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Condition of Missouri—Military Tyranny and Crops.We are permitted, for the benefit of oar readers, to take the following extract from a letter from a resident in Missouri, to bis friend in ibis county: , July 22. 1863.Our troubles here seem to be on tbe increase. We have occasional intermissions of quiet, and then again assassination*, burning# and plunder are renewed with violence. In tbe contest between tbe Radical* aod Conservatives, which Is very hard and bitter, there is much to excite my feara for tbe quiet of the future France, in the palmiest days of Red Republican Anarchy coaid not have surpassed M iasouri to-day. If a neighbor quarrels with another, hia first move is to trump up charges and set the military oa him, cite all the facts of which he rosy be cognizant and denounce him to those he deems the fittest tools of vengeance. It is not needed that these things should go to tbe authorities tosecure tbe end. A lawless soldiery, acting for themselves, are a better engine of mischief. A mac’s house is searched and plundered,bis stock taken,himself shot, bis house burned, or he is aouoyed by having bis house watched and stoned, dogs killed, crops torn up, fences let down, or any other plan which deviliah ingenuity can suggest. The favorite plan is, to warn a mao to leave. Then come the profits — The warned must raise money by the sacrifice of necessaries and those concerned realize the advantages. You would naturally ask, where property is thus lawlessly taken, why do not the military authorities have itpalnrnaH? hAi'Riisn th*V ran't find
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The Dollar Weekly Bulletin
Maysville, Kentucky, US
Thu, Jul 30, 1863
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Courtney T.
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