Daily Times
Leavenworth, Kansas,
June 7, 1861
We conversed yesterday with Mr. James Johnson who has been forced to leave Missouri, because he loved his country, and would not forswear his obligations to it. In company with Mr. Henry Lewis and family, he was driven from the State, by a mob of about fifty Secessionists.
The house of Mr. L. was burned to the ground, and all his property “confiscated.” He is now in Coffey County, Kansas, making arrangements to settle there. His little son is at the Planters House. Mr. Johnson has joined the regiment at Camp Lincoln, and wants an opportunity to redress his wrongs, and to fight for the Union.
How long, oh! how long must men be persecuted, in the land of their nativity, for adhering to its glorious old flag? Is it any wonder that soldiers break over the restraints of authority, in their eagerness to resent the insults of a State that permits such outrages?