The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1896-01-02
From the Chicago Chronicl'

From the Chicago Chronicle
what was known as the guerrilla war
s,rs on the border was more exacting than
- Mosaic law. The formers banner was
tTs.k nag and the motto, carried out
he letter, was, "A scalp for a scalp
Iong after the Cancellation and the kiss
- neace between the blue and gray. more
+ban a quarter of century ago, it was
-onsidered unsafe on the AIissOuri-Kansas
order for the survivor, guerrilla of Jay
harxer. to even forgive the dead that had
5,.en engaged in the strife. There are
now few left of either band of that no
quarter organization, one side of which
1as captained by Jennison, Lane ana
Ransom of Kansas and Penick Of Mis-
souri,. the other led by Quantrel. Ander-
SON the Younger brothers and the James
bovs. All but one of the list that abused
the blue are dead. Three of the latter
that rode in any uniform, but which were
confederate at heart always, are living.
The Younger brothers, Coleman and
lanes, are serving life term in the Min
nesota penitentiary for murder growing
ont of a bank robbery. Frank James is a
free man.
During the summer of this year was
i'm the house of a man who threw off his
pistol and belt only after he had rode
out of his own country into another.
where he offered to take up the cause of
an Austrian prince. That renewed his
Americanhood. He said to me the night
in which we talked over the events, some
Of which l am about to give you Its
good medicine for an American who has
had a grudge against his own country,
this thing of fighting for a foreigner"
1 am anxious to put this man at once
well up in the estimation of the readers.
and will be pardoned for the statement
here that he is an old typo, and for more
than twenty-four years he has worked al
his case, in one office, never employing a
sub" except when sickness demanded
it,"
/ said to him after he had told me of
the sacking of Lawrence, Kan, by Guam
trell: Lawrence did not end the feud"
His manner and language showed that
some OF the storm Of his recollections
was unspent. END it?' he asked Hell
didn't break loose until after Lawrence.
one of QuantrelFs men had gone off on
an expedition under Quantrells order,
and was cut off. He went into ambush
until hunger drove him out When he
lifted his head above the prairie grass
he looked into Y jayhawkers' guns. One
of the orders of every guerrilla was to
stand and die when outnumbered. He
knew how many bullets he had and that
his time had come. He opened the battle,
saddles. The other 81 charged him and
the guerrilla gave up. They scalped him
and cut off his ears. He had eleven balls
in his body, any one of which would have
done the work. That was the first scalp
ing done by white men during the war.
We found his body the next day and
buried it. No vulture ever Toasted on a
dead guerrilla. We took an oath and
started for the jayhawkers' camp. We
came upon them in the night, and not one
of them had time to try and find God.
one guerrilla alone scalped four jayhawR-
ers. From that hour the order was ex
termination"
thought to be an incarnation or
desperation. Strangely enough, it has
been woven into song. Ell EN-
pecinado was the merciless crea-
ton of the junta of Spain, but he was
messenger of peace compared to the guer-
rlla who wrote vac Victis on his black
flag under which he pillaged, burned and
The applicability of the guerrilla was
based on no fancied wrong. Quantrell
was bold fighter from the start, but he
pretended to have principle at stake,
until his favorite brother, an innocent
boy, who was his mothers favorite, was
thrty-tWo men, who claimed they did it
in defense of their country. Quantrell or
ganized eight men, and swore to aVenge
his brothers death. The awful oath was
kept, until every man who had made the
attack on his home had paid the penalty
save two. 1t was at this stage of the
game that he met Frank and Jesse James
To them he told the story of his bereave-
ment and revenge, and they became his
followers. The story met with response
from these two boys. They were farm
lads when the shot was red at Sumter
In the first year of the war there was
more bitterness on the border than at any
time thereafter.
Hatreds and enmities engendered before
the struggle were settled in the name of
the flag, just as the crimes We're COM
mitted in the French revolution. These
James boys had stepfather, DR.. Sam
uels, who had some enemies. They put
on blue uniforms and hanged him to
rrrtN ba Iaff or
went into the field where Jesse was ploW-
ing and took him into the woods and
slashed his body with sabers: Returning
to the homestead near by, house which
later became a shelter for the sick and
weary guerrilla, they made prisoners or
the mother and her daughters and sent
them to ST. Joseph, Mo-, and put them
into prison that was reeking with YER
min. When the women became care to
the prison keeper he released them: When
they returned to the homestead the two
boys were gone. They had Joined Guam
trell. Frank was IL years old and Jesse
was 16. That was the beginning of their
care in arrangement, and rapine, arson,
killing, and later on train robbing. 1t is
not difficult to understand why they lis
tened to Quantrell, nor why they fol-
In 1861 Quantrell enlisted in Kansas as
private in troop of cavalry. He cross
ed into Missouri. and was good soldier
under the leadership of Price, who was a
man of ability as well as courage, and
who was idoliZed by the southern sympa-
MIXERS OF Missouri. (luanIrell was with
Price at Lexington, and followed him in
his retreat to Usage. He had also been
at Carthage and Wilson'S Creek. Price
said he was the handsomest man he ever
saw in the saddle. When the idol of the
Missouri confederates reached the border
of Arkansas every mans time had eX-
PRED. That is, every man was at liberty
10 go and enlist in the trans Missouri de-
partment or turn back. Up to that time
not one of Prices soldiery owed an ale
glance to the confederacy of Davis.
When the alternative was presented to
Quantrell he said he would return to
Missouri. He told his old commander this:
Il have some matters there to settle, and
in doing so 1 can be of more service to
you than / can be here"
Price knew him, and knew what he
meant. He parted with him after this
conference, and as Quantrell rode away,
eight men followed him. Every one of
these eight men was well mounted and
armed and had personal account on his
hands.
One of them was Coleman Younger He
had the mark of the rope of Jayhawker
on his neck. In less than sixty days these
eight men came upon a camp of militia
near Independence Mo, and Cole Young
er there killed his first man and made a