Lamoille newsdealer. [volume] (Hyde Park, Vt.) 1860-1877, 1862-07-11
LETTER FROM KANSAS.

aa BALDWIN CITY, Kan, June co. 1862.
Mr.. EDITOR You have no doubt thought us
very tardy in redeeming pledge, which has not
once been forgotten, amid the many cares and
duties that have constantly crowded our path
way, and of which we are often reminded by the
welcome advent of your little sheet to our hum
BILE cottage, in the far, far West. You may not
be aware, Sir, with what avidity every column
is searched for old familiar names-Names still
dear to our hearts, and that can never be effaced
from memory's tablet-names that call up a
throng of memories and reminicences of the most
pleasing character and, Alas how oft of late,
has the tear of sympathy and sorrow for poor be-
reaved hearts, bedewed our cheek as we have
read of deaths doings, by that terrible scourge,
diptheria, that seems in viruence, twin-sister
to the cholera, combined together as allies to
sweep over our 81 fair heritage" like the pesti-
lence in the "Apocalyptic vision" Only last
week., in looking over the ''dead list,'' in your
columns how were we shocked in seeing the
names of those precious neices,' whom we so
recently left in perfect health, and on whose fair
brow we imprinted the kiss of affection, little
thinking Deaths icy signet would SO soon be set
there and those pure spirits bedeck a Saviors
coronet.
A terrible state of affairs, politically, is now
being enacted in the bloody drama that has
brought death and desolation to SO many famil-
les in Missouri. Whilst we write, a refugee from
that ilfated State, is at our sons table at din
ner, who with his family escaped as by the ''skin
of his teeth leaving fine farm, farming tools,
&C., behind him not knowing how soon all
would be destroyed by those infuriated demons,
who watched to shoot him for no crime only
loving the government under which he had al
ways lived. 1t would make your ears and the
ears of every true Vermonter burn with indig-
nant horror, to listen to those tales of woe and
suffering that those patriots pass through,
can find them by scores, if not by hundreds in
every part of Kansas, eking out a bare subss-
tence for their families who have escaped from
the bloody fangs of Secession. Hear from this
pious mans lips--well attested facts "A neigh
boring physician, quiet, uhobtrusive man. and
withal STAKEHOLDER, said he would have his
right arm torn off before he would fight for the
Southern Confederacy against his country. -
Those fiends shot him and left him weltering in
his blood, then fired his house and burnt his
body up with it, and whether he was quite dead
ere the fire reached him is more than his neigh.
bors can tell. Another neighbor, woman,
they shot in the presence Of her husband, who
died the next day. Others started to fee. and
were shot on the road, and left unburied. Un-
ion men are shot down like dogs, and their
property destroyed in almost every part Of Mis-
souri, Four or five men whose families live at
Black Jack, about miles from here, were shot
a few days since, near Independence, No.
Please say to our friends that Mr.. Lovejoy is
stationed the present Conference year, at Wy
andotte City, beautifulul city about two miles
from Kansas City, Mo-. where so many bloody
tragedies have been enacted during the present
oChildren of D. g. Hardy, brother of Mrs. L..