The weekly pioneer and Democrat. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. Territory) 1855-1865, 1861-06-21
STARTLING NEWS.
MISSOURIN REVOLT
PROCLAMATION OF THE
GOVERNOR.
Calls for $4,000 Troops
us, SOLDIERS TO BE DRIVEN
FROM THE STATE.
CONCERTED ACTION WITH THE
SOUTH.

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ST. LOUIS, June 13.
The following proclamation from Gov.
jackson is received to-day.
JEFFERSON CITY, Juno IL.
To the People of Missouri
outrages having heen inflicted upon the
peace and dignity of this Commonwealth,
and upon the rights and liberties of the
people, by wicked and unprincipled men,
protesting to act under the authority of the
United States Government; the solemn
enactments OF your Legislature have been
nullifed your volunteers have been taken
prisoners; your commerce with your sister
States has been suspended your trade with
your own fellow~citizens has been and is
subjected to the harassing control of an
armed so.diery peaceful citizens have been
imprisoned without warrant of law; un-
offending and defenceless women and child
rem have been ruthlessly shot down and
murdered, and other unbearable indignities
have been heaped upon your State and
yourselves.
10 all these outrages and indignities you
have submitted with patriotic forbearance,
which has only encouraged the perpetrators
OF these grievouS wrongs to attempt still
broader usurpations. 1t has been nay ear
nest endeavor, under all these embarrassing
circumstances, to maintain the peace of the
state, and to ward off, if possible, from our
borders the desolating effects Of civil war.
With that object in view, authorized
Major General Price, several weeks ago, to
arrange with Gen. Harvey, commanding
the Federal forces in this state, terms Of
agreement by which the peace of the state
might be preserved. They came, on the
2lst of May, to an understanding which
was made public. The state authorities
have faithfully labored to carry out the
terms of that agreement. The Federal
Government, on the other hand, not only
manifested its strong disapprobation of it,
by the instant dismissal of the distinguished
| officer who, on its part, entered into it, but
it at once began, and has unremittingly car
ried out, system of hostile opposition in
bitter contempt of that agreement, and in
reckless disregard of its own pljghted faith.
These acts latterly portended revolution
and civil war so Enthusiastically, that I re.
solved to make one further effort to avert
these dangers from you. / therefore solicit
ted an interview with Brigadier General
Lyon, commanding the Federal army in
Missouri. 1t was granted on the 10th.
Waving all questions of personal or official
dignity, l went to st. Louis, accompanied
by Maj. General Price. We had an inter.
view on the lltb, with Gen. Lyon and Col.
f. P. Blair, jr., at which 1 submitted to
them this proposition That 1 would
disband the State Guard and break up its
organization that would disarm all com.
panies which have been armed by the State,
and that l would pledge myself not to at
tempt to organize the militia under the mi
litia bill that no arms or munitions of war
should be brought into the State; that I
would protect all citizens officially, in all
their rights, regardless of their political
opinions that would repress all attempts
to invade it from whatever quarter and by
whomsoever; that would thus maintain
strict neutrality in the presf Mt unhappy con-
test and preserve the peace of the State.
And further proposed that I would, if
necessary, invoke the assistance of the Unit
ed States troops to carry out those pledges
All this l proposed to do upon the cond.
ton that the federal government would un-
dertake to disarm the Home Guards, which
it has illegally organized and armed through
out the State, and pledge itself not to &C.
cupy with its troops any localities in the
State now occupied by them at this time.
Nothing but the most earnest desire to
avert the horrors of civil war could have
tempted me to propose these humiliating
terms. They were rejected by tie federal
officers; they demanded not only the disor-
ganization and disarming of the State mi.
litia, and the the notification of the military
bill, but they refused to disarm their own
Home Guards, and insisted that the federal
government should enjoy the unrestricted
right to move and station its troops through.
out the State, whenever and wherever that
might, in the opinion of its officers, be me-
cessary, either for the protection of loyal
subjects of the federal government or for
the repelling of invasion and they plainly
announced that it was the intention of the
administration to take military occupation
under these pretexts, of the whole State, and
reduce it, avowed by Gen. Lyon himself, to
the execrable condition of Maryland.
The acceptance by me of these degrading
terms would not only have sullied the honor
of Missouri, but would have aroused the
indignation of every brave citizen, and pre-
cipititated the very conflict which it has
been my aim to prevent. We refused to
accede to them, and the conference was bro
ken up.
Fellow citizens-All our efforts towards
Cancellation have failed. We can hope for
nothing from the justice or moderation of
the agents of the Federal government in
this matter. They are energetically hasten
ing the execution of their bloody and revo-
lutionary schemes for the Inauguration of
civil war in our midst for the military oc-
cupation of your State by armed bands of
lawless invaders for the overthrow Of your
State government, and for the subversion
OF those liberties which that government has
always sought to protect ; and they intend