The Burlington weekly hawk-eye. [volume] (Burlington [Iowa]) 1860-1876, 1862-04-12
Gallant Exploit Of Col. Roberts.
He spikes . Rebel Datsesy During the
Pleasant

Gallant Exnlnta oe rop Rnh~rs
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ne spikss Rebel DatseIy Durl0g th
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Especial dispatch to she Chicago Tribuns.j
oS BOARD STEAMER v. +. WILSON, /
ISLAND No. ~, April 2, 1862.
| Via Cairo Sd inst
( A most daring exploit was performed la.
night by Col Roberts and fifty picked me
from his regiment, the 42d Illinois. The niet
| was intensely dark, and the previously repor,
el gale of wind and thunder storm prevailed
and his men, in five yawls managed by crew
| from the punboats lsft tho .,oomor Rsn,a,,
and with mufied oars and under cover of RI
darknees arovdad -. .ts =" AZ " ~ =:
few rods 81 :. ppI "uea w,.nil
glared upon the water rays.I;na ,ha haa,s !.
the sentries. They fired upon our men five o,
si1 shots, the balls whistling overhead ant
non.s, S ~ s.d IAase Inc sentineis then inoonti
some distance to tho rear of Nv hs.,anr .. nu.
men made no reply. but pulled nm to the fort;
hcation, sprang over tae parapet, and in three
nu.es Hes ume spiked all the guns, SIX in num-
o,,,a ~. nooer's hiniSelI M spiklng huge eighty
without a man receiving a scratch. The ouns
which have all been newly mounted within the
pas. 'No OF three DAYS, lhavlng been previously
so,,rs a,a y oui eamhohauing,J M were sixty
...a 49, auu eleh.ies' me feoel steamer trans
damonstrot;osn caa.; Da'y' oa' nia'e no
stream. y ''' o''. - '"e
The mortars kent up a very heavy bomhard
~,
spirit from their floating battery. Their shots
were well aimed. but occasioned mn DAMAGE
Very heavy and rapid firing was hoard Ia st
night and this morning At point p,essant nv
in that vicinity We have no intell;oenca from
there as vet.
The river has commenced falling--a fact in
our favor.
s-
Missouri SENATOR FOR THE PRrsIDENr's
EMAso1pAT1os Po11cy-senstor Henderson of
Missouri; maa. r,
epee'u o'i 1hufs
oas 'as'' IN support OF the P-esldents emanci-
patton resolution. After deprecating the die
position of some of the ant. slavery Sor.,,,. r.
iudao ,ha h.,,,. c.. :.
'N'e'>'l. ,.0e' o'"'s lneu uhchar'aoiy' ana
expressing MS oeiief that the various emancipa-
tion schemes introduced into Congress-espe-
cially Senator Sumner's f1o de 20 resolutions
wora 81
'A' oou'''eih peo
pie ana 10 proiong the struggle, he neve.the.
'-a sustained the Presidents plan without ousli.
fication. denied ,b., u oon.a;nod ,h....
of violent emancipa.- - "
ref,sed tn seu their .,sves tue an' Doroer states
.a,, -, :. radicals Of
oo.n eA''e"ee p'ole'eeu W nna ~ H. ana ss,
inns terrible revolution was brought about
oy Mr.. lancey and his confederates, by infaming
the Southern mind against the dangers of abo-
iition, which they knew to be false. They drove
the South to madness, to self-destruction; and
IN the letter OF Messrs fsncey, Rost and Mann
TO Lord John Russell, they have erected mon
ument OF infamy to these conspirators. They
say, what all must now admit, that 1T was from
no lear that the slaves would be liberated that
secession TOOK piace- Inc very party in power
mas proposed TO guaranty slavery forever in the
states IL the South would but remain in the
Onion' Mr.. L'ncoins message proposes no free
= uoh 70 the siaVe' put announces su6Je etIon of
n's owner TO the VIII OF the Union--in other
words' 70 the VIII OF the North Even after
the oattie OF Bull Nun both branches OF Con-
gress at Washington passed resolutions that the
war is only waged IN order to enforce that (pro-
slavery constitution, and to uphold the laws,
many Of them pro-slavery,) and out of the hum
dred and seventy-two votes in the lower house,
they received all but two, in the Senate all but
one. As the army commenced its march, the
general issued an order that no
slaves should be received into or allowed to fol-
low the camp Now, sir, what has been the re.
suit OF this unnecessary strife upon my State. -
ln 1850 our slave population was ia ,966, and
although We stood as peninsula in the great
ocean OF freesoil around us, l hazard the asser-
lion to-day that no property was more secure in
Inc state than slave property. 1t was so re-
garded by everybody. Our white population at
Inc same period was upward of one million
How is it now? doubt whether there are fifty
thousand slaves in the State. The secessionists
charged that the brigade commanded by the
Senator from Kansas, sitting near me, seized
their slaves, and took them out of the State,
and, in order to retaliate, they, as learn, have
taken hundreds from Union men in the State,
to be delivered over to their injured frlends.-
In addition to this, many OF the largest slave
holders of the State, fearing the result of the
war in the earlier stages of the rebellion, hur-
ried off their slaves to the South. Others,
again, waiting until they were surrounded by
hostile armies, abandoned negroes and every
thing else for the protection OF themselves their
wives and children.
'.Ihe true value OF real and personal property
! 10 missouri was IN isoo, Sool ,zl4,Ss Aside
A
can now esnmate, ana beyond the loss OF slaves
70 wnich nave referred, think 1t safe to say
tnat Ten percentum OF TINS vast amount OF pro-
per1y mas oeen destroyed sna forever lost to the
'"ners IN consequence OF TINS wai-an amount
equa. 70 Tue aggregate 'aiae OF aii the slaves IN
.ne state at the commencement OF hostillties II
were 70 ADA 10 TINS the loss ocoasioned to the
peoPe OF te state oy tue utter proslration OF Its
as''cuitufai, comheiciai ana manuiacturing IN
teiests 10 ior tne last Twelve months, might add
my ! ni'iiohs more 10 the sum already named.
LOOKING !. then' 70 my own State, and speak for
!. aIone, am not aisposed 70 take issue with the
rresideht IN regard 10 the future results OF the
war. l regard MS expression as prophecy, and
nc' Us 'nreat-a prophecy thas feel VAL bere'
aIaeo .n,s war conthues. ih9t 1t snail con-
linue unth tne oh,on pe restored, nave already
enpressea e, my wisn IN the amendment offered:
W ne1Ier you ADOPT !! or not, the great est will
never oe content uhtii every miie OF the Misss-
s,pp: river from Anthonys rams 70 the Eaif OF
MeAico snai DC unaer the Jorisdiction OF our
III,