| Show the war in missouri from the accounts which have bee been n published in relation to the destruction death and desolation that hasteen has been po poured ur e d out upon missouri since the commencement odthe of the civil war now raging in the once united states it is evident that the inhabitants of that state have suffered more from the immediate operations of the war than those of any other either north or sooth and probably more than all the others taken collectively the soil of every county in the state hasteen has been stained with blood shed in the fratricidal strife and the northern western and southern counties especially have been sorely borely visited and some of them have become desolate wastes each party unionists un zionists and aad secessionists having seemingly vied viea with each other when have bad possession in destroying 1 whatever they dey found to whomsoever be lonIng belonging particularly the possessions and property of those they hae hare considered enemies whether they were or were not suspicion of being disloyal to the government being a sufficient inducement on the part of unionists to do the spoilers work and the secessionists ha have not failed to kill those deemed unfriendly to their cause destroy their property and lay waste their h heritages whenever opportunity has since the fall au of oe lexington the work ot of murder and rapine has progressed in western blisso missouri url uri more rapidly than before and counties that had previously enjoyed immunity from spoliation have bave been laid waste and dis reported to an almost in inconceivable concel extent the missouri republican of january jtb in an article censuring the I 1 c con 0 on duct of general hunter commanding the federal forces in kansas says etwo we were willing fe a believe that on arriving J in in kansas he might have hare misunderstood his hla position and been misled by lane jennison ros rob anthony SOB anthony and others so far as to gye glye them permission to do acts which can find no apolo gly gry in civilized warfare but even cven extenuation Is at an end in the last three weeks witha with A full knowledge that missouri did not belong to his depa deda department rement tand and that general halleck alleck II has entire control contra I 1 over it he be has seen been jennison at the head of oe a band of brigande brigands bri lands gands and murde marde murderer reri enter jackson and cass counties and lay waste the whole country in their route more than seventy farm houses have been dest destroyed roved b by y fire women and children have been turned out in mid midwinter winter and refused even a blanket to protect them from the cold coid towns have been burned after robbing th estores of e everything they contained acx and worse than a all ali iler iier fay fifteen to twenty peaceable citizens have been murdered in cold blood in one case a husband taken from the side bide 0 his wife and shot down before her eyes and all this thia by men 1 under Jenni Jenn isona sons command and acting under Hun hunters huntera tery orders Is this civilized warfare can we ve expect god to laok kindly upon the cause of the union and of the federal arms when such atrocities are permitted brave men war upon brave men in the fild fi fild ld of battle but they do not murder and deprive women womer and children of all the comforts of life an I 1 this jennison and his hla band of brigande brigands bri gands have done 12 we have been seen other statements corro oira cira tive tiye of the the and not only jackson and cass formerly van buren counties have been desolated but ether counties in that tha part of t beitat e on hoth both sides of the missouri missour river have been ravaged alternately by the federalists and acedera Sc eders till fill the cl country is 13 literally a waie wale wase |
