The Tipton advertiser. [volume] (Tipton, Cedar Co., Iowa) 1856-1962, 1862-12-18
man in New England, and the Democrat
ic Governor of Rhode Island.

psa The tory press of the North i. ex-
h'b'tlng its rebel sympathies by bowling
over the execution of ten guerrllas in
Northern Missouri, by Colonel Mcneil
/ And they exhibit, also, their usual men
dac'ty by mis- stating the case and per
/ vertlng and discoloring the real facts -
The ten guerriIlas were truly executed in
+ taIIation. The rebels carried away
from Hannibal loyal citizen, an old
man n2mcd Allsman. Colonel Mcneil
I demanded bis restoration in a certain
! time, at the end of which lie did execute
/ the ten Guerrillas, as threatened 1t is
! not true that Al'sman has wandered beck
to Hannibal, as stated. TO this day
nothing has been heard Of him, and the
Probabilities are that he vas murdered
II is not true that these guerrillas wero
prisoners of war They were bridge
burners-men who had been twice caught
and parolcd, aud as often violated their
parole. They had twice forfeited their
lives under the laws and usages Of war.
as practicca by civilized nations, and
were properly executed, aside from any
retaliation on account Of the carrying eff
and numbering Of loyal citizen of Han
niba' Ivy the Missouri scccsh
For the truth of wha. we Lave stated
above, We refer to Mr. Carpcr, Freight
Agent of the B. & NJ r. Railroad, who
resided at Hannibal at the time Of tho
commencement Of the war, and is convcr.
SAINT with all the facts, having stood guard
every fifth night over those same bridge
burners.
Had the war been conducted from the
beginning with the vigor shown by COL
Mcneil it would long since have been
concluded The rebC's have exhibited
this sort of vjcor; mixed up with any
amount of barbority, from the start They
have murdered hundreds and thousands
of Union men in rall the rebel States,
simply because they were Union men. -
Look at the butcheries in Texas and all
over the South, as detailed by refugees
who have escaped. When Union men
in East Tennessee, oppressed and down
trodden, rose and burnt the bridges upon
the railroad, east of Knoxville, they were
executed and their dead bodies left hang
ing for days along the railroad track, in
view Of every train that passed. Yet
parties guilty of committing the same of
fence twice and violating their parole Of
honor and oath three timcs--twicc let off
by taking the oath, and still the third
time guilty Of brid ge burning, are exccu-
ted, we have howl from the whole tory
press, which never condemned the exc
cutions in Tennessee or anything else
done by the rebels .-Burlinyton Wuwk
eye.
JACKSON AND Fremont. - Captain
Gouldlng, who was Gen. Pope's Quarter
master, and taken prisoner, has been ex-
changed. Several interesting statements
have been made by him concerning the
treatment of the prisoners by the rebels
lie reports having had several interviews
with Stonewall jackson, who told him
that during the entire war he had never
been so hard pressed as he was by Ere.
mont in the Shenandoah Valley; that he
never was in such dangerous position
as at Cross Keys and Port Republic; and
he freely admitted that he would have
been captured, army, bag and baggage,
had Fremont been reinforced or support
ed by Mcdowell.
The Columbus Crisis, Ohio, says
the Republicans oc Iowa have gained
their last victory. That's Whist the tory
sheets OF this State have been saying for
the last eight years? Meanwhile, the
Republican majority has increased from
10, 600 to 1900. There is 40 falling
off this year. The army vote kind o
gets the Philstines --Des mime. H,y-
lister.
FIVE JUST MEN IN SOpOM.-Thc
! Richmond Eruninrr cnumcratcs FIVE
men in the North whom it compares to
! the GIVE Just men in Sodom' '-Franklin
Pierce, 9. l.. VaIIiudigham, Fernando
! Wood, Tho's and Horatio Seymour.