Bellows Falls times. [volume] (Bellows Falls, Vt.) 1856-1965, 1861-10-25

mire They would enter private houses,
and under pretens4 of seeking for ammu.
milton, would rummage drawers and desks,
robbing the family of The money, and the
females of their Jewels and heir.looms.
They would order their meals and their
lodging in tones of insoleuce and In terms
of insult. They would feed their horses
with wastrfulness, and sca,terthe food reck-
lessly on the ground. And after eating to
the ill of their insaiiate appeiies, and riot
ing and rummaging, they would mount, and,
with oaths and obscenity. would tell the fam
lily TO charge it all TO JEFF Davis. And this,
my friends is secession
They came into my own county; they
called at my house. Some of their number
came forward and demanded of nv family
whether | was at home--saying, that if
was they had come to take me, aud hang
me Pleasant intelligence this, for gentle
men C) 10 communicate to wife and dangh-
rers But my daughter, indignant at then
conduct, said, No, my father is not at home !,
| he is absent in another county, where he IS
making a speech for the Union and this ]
! presume you knew, or your cowardly crew
wonld not have dared to show themselves
at this house, They then sullenly with
drew. AS they passed on through the
neighborhood they came upon the house OF
Union family; the husband was not at
home, but his wife, stout-hearted woman,
had her Union flag at the gate post. They
insolenlly 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 wiihe, and returning,
scoureed her person with it.
This, my friends, is secession, and these
are the men you are to compromise with.
Some of these same demons, five Of them,
fiends in human shape, stopped at the house
of man named Markham, who seeing
them approach, aud fearing insult and ont
rage to himself, if he remained, and think
ing that they would not be so likely to pro-
woke quarrel with the family if he were
not present, took his rifle from its resting
place and retired unobserved by them into
a little thckct hard by the house, in order
to be at hand in case they offered any abuse
10 his family. He had an amiablc wife and
two daughters, the youngest girl of about
twelve years.and the other just blossoming
into womanhood about sixteen, as beautiful
as the morning and as pure as the dewdrop.
The secessionists 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 dinner. In due time the meal
: was prepared, and soon greedily devoured.
After sating their appetites at the table,
they began to address rude remarks to tie
wife and daughters. One attempted 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 acci-
dent, sprang to the door and blew blast.
AT this the hellsh demon turned, drew a
pistol from his girdle, fired its bullet through
her brain, and with one wild shrek she fell
in agonizing death at the feet of her scream
ing mother. That blast, the shot, the shrek,
and scream. pierced the ear of the waiting
father; he sprang from his retreat, he stood
al his door-one glance revealed all; and
taking deliberate aim, he sent his rifles bull
let straight through the villains heart
The other four, alarmed at the trumpet
blast, and knowing that the whole neighbor-
hood would soon be upon them, mounted
their horses and fed. The enraged 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 defense
speak not to you in fables. These thing:
occurred not in remote country, but right
over there in Tennessee. seem even YET
to hear the shrek that went up from that
young and innocent heart, as it took
! leave Of life, so wild, so clear, so agonizing
: that even angelic spirits might come to
E listen and aveuge! VIII you not, then
rush TO the support Of your government anC
the rescue of your country from the reign
of terror, that has no parallel in the history
of civilized man?"
Referring to a visit TO camp of nation
al soldiers in Kentucky, lie said -
The other day, when / stood in the
? presence of two thousand Tennesseeans, ex
: lied like myself from their homes Of com
, fort and the families of their love, found
that my manhood and sternness of MIND
were all nothing, and that was only child
There they were, my friends and fellow
J, citizens Of my beloved State, gathered up
:, on the friendly soil of Kentucky, from tbs
; tender Stripping of sixteen TO the gray-hair
ed fathers Of sixty, all mourning the evi
: that has befallen our lands and our homes
+ but all seeking for arms wherewith TO g
= back and drive the invader from our field
: and hearihstones. essayed to speak t.
them words of counsel and encouragement
but speech was denied me, | stood befor.
them as one who is dumb. If it be trui
v that out of the fulness of the heart tn
mouth speake,h, it is also true that til
4 heart may be too full fer the utterance G
speech. And such were ours-two housan
" of us exiled Tennesseeans, and all silent
u Silent as the city of the dead But Their
" was no torpor there. There were the bo-nd
e ing heart and throbbing brain; there wer
n the burning cheek and the blazing eye, a
more eloquent than ever were the uilering
:" of human speech. Each of that throng {
exiles, who had wandered among the mour
N tains and hid in their caverns, who ha
he slept in the forest and squeezed themselve
lr one by oae through the pickets OF the in