CHAPTER XXXVI.

Peniston Arouses a Mob--His Exciting Speech Causes a Cruel Attack upon Twelve Unarmed Brethren--One Hundred and Fifty Mobocrats Drive them from the Polls--Adam Black's Promise--False Charges Against the Saints--The Sheriff of Daviess County Arrests Joseph--Boggs Orders the Raising of the Militia--The Prophet Perceives the Real Object of this Order