Fremont journal. [volume] (Fremont, Sandusky County [Ohio]) 1853-1866, 1861-10-25
Union wen Hunted from Homes-In
fernaI Outfa0ca.

fernaI Outrages.
In his recent speech at Columbus, Ohio,
Andrew johnson thus describes the horrors
Of secession in Tennessee: tn
awhile yet beseechipg them 10 act upon
their own doctrine, and let us alone, the
hoofs of their cavalry we're indentiug our
plains, and the tramp of their troops was
about our honest And yet there are those
who set up the pulling cry, Let there be no
coercionP r Wbatla seceesionist declaring
against coercion Why, God bless you,
friends, they never got anything except by
coercion. They coerced Tennessee, Geor-
gia, Alabama and Virginia out of the I'm
ion. They attempted it in Maryland the
Government stopped it; they are now at
tempting it in Kentucky, and there the
people will stop itl Their whole career
has been one of coercion, Of outrage, insult,
blasphemy and crime. Detaehments Of
their myrmidons, who were sent, as they
said, 'to protect us from the despotism Of
Abe Lincoln (9) would pass through our
country, in Tennessee on the railroad.
Gas they went they saw the flag of oui
country, the glorious old Stripes and Stars
floating from the gable end of an humble
school house, where the little boys had
placed it as an emblem of their pure and
dawning love for the Union. What did
these mscreants do9 They stopped their
train, and with hootings and ribaldry, with
menances and execrations and blasphemy
they tore it from the children and trampled
it in the mre! They would enter private
houses, aud under pretence of seeking for
ammunition, would rumage drawers and
desks, robbing the family of the money,
and the females of their Jewels and heir
looms. They would order their meals and
lodgings in tone of iDsolence and in terms
Of insult. They would feed their horses with
wastefulness, and scattered the food reck
lessly on the ground. And after eating tC
the fill of their insatiate appetites, auC
rioting and managing, they would mount
and with oaths and obscenity would tel
the family to charge it all to JEFF. Davis
And this, my friends, is secessionl
( "They came into my own county; the
called at my house, Some of their nun
Der came forward and demanded of m
family whether l was at home, saying tha
if was they had come to take me and ham
l me. Pleasant intelligence this, for gentle
B.. men (! to communicate to wife and child
renl But my daughter, indignant at thei
conduct, said: No. my father is not at home
he is absent in another county, where he
making speech for the Union; and this
). presume you knew, or your cowardly crev
: would not have dared to show themselve
o at this house, They then sullenly Withdrew
}. AS they passed on through the ueighbo
a hood they came upon the house of Unio
family; the husband was not at home, bv
It his wife stout-hearted woman, had b
d Union flag at the gate post. They ins
10 lently commanded her to remove it; 81
would not. They attempted to seize
ID and she seized it they struggled for it, b
re she kept her flag. They then went in
or the woods, cut hickory withe, and retur
h ing, scourged her person with it.
ID "This, my friends, is secession, and the'
are the men you are to compromise wit
Some of these same demons, five of ther
fiends in human shape, stopped at Il
house Of a man named Markham, who, Sc
n ing them approach, and fearing insult al
a. outrage to himself, if he remained, al
O. thinking they would not be so likely to pr
if woke quarrel with the family if he we
ly not present, took his rife from its restil
we place and retired unobserved by them, iu
- little thicket hard by the house, in ord
re- to be at hand in case they offered any abu
sct to his family. He had an amiable W
and two daughters, the youngest a girl
ce, about IL years, and the other Just bloomi
m into womanhood, about I6, as beautiful
lat the morning and pure as the dewdrop.-
H. The secessionists entered and insolently
.rt manded dinner for themselves and feed
h. their horses The wife told them the
of was the crib and fodder, and they wou
es give them their dinner. They took Il
he hay and the corn and scattered it about Il
nd ground, and ordered the ladies to haste
s. their dinner.
If. "In due time the meal was prepare
ret and soon greedily devoured. After satir
ay their appetites at the table, they began
he address rude remarks to the wife a
of daughters. One attempted to make 10
to the young lady, when her young sisi
on seized the tin horn or trumpet which
ed kept in almost all rural homesteads to ma
he summons to dinner or sound an alarm
lss lu0 ueIRuOOTS III case Ol du aCClQout, Spfd
n. to the door and blew blast. At this I
N. hellish demon tnrned, drew pistol fro
ID. his girdle, fred bullet through her bra
nm and with one wild shrek she fell in agon
art ing death at the feet of her SCREENING n
me ther. The blast, the shot, the shrek a
,ed scream, pierced the ear Of the waiting
lie ther. He sprang from his retreat he ste
But at his door-one glance revealed all; a
re taking deliberate aim, he sent his riff
~ bullet straight through tho williams hea
n The other four alarmed at the truml
,sv blast, and knowing that tho whole neiJ
of borhood would soon be upon them, mou
,en ed their horses and fed. The outraged
ok- ther, finding them beyondih his reach, tnrni
h;s TO where the slayer Of his little da6gh
,Dd lay, seized his AK and cut bis brutal DO
~ into quarters and threw them out as OF
~ fit for dogs to devourl 81 "a aea>i I'm
~ 1Such, my friends, is secession at hon
men II is robbery, rapine and murder. And
are is marching towards you. You must a
ail- for your own defense. These things
y. Cured not in remote country, but ris
900 over there in Tennessee. 1 seem even
ard hear the shrek that went up from ii
!, young and innocent heart, as il took LEI
al of life, so wild, SO clear, so agoniziDg, Il
me even angelic spirits might come TO lisl
'hol and avehgel Will you not, then, rush