Description
“From Platte County” - Platte County still remains quiet - its citizens being unmolested – and has so continued since the action taken by our authorities to enable the residence of the County to defend themselves against the brigands and villains who infested that County a month or so past. We trust that the peace of the County will remain undisturbed. It is to be remarked, however, that the scoundrels, who have been doing so much mischief, still threatening to return and repeat their outrageous. Add this we have proof in the following statement, which we take from the Platte County Sentinel of the 12th:
Omens of Renewed Trouble.
A correspondent of the Missouri Democrat, writing from Leavenworth, says “whether it be right or wrong” the feeling in Leavenworth is to do violence to every man who visits that city from Missouri and belongs to the “Moss militia.”
Col. E. N. O. Clough, Leavenworth, advises, in a communication published in the Leavenworth Bulletin, to kill every man who visits Leavenworth on business, known to be a “Moss trooper.”
A Negro who signs himself “Captain Prince, Colored Regiment” makes sundry demands of Stump (Edmund Chapman) Cockrell, of this county, and notifies him in a letter that if these demands are not complied with, “I shall visit you for the purpose of murdering you and destroying everything you have. And I shall also visit your uncle and destroy him and his property. Isaac and Charles are here, and they are coming over with me to show me around, so that I can clean out that neighborhood.”
Such are the fiendish private and public ethics promulgated from the commercial metropolis of Kansas against the peaceable citizens of Platte County. Are we to have no cessation of hostilities on our border, which would put blush the cruelties of savage warfare?
(Researcher's note: The Platte County Sentinel was a weekly newspaper published in Weston, Missouri, during the Civil War era from 1861 to 1864.)Date(s) of Creation
11/24/1863
