The Daily Cincinnati Republican, And Commercial Register

From the N. Y. Evening Post

The Massachusetts
INSURRECTION.-

The late threats of insurrection in Boston,
which ended at length so quietly were said
in the whig prints to show that the spirit of
seventy-six was still awake! The Glouces-
ter Democrat thinks they savour more of
the spirit of eighty-six, or finds a fitting par-
ellel for them in the events of the "Shays
war"
and Massachusetts insurrection of
1786. In those times Daniel Shays, Wheel-
er, and Luke Day used nearly as high words
as Abbot Lawrence, though they showed
more courage. We take from the Glouces-
ter Democrat its brief summary of the
Shay's insurrection.

"In 1786, owing to the scarcity of money
and the depreciated state of the circulating
medium, the great body of the people in
some parts of this state were unable to meet
the demands of their creditors, In the fall
of that year a body of insurgents under Dan-
iel Shays attempted to prevent the session
of the court at Springfield, in order that
THEIR BONDS (and other obligations)
MIGHT NOT BE PUT IN SUIT." They
were suppressed by the militia under Gen.
Lincoln, 790 of them took the benefit of
the act of indemnity, and fourteen were
sentenced to death, but afterwards pardon-
ed."