Daily Democrat and news. [volume] (Davenport, Iowa) 1859-1864, 1862-06-23
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fsiond Sanders has sgain, quite recently,
endsavored 70 justify Col. Jennisoo's
ias ing, for the third or fourth time
within lev weeks, md ~ the Gazette
sppests TO v the especial defender OF
Col. Jeunisos and his jayhawking band,
I ask you to publish the following ex.
tracts from .. speech delivered BY the
.'brave and heroic Colonel" to his sol.
diers or followers, on the 22d day OF
January last, and reported in the Leav-
enworth Conservative, the jayhawkers
organ in Kansas:
"Many q hard struggle yet may come
before the stars and stripes float tri.
ompkan,ly over the blackened ruins of
the sohole South. Many . trenchant
blow must yet fall from staiwart arms
uetore the clank Of the last shackls fall-
ing from the last slaue file out the full
symphony Of vietory's glad chorus.
Loud cheers.) l tell you that 1 am to
lead you into many battle. Below rs
are 1ndians and the bloody pirates OF
Texas and Arkansas. We shall fight
them there. Under the guiaaoce Of the
gallant Hunter, whose heart pu'sates
ooly With the truest thi obs-or our rad.
ical Lsne-the wild crusader Of Free.
dom, We have yet before % future full
Of opportunities and consequently Of
glory. But should this Hucter- Lane
expedition, which We hope soon to see
disappearing from the newspapers and
ranging itself in the field, be blasted by
some hating policy, you shall fight them
IN a Jennison expedition. So take cour
age, and thank God that all is not yet
over. Now let me say a word to this
regiment: l am proud Of it-proud Of
it's officers and men. 1t has passed
through the bloody baptism Of no great
battles, but nevertheless it 10 known,
and known by its works. 1t is q regi.
ment which has statistics. Organized
10 October last, it has brought out Of
bondage little over seventeen hundred
slaves. Its capture Of rebel property
ioots up large figures in the Quarter
masters re,urosO But October war
not our birthday. For sic long gears
ve haze fought as guerillas, what we
are now fighting as q regiment. THIS
var is a soar schich dates a,o0y back of
Fort Sumter. o. the cold bill side, in
swamps and fens, behind rocks and
trees, ever s,nce "a zoe haze naad4 the
long caropaign. Away off there zoe
have led the sdeas Of this age, always
battling at home, and sometimes send
ing forth from among US q stern old
missionary like John Broom TO sho,o to
Virginia that THE WORLD D Es MOVE.
"F,nally, sustained by the people,
Government hos adopted our policy,
together we shall make it win."
There Messrs. Editors you have the
words of the brave and heoric Colonel
Jennisou himself, as reported through
the columns Of one of b 9 own organs
Is this not taking high and original
ground? Will the Gazette endorse
such Border RuG1nism as this ? II so,
well did ask short time since, "~bat
an Abolition Black Republican could
say or do, that the editor Of the Gazette
WOulu dVIIJIt W UC D
hope friend Sanders will admit the
authenticity Of the foregoing extracts,
for assure him they we're not taken
from the St. Louis Republican, q jour.
nal that he seems to abhor because of
the vast amount Of truth contained in
It's we'll filled columns. l hope too that
my friend may profit somewhat from
the reading Of these extracts and those
l have heretofore presented, and called
his attention to. 1t is strange, is it not,
that the "brave and heoric Col. Jenni-
SOM makes no mention Of his " murder.
ed wife and child" which called forth
the sympathies of my friend a short
time since.
Here is scrap of history dating as
far back as "a, but no word about the
Border Ruffians shooting his wife and
chile, as the Gazette had it. Colonel
Jennisop, from his own language, does
not even claim to have been injured in
any way. He is not fighting to protect
his home or bis property or anything Of
the kind, and it is left for the Gazette,
here in Davenport, to set up the plea Of
persecution in order to justify Col. Jen-
nison and his men for numbering and
stealing in Kansas and Missouri. Talk
about the St. Louis Republican being
an irresponsible journal and then COM
pare that paper with the Davenport
Gazette, and see what you will make Of
| it. WAPsEY.
June 10th, 1862.