The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1862-05-22

in the attempt. When he gets ready &c
90 down into East Tennessee, l hope be
will let me know. want to 90 with him
side by side, on horse, with epauletts, 4
cooked hat and sword; and our friend
Briggs of New York, a former member
of Congress, who is now ON the platform,
has promised me large coil Of rope, and
! want the pleasure of showing them who
10 hang. Great applause. We have
had experiments in this thing Of crushing
out rebellion. We had long time ago
one on small scale in Massachusetts, and
the Government crushed it out. After
wards we had the whisky rebellion in the
neighboring State Of Pennsylvania, and
the Government applied the screws and
crushed il out. S.ill more recently we
had terrible rebellion In South Carolina,
and, with Old Hickory at the helm, we
crushed it ont-[applause.
REREL RARBARITIEs.
After the battle at Manassas and Bull
Run the officers and privates Of the Con-
federate army passed through our town
on their way to Dixie, exulting over the
victory they had achieved, and some of
them had what they called Yankee heads,
or the entire heads of Federal soldiers,
some Of them with long boards and goat
ees, by which they would take them up
and say. "See here is the head of a
damned soldier capsured at Bull Run"
That is the spirit Of secession at the South.
II is the spirit of murder of the vile un-
tutored savage; it is the spirit of hell,
and he who apologies forthem u no bet
ter than those who perpetrate the deed.
STILL MORE HORRIBLE.
In the town of Greenyille, where An
drew johnson resides, they took out Of
the jail, ct one time, two innocent Union
men, who had committed no offense on the
face of the earth, but that of being Uni
on men-Nashy and Fry. Fry was a poor
shoemaker. with wife and half dozen
of children. A fellow from way down
East in Maine, by the name OF Daniel
Leadbeater, and the bloodiest and most
ultra man, the vilest wretch, the most un-
mitigatcd scoundrel that ever made a
track in East Tennessee. This is Colonel
Daniel Leadbeater, late of the United
States army, but now rebel in the Sc
cession army. He took these two men,
tied them with his own hands upon one
limb, Immediately over the railroad track
in the town of Gieenville, and ordered
them to hang four days and nights, and
directed all the engineers and conductors
to 60 by that hanging concern slow, in a
kind Of snail gallop, up and down the
road, to give the passengers an oppor,u-
nifty to kick the rigid bodies and strike
them with rattan. And they did it.
pledge you my honor that on the fron,
platform they made business of kicking
the dead bodies az they pass ed by; and
the women { / will not say ladies, for down
South we make distinction between la
dies and women the women, the wives
and daughters of men in high position,
| waved their white handkerchiefs in tri.
umph through the windows Of the car al
the sight Of the two dead bodies hanging
there. Leadbeater, for his murderous
courage, was promoted by JEFF Davis to
the Office of Brigadier General. He had
an encounter, as their own papers al
Richmond state, at Bridgeport, not long
ago, with part of Gen. MitehelPs army,
where Leadboater got n glorious whip.
ping. His own party turned round and
chastised him for cowardice He had
courage to hang innocent, unarmed men,
taken out of Jail, but he had not courage
to face the Yankees and the Northern men
that we're under Mitchell and Buell.. He
took to his heels, like coward and scav-
enger as be is.
Our programme is this, that when we
get back into East Tennessee we will in.
struct all our friends everywhere to Sc
cure and apprehsnd this fellow. Lead.
beater; and our purpose is to take him to
that tree and make the widow Fry tie the
rope around his internal neck.
UNION MEN HUNG.
In the Jail where lay they were &C.
customed to drive up with cart, with an
ugly, rough, fat-topped coffin upon it,
surrounded by fifteen to forty men, With
brislling bayonets, as guard to march
in through the gate into the Jail yard,
with steady, military tread, We trembled
in our boots, for they never notified u.
who was to be hanged, and you may i'm
agine how your humble servant felt: fol
it any man in the jail. under their law,
deserved the gallows. / claim to have been
the man. knew it and they knew it
They came sometimes with two collins,
one on each cart, and they took two men
1t time and marched them out. A poor
old man Of sixty-6ve and his son Of
twenty-five were marched out at one time
and hanged on the same gallows. They
made that poor old man, Who was Meth
odist class-lesder, sit BY and see his son
hung till he was dead, and then called