St. Cloud Democrat., 1862-10-09

NsCuys ss1sS5, Y VI Wiling q 70
=, sss ~ Sssl s.r. With A+if II il
l...., Am s.uk centre. f
:" eAux CiNrRx, OF. 4.h, 1852.
ssNas SwIssHrln In your paper Of
tAs26sh nit. I And short aud very per.
seesI sssials tlom Joh. B. Marvin, IA. G.
N.aotlAs Northern Rsoge,s." in which
- hs spaals .ssy as,isively If Cspt. Rams.
dell. ssd sompaay Of State Militia, Or.
essised ~ the citisess of this place and
Vicinity, for the protection Of the live
aud property of one aud N 10 this ssetion
q the eosntry. t4n1 ass4 n..a, e. ....
Il !. nothing but Common
justice % he psople here, Who have ~
sobly made stand 'ns'esd of fleeing frvu
the homes = many others have done
that 70 'h"dsd b defended against such
anussly pseaul', from . btdy Of men
claiming to be military organization
lus upon the principle Of julging tree
BY in fruits, We should call ,heu band
u ouslsvs, whose .sowed purpose is not
, 70 prutcct property aud give confidence to
shs psop's, but to destroy the one aud
inghhn the other.
A. regards breaking into deserted hous.
q do not /, ~ that Capt. Freeman and
bio eoa pany hive been guilty Of such out
RACES, for we have not b, e" an eye w.t.
ness u such scenes but it is . universal
fact that On the road from here to Alexan.
dsi. and the valley below us, nearly every
house h.l been broken into, aud every.
thing o. Value either carried away or de.
stroysd.
Here ws would Lave it distinctly un.
dsstood that We J. not charge all Of the
acts u Cap. Freeman, for Capt. Ferger's
company was seen while iu .h> act ot com,
nis.ing such depreda'ions "
After C.ps. freeman returned t. St.
Cloud, from Psynesville, Fores. City, &C.,
he wss ordered Immediately .o F.rt Aber.
e.o...bie. Did he obey orders? No! he
came 10 far ~ ssuk Centre, aud waited
for rsiptoseemeuss fearing to " through
alone.
Sixty mounted men afraid to 60 to Ab.
srcrombis all alone.
Capt. Freeman requested Capt. Rams
dell, 70 detail thirty me" from our compa.
ny to 60 through with hun, and rctur"
.slone, leaving but twenty men here. to
protect the Won en- aud children, rightly
claiming protection Vt our hands, nearly
every member Of III" company having
family Of his own. This Of course our
captain could not grant, but ten womer
volunteered to see them safely through +"
-',:e Fort aud no doubt would have done 50
had their scr, ices been accepted. Could
:: any rques. have been more unjust than
this. Look for M -ment ut our ge"eral h.
icsl position. Situated thus could We not
reasonably expect an attack here, a. soon
- buoy Of sixty mounted men, would,
anywhere on the road bet xeen here and
Abercrombis. Yet with all t.ese facts
staring him in the face, Capt. Freeman
had tho hsrdihood to ask for what few
men We had, to protect him and his cou,-
pauy, leaving our women and children ex.
posed I" the tomahaw>, and scalpi"g
knife Of the savage. To use their own
language I'VE have no connection with
them" and l pray God We never may.
The 6rst &C. Of Capt. Freeman after his
arrival was an attempt to impress horses
for tho uss Of bis company. when We hal
but few. the most Of v ich We kept j" use
70 scour the country, and ascertain # pos.
sible tn whereabouts Of our savage foes.
This 10 the kind VI protection we have re.
esived from Cspt. Freeman.
AZ to the courage If the Norther.. RAN
sers we may we'll doubt, by the following
incident.
s. Mr. Gsger and few others had gone
back to Alexandra to procure some arti-
cles they had left there AID hurry up one
o. twe families who were due here Ut u" "
q The day Csp. Frecmup't 'mpa"y NJ
rived. We concluded to 70 in search of
then The following morning. ieu'. Tay
b, informed Capt. Ram*dell that night
q he w.s le,vins Oh the stage f,r St.
Cloual that twenty-five men would be dc.