Muscatine weekly journal. [volume] (Muscatine, Iowa) 185?-1890, 1861-06-21


the Pacific Railroad, nine miles this side o
Jefferson City, was burned yesterday, ant
I the draw left OPEN
. ST. Louis, June 13.
The United States authorities at the ars.n
d have been for weeks advised of the attemp
to enlist volunteers for the Southern army
On Monday night the steyme' Platte Valley
was detained at Duncans Island battery anu
sixteen persons, selected from two hundred
passengers. taken prisoners thirteen o
them were subsequently released. Those
still held are Col. VIM. j. Preston, Edward
A. Pigners. and Edward BanneIEassct.
w. Barrett, brother of the late Congress
man Barrett, of this district, was arrested 70,
alleged treason. 1t is said that proof against
him IS strong, and that 9th er prominent in
dividuals are involved in the charge. Bar.
rett will be brought before U. s. Commits
sioner Hickman, to-day, fo- examination.
Six companies of Col. Sigcl's regiment of
volunteers, belonging to Gen. Lyons brigade,
left here last night for Rolla, the terminus Of
the south west branch OF the Pacific railroad,
and four additional companies of the same
reg giment left this morning for the same des-
tination. Squads Of troops will be station ed
to protect the different bridges of the route,
but the main body Of the force is designed
for action in the south west portion of the
State
The Pacific road and telegraph lines will
be placed under the protection of federal
. troops, and every effort will re made to rem
der them effective.
! Three steamers are now at the arsenal
taking on troops, whose destination is snp-
posed to be Jefferson City
ST. LOUIS, June 13.
The following proclamation from Gov Jack
son is received to-day:
JEFFERSON CITY, June -.
To TIE PEOPLE OF Missouri A series
of unprovoked and unparalleled outrages have
been inflicted upon the peace and dignity
Of this commonwealth, and upon the rights
and liberties of its people, by wicked and un-
principaed men protesting to act under the
authority of the United States Government
The solemn enactment of your Legislature
has been nullihed; your volunteer soldiers
have been taken prisoners your commerce
with your sister States has been suspended :;
your trade with your own fellow citizens has
been, and is, subjected to the harassng con-
troll of an armed sOldcry; pcaccabc citizens
have been imprisoned without warrant of law
unotlending, defenceless men, women and
children, have been ruthlesSly shot down and
murdered and other unbearablc indignities
have been heapedon your State and yourselves.
To all these outrages and indignities you have
submitted with patriotic forbcarance, which
has only encouraged the perpetrators of these
grevious wrongs to attempt still bolder and
more daring usurpations. 1t has been my
earnest endeavOr, under all these embarrass-
in circumstances, to maintain the peace of the
State, and to avert if possible, from our bor-
ders the desolating effects of civil war. With
that object in view, authorized Major Gen
eral Price, several weeks ago, to arrange with
| Gen. flarney, commanding the Federal forces
in this State, terms of agreement by which
| the peace of the State might be preserved
They came on the 2lst of May, to an under
| standing which was made public. The State
authorities have faithfully labored to carry
out that agreement. The Federal Govern
ment, on the other hand, not only manifested
| its strong disapprobation of it by instant dis
missal of the distinguished officer who on it's
part entered into it, but at once began, and
has unrtmittingly carried out, system of
hostile operations, in utter contempt of that
agreement, and in reckless disregard of its
own faith. These acts latterly portended rev.
Olution and civil war so unmistakable that |
| resolved to make one further effort to avoid
| this danger from you. ] therefore solicited
an interview with Brig. Gen. Lyon, command
ing the Federal army in Missouri 1t was
granted on the 10th inst
| Waving all questions of a personal or off
cial dignity | went to st. Louis, accompanied
by Major General Price. We had an inter
view on the 18th with Gen. Lyon and Col. F.
P. Blair, Jr., at which I mentioned to them
this prOpOsition-that | would disband the
State guard and break up its organization
| that would disband ali companies which had
been armed by the State-that would pledge
myself not to attempt to organize militia un-
der the militia bill-that no arms or munitions
of war should be brought into the State--that
| would protect all citizens equally in all their
rights, regardless of political opinions-that
would repress all insurrcctionary movements
within the State-that L would repe all at
tempts to invade, from whatever quarter and
by whom made, and that l would thus main
tain strict neutrality in the present unhappy
contest and preserve the peace of the State;
and further proposed that l would, if nee
essary, invoke the assistance of u S. troops
to carry out these pledges. All this propos-
ed to do upon condition that the Federal Gov
ernment would undertake to dsarm home
guards which it had illegally organized and
armed throughout the State-pledge itself not
to occupy with its troops any localities now
occupied by them. Nothing but the earnest
desire to avoid the horrors of civil war could
have tempted me to propose these humiliating
terms. They were rejected by the Federal Of
ficers. They demanded not only the disor-
ganization and disarming of the State militia,
and the notification of the military bill, but
they refused to disarm their own home guards,
and insisted that the Federal Government
should enjoy unresisted right to move and
station the troops throughout the State wher-
ever and whenever it might, in the opinion of
its officers be necessary, either for the protec
ton of loyal subjects of the Federal Govern
ment, or for repelling invasion and they plain
ly announced that it was the intention Of the
Administration to take the State under mill
tary occupation, and reduce it, as avowed by
Gen. Lyon himself, to the exact condition of
Maryland. The acceptance by me of these
degrading terms would not only have sullicd
the honor of Missouri, but would have arous-
ed the indignation of every brave citizen, and
precipitate the very conflict which it has been
my aim to prevent. We refused to accedc to
| these, and the conference was broken up
Fellow-citizens, all our efforts towards concili-
alton have failed. We can hope for nothing
| from the justice or moderation of the agents
of the Federal Government in the State. They
are fastening the execution of the bloody and
revolutionary schemes for the Inauguration of
civil war in your midst; for the military
occupation of your State by armed bands of
lawless invaders for the overthrow of your
State government, and for the subvcrsion of
those liberties which that government has al
ways sought to protect; and they intend to
exert their whole power to subugate you, if
possible, to the military despotism which has
usurped the power of the Federal Government
Now, therefore, l, c. F. Jackson, Governor
of the State of Missouri, do, in view of the
foregoing facts, and by virtue of the power
vested in me by the Constitution and laws of
this commonwealth, issue this my proclama-