The Democratic press. (Eaton, Preble County, Ohio) 1860-1865, 1862-02-06
rErom tke Crisis.l u

The Manner of Prosecuting the War.
Z We mentioned last week that we would
call attention. in this paper to some Of the
vile acts Of some ofthese men, whose deeds
o~finhuman turpitude should be denounced
by every right thinking man.
If such conduct, as is exposed in the fol-
lowing articles, is co~untehanced encourag-
ed, winked at or approved Of, then we are
not only a lost nation, but a lost people
also. Can any one read these accumulated
details without shudderlng, and his hair be-
coming erect on his head, at the contempla-
ton of the end-the sure, certain close, Of
such a w%arfare2 Recollect these are not
the details of "Secessionists," they are the
testimony of our own men, and the authors
our own witnesses.
We know some of them, as murderers and
rioters before the war commenced. They
are now let loose to prey upon the world,
unbridled, unrestricted by the laws of war
and the laBs,of civilization, or the common
restraints of ordinary hi~ghwaymen.
A letter we republish from the Chicago
Tribune, sho VS. what Jennison is about in
Western Missouri. If laying waste a whole
country-burning houses and other build
ings which areVthe only shelter Of women
and children in mid-winter, and taking from
them the last crumb which stands between
them and staryation--is reconcilable with
any principle or dictate Of humanity or
civilization, we have labored under a life
time error; neither can we comprehend how
men, considered civilized and Christian, can
defend Wholesale murders, perpetrated in
cold blood on captives who have fallen into
the hands Of a banditti. Such ravages and
horrors as have tracked the march of Jen-
nison are paralleled only by the waste and
rapine Of such a war as Louis XIV vaged
against the Germans of the Palatinate-a
war which historians have deemed one Of
the most atrocious- on record Neither
Europe nor the United States has seen
many campaigns which compare with the
rayages of Jonn;son's bands in Missouri
With such examples to point at we may ex-
pect the judgment of civilized Europe will
arraign the United States for conducting
war barbarously. "3t
In Kansas City, the houses of Messrs,
Shannon, Holmes. Adkins, the Halls snd
Ralphs, were .pillaged. In Westport,
the houses of Mossrs. Bernard and Foglesop,
were served in the same way. In and near
Independence, these bands burned up and
destro Yed the entire property of Thos.
Pritchard, comprising dwelling, mill, barn,
and stacks 'ofgrain; also, the houses of Mr..
D. J. Porter and the Messrs, holland. In
addition, they destroyed ten other dwelling
houses in the same locality,
Among the murders communicative thai
ofMr, Joseph Williams, whose only ofenst
was an attempt to-send his mules across the
river for safety. Two inoffensiye lads, sons
of an old gentleman named Burge, were
shot at, and one Of them killed and the 9th.
er wounded, their only crime being in aiding
to send offa negro woman, who was in dan
ger of being seized by Jennison's men. Mr.
Philip Booker, of Westport, was seized in
his own house, and, Notwithstanding thu
presence ofan agonized wife with her chill
dren, who were piteously entreating that tn,
life of the husband and father should b,
spared, murdered within two hundrec
yards of his own door-sill After recount
ing such enormities, it is hardly worth Will
to speakofunmanly and gross insults, abus
and ''mistreating' suffered at the hands Q
these brigands by the daughters Of Col
Mccarthy of Kansas City; or Of a multitud
of minor ,fillanies and outrages.
The above recited acts occurred durin
Jennison's FIRST raid, His command retire
to L~eayenworth City His second RAID too
place on the occasion Of his being ordere
by Gen. Hunter from LeayenYogth City t
West Point, Bates county. a,a a.;