| 32 For the Times and Seasons.
THE SLAUGHTER ON SHOAL CREEK,
CALDWELL COUNTY MISSOURI.
[BY MISS ELIZA R. SNOW.]
Here, in a land that freemen call their home, And at the shadowy close of parting day,
Far from the influence of papal Rome; In slaughter'd heaps, husbands and fathers lay;
Yes, in a "mild and tolerating age" There lay the dead and there the dying ones
The saint have fall'n beneath the barb'rous rage The air reverberating with their groans;
Of men inspired, by that misjudging hate, Night's sable sadness mingling with the sound
Which ignorance and prejudice create; Spread a terriffic hideousness around;
ll-fated men-whose minds would hardly grace Ye wives and mothers; think of women then
The most ferocious of the brutal race:- Left in a group of dead, and dying men,
Men without hearts-else, would their bosoms bleed Her hopes were blasted-all her prospects riv'n
At the commission of so foul a deed Save one; she trusted in the God of heav'n,
As that, when they, at Shoal Creek, in Caldwell, Long, for the dead, her widow'd heart will crave
Upon an unresisting people fell; A last kind office-yes, A DECENT GRAVE!
Whose only crime, was, DARING TO PROFESS Description fails; Tho' language is too mean
THE ETERNAL PRINCIPLES OF RIGHTEOUSNESS To paint the horrors of that dreadful scene,
Twas not enough for that unfeeling crew, All things are present to His searching eye
To murder men: they shot them through and through? Whose ears are open to the ravens' cry.
Frantic with rage; they pour'd their moulted lead.
For mercies claim, which heav'n delights to hear
Profusely on the dying and the dead;
Fell disregarded on relentless ears;
Long o'er the scene, of that unhappy eve
Will the lone widow-and the orphan grieve
Their savage foes, with greedy av'rice fir'd;
Plunder'd their murder'd victims, and retir'd;
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OBITUARY.-DIED-In this place on the 8th of July Zina, consort of William Huntington, aged 53 years.
-In this place, Sept. 22nd, Orin Rockwell, aged 55 years.
-In this place, Nov. 2nd, Mahew Hillman, aged 46 years.
-In this place on the 26th, of July, Sterry Fisk aged 41 years.
-In this place, Oct. 7th, Hezekiah W. Fisk, aged 30 Years
-In Pittsfield, Pike co. Ill. September 13th, Silas Smith, aged 58 years.
-Near Carthage, in this county, about the 8th of September last, Jesse Robinson, aged 40 years.
-In this place, Oct. 3d, Nancy Rigdon, aged 80 years.
-In this place, Nov. 24th, Mr.Akins from Peoria, Ill.
-In this place, Nov. 6th, Rhoda, consort of Hezekiah Fisk, aged 62 years.
-In this place, Nov. 9th, Hezekiah Fisk, aged 64 years;
-In this place, Nov. 11th, William Fisk aged 35 years.
-In this place, Nov. 3d, James Mulholland, aged 35 years.
-In this place, Nov. 13th, Lucy Ives, (a widow) aged 57 years.
-In this place, July 14th. Harriet Maria, Daughter of Sterry and Maria P. Fisk aged 8 months and 8 days.
-In this place, Nov. 26th. Dinah, daughter of Stephen and Hanna Markham, aged 12 years 8 months, and 26 days.
-In this place, Oct. 19th, Hiram, Infant son of Hiram and Thankful Clark, aged 7 weeks.-
-At Clayton on the 22nd of June last, Charity, consort of Ira Ames, aged 32 years.
-At Pittsfield Pike co. July 23rd, Rebeckah, consort of M. B. Welton.
-At Sackets Harbor. N. Y. Oct. 16th, Mary Norris, aged 19 years.
-In this place, Nov. 24th, Mr. Akins from Peoria Ill.
-At Henderson, Jefferson co. N. Y. Oct. 3d, Cyrus Bates, in the 28th year of his age.
-At Sparta, Livingston co. N. Y. on the 28th of Aug. Elizabeth, consort of Elder Charles Thompson.
-At Montrose, Lee co. Iowa, Infant child Lydia, daughter of Orson and Sally M. Pratt, aged 8 months 8 days.
-At Quincy, Ill. on the 10th day of May last, Maryett, daughter of Dimick B. and Fanny Huntington, aged 3 years.
-In this place, Sept. 15th, Martha, daughter of John D. and Harriet Parker, aged 10 months and 10 days.
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