The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1899-04-22

BUhHlN1 Ut LIE 1OOH0nAs VIVA
olooded horses, had always a considerable
sum of ready money in his house or on his
person and was generally regarded as one
of the best and most prosperous citizens OF
western Missouri. He was bluff, gener-
Gus and ~outspoken. His loyalty to the
government at Washington was well un-
derstood and never doubted. His wife
was a deyoutly Christian woman, the
mother of II children n intensely de-
voted to them and to her husband. At
this day it is difficult to realize the mo-
tiyes which actuated those hordes of hu-
man vultures which, in the name of law
and unity, plundered the border farms of
Missouri, coming with torch and gun into
Missouri from the adjacent counties OF
Kansas and disappearing as loyal sol
a4srs while they dealt in midnight rapine
and cowardly assassination.
The murder Of Colonel Younger by
such a gang is what changed the whole
prospect of life for his sons, the now no.
torious Younger boys, and drove them
from their peaceful life upon the farm to
the bloody careers which began with
Quantrell's dashing raids and ended with
the assault and robbery of the Mortified
bank in Minnesota in 1873. In the early
OdyS Oh tUGlr llIc DIS SuCfIA 1ldc JIG AOuuSO1
boys were prompted, in a measure, by the
natural desire to avenge the cowardly as
s~assination of their father, but when the
war was over and they returned > their
d~ismantled homes, willing to lay down
the sword and gun, they were not permit
ted to do so. They were shot at as they
plowed in the fields, their mothers home
was burned, their crops were scattered,
slr4oo4,..1z l,1lp1oI than tho xrrnr11 prnf1lR
not forgive them, and finally they were
driven again into a life Of reckless out
lawry.
son one Of Jennison's periodical raids
in the fall Of 1852" says Colonel John n.
Eds ards in his Noted Guerrillas, !" che
sacked and burned Harrisonville. Colonel
Younger, although q stanch Union man
and known to be such, was made to lose
heavily. Jennison n his officers-the
officers on all occasions being mere rapa-
cious than the privates--took from him
81. 0 worth OF buggies, carriages and
hacks and 40 head Of blooded horses, worth
at a low average $500 apiece. Then the
balance of his property that was perish
able and yet not movable was burned.
The intention was also to kill Colonel
Younger upon the principle that dead
men could tell no tales, blu he escaped
with difficulty and made his way into In
denendence Suies were on his track. In
that reign Of hate and frenzy along the
border men were as often murdered for
money as for patriotism. Jennison was
told that Younger was rich and that he
invariably carried with him large sums of
money. a plan was formed Immediately
to kill him. Twenty cutthroats were or
gained into a band under a Jayhawker
named Whaliey ana set 20 Wa!cn nus every
movement. Ihey doggea nm W inae
pendence, from in~aepenueace 70 Aansas
City and from KANSAS lily uowh III lne "
Cass county again. coming up9n ~ t ao
last IN an lsoiaeca p,aoe ~ ,saa,oa S;s
miles OF H~arrisonylile' eney liualeu MS
noay' rineo ms pocsess anu ~. 1e s1sa ~ naa s1sps0
starr ana party serlppeu - sar rne did
sIhe hfe ana norlheleo ~ peisesoo 49,
not emu mere. Inc iaoe piiIa
cniiuNlHa ~ - - ~ fsrn in iaclg.
she sought refuge az hor lars q. fa,,ossaa
GOh ~DNH