White Cloud Kansas chief. [volume] (White Cloud, Kan.) 1857-1872, 1863-11-19
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ST. JosE,n, No., November Is, 1868.
The election in this city has passed. Th,
Conservatives" polled the largest vote the,
will ever poll again, and have been beaten
driven back disnsyed by the mighty voice o.
the Unconditional Union men Of the State, VII,
have said, in unmistakable tones: I" Hence
forth We will rule Missouri" The " Conserv
atives can not now cry out " fraud. !" /" interfer
ence with the right of citizens to VOTE" &C., &c
They have had . fair, square show. and com,
out worsted. Every element which could b
brought to besr upon the recent election. wal
hurried into the field BY the {" Conservative
leaders. Bushwhackers. with the grass and
leaves yet sticking to their backs. voted side BY
side with Union men. Old rebels who have
given bond. and enrolled as secession sympathi-
sers to avoid serving In the Militia. came up
and unblushingly deposited their votes for
Bates, Bay and Dryden. Rebels who had not
voted for two years. and who had given "aid
and comfort" to the rebellion in vsrious ways,
came up to the polls, swallowed the Conven-
tion oath. and voted-though said oath was
bitter pill. They came from all directions
Holt, Platte, Atchison, and God Almighty
knows whers-until our city was literally swar-
ming with Butternuts; and, since the advent
of Boyd and P.tton, st. Joseph had not seen
as many Knights Of the Brush. Everything
was hurried up 10 the polls BY leading rebels,
that could cast vote for Bates L Co. Black
legs. pimps and thieves were dragged from the
dens of infamy that infest our city, to vote the
z" Conservative" ticket. Old he rebels, with
one foot in the dark abyss Of hell, who have
been the cause Of sending hundreds of the
young men Of this State into the rebel army, -,
cast their votes for the CLAW and order" men,
Bates / Co. But it was no go. The Radical
cause, fortified on all sides by justice, with
stood the desperate assault Of the combined
forces Of the rebels and their co-workers, and
have come out Of the contest with aided, in
stead of diminished, numbers. Deserters are
constantly coming in, and ere another year
rolls around. the Radical army of Missouri will
outnumber the opposing forces ten to one
Mark the prediction! The Conservatives"
are scattered. dismayed, disheartensd, beaten
in their stronghold and upon their own chosen
ground: What . comment upon the loyalty,
integrity, and faithfulness of the true Union
men of this State! a- #
= The men who, in the recent election, have
hurled back the cohorts of treason and tricke-
y, are the ssme men Who saved Missouri from
the grasp Of Of the rebels, when CIaib Jackson
vas in power. Yet these men. the Radical,
Unconditional Union men of the State, have
been treated by the present authorities with |
every species Of contempt. They have been
salled Revolutionists. Jacobins, Anarchists,
&C., by the very men who never
dollar to help the Federal cause.
'ut have, nearly all Of them, obtained "mt"
'hices under the Government. The traitor St.
Louis Repsbliean. and the puerils, vacilIstins,
HersX, of st. Joseph, have been
'epecislly prominent in denouncing the true
Union men Of Missouri, in terms that they have
lever yet applied to rebels. But their time
viii come. Ipredict, that BY virtue of certain
fat of6ces" held BY the editors of the Herald.
hey will again take to ground and lofty tum.
ling. and try to sneak back into the fsyo. OF
hose men whom they have 80 often denounced
. Rsmpsnters, and claim that the articles
Ihich have appeared in their paper abusing the
ladicals, scsre ssittea IL tleir sSsenes--an old
rick. oh, thou Herald! thy sins and trans.
ressions ar" manifold. but thy pockets have
cen replenished. But thy garments of pride ,
'ust be laid aside. for thy reign 10 over.
r. ~ -"Def il for shame, F.
Aud hang esifskin on fhos. reeseant li,.b,"
Thank God! the country = safe. In thunder
'nes the patriots of Ohio, lows, Naine, Ne
ada, Massachusetts,, Missouri, and the eieb.
zen other States, have proclaimed tha. this !
MON sAsH be preserved against an its enc !.
lies, whether at home or abroad. And a.
oiumbia's aagfolls out on morning breese or
'ws to the setting sun, "vhere beats heart"
meath our Union's STAN. on batslemerted fort Il
tented field, the Union PAsriets' manly &
earts End stalwart arms are known and hon. y
ed On the farthsrsst ssas. whore rush the d
seh Of foreign ships-vhere the Ice KIM p
lids his crystal palaces in the Geld, blue skies
the Noeth--aad where spicy odors dow on
breeze from Indian isles-ths deeds of our o.
MON Patriots are heralded. In cold Siberis,s! v
'stss Of snsv, and ia clines beneath che .
Southern cross," Columbia . sons are known 7
known. too, ~ foes to slavery, injustice and h,
pfe1Ufon-aa stern .dvoretss n. ,,o~.y--l.