Cincinnati daily press. [volume] (Cincinnati [Ohio]) 1860-1862, 1861-05-27
Secession uurases in aissourI.
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Secession uutrases in Missouri
The Bloomington Paragraph of May 20
says:
a farmer from South west Missouri called
upun us on Saturday 10 relate bis experience
in the way Of banishmcnt from that region
His name is William Henry McDonslds5n,
formerly from Winchester, Va, aud bis resi-
dence for the past four Years has been near
Clinton, Henry County, Mo. He says he has
always been a stroug Dougl5s Democrat, and
an incorporating Union man, and that
ever since the Charleston Convention last
year, the sort of Democratic leaders they bad
down in his section have said that tbs Old
Jackson Democracy did not suit them any
Jon ger and that The South would certainly
dissolve the Union, no matter who was
elCCtrc President. Sincs that time Mr. Med.
has desired to sell out and leave, as ne
thoUghta storm IVES coming, but he could
not succeed in so doing.
Some three weeks ago he was called on
md notified that he would have to be en- :.
rolled III the militia, and pay mihtaryta
Of fifty cents, and that TO speak disrespect-
! fully Of, the Cove or Legislature would
make him liable 10 the punishment of death
! (such is actually said 70 be a provision of the
new militia law Of Missouri, though it had
| notrpassed the Legislature at the time Mr..
| McDonaidson speaks Of; also he was kindly
! Informed tbat he would have 20 fight for the
! Southern Confederacy, and on his declining
| 10 agree TO that, he vas told he mad Just six,
| houls 20 pack up aud leave .....-
An armed party attended to enforce the
| decree, aHd a. the end of the time specified.
Mr.. McD. ie1 with such articles of property
as he could pack into bis wagon in the space
| of time gwen, He adds That his house was
| burned Immediately after he left it, and be-
fore he was ont Of view. He had two nund-
rcd and fifty seven acres of land one hmd-
red and eighty OF it fenced; forty acres Of
wheat, and fifty of corn in the ground !;
y bich of course ives abandoned, together
with all the personal property he could not
bring along Ia his wagon, -.- -g
MIR. blcD. heard, on evidence that he oon-
sieered reli3bie, that sixteen Union men, had
been killed in Henry County within ten days
/ before he lift - Hs saw sweFvss - RFtssA
7 other teams from the same county on the
g, Iosd duriug his fighs7 snd found 1t Hsaai-
bal some, three hundred persons waiting to
1 cross the river all Of whom had left on ac
count Uf tho Secession excitement and all
! except a very few had been driven away by
actual or threatened violence He was told
atseveral pieces where he tried 10 boy sup
plies ss he came along, that they had hofeed
for men going North. 'ro- q Gssds os 10
AT BooDYiIe he wss not allowed 70 cross
\ tbs Missouri; went down to Rocheport aud
there terTied over, paying So for the privi-
4 leee'instead of Fifty cents the regular fare
Ole left his home three weeks ago to day,
? Monday, He says there was, much Uni9n
feeling where he lived until the Sumter
affair, aud DIE consequent war Preparations
of the Government; since which Union men
20 have become very scarce. Hessgsm foHnd
5them petty numerous Hhen 20 geI into chs
eastfIn border. counties near the Mississippi.