The Burlington weekly hawk-eye. [volume] (Burlington [Iowa]) 1860-1876, 1861-06-15
Affairs in Missouri.

The man who doubts that Il most wicked and
persistent conspiracy is on foot to embroil the
State in civil war aud hurry her into the vortex
of revolution must be wifully blind; all over the
State the traitors are at work. In St Joseph it
| is made misdemeauor to hoist the national ban.
| ner. The Postmaster in that place has been
compelled to take down the Stars and Stripes by
an order of the City Council. The men who did
this are linen of peace" seeking they say to
| prevent excitement! At another town OH the
Missouri river, distinguished malignant recent
| ly declared that jeff. Davis had agreed to fur.
| nish arms to the secessionists of Missouri to put
down the Federal authority here. From another
quarter and near the interior Of the State, an
| other malignant has asserted that the debt Mis-
| souri, may incur in the contemplated war has
already been assumed by the Z. S A. AT Han
niba the work of making cannon is going on
| again-though it was but recently suspended
The secession flag flies in jefferson The Repub
| can says not before the Governors door, "a is
asserted by otl ers, bit hard By. OF course the
Governor is Innocent. Down in the southeast
| and in the southwest an army is being raised
| and sworn to drive out the Federal troops IRON
the State Who says secession is dead! Can
| Gov jackson prevent these things! why, the
| men who do til m are his own officers OF conf
dental friends and partsans. Has he attempted
to prevent them? BY no manner OF M ans
They are Us eager as any OF the actors to push on
the work Now what is the remedy for all this?
Is treason virtue? Is peace of any yalueP-
These williams know that the people of Missouri
oppose secession by an overwhelming ma jority.
They will not submit to the oft expressed will of
| the majority. But they continue to prey upon
the peace of the peopie-and they waste and
destroy their property. Is there no remedy?
A BATTALION OF q. S. RESERVE GUARDS At
HANNIBAL. -Eighty-one. Home Guards from Han
nba, Mo-, arrived on the steamer Die Vernon
at o'clock yesterday morning, and proceeded
on the street cars to the Arsenal. They were
! accompanied by Capt LOOMS, and we're portions
| Of Companies A and of battalion OF three
| companies under command of Major Hunt, at
| Hannibal. Fifty seven of the party were OF Com
| pany A, Capt Loomis, aud the remainder of
Company B.
| Capt Loomis and his men we're cordially re-
| ceived by Gen. Lyon, and at their request
| promptly sworn into the service of the United
| States as Reserve Guards. They were then fur
| nished with arms Muskets Tor their comrades
of the battalion were also committed to their
caie, to be delivered at Hannibal. The troops
remaining at Hannibal will be duly sworn by
Major Hunt in that city.
The Arsenal steamer Iatan, Capt. Eads took
the new Reserves and their muskets on board,
and conveyed them up town to the Die Vernon
fASSSSANu
their return home.
Major Hunt. OF the battalion of Hannibal Re.
serve Guards, is the energetic Superintendent Of
the Hannibal and st. Joseph Railroad. Capt.
Looms Is the Assistant Superintendent, having
on Monday been appointed to that post, in place
OF Il gentleman OF secession procliyities
The treason press of Hannibal appears to be
dreidfuly exercised in view of the attempt OF
the Home Guards TO procure arms. The editors
e1prsss approximations that the peace OF their city
will suller. Evidently the apprehensons they feel
arc that the American Tag will be kept floating
over them. They well know that this flag means
tolerance and peace to penceable citizens, and
that the rag of treason 1t is that signifies intoer
ance and bloodshcd. Only treason breathes
threatenings and slaughter TO peace.seeking cit
liens. The facts are that by night and in secret
places IL IL seeking to organize and discipline its
orces TO initiate civil war. Peace can only be
oun rsnteed by making the enterprise of the con-
sojrators most evidently hopeiess.-Sl Louis
Democrat, 9Th.