Cleveland morning leader. [volume] (Cleveland [Ohio]) 1854-1865, 1864-07-28
Guerilla DepretIatiOns and Murder
tngs in Missouri.


The accounts that come from Missouri
tell sad tales of the rebel barbarities in
that region. The following items from
lettor from St. LUuis win be read with In
terest. ...rt
THE GUERILLAs PICKING OUT THE RADI-
GALS FOR VICTIMS.
Evidence accumulates every day that
the Guerrillas are carrying on their raid.
ings with the general design of harrassing
killing and robbing, only radical Union
men, or as they call them, "the abolition
istai' ooes-si0,.s.lly tlrsy arv nyrced, III
Platte county, to steal horses from the reb-
els to save their own skins, but the chief
victims are the radical Union men of the
state. One Taylor, Confederate captain,
heading Guerr lila gang in Clay county,
impu1ently sent word to the commander
of the post at Liberty, that he meant to
drive out every radical
Thornton told the Pawpaws to shoot
every radical like dog. After the rob-
berry of Huntsville, in Randolph county,
property ofconservatives was returned,and
that of radicals retained. Wherever the
guerillas have had a chance to discrimi-
nate, they have selected radical victims
and allowed conservatives to go free. The
testimony on this point is overwhelming,
and if persisted in will lead to a system Of
wholesale retaliation, which will tell heay-
lily on the home traitors.
Atrocities OF THE REBELS.
The guerilla raids through the country
have been accompanied by scenes of blood
and nh ~,
cold. An old man named Morris, resid-
ing in Platte city, was suspected of send
ing information of the rebels plans to the
Union forces at Weston. He was taken
by the rebels, his eyes put out, and shot
through the head. A boy eighteen years
old was caught by the rebels in Carroll
county, and hanged for no other reason
than that he was German.
A woman and her daughters residing in
Clay county were accused Of having rela-
tives in the Kansas cavalry, and were
ravished and left tied to trees in the woods.
A negro was caught wearing pair of
worn out military pantsloOns, and in spite
of his innocence was shot for being {" q
nigger soldier in the Union army.
The high handed robberies, the taking
of Rnmsn'a nlnthins tho Althy filing u0
of wells and the burning of barns would
I'LL dozen columns, if detailed, but
enough has been shown to prove the abom-
Unable character of the rebel guerillas.
THE SPIRIT OF THE UNION MEN.
The continued presence of the rebel
guerillas confirms theintelligencs publish
ed sOme weeks since, that the present ter
ror is the work Of thousands of rebel SOL
diers returned from Prices army. The
conduct Of the rebels has caused the great
est excitement all over Northern Missouri
among the radical Union men. Thev
have resolved, in response to the order OF
General ROsecrans, that no rebels shall
be armed, and if they are armed, that the
arms shall be forcibly taken from them
Severe measures towards resident rebels
were demanded with one voice and firm
determination was manifested in the
stronger radical counties, to maintain their
comparative quiet with vigorous action.
The conservatives are thoroughly coyed
down in many counties by this bold front,
but it is a notorious fact that wherever the
bushwhackers are thickest the conserva-
tive sentiment is strongest, The result Of
this fact is, that hundreds of conser vatfv es
who are, at heart Union men, are turning
radicals, and now advocate radical pol
icy which alone can restore peace to the
state.