The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1861-11-02

be successfully carried on SO long as an
army marches through slave States as a
boat goes through flock of ducks They
fly up on its approach, and nestle down n
soon as it has passed. The boat is safe,
and SO are the ducks. When you march
through State, you must march so that
traitors will feel the horrors of war; Jim
LANE.
The aptness of this illustration is patent
to universal observation 1t is verified
all over Missouri, and brought home to
ca very doors here in the Northeastern
part of the State. In the northern cor
ner of Missouri, as far south as the Han
nlbal and St. Joseph Railroad, the Union
men have been regarded as constituting
the majority of the people, and the mill
tary forces on that road, and under Moore
and woodward, have seemed to strengthen
their ascendency. But our forces have
gone through the country, not with the
tramp of hostile army, but with a soft
aud tender tread, as if they were march
ing over basket Of eggs. The property
and persons of rebels have been strictly
respected, and no greater infamy has ever
been inflicted upon them than to arrest
them and administer an oath of allegiance
or occasionally take possession of their
horses. Under this humane policy Mart.
Green has been suffered to raise an armed
force of three thousand-to harrass the
Union men of this section and ultimately
to march out to the headquarters of the
rebel army In the meantime not less
than five thousand persons, including all
ages, have been frightened and harrassed
into leaving their homes in Northeast Mis-
souri, and seeking safety and quiet in
neighboring States And these persons,
We regret to believe, have been, with rare
exceptions, Of that class known to be at
tacheG to the Union
Such has been the result of a few months
of the touch and 90 easy policy" pursued
by the United States authorities in a sec
tlon OF Missouri more decidedly loyal than
any equal extent of territory in the South
Matters are comparatively quiet there
now, but yet there is hardly ncighbor-
hood In which an outspoken Union man
is regarded as safe in person and proper
~. And on the return of Mart. Green :
forces, treason will be stronger and more
rampant in Northeast Missouri than ever
before, for the simple reason that our pol
Icy has neither excited the fears Of traitors
nor given confidence to loyal men,
Our troops passed through the country
like boat through the water. causing 1
gentle ripple, the secessionists fed to tn,
thlckets, and returned again as soon Al
they were out of sight. Occasionally on
troops arrested traitor, and, after few
days detention, dismissed him, and he re
turned to his home, swearing vengeance
against his Union neighbors, and ready I,
head band of secesh marauders to com
mt depredatlons upon their property OF
drive them out of the country.
Thus has experience demonstrated thai
mild measures and humane policy tene
only TO strengthen the rebels and weaker
the Union cause. And history may b.
ransacked in vain, from the period of the
revolt Of the Angels in the Old Eternity
or the treason of Adam in the earliest re.
cords OF time, for single instance of the
eiiectual suppression of rebellion by for
bearance aud gentleness in the treatment
OF traitors, The sword, Punishment, con-
fscation, the hangman cord and the
headmans axe are the only instrumental
ties which have ever proved successful il
all the ages past for the suppression o
treason and the overthrow of organized re
bellion. Will our Government avail it
self Of the instruction of history and expe
rience, or will it continue these militar,
raids and expeditions, harmless totraitors
but fatal in many instances to our owl
forces and the Union men, for whose pro
lection they &C designed. : Shall OF
armies be mere ineffective police fore
with no more terror for traitors than th
sleepy Waterman Of some dull town in
spires in the hearts of rowdes or robbers
or shall they carry vengeance and tcrro
to the enemy on their march
Pacific Telegraph.
Through the influence Of Judge Cato
President of the Illinois and Mississippi