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Subjugation of Missouri.
The St. Louis State Journal, of the 29th ult., publishes the following from a correspondent at Hannibal, Mo.:
Our best, oldest and worthiest citizens are daily arrested, dragged from their peaceful pursuits and hurried to headquarters, surrounded with bristling bayonets, in the hands of an insolent, merciless and mercenary soldiery, who jeer and taunt them with threats and curses; and all this is done in the total absence of any crime, or even semblance of crime, committed or imagined against the laws, State or Federal, and without warrant of law, explanation or a moment's warning.
When the amazed prisoner asks what he has done to deserve such treatment, and demands that his accuser shall be brought forth, that he may meet him face to face, he is answered with satanic grimaces and insults of the most degrading character.
I will instance a single case.
The recent editor of the Evening News, at this place, (Hannibal,) was arrested at his residence