Saint Mary's beacon. [volume] (Leonard Town, Md.) 1867-1983, 1901-08-08

sas. in the soasls. who had
fought under the d and bars
held q warm plaee eir hearts
for the Youngsrs, bsea lhey knew
something Of tie Ger conditions
Of the border warfare Missouri,
which inflsmed the paa rs II men
and made demons ard annals Of
some who otherwise ~ n have be-
come good citizens.
No one realizes the Is al law
lessness which drore ii ~ 1eaper-
asion 10 tls aa5s d the znaas j ay-
hawker raids save those who we're
embittered by the flames OF their
burning homes, their live stock
driven away and stolen, their house
hold goods appropriated and their
relatives and friends ruthlessly mur.
dered.
Outrage Drore Them
Into QnantrePs Band.
The Younger brothers we're the
sons OF q prominent pioneer family.
Their father was q stanch Union
man at Harrisonville, Cass County,
Mo-, before the war. In1s6l some
Kansas troops under Jennison for
chilly seized the horses in his stable,
and when he demonstrated, shot him
dead in the street. His sons, mad
dened by the outrage, joined Guam
trell's band Of guerrillas, and there
learned the lessons which culninat-
ed in the crime at Northfield, which
they expiated in Saltwater Peni-
tentiary.
Deeds Of Violence
Created QuantreH.
Quantrell had been driven to
deeds Of violence by similar out
rage, and to his banner focked men
IN whose hearts savage hatred had
|sbeen planted by ruthless trampling
upon their affections and rights by
the Kansas Jayhawkers and other
desperados who disgraced the blue.
These men had come to believe that
the Stars and Stripes and the blue
uniform stood only for murder, rap.
inc and plunder. They came to
hate both. Everything that was
associated with either vas to them
an object Of the most intense
aversion. In time they were con
sumed with the feverish desire to
wreak vengeance on any one who
wore the blue uniform. Itwas a
vendetta of hate, born of past wrong.
COte Younger
Once Sared E1kiRs.
One day. during the war, Quan.
trelPs men captured several prison.
ers, after q sharp brush with some
Union troops. One prisoner was
Stephen B. Elkins, now OF West
Virginia. He knew the Youngers
before She civil conflict, and when
he was turned over to Cole, with
instructions that he be taken to the
rear, which in the parlance of the
Quantrell band meant execution,
he knew he had good thing and
escaped with his life. Sure enough,
when Cole Younger had taken his
prisoner behind the main body oi
Quantrells men, he fired o shot in
the air, and then told Elkins to run
for his life, which he did.
When the war ended, the Young.
ers and the James boys found them.
selves hunted with price upor
their heads.
Butler the Object of
attack on Northfeld.
Ben Butler, whose deeds incensed
every SON Of the South, was an ca.
pecial object of hatred TO the mer
who wore the gray. When it wai
learned that he had deposited 3
large sum OF money in the North.
field bank, q plot was formed to rot
it. Ben Butler was more the OBJ
ject in this raid than the mere mat.
ter of gaining so many thousands
of dollars. The history Of the at.
tack, the killing Of the cashier, the
wounding Of Bob Younger, the kill.
ing Of two OF the raiders in ths
street fight. the desperate pursuit,
formed one of the most thrilling
chapters in the wild history Of ths
James freebooters Of the West.
attack on the Bank
And Street Fight.
On the afternoon Of the Centen
nial year, September 2, 1875, eighI