, 1861-09-07

dltIon OF aHa1fs III DouIhNesLeEn M1sSOur17 |
are horrible. From Carthage, in the very
southwest corner, along the eastern border
of Kansas, to point but little below the
Missouri River, the country is given up to
the tender mercies Of predatory bands Of
robbers and murderers, who, in the name
Of Secession, are perpesratlng horrible out
rages upon the Union men. Hundreds Of
families have been driven into Kansas
hundreds Of others have been left without
male protectors, the husbands and fathers !
being compelled to Zee to some more Sc
cure nejghbo11ood, or hide in the woods
and swamps, while their property is laid
waste and destroyed, and their wives and
little ones are surrendered to the fendish-
less of the gueril1as by whom the country
is overrun. Houses without number are
burned cut Of pure wantonness: crops are
tramp1ed down because they can not be
eaten up as ferage nor carried off; all
movable property is claimed, and much
of it appropriated by the rebel horde, the
! Ha1drobes Of the women and children be-
| ing no more respected than the horses and
| guns Of the men. To be for the Union, is
| the signal for banishment or death; to
| be silent is to be suspected, and
| TO be suspected is to be sentenced to die,
OF to a punishment hardly less severe. 4
Union man whose lite was threatened and
property seized, tells us, On his way through
this city to New York for arms, that
wherever that rebel army moves, desola-
ton marks its track for miles each side
Friends fare but little better than enemies.
Their horses; wagons guns, grain and cat
tie are taken without leave, Confederate
scrip being rendered in return, while the
loyal men who art robbed have not even
that poor evidence Of the losses that they
. are compelled to endure.
But more lamentable than all, the ele.
ments Of disorder that the army Of yaga-
bonds have introduced, affords the lawless
and vicious an opportunity for private re-
venges, that they eagerly seize; and ever
the horrible morality of the rebels them
selves is shocked by the atrocities attribu
j. ted to secession, but which are the results
e Of private malice. In all communitie
t. where the buying, selling and whipping {
d men have debased the public sense Of jus
o tice, and where the boWie-knife and tn
e revolver stand in the place Of the legs
e tribunals for the redress Of wrongs, dead
+ feuds between neighbors, localities and pt
b litical parties are notoriously common
e The restraints Of law and public opinio
er being taken of, those who indulge the1
le are quick to wrcak their vengeance on O
l. Tenders; and under the shadow Of duty
n some cause, good or bad, perpet1ate deet
that devils would disoWn. For the tin
be being, the worst element in border soci
r. ty-that class Of persons whom slave
n has made too proud and too lazy to wo1
re and who hang about the grog-shops Al
ke and petty gambling houses of t
ge villages, making doubtful liz
nd lihood by horse trading, speculate
ot in little niggers, Or slave -hunting-a 70.
no te1ing, cruel, and constituencies gang
,p~ desperadoes as ever cursed the earth
ea upper1nost. He whose yillainy is the bo
nd, est is accounted the braVest, and he u
i've can throw torch into an honest ma
lls house and shoot him By light Of the flre
ted be fees from the ruins, and drive the +
Of and children shelterless to fhe fields, is
bat most chiyalric,..as chlyalry goes. Th
old are the men who have possession Of VI
pa ern Missouri, and On behalf and in
ing name of JEFF. Davis, are setting up
in authority of the rebel Government
per these are the first fruits, what shall
ads, see when their authority is fully es'
the lished, if the anger Of Heaven permit
8 Of calamity SO dfh?