Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1861-07-18
Subjueation of Missouri.

subjugation of Missouri.
The St. Louis State Journal, of the 29th
ult., publishes the following from CORES,
pondent at Hannibal, Mo.
Our best, oldest and worthiest citizens
are daily arrested, dragged from their peace.
ful pursuits and hurried to headquarters,
surrounded with bristling bayonets, in the
hands of an iusolent, merciless and merce.
nary soldiery, who jeer and taunt them
with threats and curses and all this done
in the total absence Of any crime, or even
semblancs of crime, committed or imagined
against the laws, State or Federal, and
without warrant of law, explanation or q
moments warning When the amazed
prisoner asks what he has done to deserve
such treatment, and demands that his &C,
cuser shall be brought forth, that he may
meet him face to face, he is answered with
satanic grimaces and insults of the most de.
grading character. l will instance sin,
gle case. The recent editor of the Eoen
ing Ne,cs, at this place, (Hannibal,) was
arrested at his residence few days since,
and taken to camp. Whilst there he was
compelled to perform the most degrading
work, for the qualification of the soldiers
and to the fendish delight of number Of
Black Republican spectators, who had re.
paired thither to "witness the performance. "
Among other things, he was made to "mark
time" while extracts were read from his
paper; to dig, under the scorching rays Of
a meridian sun, deep hole in the earth
for the convenience of the soldiers. Think
of this, citizens Of Missouri! And for
what? Why this punishment aud insult
Because, forsooth, when yet he was a free
man he dared to publish the truth, which,
alas, is inexcusably provocative to Black
Republican ears. Houses are entered and
ransacked from cellar to attic, private prop.
erty is taken by force of arms, and women
and children are driven in terror from their
homes
The State Journal appeuds to the fore.
going some information, showing the posi-
tion of affairs in Missouri, and leads to the
belief that the day of her deliverance is not
far distant
We copy from the Republican the fol.
lowing paragraph. It is in keeping with
all that that poor old prostituted political
hack puts forth, in this time of the peoples
peril, to distract, dishearten and divide
them:
"Gen. Ben. Mccullough is in Arkansas
with some six hundred men, but without
munitions of war, arms or supplies. He
has as much as he can do to take care of
his own State"
For the comfort of that sheet and it's co.
adjutors, We state these facts, for the cor
rectness of which we make ourselves re-
sponsible
First. On the 18th of June, Major Nc.
Cullough was encamped at Fort Smith, with
10000 trained veteran soldiers, with an
extra supply of guns and munitions of war.
Thence he moved for Missouri, with in.
creasing numbers, to form junction with
the State troops, now more than six thous.
and strong at one point.
Second At Pocahontas, Arkansas, six
thousand Arkansas troops we're encamped,
en- route for Missouri, with all necessary
equipments.
Third. In Stoddard County, Missouri,
1000 State troops are encamped for the
war. Some ten or fifteen regiments of men
are moving for Missouri from Tennessee,
Mississippi and Louisiana, in addition to
those already mentioned.
Fourth. Governor Jackson will have in
less than twenty days we'll appointed ar.
my OF nearly $4,000 men, before whom the
invaders of our people will be driven like
wild beasts from their lair.
Added to this enumeration Of military
forces, three out of every FIVE Of the able
bodied men of Missouri are ready, and only
waiting one favorable moment to assume
the character of the avengers of an insult
ed and polluted State. Let the RcpnJH-
can copy these statements into its lying
sheet. We do not hesitate to affirm, as a
matter of solemn conviction and belief, that
armed aid to the number and amount of
one hundred thousand fighting men from
our sister States will be Immediately thrown
into Missouri, if so many be necessary to
relieve an oppressed, insulted and terror,
stricken people of the presence of hired,
brutal, foreign soldiery. The war has been
forced upon US whether We would or no,
without law, without reason, without pre-.
text, except that which is found in de.
libera:e and openly proclaimed purpose to
reduce Missouri to condition of vassalage.
EAST TENNESSEE The Memphis -1ro.
yauche hears the most gratifying intelligence
from East Tennessee, the Union party
growing weaker every day. Mr.. W. D.
Van Dyke, who was reported to be men,
Der of the Convention of malcontents, who
we're lately in session in East Tennessee,
mas published card contradictiug the re-
port, and adding:
"I have never believed secession WIS
remedy for the evils of which the South
(much less would believe it a
'emedy for East Tennessee,) and attended
,nly with the most disastrous consequences.
And believing so, / voted for "No Separa-
ion" at the recent election. Yet, as a ma
i've Tennessean, feel it my duty to &C.
luiesce and defend the position the State
'ssumed by so large majority on the 9Th
If June Hence, as Union man, pro-
est against the entire proceedings of the