The state rights democrat. [volume] (Albany, Linn County, Oregon) 1865-1900, 1871-01-20
THE M'NEIL MASSACRE At PALMYRA.



So long as God gives us life. and
the earth is cursed with the presence
of Mcneil, We feel it u be our solemn
duty to rehcarse, once every year, the
story Of the most atrocious and horri-
bic occurrence in all the annals of
barbarous warfare.
Ten brave. and true, and innocent
men were taken from their prison
driven to the edge of the town, seated
on their rough board collins, for no
crime of their own and MURDERED like
so many swine!
MuRDgREDl
BUTcHEgEp
BY tho hell-spawned and hell-bound,
trebly damned old blotch upon crea-
tons face, JonS McNEiL, now, by the
grace Of bayonets, Tom. Fletcher,
and the Devil, Sheriff of st. Louis
county.
MuRDEnEp!
Shot to deathl
There was our poor, handsome,
gallant boyhood friend, TON. SIDE
sgg-- t'
As pure soul as ever winged its
flight from blood-stained sod to that
God who will yet, to all eternity, damn
the fiendish BurcaER MCNEIL!
Poor Toni
He was model, paragon Of manly
grace and beauty 80.
So exquisitely formed, features SO
perfect and 80 fair, so brave and yet
SO gentle, that even the vile reptile,
WNcHELh, now editer of the Hannibal
Courier, said that "in his beauty and
wickedness, he reminded him of Absa-
lom"-
Poor fellow
He was engaged to be married to q
young lady in Monroe county.
When he learned ho was to be shot,
he sent for his wedding suit, which
had just been made, declaring that if
he couldn't be married in it, he intend
ed to die in It'll ~
Arrayed in his elegant black broad
cloth, and his white silk vest, when he
mounted his coarse plank coffin, in the
wagon that was to bear him to death,
he looked as il he were going to be
married instead of sHoTi
The very guards cried like children
when they bade him good bye.
Raising his cap, and bowling to tho
weeping women who lined the streets,
lie was driven from their sight, for.
eyer! a,sl
Half an hour afterward, six musket
balls had pierced his noble heart, and
his white silk wedding vest was torn,
and dyed in his martyr blood!
There was poor old Willis BAKEn,
his head whitened with the SHOWS Of
more than seventy winters
Heroic old mani
With his white hair streaming in
the wind, he seated himself on his
rude coffin and died without d shudder,
and refused, with his last breath, to
forgive his executioners and swearing
he "would meet and torment them in
hell through all eternityp'
There was that helpless; half-idiot
boy from Lewis county, who allowed
himself blindfolded; then hearing
SIDENBH and the others refuse, slipped
up one corner of his bandage, and
seeing the rest with their eyes uncov-
cred, removed the handkerchief from
his own, and died, as innocent as a
lamb. s,8 gJlaE .a SIT
There were HuLsTEAp, BIxLER, LAKE
and McPHEETERs.
And there was that most wondrous
martyr of all-young SMITH of Knox
county-who died for another man,
by the name of Humphrey. ,s.,
His heart-broken wife, ih widows
weeds, with her eight helpless little
ones in deep morning, that was only
less black than the anguish they en-
dured, Or the heart of him to, whom
they appeared, rushed to the feet oi
McNEiL, and In accents SO piteous
. that soul Of adamant must have
melted under it. besought him for the
life of the husband and father.
1 She was brutally repulsed!
But STRAcHAN, the monster of Shell
j by county, whom the angel of God, I
few months afterward, smote with
Herodian rottenness and worms--
STRAcHAN who has been paying in th,
deepest, BLACKLIST. hottest hole in. per
dition, penalty Of his forty ply -dhmna
!. tion-deserying crimes, was, Proyos
I Marshal,