadelphia to despatch these Indians. When within about a mile of the town, coming in from the west, Jolin C. Wright then a practicing lawyer at Stuebenville [later Judge] rode into the place from the east on business. He was hailed by Henry Laffer, Esq. at that time sheriff of the county told that the Indian prisoners were in his custody; the advancing company of men was pointed out to him, their object stated, and the inquiry made, -What is to be done? •The prisoners must be saved, sir,’ replied Wright; why don’t you beat an alarm and call out the citizens?’ To this(Eq replied. ‘Our people are .much exasperated, and the fear is.
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