| Show horrors of war in missouri A st louis correspondent ot of the journal r our naLof of commerce comete in a communication written in in ear earsy y winter and before the late ravages and murders commit commil tl d by jennison and his jayhawk jay hawk ers era in jackson carst cass johnson and other counties in te tta upper part of missouri 1 gives utterance to the following in relation to tb the e operations ot of the civil war in that state Doubt doubtless lees no pen will wiil ever horrors in their full extent and terrible blackness thoughtful mel met prophesied before the war set in a awful scene without probably compre comprehending bending a tithe of the distress dis dib tres nor noe woe and horrors bich which were it in store for our elmund ged ed people if one will open the pages of edmund burkey burke and or sean bean an ibe picture he has las painted of the war in the Carna will have lave a faint idea of the waste and min ruin which have desolated so EO large a part of our afflicted state stata read bead anat anywhere here the history of the civil broils which have in different ages and among different people set bet neighbor against neighbor and given a field of em ro io loy ment for the robbers and ravagers of property and the assassins of reputation and life which have covered almost every s square I 1 league of territory with hostile camps which have spilt the blood of citizens in battle or 0 r in murder which have earned terror over whole districts and into the bosoms ot of innumerable homes which have set brother against brother father against son in mortal strife anda and 9 taint faint idea may be gathered of the dreadful condition to which missouri is this day reduced her own children embrue their lands hands in each others bood blood and fire each others dwellings while enemies from without who come in panting to glut a revenge which is insatiable assist in the devilish work and add to its horrors and abominations today to day a union leader as w was as cook in the western part of the state recently will vill be seized seize dand dana and ana bib hib life on the spot tomorrow to morrow a judge of one of the cou ts to who sympathised sympathized with the south will be murdered while a close prisoner in the hands of the head of an armed force who has sworn to protect him but cannot make good his bis cause and the case seems almost hopeless hopeless there is no balm in gilead and no physician there missouri has within her borders no men who can as Missour M missourians ians stand up and facing those dreadful exigencies tell her people how they could be met and what is 19 the be remedy there is a mutual hate and distrust no man believes another honest in any course cours of pacification that either may recommend men aien are prone to th and beleve the worst of each eacil other it is a time when every private enemy can gratify hla hib revenges for there Is ii nothing that malice can in invent v ent end wh which 1 c 11 will not be credited by one man of any ot other herman berman man who even so BO much as differs in on from him at such a time this thib bistre sed and harassed people ought to welcome even from without any admix which promises to govern with a wisdom adequate to the emergency |
