Dallas herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1849-1873, 1866-12-22

souri--tho Stste of Test Oaths, also
made infamous by prosecutions OF
clcrgymcn and taxation Of grave,
yards--to place before the pubic for
u leading position, one of the black
est iicnds ever vomitcd from the
lowcrmost hell to curse mankind
and outrage humanity and deccncy,
On the 10th instant the radicals
Of the county Of st. Louis put in
nomination for sheriff, General (O
John Mcneil
Who is he? Listen!
In 1862 he held II command in tho
federal army, his headquarters at
Palmyra, Mo. While so doing
Union man disappeared from his
home. II was rumorcd that he had
been abducted by rebels. Mcneil
seized ten citizens Of that place rs
hostages for the return of the single
man, declaring that on certain
day they should be shot if the Union
man was not forthcoming. They
were so murdered by his orders,
wan,only, without excuse or shadow
Of right or justice, in cold blood. to
crafty his damnable and devilish
nature.
There is another incident in con.
ncction with this affair which should
not be forgotten. This Mcneil had
under his command, near his demo-
niac person, an officer by the name
of Strachan. This wretch had, or
was supposed to have influence with
| the murderer. To him appealed
heart broken, wcll-nigh crazed wo-
man, the wife of one of the prison.
crs, bcsccching him with all the pa
thos and eloqucnce of grief to save
her husband from death. Unmoved
by her sorrow, Implying of heart,
this devil promised to do SO, on ono
condition, that she should sacrifice
her honor to his lust! Attcra strug-
gle between love for her husband
and her woman's purity she yielded
to the passions Of the worse than
brute, only the next day to receive
the mangled body of her murdered
husband
The whole country rang with the
inf,my of Mcneil and Strachan, and
not even the widest haters ofsouth-
crn people offered words Of pallia-
tion or eXtcnuation of the barbarity
Of the two monsters.
But Rcpubicanism progresses"
as we have said. The insulter Of
helpless women, the thief and plum
derer of southern homes, the brag-
CART who never won battle or pos
sessed a single soldierly attribute,
the refuse compound turned out by
bungling botch workman of hell,
stamped with the trade mark of
Cain and the indelliblc badge Of Ju-
das, and termed Butler, aspires to
the presidential office-why then
should we be astounded to see the
blood stained hands Of q cowardly
and cruel murderer, like Mcneil,
grasping for the honors of a coun-
try's hangman? 1t is an illustra-
tion of the republican fitness-an
cxemplifcation of the sort ofwretch-
es "crawling between earth and
heaven" worthy to be decked with
emoIumenls in consideration of their
fidelity to the tenets of their party.
If Mcneil is worthy of sheritf's
position, by all means let the radi,
calls hunt up Strachan, his worthy
satellite. and reward him at least
with the mayoralty Of st. Louis.
Open the prison doors and bring out
those convicted of capital and other
atrocious crimes to fill the offices
within the gift and power of. the
radical party claiming possess "all
the morality and all the deccncy"
cxtant in the land. ... r.t
Butler, Stevens, CAN'T, Logan,
Mcneil and Strachan, living repub-
lcan illustrations Of the "Six De-
grees of Crime" exalted by radical
honors to bo the exponents Of six of
the cardinal virtues of the party:
cowardice, adultery, rape, perjury,
murder and tiendishncss. ,."
Great God in Heaven, what will
become Of q country left to the gov
erning heads of such men and such
a party From the La Crosse Demo
crat. .. rr -...