The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1863-08-01


PorosI, July 25th, 1893.
Editors Missouri Democrat
Last Saturday we had IN example of
what it means 10 have regard for ..law
and order" ] mean one of those old
fashioned negro hunts. Some half do
zen slaves, who had deserted their rebel
masters and were in possessisn of their
regular protection papers. issued by .
Provost Marshal, under General Order
No. s5. Department of Missouri, we're
hunted down like wild deers, handcuffsd,
and on a wagon hauled to jail in Potosi.
This whole section Of Washington county
was alive. All the law and order men
were out and busy. You could see men
who never show their faces ex,ept on an
occasion of this kind. By "law and Or
der men, i understand that class which
hold only As law the fugitive slave law,
the black l.ws of the Seate of Missouri
and the laws of the Confederacy they
don't consider the laws of our Congress
as binding on them. 1t has come to a
nice state of affairs in Missouri. Men
who by their true loyalty and good faith
toward the Government have shown their
regard for "lsw and orde" aud have sac
rifced everything to save this country,
are stigmatixed as "Revolutionists" and
Radicals, and are now at the mercy Of
men who have done everything to ruin
this country and who only enjoy their
freedom by torbearance of the Union men.
There il not Union man in Washington
county, when he goes to bed at night does
not fear that he may be murdered before
morning. A band of about twenty i've
bush " hackers is in this county and de-
clared only last week that Potosi could
not hold Union man. A Union man,
Rev. Wilson Adams, who was worth
some sl2 900 to SIG. 900, has been shame
fully ruined by them--been compelled to
take refuge in Potosi with his family
The rebels are in possession of his place.
They took all his horses, and in fact eve-
rything is at their mercy, and then we
see the rehels providing about the country
declaring that they are going to run this
machine now, and the Union men trem-
bic for their lives because they don't know
how it comes that these rebels get in pow
er. The way they intend to run this ma
chine we have seen last Saturday. For
the purpose of of claw and order" they
set nil law aside. We will see what our
Provost Marshal does in the matter
These negroes are promised in their pa
pers the protection Of all officers OF the
United States, but he thinks perhaps be
don't belong to the United States officers.
being in the Missouri State Militia.
Alter having spent one hundred mill
ions and given innumerable valuble lives,
not to speak of the suffering and desola-
ton of our homes. We have just come again
to the barbarous state of affairs where we
were at the beginning, and near the end
of the nineteenth century. in the mids,
Of civilized community, we see enacted
before the eyes of our children scenes.
which make the blood rush to every true
mans face. Human beings are treated
like beasts children only years old sep.
arated from their purents, husbands sep
arated from their wives. In fact, We
don't know if We are dreaming or if it is
reality. Who is responsible for this state
of affairs? We Union men have proven
that we have regard for law and order !;
but If these rebels think that We will sub
NIT to their rule they may find themselves
mistaken. Justine.