Daily Times
Leavenworth, Kansas
May 23, 1861
A man by the name of Nelson Rider, from Cass county, Missouri, with his wife and two children, arrived in this city yesterday, having been forced to leave by the secessionists in that vicinity, on penalty of death. His wife was mounted on a horse with her children, the husband going afoot; and, altogether,they presented a very wretched and haggard appearance, having been gravelling from Cass county here since last Monday week.
Considerable excitement was manifested by our citizens on hearing the sad story of the wrongs they had suffered at the hands of the terrorists of Missouri, and terrible vengeance was sworn by some of our Union boys. The family left here for Grasshopper Falls, where the man has some property and relatives.
This is but one case of the maddening proscription and wicked vindictiveness of traitorous fiends, who would nullify all law, desecrate every hearthstone, and destroy the best and greatest government on earthy. “By their fruits ye shall know them,” and they shall be punished accordingly.