Columbia democrat and star of the north. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1867, 1866-06-13

MEssRs. JACoBY & KELLER In my in
tercourse with myneighbors am struck with
the changed state of feeling which now per-
vades this community. About two years
ago, when the agents of the evil one assum-
ing to take charge of the souls and bodies of
our people here, and Kidnapped FORTY -FOUR
of them in the darkness of night things
looked black, indeed, for decent, honest
men-not those whe uader the garb of loy-
atty were government robbers and it
seemed that these bad, mean men were bent,
not only upon our personal destruction, but
the utter annihilatioR of our civil rights as
citizens How they bemeaned themselves in
the premises, has become matter of history
and Will be perused with astonishment by our
ehildren's children.
The Invasion of Columbia County, In 1864,
by the despotical tools of the Lincoln adj
ministration, Is the most damRable feature
of all the iniquitOus acts of the late NEGRO
war Over thousand armed men, with
several cannon drawn by six horses each,
ambulances, baggage wagons and all the mn
plements Of bloody warfare, were treacher
eusIy and insidiously thrown unsuspectingly
upon the peaceful and defeHseless citizens of
Columbia county, and for several days, whilst
enjoying our unbounded hospitality, amused
themselves in robbing our hen-rOosts, corn
fields, potato patches and even stole our oats,
grain and hay by the wagon load and not
a particle of which plumber has ever been
paid for by ''the government. Mr.. Joseph
Coleman, as respectable a citizen as lives in
our valley, was turned out of his house, with
his family, and it was filed with the soldiers,
who destroyed his property and burned all
his fences They also used up all his hay
for their horses.
Nor was this all. These ''insolent hire
lings" of cowardly and treacherous Exec
utive, in midnight raid, kidnapped FORTY
FOUR of our citizens, not one of whom was
a deserter, and by brute force, and at the
point of the bayonet, marched them hastily
into Fort Wi3ltf,. | have said that these
men were our most respectable citizens, and
in proof of this assertion, | need only give
few Of the names of those | now remem-
ber Rohr McEIenry, County Commits.
sioner, and Daniel MeHenry the County
Treasurer. William Appleman and Mont
gomely Cole, acting Justices of the Peace.
John j. Stiles. now County Treasurer
Dyer i. Chaplin and James McHenry, mer-
chants of Luzerne county. Hiram 4. Ever
EFT, merchant of Benton; Joseph Hess,
Samuel McI1enry, Inn-keeper; Samuel Ap-
pleman, Joseph Coleman, Rev. A. L. Rutan,
David Lewis, Samuel Kline John Yorks,
Henry and William Hileman and WILLIAM
r. RoBERTs, whom the blood-hounds MUIR
dered in the Fort Also, John Rantz, StotS
r. Colley, Abraham Hartman, with I-lany
Others for whose wrongs, it is hoped the
loyal LancoIaiteS, here and elsewhere, will
have to answer, if not SCORER when they
join their disunion friends in the lower re-
gions.
Perhaps I write with too much apparent
force, but ii %, it mnst be attributed to my
vehement indignation. The men who per-
petrated these outrageous acts of military
tv.anny upon our unotfending citizens, IN
Guiding Couch, Cadwallader and Stewart,
were towards, knaves and thieves So are
the sneaks and spies who hissed them on.
1t is not denied, that Gen. Cadwallader,
admitted in aconversation with MessIs S. Buck
alew, Elwell and Tate, that he had made
military examinations of all that (this) coun-
try, to discover the alleged forts, forti6ca-
tiOns, armies, combinations of resistance to
the government and pronounced the thing
''GRAND FARCE. This was candid, but
the paper General failed to discharge the
balance of his duty as either an honest or
brave man. He should have so informed
the government, demanding the immediate
release Of has prisoners, and In case of fail
ure, to resign his commission More anon.
The store of John j. McHenry was en-
tered last Spring, by burglars, and robbed of
a large amount of clothing. 1t turns out
that the burglars were all three ''loyal
theives.' lSh0ddpsnl is synonymous with
robbery. A BENTON DEMOCRAT.