Nebraska advertiser., 1863-02-07
Letter from the Army.
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SECOND Kansas VS.,
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BoonSborouRh. Ark., Jan. 1863

BoonSborough, .frk.. Jan. 1863.
FRIEND FIsHER Arkansas was al
ways more ar less a bore. Her citizens,
many of whom are refugees from Justice
from more favored localities. have found
in her uninyiting rocks and mountains a
retreat from the scourge Of offended JUS
lice and outraged humanity. Accustom-
ed to no control inside her domain except
that bounded by passion and the knife of
the assassin. She is at present in sack
cloth and ashes. The demon of treason,
50 long fos,ered in The bosom Of her peo-
pie. has well nigh gnawed into her vi
tails, and she trembles TO her very centre.
Her mountains have been scaled at the
pOirt of the bayonei by the 60 them)
horrible Kansas 8 Jayhawkers." The
graves of their fathers have not been
teseerated. The CHASTITY of their daugh-
tiers not violated. Nor the horns of the
Jayha~kers lorped off. Hes grand ar
nay of traitors are defeated demoralized
" SkedGddIed." Arkansas humhled, is
using efforts through her misguided chill.
dren to impress upon the world the idea
that she in this part Of her border atleast.
has been hoodwinked, cheated. misrepre.
sented. ~humbuged, and imposed upon
generally. Many Of them profess 10
have believed that the hordes of aboll-
florists who were coming down on her
border actually had horns. That they
murdered women and children after glu.-
ting their base passions, and frequently
upon entering the domlcils / have been
met by the women and child rem 10 tears
implOring me not to murder them. And
| have seen astonishment and boundless
pleasure beaming through their tears
when | have succeeded in persuading
them that the soldiers of the loyal army
we're not engaged in deseeranng their
homes and ~despOiIipg their virtue by
blood and lust. And hundreds of those
who were prone to Zee on our first ap-
prOach, DOW flock TO US for protection. -
And many not only Of the citizens and
soldiers bat the officers of the rebel ar
my (and | have conversed with mauy)
seem to have suddenly received new
light and are constrained to confess that
there are not only men in cur army but
even gentlemen with whom a southern
might without contamination asso-
ciate OH terms of equality. Hundreds
are availing themselves of our protec-
ton, and fleeing many of them from
comfortable homes to a country of which
they have heard but have not seen. a
very cold country UGy NORTH" where
they may rest secure, and not be forced
to fight "agin their will" or lay out in
the brush ia fear Of the terrible Jay
hawkers and move to them dangerous
Rebel soldiers. They scarcely know
how to credit The fact that we in The
norm, live in peace and seruFiiy. Here
every man suspects his neighbour there
IS no confidence in any man in the South
is a complete reign Of terror. Their
masters deal in deceit and tresehery on
". General Hindman on coming uPthe
last time to sight na at Prairie Grove,
old the citizens to just let him quietly
axe one half Of their wheat and corn
md all their serviceable hOrsesa and what
,eef be wanted and be WOOld open g road
o the Missouri River in ten days, and