Weekly hawk-eye and telegraph. [volume] (Burlington, Iowa) 1855-1857, 1856-11-05
BAGGAGE AND POCKETS sEARcHED.,

We hare noticed that the New England pa
pers that support Mr. Buchanan deny the exist
ence Of most Of the reported outrsges perpesra-
ted on the Missouri river. II forced TO admit
them in any single instance, they generally
charge that the outrages we're provoked. To Us
here, In Illinois, no evidence rs wanting in this
matter. There are but few Of us that have not
lost relatives or friends at the hands Of the bor
der rufians in Missouri We know OF many
wives that have been made widows, many chill
dren that have been made fatherless, and many
peaceable citizens with . competence that have
beed reduced to beggary by these ouirages.
We now have = case in point, that must strike
home 70 some Of the Buchanan leaders in New
England, for they know and many Of them are
connected with the young man referred to.
George L. Moody, q young man who had just
graduated from the school Of Civil Engineering
Ut Troy, New York, and whose father Joseph
Moody, resides in Boston, left home to settle in
Omaha City, Nebraska Territory he arrived
ct Lexington, Missouri, on the steamboat. At
that point company ofmen came on board and
went to searching the boat for, as they called
them, abolitionists One of them seeing upon
Mr.. Moody's trunk that he was from Boston,
took the trunk and desired the owner to come
forward. When he came forward they arrest
ed him, and when the boat landed where pas
sengers for Independence generally get of, they
marched the prisoners up to Independence, Mis-
souri, They there searched their persons and
their baggage, and finding no incendiary docu-
ments, in the shape of Fremont papers or any
thing of that kind, they allowed Mr.. Moody to
go. Some of the others we're discharged and
some retained on suspicion of being free soil
ers. As Mr.. Moody left them, he asked them
what guarantee he should have that he should
not be liable to similar arrests on his way to
Omaha City. They said they would give
him pass if he requested it. So pass
was given to the following effect:
INDEPENDENCE, NO., Sept. 10th,
This is to certify that George Lyman Moody,
Of Boston, Mass, has been arrested by Capt
Percival's company on board the packet J. NJ.
Convers, while en- route for Omaha City, n. T.,
taken to Independence, and that no cause has
been found against him to justify his arrest or
further detention, and that he now be permit
ted to proceed.
Captain J. s. PERCIvAL.
This pass was countersigned Henry Carlyle,
Waverly, Mo-, which, we presume, was sort ola
secret mark to prevent these passes from being
counterfeited.
The ancestors Of Mr.. Moody on both sides,
were among the most ardent supporters of the
American Revolution and Thomas Jefferson af-
forwards. Scarce has the grass become green
over the grave of one who fought under Gen.
Washington through the whole war of the Rev
olution, to establish freedom of thought and
freedom of speech, before his descendant is
captured on a free river of this Union and car
ried to Independence, Mo-, and there tried by
an unprincped mob, under the sanction of the
State authorities, upon the charge Of believing
in the doctrines of the Declaration of Indepen.
dence.
Have we constitution? Have we laws? If
So have we any one to see that they are faith
fully executed? What is Gen. Pierce about p
Why is he hourly belie2g the blood that he in
of the American Revolution, by allowing the
descendants of the men who fought side by side
with his father, to be thus arrested on the free
rivers of this Union?