White Cloud Kansas chief. [volume] (White Cloud, Kan.) 1857-1872, 1863-07-02
HART!

We have often been skinned alive, and
had begun to aatter ourself that We were
like the old woman's eels-had got used
to it. But the worst skinning we have
ever experienced. was performed through
the columns of the st. Joseph Herald Of
May 18th. It is perfectly horrible-in
fact. it makes us feel very badly. The
skinning aforesaid was perpetrsted By
Hart-Jsmss s. Hsrt-Csptain james
8. Hart, Of the "3d Reg. Prov. E. NJ.
MIN reply to our article relative to
skiHs. We have no doubt Hart thinks
be has done . wonderful thing. We
think 90 too; but had be made his COM
municstion twice as long. be would, at
the close, have worked himself into the
belief that be was Gen. Jackson himself,
If not the Saviour of Mankind. Our
readers must not be deprived of the ben.
efits of Hsrt's effusion, and we therefore
take the liberty of making copious ex-
tracts from its beauties. with such inno-
cent comments IS suggest themselves. in.
terspersed with facts from our "black
book" Here is his first "side- wiper :"
eff the circulation of that paper was confn-
ed to Doniphan County, Kansas, and the twelve
or thirteen numbers that are taken here,
would not notice the contemplate and coward
| ly slander, As where am known my loyalty
needs no defence. But as half dozen copies
| of that sheet occasionally get abroad, deem
it necessary to brand the assertion that Am q
REBEL as false, wicked and ungenerous; de.
grading to its author, (if anything can degrade
him. and wantonly injurious to myself, until
denied"
Now. that is unfair, to 60 and tell ev'
erybody that we have only twelve or thir.
teen subscribers in Holt. and that half 9
dozen copies occasionally get abroad
As to degrading ourself by publishing
anything about him. we will not attempt
to argue the question, as he is the doctor,
and ought to know. But listen:
al rebel: Let my words ard action.
speak"
That's exactly what We have done,
Hart: and lest your memory be toe
short to remember it, we will relate q
little "Reminiscences, concerning some oI
your words and actions. You recollect,
Hart. that at the outbreak of the rebellion
you lived in Iowa Point, which contain.
cd scarcely as many loyal men as Sodom
aid righteous. You remember that you
made saddles and brides and things
down there, and harness. and cruppers to
buckle under horses tails, and sich like
Just in the excitement of the fall of Sum.
ter, q man from White Cloud called in
at your den, to collect little bill that
You had owed him for several years.
You were of course overaowing with your
well-known love of country, and inquired
of him what the White Cloud people
thought Of the Fort Sumter affair? He
answered. that they did not think it
/ amounted to much in favor of the rebels.
Eyes. by G-d!' you replied. 'they'll
find ont, before it's over. whether it don't
amount to much" You went on to in
quire how the people of White Cloud
were divided on the secession question ?
He told you that, with very few excep-
tions. they were not divided at all-that
they we're pretty much one-sided for the
Union. Then you began to rave. and
crack your fists. and let off the following
loyal TRADE: IL am q Southerner. my
self: and, by Cd, before the South
shall be conquered by the North. I'll
wade up to my knees in blood !" Your
Secesh neighbors began to crowd around
you, and together you belched forth .
beautiful mess Of loyal slang. on q par
with the foregoing. in which the "Abo-
litionists" were literally blessed. But
when the pinch came. Hart. you prefer
red to wade up to your pockets into Un-
Gle Sans green-bscks rather than up to
your knees in blood. That's the sort Of
loyal man you we're. Hart: and it's the
sort you would be to-day, were you not
sharp enough to see what is to be the up
shot of the rebellion. Hear:
-"I have promptly answered my country's
call more than once, while Sol. Miller, the jay
hawking editor of the jayhawking Chief, has
bloated in idleness while employing his vile
pen in slandering civilians at home and soldiers
in the field"
"Blosted in idleness" is good. and will
be appreciated by those who know how
idle We have been for the past six years.
and how bloated We have become. The
civilians Hart refers to. whom we have
slandered, are JEFF. Davis. Vallsndigbam,
Prince Hudgins. Jim Foster, and Doc.
Robinson. The soldiers in the field, are
Fitz-Jo ohm Porter, Van Dorm, Besure-
gard, Quantrell, and-Jim Hartl BE
speaks again:
"I entered the six months service - pri.
| vate, without any assurance of obtaining an Of
fee; leaving my business and my family, and
that in the darkest hour of Missouri's trial,
when il was doubtful whether her promise b
pay would be worth the paper it was printed on
| If I got Office, it was for the reason that was
deemed ft for the position, and not BY any in.
trigue of mine" -