Charles City Republican intelligencer. [volume] (Charles City, Iowa) 1861-1864, 1863-09-10
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CHARLES CITY, FLOYD COUNTY,

position which commanded the city.
Shortly after, the besieging army was
reinforced by the arrival of the lower
division, under Col. Buford. A blood
red flag inscribed with the words
Southern Rights" ON the one side,
and "South Carolina rudely painted
on the other, was then raised over the
invading troops.
| During the forenoon, Fain, the Dep
uty Marshal, entered Lawrence with
some assistants, to make arrests of its
citizens. He failed, however, in pro-
voking the resistance desired, on which
to found a pretext for attacking the
city; ; for the citizens permitted the ar
rests 10 be made, and responded to his
demand for posse" to aid him. He
dined at the Free State Hotel, al
Messrs. Eldridgc's, at the proprietors
expense, andreturued with his posse and
his prisoners to the hill occupied by
the troops. .......s
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In the meantime the forces had left
the hill, and were at the entrance of
the town, under Titus and Buford, Atch-
Gibson and Stringfellow. General Atch-
chison's address to his men ON this oc-
casion may be cited as an example of
the mode of speech adopted by a late
Vice-President Of the United States.
From various reports of it made at the
time, the following is gathered, being
in substance and language tuat in
which all agree
Boys, this day I am a Kickapoo
ranger, by God. This day we have
entered Lawrence, Southern Rights
inscribed Oh our banners, and not one
damned abolitionist has dared to fire
gun. No, by God, not one! This,
boys, is the happiest day of my whole
life. We have entered the damned
city, and tonight the abolitionists will
learn Southern lesson that they will
remember to the day of their DEATH
And now, boys, we will so in with
our highly honorable Jones, and test
the strength of that damned Frec-state
Hotel, and learn the Emigrant Aid So
ciety that Kansas shall be ours. Boys !!
ladies should be, and trust will be,
respected by all gentlemen but, by
God, when woman takes on herself
the garb of soldier by carrying a
Sharpe's rifle, then she is no longer a
woman, and, by God, treat her for
what you find her, and trample her I'M
der foot as You would snake. BY
God, come ON, boys Now to your du-
ties to yourselves and your Southern
friends I! Your duty l know you will
do /; and if man or a woman dare
to stand before you, blow them to hell
with chunk OF cold lead ~
Thus inspirited by their leaders, the
Sherifi's posse, or rather the armed and
inhamed rabble, proceeded to their
work of demolition. The South Caro-
linians planted the red flag, with its
lone star and its inscription of "South-
ern Rights upon the roof of the large
hotel The banner of the Doniphan
Tigers bore the device of tigar ram
pant. Another had black and white
stripes and a fourth displayed in
blue letters on white ground the fol-
lowing admonitory lines
"Iet Yankees tremble,
And abolitionists fall
Our motto Is,
Give Southern rights 10 ALL"
The newspaper Offices were the first
objects of attack. First that of the
Free State, then that of the Herald Of
Freedom, underwent a thorough demoli.
ton. The presses were in each case
broken to pieces, and the offending
type carried away to the river. The
papers and books were treated in like
manner, until the soldiers became wea-
ry of carrying them to the kaw, when
they thrust them in piles into the
street, and burnt, tore, or otherwise
destroyed them.
From the printing offices they went
to the hotel The Eldridge House, or
Free-state Hotel, was a building of
size and strength. As orders were
given to remove the furniture, the
wild mob threw the articles out of the
windows, but shortly found more con-
genial employment in emptying the
cellars. BY this time our cannon had
been brought opposite the hotel, and
under Atchison's command, they COM
menced to batter down the building.
In this, however, they failed. The
Generals "Now, boys, let her rip ! y
was answered by some of the shot
missing the mark, although the breadth
of Massachusetts street alone interven,
ed, and the remainder of some scores
of rounds leaving the walls OF the ho
tel unharmed. They then placed kegs
of gunpowder in the lower parts of the
building, and attempted to blow it up
The only result was, the shattering OF
some of the windows and other limited
damage At length, to complete the
work which their own clumsiness OF
inebriety had rendered difficult hither-
to, orders were given to fire the build
ing in number of places, and as a
consequence, it was soon encircled IN
a mass of flames. Before evening, all
that remained of the Eldridge House
was a portion of one wall standing
erect, and for the rest shapeless mass
of ruins.
The firing of the cannon had beer
the signal for most of the women anc
children to leave the city. This they
did, not knowing whittier to turn theil
steps, The male portion of its citi
zens watched, without offering resist
ance, the destruction Of the building
named, and next had to see their owl
houses made the objects Of unscru
pulous plumber.
| On the l7tb Of August, 1856, Gov
Shannon ordered Sedgewick, OF the
dragons, to march to Lawrence, de-
mand the prisoners taken at Titus's
house, and to fire on the Free State
men if they refuse to give them up
Sedpewick declined, q second treaty