A mode of expulsion in accordance with Lynch law.
1854. I guess they would give me a coat of tar and feathers, and ride me on a rail; and it is my opinion they would serve the Savior the same, did he go about now as he did eighteen hundred years ago.—Orson Hyde at the Mormon Tabernacle, Oct. 6: ‘Journal of Discourses,’ ii. 80.
1866. Others, equally violent, but less daring, proposed catching him out, some dark evening, giving him a good coat of tar-and-feathers, and riding him out of town on a rail.—Seba Smith, ‘’Way Down East,’ pp. 250–1.
