The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1863-09-05

try snail vote against peace until tree
dom reigns from one end of the original ter
ritory Of the United States to the other. |
Peace will come, aud quickly, if we are
only true to our manhood. It is coming |
surely now. Sumter is crumbling-shells |
are bursting in OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES is
investing Chattanooga-Gran is on the way
to Mobie-Savannah falls with Charleston,
and the end of the rebellion is at hand
TOur report is drawing to such length |!
that we are compelled to omit the speakers |
remarks in reference to and in favor of ne |
gro regiments, only saying that he paid
just tribute to the discipline, bravery and
endurance of those troops, as demonstrated
at Port Hudson, Milliken's Bend, Fort
Wagner and other places where they have
been engaged For guerilla warfare the
negro is decidedly the best, and it is by this
system that the war is to be closed. In a
few days the Confederate army will be bro
ken up.into guerilla bands, similar to those
which now infest Missouri, and oui Gov
erument proposes to use niggers, as the
South does bloodhounds, to hunt bush
whackers into their holes.
There is but one plain way, then, to Sc
cure peace. when guerilas infest neigh
borhood it must be devasted, for guerillas
can't exist without the sympathy and sup
! port of the inhabitants. l want to see eve
ry foot of ground in the Missouri border
counties burned Over-burn every living
thing, except at points reserved by the mil
itary authorities. Then, I think, we shall
not be troubled with bushwhackers.
l met an old friend to-day who inquired
what we proposed to do with Platte County,
and | told him that I couldn't exactly tell.
I don't know what the people of Leaven
worth may be compelled to do with Platte
county; but they must stop shooting across
the river or devastation may reach even
Platte. The Missouri river has proved quite
a protection. But for that barrier quiet
4 farmers of that county would be bush
whackers.
1 have heard it said that the devastation
of one county would work serious injury to
many innocent people. have good mem
ory, and going back to SO | DONE believe
there are many innocent people in Platte
county. / remember the raids into Kansas
from Jackson AMI Bates, and Clay, Cass
and Platte, aud l think it would look very
like historic justice to devastate even that
latter county; and remember the 6endish
smiles Of the women OF Jackson when they
asked US the other day how many were
} killed in Lawrence.
1t was we'll for Platte City to illuminate
in honor of Quantities. exploits. l don't
kpaosU that they did, but it would have been
highly consistent if they had. 1t would be
highly consistent for them to say they were
glad the id Abolition town was destroy
} ed, and that they were only sorry the arch
iend jim Lane escaped. [ mourn for the
!, dead of Lawrence, for the widows whose
! homes are desolate, for the three hundred
=, !, IL oy,I
| think in bitterness that while Kansas has
sent nearly every other man into the field,
while over one third Of her men are In the
/, service of the United States, their fathers,
brothers, neghbors and friends are slaugh-
tered in cold blood, in the very heart of the
country.
l would earnestly advise every able bod
5 led man to Join some military organization.
g Don't wait for the Government to furnish
5 arms; buy your own; organize to save this
D bright particular spot from the fate which
has befalen Lawrence. Don't allow the
g enemy to slip upon you, and murder you
e like thief in the night.
i I have been told, too, that we cannot sue
' coed in effecting the removal of Schoheld.
i don't know that we can; but we can try.
n A man once had law suit before Justice 5
= Court and was defeated; he carried il to the
e County Court and the District Court and
: was defeated in both, when his attorney ad
vsed him to carry it to the Supreme Court.
d DO you think we shall succeed there?'
It asked the client. "No." was the r5Ely,
''but we can give them the d-dest, pref
4? test fight that ever you saw" That's just
g what we propose to do-to demand the re-
o moval of Schofeld, aud if we are defeated
If on one point we'll try another.
e l Go not propose to criticise anybody un
"a til have evidence; but great and damn
K ing wrong has been done, and when we have
e the evidence as TO the responsibility for thai
Is wrong, will go as far as any one in con
n domination and punishment of the guilty.
i. l ask that if you adopt the resolution of
ot fered, you be prepared to maintain th'
J. ground assumed, and remove the border o
l. Missouri back thirty five miles; and l ask
d fellow citizens, that, If you concur with me
J. YOU will vote for a resolution demanding
is the removal of Scho6eld = conservative
\ Schofed, and the appointment of radical
IS live man to the command Of the Depart
ii ment.
III With few appropriate words in conclu
10 sion, Gen. Lane retired, when commtte
ar was appointed on resolutions. After brie
g, absence the committee submitted the follow
ing, which were unanimously adopted b,
t. the meeting, as was General Lanes reso
u luton in reference to the assemblage a
to Paola:
WHEREAS, The late terrible tragedy a
ms Lawrence-one unparalleled in atroelty /
IN the annals of either civilized or savage war
Id fare-is directly chargeabls to the imbecil
We and inefficient policy Of the commander c
fer this Department. and the criminalIty OF hl
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