The Burlington weekly hawk-eye. [volume] (Burlington [Iowa]) 1860-1876, 1862-12-20
Letter fren . Loyal Missourian.
tsk sF'hEs DRcIMBBR llth, 1863.


Editor Of tie Burlington Hawk Eye Sae !
SIR: propose giving you running account
Of the difficulties which have beset tho loyal
men Of this part of Missouri, being resident
ofAdair county Tor six years past and still stay.
inR here. have been an eyewitness 70 .
great many ups and downs as ~e call the dit
ferens turns to affairs. Generally our county is
.bou. stwo-thirds loyal. Schuyler county is
joining Iowa, and has proven, 70 North Missouri.
to be one Of the worst counties in the State.
aad has produced more horse tbievesand trouble
some persons than any other The notorious
Dunn, Cain, McCully. Shacklest and other Lead
ers have ruined this country. They have stolen
thousands Of dollars worth of property Of oil
kinds. They go in gangs Of from ten to Fifty,
and p,uuder is the hight, of their ambition
There are but lew of these persons that'ever
had sny property. Sympathizers stay at home
aud feed these scoundrels in The brush, When
the militia happen to take a prisoner audit
happens sometimes, then the, reOei sympashizers
howl "Lincoln oppression" These same. per-,
sons, in come localities, generally refused, iast
November, to vote, and they are always over
ioyed when fight comes. of and the rebels have
the better of IT, Will loyal men in this country
always be Obliged to tolerate these wolves in
sleeps clothing. For one, answer, no, never
If. the militia have to be called out again, %
hope may never be the case, but II 50, then
they will howl in earnest The rebels have hid
ia the brush and at houses, and in some cases
went into houses where the families we're and
shot citizens and sotdiers asssiey passed,not
dreamiDg Of danger, They have abused Union
women, and in some cases tskeu them prisoners,
and many have no: Jared SO well, who were
knocked down with brick-bsts or stones. Farm
era here, Union men, have laid out and been
hunted like criminals, because they were for
tue Union. We have lived here twelve or IF
teen months between hawk and buzzard. When
the order came to enroll the loyal militia Of the
State, the rebels showed where they lived and
vha. their politics were. They swore and
raved-said the Democratic party would never
submit to Lincoln's eoercive policy.
We have had several little fights here in these
parts that were never noticed in the papers
Adair has the name Of peaceable county, still
there has been trouble in it,, There has beer
FIVE or six fights in the county, where many
sympathizere live The rebel army knows itt
friends. have seen sixty or seventy dead
rebels or one battle-ground, and as many
more badly wounded. I for one have been ia,
ken prisoner by the rebels and . gan cooked q
my breast because, l voted for Abe Lincoln
Some Of the company we're my neighborst Car
look on these neighbors when they come homt
again as friends, Never! There are a. mean sym
psthizers in Iowa as there are down here. There
ere men in Des Moines county who came dowr
here and Struggled of property belonging to q
mean rebels Is ever came from England, bonded
rebels at that. Some Of them. had better no,
be caught here again. l am surprised at SOM
Of my friends-not relatiyes--at the stand they
take, living as they do in Iowa, enjoying com
pasative peace. aaf.sas- -
L was exempt from military duty on account
OF holding little commission. Yeti went init
the State service heart and hand, and if it wal
~ Wy poWetsA WOnlu Sthu sueoo tSOesS ~ -
faster than the devil would have any, use to-
them. .. . Js-4Uf r. = s.'4stib-
lived tweuty-three years in old 5Des koine'
county aud claim it Do my old home, and TO-
that reason would wish to zee the people pu
down The pro slavery Democratic Rebellion
and il they don't 60 into. she fight, foe Goda
sake hold Their peace tell, yon, my friend
in Iowa. that portion of the Democrats
party is responsible for, the continuance Of tbi
most dsmuablel Rebellion. the rebels dowr
here claim the party as their friends. o.
!1!hsve perhaps iptluded .. long letter supol
you, Il is from pure motivea.l a. sg..:a 1as sga'
Il 5.s Z. - Nv. oRa.
a6SYHs USIoS A IT WAs."-Our readers vii
reooect that in the early stages of the rebellion
henry May, member of Congress from Bslti-
more, went to Richmond to negotiate peace
Western Democratic Amembers Of Congress
speaking Of the result Of the mission, said ths
II the United States we're % present to the reb-
eb . white sheet of paper, on which they coul,
write their own terms for coming back into tn
Union as il Uas, It would be rejected. This va
the anever IN, ~ an, n hrOnp hit hack nj Al