Cedar Falls gazette. [volume] (Cedar Falls, Iowa) 1860-1895, 1861-11-01

are all Turvey drops, after all. Well, let
them toot. 1t is their last night in Kansas
City, and suppose they must bid the town
an affcctionate farewell. They have had \
hard road to travel lately. and a little recrea-
ton is good for the spirits. We will soon be
all together. The prospect Of Col. Williams
acquittal is favorable, and in spite of the
many rcverses VIC have experienced, once
again claim, and sustain It too, our old posi-
ton as the crack regiment Of Iowa. w .@ga
OCCASIONAL. .
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Secession, Horrors in Tennessee az de-
scribed by Andrew johnson.
In his, recent speech at Columbus, Ohio,
Andrew johnson thus describes the horrors
of Secession in Tennessee: as.a.s f.s' "Tas u .
while yet bcsecching them to acts upon
their own doctrine and let us alone, the hoofs
Of their cavalry were indenting our plains,
and the tramp of their troops was about our
homes And yet there are those who set
up the pulling cry, Let there be no coercion 7
What! a Secessionist declaring against CO
crcion! Why, God bless you, friends, they
never got anything except by coercion. They
coerccd Tennessee, Georgia, Alabama, and
Virginia out of the Union. They attempted
it in Maryland-the Government stopped it
they are now attempting it in Kentucky, and
there the People will stop it /! Their whole
career has been one Of coercion, of outrage.
insult, blasphemy and crime. Detachments
of their myrmidons, who were sent, as they
SAID, to protect us from the despotism of
Abe Lincoln (?) would pass through our
county, in Tennessee, on the railroad As
they went they saw the flag Of our country,
the glorious Stars and Stripes, floating from
the humble gable of school house, where
the little boys had placed it as an emblem of
their pure and dawning love for the Union.
What did these miscreants do? They stop
ped their train, and with hootings and rbald-
ry, with menaces and cxccrations and bias.
phemv, they tore it from the children and
trampled it in the mire! They would enter
private houses, and under pretence of seek
ing for ammunition, would rummage draw
ers and desks, robbing the family of their
money, and the females of their jewels and
heir, looms They would order their meals
and lodgings in tones Of insolcnce and in
terms ofinsult. They would feed their hor-
ses with wastefulncss, and scatter the food
recklcssiy on the ground. And after eating
to the fill Of their insatate appctites. and
rioting and rmmaging, they would mount,
and, with oaths and obscenity, would tell
the family to charge it all to jeff Davis.
And this, my friends, is Secession! u.
They came into my own county; they
called at my house, Some of their number
came forward and demanded of my family
whether | was at ho;nc-saying, that if
was they had come TO take me, and hang
me Pleasant intelligence this, for gentle
men @ to communicate to wife and Gaug'l-
ters! But my daughter, indignant at their
conduct, said, No, my father IS not at home ::
he is absent in another county, where he is
making speech for the Union and this
presume you knew, or your cowardly crew
would not have dared to show tn msclvcs at
this house" They then su'lcnly withdrew.
As they passed On through the neighbor-
hood they came upon the house of Union
family; the husband was not at home, but
his wife, stout-hcartcd woman had her
Union flag at the gate post. They insolent-
ly commanded her to remove it !; she would
not. They attempted to seize it, and she
seized it; they struggled for it, but she kept
her flag. They then went into the woods,
cut hickory withc, and returning, scourgcd
her person with it. This, my friends, is Sc
cession, and these are the men your are to
compromise with. ...- ...a
"Somc Of these same demons, five of them,
fiends Ia human shape, stopped at the house
of man named Markham, who, seeing them
approach, and fearing insult and outrage to
himself, if he remained, and thinking that
they would not be 70 likely to provoke
quarrel with the family if he were not pres
ent, took his rifle from its resting place and
retired unobservcd by them irto little thick
ct hard by the house, in order to be at hand
in case they offered any abuse to his family.
He had an an'iablc wife and two daughters,
the youngest girl Of about twelve years,
and the other just blooming into womanhood,
about sixteen, as beautiful as the morning
and as pure as the dewdrop. The secession
lists entered and insolently demanded dinner
for themselves and feed for their horses. The
wife told them there was the crib and the
fodder, and they would give them their din
ner They took the hay and the corn and
scattered it about the ground, and ordered
the ladies to hasten their dinner. In due
time the meal was prepared, and soon greed
lily devoured. After sating their appetites
at the table, they began to address rude re-
marks to the wife and daughters. One at.
tempted to make love to the young lady,
when her young sister, seizing the tin horn or
trumpet, which is kept in almost all rural
homesteads to make summons to dinner or
sound an alarm to the neighbors in case OF
an accident, sprang to the door and blew a
blast. At this the hellish demon turned
drew pistol from his girdle, f-ed it's bullet
through her brain, and with one wild shrek
she fell in agonizing death at the feet of her
screaming mother. That blast, the shot, the
shrek, and scream, pierced the ear of the
waiting father he sprang from his retreat
he stood at his door-one glance revealed all
and taking deliberate aim, he sent his rifles
bullet straight through the villains heart
The other four alarmed at the trumpet blast
and knowing that the whole neighborhood
would soon be upon them, mounted thei,
horses and fled. The enragcd father finding
them beyond his reach, turning to where the
slayer Of his little daughter lay, seized his
axe. and cut his brutal body into quarters
and threw them out as only fit for the dogs
| to devour!
"Such, my friends. is secession at home
1t is robbery, rapine, and murder. And il
is marching toward you, and will be upon
you. You must arm for your own defence
T sneak not to Won in fables These thinpc