Clearfield Republican. [volume] (Clearfield, Pa.) 1851-1937, 1863-01-28
The Monster Mcneil.
[From Tho Cincinnati inquirer.

~ EluNNS UI lhe q JDIlllOn press, accom- O.
/ med by editorial remarks 20 disCrtdlt OF
3 puilae the transaction. II they were
+ no, true, the Government should have the
Z master Investigated, but that would only
p c,lrch the charges rs we are Informed by
= an old friend and an eminent citizen OF
I Missouri, who is CunyerSant with them.
= The fact that the Young man giving his
life for the sake Of the family OF the con =
demned man, is correct We think il
will not be long before the Administra.
; tion will regret not having promptly dis.
avOwed McNell'S conduct, and dismissed
, him from the service The subturluge
chat he was beyond their control, because
) he was an officer o. The Stale troops. is ri
J dicuous. The State troops are oil mus.
tered into the service ofthe United States,
though they serve in their State, which is
all the difference between these and 9th.
, er troops.
God permits devils like Mcneil to do
their work to bring out the sublime he
roisn oil lofty natures like the man who
gave his life for the family, and the
touching scene o. the Iml orlunity of the
l.ttle ~ FOR his fathers lie. This is not
the on,,: massacre of 'MtoNeils, lie put
to dea,h in cold blood large nuc!ber
previously - twenty ut one time. Before
the war he was jOurneyman halter now
he is General Mcneil.
One of the condemned had a wife and
several children, dependent upon him for
support. His wife went to General Mes
Neil and entrea'ed him to spare her has
band life, telling him thai she was in IN
health, that her children were all young
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.or the massacre a youur man. nineteen
or twenty wears o. are. st t,njGed his will.
lin.u 8, TO take the place ol ,he man
whose family was depeudeu. upon him.
,aving that he had no relatives. no friends
That hc was aware Of that none were de.
pendert upon hm. and that alter his
death he wou not ue missed, while it
would be serious thing to have one shot
whose family, in cousequnce, would bc
left alone and unlarcd for. lie vas taken
ls . Substitute agreeable to promise, and
gave up his life along with the Others on
,uat fatal day.
Another case among ,ha ten, was that
! I0fa man with wife and one child. bny
nine or ten years Of age. The mother
was living on sick bed. end unable to
90 t. the commanding officer and inter-
cpde for her doomed huslau The little
boy went to Mcneil, and in the
fulness of his affection Cor his ath-
er, ru;reated, begged, and inplore1
bin to spare the life cr his father. telling
| now much he loved him. how rood ratl.
er he had always been and how kind he
had always been TO his mother; that his
father had never done ANYTHING wrong.
aud that without crime there shonld be no
punishment. said the manly little fel.
low II don't know how mother and me
will get along if Won kill nv father.
know that he did not help to take Mr..
Aneman away. for he was not absent from
home for month before the night the
soldiers came and took him out of bed
from mother and me. Father has lust
rot our farm paid for, and was going to
build new and better house than the
one we have been living IN. We will he
very lonely without him, and | don't
him. She saws that will some day be q
man and then will be able to snpuort
and protect her, bat that viii be a good
while yet. | know, General. when YOU
think Of these things that YOU will not
| kill nv father In spcL lop,u,ra ba