The Burlington weekly hawk-eye. [volume] (Burlington [Iowa]) 1860-1876, 1863-08-15

recollection of kindness recalled To the
memory OF the fend, during that terrible
ordeal.
These, so far as could ascertain, compose
the darkest chapter in the history Of Harris
ferocious attack during the few days that
fear paralyzed the courage of the Union
men. Then a reaction came-fear was
converted into rage, and an awful determi-
nation to resist the authors and abettors of
these crimes with complete and Terrible
retribution. The country was alive with
armed citizens, aided by Militia, and after
a sharp search, Hart and his band were
discovered resting their horses ON the
banks of a small creek. When charged
upon, they fled, Hart bringingup the rear
During the pursuit, he turned to fire, and
was himself brought down by shot from
one of the militia. On his person were
found a commission from thesfebel govern
ment, and other official documents, under
the authority of which he planned and exc
cuted these fiendish outrages. The Union
men then turned upon the sympathizers--
those who fed the courage and nerved the
arm Of the wretch,-and in the course of a
few days. some ten or twelve were reported
in the local papers as having passed to
their account. Shot at all hours, ION their
own premises, but by whom is not known.
Some sympathiZers were warned to leave,
and waited not a second message. Others,
conscience-stricken fled unwarned sacri-
ficing everything for the means of remov-
al. Well authenticated cases were brought
under my notice where men had parted
with pretty, comfortable homesteads, farms
of fifty acres and more, covered with prom
Using crops. for an old wagon and team;ju
to carry them and their few household
treasures out of the State. The exodus
still goes on, but the authorities have taken
measures to stop the retaliatory process re-
sorted to. in the first awakening of, their /
vengeance by the Union men. That part
of Missouri is now drinking to the dregs
the cup of misery she solicited when she
followed Jackson in his fatal course and
many year must elapse before confidence
can be restored, deserted houses be re-ten-
anted, and the country wear that aspect of
plenty and progress which it wore prior to 4
this wicked rebellion.
The Cincinnati Enquirer, and papers of
that stamp, have laid hold of the circum-
stances just narrated to abuse, without
mercy, Union men of that section. But lis
there not cause? A little more than two
years ago, the rebels who have fallen or
fed were rabid in their hate of all whAA
loved their country better than heridestroy-
ers. They asserted that Union men and
lovers Of the South could not live together,
Ond limited that the Union men must co.
Many were told so go, and an exodus of
Unionfsts began, not unlike that of the reb-
ell sympathizers now going on. Others,A
however, stood by their homes-they did iV9
at the constant risk of life-they did it I'M
der constant annoyance and dread. Said
one to me: "Why, Sir, we walked for
months face to face with death, victims of
peril which might meet us any moment"
Is there any room for surprise and condema
nation, that such men, reused at last by
the presence of a new danger, and the per-
petration of such foul and bloody wrongs !
upon their brethren, should spring from
their habitual quiet, and execute a ven
geance as just as it was terrible? They
could not win peace by forbearance-theyA
have secured it by sweeping from theft
midst the elements of evil. So may it be
everywhere when the traitors in the North \
seek to intimidate or harm those who are
for their country in this her time of peril.
osSours, truly, JAMES NORRIS.