Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1862-09-11
Kentucky waking Up--Strong Meas
ures Demanded.-Eo Mercy to be
Shown to Traitors.

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| tFforn the Frankfort Commonwealth
Tie action of the Home Guards of Mer-
Ger and Boyle counties ought to be the key
note for every Kentuckan who has warm
heart beating 10 his breast. Guerrillas are
leaving, or attempting to leave, at almost
every point in the State, and by .bypaths
that nothing but they or their prototype,
the snake, could find. Catch them, shoot
them in the brush, kill them like hounds. =
Mercy and kindness to them is ruin to the
rest Of US. They belong to the basest and
most disgraceful class of traitors. if we can
dignity theft and cowardice by calling it trea-
son. They are traitors and rebels against
the United States. They are traitors to the
State Of Kentucky, and that in contempt
of the States rights which is the pretext
for rebellion. They are traitors TO the
counties in which they live, and whose
Courts haye only been negligent in not con-
victing them OF some baser crime than trea-
sou. They are assassins who would murder
every neighbor, and make the war planned
system OF private assassination.
They should be hunted by blood hounds,
if necessary, and shot without mercy Their
exit from the State is the elimination of all
the dishonorable and disgraceful acts that
has given such vitality to them as the
worm that feeds and fattens on neglected
wounded or dead body The home guards
Of every neighbOrhood should join when
ever they hear of such force near them,
and hunt them up. If they can surround
| them and take them prisoners, of course we
would recommend making them take the
oath, and then letting them go but if they
can't, it would be well to ''perforate" them;
put in leaden plug to stop up the channels
of treason.
Let US then clear out the State. Send
these men to Camp Chase or kingdom-come,
just us they prefer or make it necessary,
but send them somewhere. Let every
neishborhood be on the qu rioe You will
find little camps of Secessionists meeting at
some particular village store, and will wake
up some morning to learn that two or three
Of the attendants of these hopeful meetings
have disappeared. As soon as you do that
go to your stable and count your horses.
You will find the best are stolen by that
base, robbing, thieving, plundcring party
that has made the knightly name of chiv-
airy word Of dishonor and reproach. We
say follow your horses, and if you happen
to kill hOrse-thief who pretends to be a
Confederate soldier, let your bosom's lord
sit easy on her throne. 1t is one of the
ways of clearing them out.
We are speaking now of individual exer-
ton; what every citizen is expected to do
who calls himself not only loyal but an
honest man. We expect and demand that
the mill litary movements in this State shall
be conducted with more vigor. We don't
wish to SEQ shoulder strapped officers lying
about hotels, and gallant regiments wasting
their time in and about camps. They should
hunt up guerrillas, find something to do,
the coors and carry the musIet, let them
remember the one symbolizes the Union and
the other was given to defend it; and you
must load with bullets, and shoot bullets,
and hurt somebody If you don't
"rd rather be n dog and bay the moon,
Than such n Runann ..f