Richmond daily Whig. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1842-1861, 1861-06-26
UNPRECEDENTED OUTRAGES BY FEDERAL
TROOPS
PcOm the New YOt, DAILY News, Jane 10.

Ifever events occutred tia. should call forth general
abhorience AID Ld suaou, they ae 20 be found chron
icled in the annals Of st Louis within tie last tive
weeks When We were called upon TO record he
ruthless ml-sacre, by United Sta es soldiers Of
and children ahch ock place Tire 10th Of Nav, the
act seemed daboc2l AID appalling that Il did not ap
pear possible could be- pSs by the Ad riLsiTl-
ton without punishment much les be repeated The
deIs of day before yesterday ho"ever still m5Ie
uDprovoked and alIrd tea'tu ls-ou OF the !aDld.-
~ with which the United States are begg plunged by
an uaprincipcl Government into the l0HCst depths C
anarchy and uisIu'e Sincere, paroiic love Of
try and reverence the Constitution and the laws
not vet dead and trust that they will be exhibited
now Feelings of humauity still prevail ali We hope
! that outrsges which if they had been committed in
Hungary or ItllY would cause meetings of sympathy
with the suie ers be held IN every town and hamlet
will not pass unnotced because ,ley have happened N
our very midst.
Corrs was returning, on Monday morning, from the
North ssouri Railroad when opposite the court.rocDl
company near the rear of the column suddenly wheel
Ell aad discharged their ries, aiming chiefly tie wiz
dows Of the court, killing SIX persous, wouudrg other,
and rdjing the panCs Of glass behind the Judges desk
with hules The statements regarding the cause OF ii
ing are conflicting; but the most favorable 10
the troops H. tha. some one from Lcuss s5oiI ing tn
courtroom discharged pistol Of which the bullet took
effect in the shoulder OF CE err who, thereupoD
dered bis men kill and massacre any body and every
Ody they could nv. tle forms OF law were WnOlT
o. served aad it I pretended that SINCE individual
| ughtered had given any proyocstion whatever cr IL
s way disturbed the peace In feet one of the per
| 90 ms murdered was deputy marshal and another DC
| l. officer both Of whom occupied IN the perform
81 ce of their oGicia duties. u the house whence Il il
etended tue pistol shot proceeded, one was hurt
lie troops having expended thOir ammunition upon the
G owd in court, where there probability tbat the
ga mbor Of their victims would be the greater On the
Oc asion OF the massacre the 10th OF Nay BY
o'5ers of Capt, Btuoaski Il fub7 quen1y proved
at liz inquest that his sth occasioped by any
attGok from the surrounding orowd that OF biz
own soldiers gave b IN bis mortal wound with Mimi,
ra. Ii s very possible IL It Cap ain Reiscaes wound
| occurred in the way.
The language of Governor Jackson, in his iniervie-
vi the already notorious Lyon, Commandern-Chef o.
the Federal forces in Missouri has proved prophetic
He off red on the lth OF June Fix days before b'
Cour.uouse massacre to sacrifice everything eIcepiri
his ind yidua honor o the hourly danger OF BLOODY
/ ls urblrce" The United States Government has M
more tight to interfere with the internal affairs Of Mi
souri, than with thcse of France ireland; the Constu
pn distinctly prohibits IL dcrg the L'g stature
jeff on City bad invested the State Executive with poa
er % Dive the ruiz Iuly invaders iFom the M vet Gov
ernor jackson voluntarily offered break 40 the Stat
Guard organization, to exclude arms and munitions O
war from the State to repress every insure ct Oh ar
movement, to protect ciisu Of oil parties alike and
maintain strict neutrality in the between South an