Holmes County Republican. [volume] (Millersburg, Holmes County, Ohio) 1856-1865, 1861-01-31
The Reign of Terror i'm ST Louis

| N correspondent vi tue SluCiiidtl fOtNS'
6latt, writing from St. Louis, gives agloomy
account Of the state of things in that
city. He says that the disunionists are
straining every nerve to precipi,ate the
Stale of Missouri into secession, and the
means they are using seems to indicate
that St. Louis is to be dragooned out Of
the Union by species of terrorism. St.
Louis is to be the battlefield on which the
momentous question of secession will be
decided for Missouri, and the conspirators
will not stick at shedding torrents Of blood
in the accomplishment of their Internal
purpose.
He describes the number of secession
lists in 81. Louis as small hitherto, but as
possessed of an audacity and recklessness
without parallel. Their number is COM
posed of neglected writers, bankrupt raga-
mullins, disappointed politicians-in short,
the veriest offscourings of the social order.
One of them, named Longuemare, who
has edited certain Maratlike journal
known as the St. Louis Bulleton, was last
week compelled to fly the State, having
forged $4,000 of drafts.
High handed attempts are made 10 in
timidate, and, if possible, drive away Re-
publicans or Union citizens. These bullies
do not scruple to denounce those who voted
for Lincoln, at the hotels, in the hearing,
as "dogs," and TO wish loudly that they
might be bung. Republican merchants
are, to great extent, prescribed, and there
are many who will neither buy nor sell,
nor transact any business with them on
Change.
The Legislature and the Democratic
Gov. Jackson have joined hands in a des-
potic scheme for dispossessing ST. Louis of
all her municipal power, at the present
crisis, and vesting it solely in the Governor
of the State. BY a reign of terror at the
polls. la Baltimore and Louisville, it is
designed TO send secession delegation,
pure and simple, from St. Louis to State
Convention, thus securing the great State
of Missouri to the disunion traitors. They
know that the withdrawal of Missouri
without,.St. Louis would help their schemes
but little, but they know equally we'll that
there is an enormous Union majority in
the city, and they mean to use the foulest
means to compass their ends, even at the
of cost murder and bloodshed.
1t is thought that these villains have
matured scheme for seizing upon the
Federal Arsenal in St. Louis, then Jeffer-
son Barracks, then the Postofice, Custom
House, banks, &c. No doubt it was some
authentic intelligence of this infamous plot
which induced General Scott to order a
small detachment: of Federal troops to
guard the Public Buildings in St. Louis
belonging to the Union.
The correspondent of tho Volksblatt
closes by saying: -
"Our only hope in these fearful circum-
stances, next to our own strength, lies in
counting upon the assistance in emergency
of the neighboring free States. We have
been so often assured that you look with
pride upon this great, solitary free.soil city
in the midst OF slave State; we have
been so often styled the bulwark, the
imminent of freedom, that we have come
to reckon with certainty, that we shall not,
in the hour of danger, be abandoned by
those whose battles we have so bravely
fought. Will those who have stood by
Kansas in her struggle against the tyranny
which would have bade her slave State,
will they desert St. Louis, when horde of
barbarans are banded together to drag her
out of the Union, and into an alliance
with south Carolina?"