The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1862-12-04

the oath of allegiance TO these captured
murderers, another system was adopted
The effect of that system has been to re-
store law and order in North East Mis-
souri,, and to put an end to the daily and
nightly massacre of loyal citizens.
These outrages have now been removed
from, there to the Southwest, and the fol.
lowing. which we dip from ST. Loui,
paper, will serve to indicate the way it i.
done: s...fa sas
GKH. LOAN AND THE gUsHwHACKxRs.
Headq's, Central District of Missouri.
Jefferson City, Nov. 28, 1869. I
Editors Missoari Democrat
Attention has been directed to the sub
ject of shooting bushwhackers by some
recent publications in the papers. The
following extract, which is taken from 9
report sent to this office by Lieut.. COL
Thompson, of the 9Th cavalry, II. s. NJ,
under date Harrisonyille. Nov. 25th, '62,
may enable some doubling philanthropists
to come to decision on the subject
BEN LOAN, Brig. Gen. n. s. NJ.
xxTRAcT.
another of Col. Catherwood's men,
wounded at the burning Of the train, vas
brought up from near the Ossge this eve
ming. lie was one o. The prisoners who
failed to make his escape. All three oil
them were taken out together TO he shot
Tho other two were killed dead, bu,
this man was shot through the mouth
and neck and both eyes shot out, the ball
passing through one eye, through the
bridge of the nose aud into the other eve.
He was left for dead aud afterwards picked
up by farmer. He is horrid spectacle
10 behold F"
We trust the people of Iowa will not
fail to note that the Mahony press Of the
State take sides against our Government
and with France and England and the
traitsr Confederacy upon every single
question of dispute that arises. And we
desire that the volunteers of Iowa, who
have had experience of the tsnder msr-
cies Of the "Busternut bushwhackers, /"
should know that the Mahony papers Of
our State are furious in their condemns
ton Of the inhumAnity and barbarity Of
shooting down these marauding and muir
dering bushwhackers Of Missouri.
So far as JEFF. Davis is concerned III,
following from the Louisville journal
will do.
Let the President Of the rebel Confed.
eracy consider what his people have done.
1t is oil atieetation--it is hypocrisy in him
to pretend to regard with horror the
of the ten Missouri citizens. He
knows that Kirby Smith hung fifteen in
nocent persons near Cumberla nd Gap and
tumbled their bodies into hole, not even
. reason for the awful deed. He
knows that seven Federal prisoners were
recently shot or hung in Louisiana upon
no other pretext than that they had en-
listed in the United States service in New
Orleans. He knows that his men butcher
ed General McCook under circumstances
that have made the blood of the ration
run cold. He knows that his guerrilas
in Kentucky, Missouri. and Tennessee,
all bearing regular commissions in his
Contcdrracy, have been 10 the regular
habit of ruling up to citizens houses,
calling them to their doors, and shooting
them down or taking them out and hang.
ing to the first trees, or cutting their
Threats in their beds by the sides Of their
weeping wives aud in the midst of their
shrleking children. He knows that hun.
dreds and hundreds of murders Of this
kind have been committed BY his men and
still continue to be committed daily and
nightly He knows all this, and he
knows that tho United States authorities
have never demanded tho surrender Of
the perpetrators Of the bloody horrors or
even threatened retaliation. lie now
orders that the ten U. s. officers iirst can.
tured, perhaps Generals, perhaps Colon
els. perhaps Majors, shall be massacred.
unless surrender shall be made that he
is fully aware cannot possibly Be made,
and his objec, is to inaugurate demoniac
warfare, which, as conducted on both
sides, shnll horrify and appal the nations
Of tho earth and compel interventisn.-
Our Government may have need Of the
highest wisdom in determining its own
action in view Of these things.
@ Gen. Pemberton, who issued !