Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1867-08-22

be unpleasant-it would be narrowing to |
recall the many freaks of savage cruelty |
that were perpetrated In different parts |
of the city, but mostly In proximity to |
this place the old and gray haired man
stabbed to the heart while on his knees
begging for mercy; the laborer's brains
dashed out while returning peaceably
from work the wounded sufferer drag
ging himself along with great effort, roll
ing his half glazed eye in piteous plant
to a bystander, answered by being stamp
ed to death as vile reptile the stunned,
bleeding, and apparently lifeless bodies
of respectable and virtuous citizens
kicked and spat upon by traitors; the
bodies of the wounded thrown roughly
into carts with the dying and the dead,
and hauled off to hospitals and graves; the
survivors of the carnage ruthlessly con-
veyed amid the jeers and mocking, the
Kisses and curses of crowds, to filthy
dungeon with the intent that they
should be massacred at night according
to the programme of the plotters. You
remember it all; you will forget it never.
The impression is indellible, and it is not
necessary that you should be made to
suffer the agony again, even in retrospect
tive.
Here lay the brave young Victor La
croix, cut from head to foot, butchered
and mutilated i'm the most shocking and
barbarous manner. He had served with
honor and distinction upon the field fight
ing for liberty and law, but his bright
career of glory was thus arrested, and
snow lies he there, ss
Married. as you see, by traitors"
Here fell Jean Baptiste Henry Berquier,
as faithful citizen as loyal "a heart, as
the country could boast, victimized by
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he was faithful and loyal. He, too, had
proved upon the field his devotion to the
fiag-that flag which, in the hands of
recreant executive, had failed to protect
him.
Captain Loup, who had also faithfully
served in the national army and had
passed through the fiery ordeal unscath-
ed, fell victim to dastardly stab in the
back. He was good officer, possessing
the confidence of his superiors, and ever
faithful to the cause of freedom.
Telesphore Auguste and Daley Duval,
who had served three years in the First
National Guards, and who had been hon
orably discharged, were here, in this hall,
shot down like dogs, and then carted
away and buried before their relatives
and friends had had the poor satisfaction
of looking upon their mangled remains.
Peace to the ashes of the brave soldiers!
The living will keep green the memory
of Auguste and Duval, Berquier, Loup,
and Victor LacroiX. Let their names be
embalmed in the pulsating blood of your
living hearts; let their deeds be written
in letters of gold upon the scroll of fame!
Rest, noble champions of liberty! AL
though the glory of falling in battle has
been denied YOU, the greater glory of
martyrdom will festoon your memory
forever! Although the happiness of
| reaping in peace the reward of valor in
war has been refused, yet shall ye rest
| on "fame's eternal camping ground" 7"
while we trust your emancipated spirits,
high above this warning world shall en-
joy unbroken repose in perfect bliss! Yes
"On fame's eternal camping ground
Your martial tents are spread,
| And glory guards. with solemn round"
The bivouac OF the dead.
More than hundred victims of the
massacre fingered in the Marine Hospital
wounded in almost stevery conceivable way
and the hearse was there daily visitor.
There the Rev. DR.. Horton, died going
down with the sun in the stiffness of a
beautiful Sabbath evening. He was a
gentleman of education and irreproach-
able character, preacher of the gospel
of peace to his fellow-men. Like his
blessed Master he fell the victim of a
mob. He had, by invitation, invoked
the blessing of Heaven upon the efforts
of those who had convened here to pro-
mote the good of society. He had brave
ly stepped forward when the armed po.
licemen rushed into the door of this hall
and with his country's flag and white
handkerchief attached as the emblem Of
peace, he sought to prevent the ettusion
of blood. His latest act showed him tC
| l. hi ;cpi 10 hnlu mi
sion of love and human brotherhood
He was shot down with the national ban
ner and the flag of truce in his hands
with words of peace upon his lips! He
died heroically in the van, brave sol
dier of the cross.
Around his dying bed sat his discon'
solate wife and few weeping friends.-
Looking upon his last agony, no eye
could restrain its tears. He had suffered
q week from several wounds, most OF the
time being unconscious. Once, in luciC
interval, he said to his wife, II was no,
wrong; cannot think was wrong il
consenting to open the convention witt
prayer" AT other times, when his mine
was wandering, he would imagine him
self reading the scriptures, and conduct
ing religious exercises, showing that the
uppermost thoughts of his mind ano
heart were on the mission of his life, the
propagation of the gospel OF human
brotherhood. His last hour was almos
without struggle; he gradually sani
to rest as child closes its eyes in slum
ber.
$50 fades the summers cloud away;
so sinks the gale when storms are o'er;
so gently shuts the eye OF day.;
so dies wave along the Shore
In another part of the Marine hospita
John Henderson lay, chafing with NOR
tai wounds. He had been long known
in New Orleans as lawyer well verseo
in the knowledge of his profession. His
enemies were the enemies of his country
and they had not only cut him down be
cause he loved it, but they then derideo
him, even in the public prints, for hav
ing once suffered from such menta
malady as had affected some of the ables
jurists, sciotists, and philosophers whom
the world has known.
There is a story of fresh, youthful
looking man discovered in excavating {
salt mine. He was surrounded by a mul
titude of persons who gazed and wonder
ed who the ruddy youth could be, e,when al
old woman of seventy years came hob
bling up on her crutches and recognized
her long lost lover. Fifty years had pass
ed since they, both young and beautiful
plighted their vows. She had changed
but he had remained the same. SO