The Burlington weekly hawk-eye. [volume] (Burlington [Iowa]) 1860-1876, 1863-09-05


mates of the front wall, some of them mass.
ing entirely through.
The Mahaska, while engaged with the
Clmmerone, Ladona, Ottawa and Dai
Ching, also exploded her lO-inch rifle on
Friday afternoon. No one was injured.
Battery are also disabled. The finest one
showed symptoms of bursting, and the Sc
cond, yesterday, by premature explosion,
killed four OF the gunners. They have
both been abandoned as poor concerns, not
to be compared with the PARROTS.
Gen. Jim Lanes Speech. Deliy-
cred Before the Mass Meeting at
LeavenWOrth.
FELLow-CITIzENs OF KANSAS: / am
here again to address you. In the first
and afterwards to explain and discuss it,
Here it is:
Resolued, That so many of the loyal men
OF the border as can be spared from home
protection, be requested to assemble at
Paola on the Sth day of September, with
such arms and ammunition as they can
procure; organized and supplied as follows:
Each twenty to select a Captain, and bring
| with them wagon and one blanket each,
and fifteen days subsistence.
| l ask you not to adopt it until after the
various opinions upon it have been heard.
They may differ. "a voice-"Adopt it
now.'O One hundred and fifty of the citi-
| zens of Lawrence have been massacred, all
| unprepared, martyrs to mistaken policy.
had hoped the people of Kansas under
stood it all. 1t has afforded me pride and
| pleasure to believe that the people Of Kan
| sas knew what the policy Of the Govern
ment ought to be. The entire State of Mis-
souri, has been in the possession of the Uni
ted States troops for nearly two years.
There has been no regular Confederate
| force in that State for nearly two years,
and yet the defenseless citizens of Kansas
! are mastered by scores by guerrillas from
Missouri.
You have decided that there can be no
safety to Kansas except through the exter-
mination Of the rebel citizens in those Dor
der counties of Missouri. We have had
officers at the head of the Department of
| the Missouri who believed in war of ex-
termination against those bush whackers
Gen. Curtis believed in it, but a man cloth
ed with little brief authority-and that's
Gamble-said to the President these BUSH
whackers are only conservatives. Treat
them well and they will return to their al
legiance. This same man pledged his
word to the President that if he (the Presi-
dent) would remove Curtis and appoint
Schofield, there wovld be peace. The Pre-
sident did remove Curtis and appoint a
conservative, in order to restore quiet
The blood shed at Lawrence is chargeable
to the fact that conservative policy rules
! this Department.
| have said that Kansas is in favor of ex-
| termination. Upon what was that opinion
| based? Upon the fact that they well
knew that every man who gave informa-
ton to Union troops-every man who was
not reliable rebel-was driven from the
border counties of Missouri at the COM
mencement of the war. In my first expe-
dition through Missouri, travelled miles
and miles of road, thick with people who
were obliged to flee the State, because they
| were tainted with UniOnism. / Travelled
the border there and saw, as the people OF
Kansas saw, that if the bush-whackers
were allowed to live in those woods on the
Missouri side, Kansas would have to give
up her prairie on this side.
| We captured some of these citizen BUSH
whackers there. We found upon them
oaths Of allegiance by scores, and protec-
lection papers by dozens. Those men
were bushwhackers ore day-citizens the
next. We know it all. Kansas knows
from the history of 1900 yeals, that guer-
rillas could not exist in any country with
out the aid and consent of the inhabitants
of that country. Therefore, not for mere
butchery-not for the qualification OF mere
prejudice, but for self preservation, we be-
llieve in a war of determination. Our opln-
ions and judgements were deliberately
| founded. DETERMINATIONS repeat here
that for Misrepresentation there shall be ex-
| Termination of the first tier Of counties in
Missouri, and if that won't secure us, then
the second and third tier, and tier on tier
till we are secure. [Uproarious cheers. +
Oaths of allegiance! Great God
! When was in Missouri the other day
took particular pains to inquire for the
best Union man in the county. was di-
rected to q man named Hook. 1rOde over
to his house and had conversation with
this beau ideal of q Union man. ! asked
him his politics. Unanswered very quick.
jdy Union-my men close by at the time :!
asked him what he meant by Union.
He said he was in favor OF the Union as II
was and the Constitution as it is. He said;
1 II own niggers. If we have the Union as
it was, and my niggers run OIL, can re-
cover them. If we can't have the Union
as it was, then am in favor Of the Sout a
ern Confederacy.' then asked him how
long since he had seen any bushwhackers.
l He said: "Mr. Woodward was here to-day
to dinner, ! saw your soldiers and told
him that he had better not go near them.
| / hear rebels at my corn crib almost every
! night. Inever interfere with them. Guam
| triIl came here the other morning on his
way to Lawrence and ordered breakfast
| for fifty and got it," "A voice-'Where is
Hook now?"l In he'll. l left him in the
hands of the executioner.
/ There are no such thing as Union men
| in the border of Missouri where these BUSH
whackers stay.
The people of Kansas in the past few
days, have lost q, 00O, 600 of property (which
has gone to Jackson, Bates and Cass coun-
ties. An order has been made, to take eff
feet on the 9Th of September next, inviting
the people of those counties to leave there
for certain points. Those who are loyal
are ordered to move into the principal
towns. That will leave our captured pro-
perty in the brush. The resolution propo-
ses that we meet at Paola on the Sth-the
day before that order expires-ready Win
our writs OF replevin to recover our pro
perty. Says one, the military wont re.
you in. The Constitution OF the ohiteu
States provided that Shareholders could re-
cover their property wherever fonna. IN
der the Constitution we have rign1 70 re-
cover our property. II met by the nliitary,
I propose to carry the question TO the nigh
estauthority of the Government. Let MN
| interfere who dares, with the people OF Kan
sas in the peaceable pursuit and recovery
of their property.
will he Glad to have us assist him IN 1t. 1
4 A.-y. Araz.