DAILY TIMES (LEAVENWORTH, KS), October 25, 1863
As a matter of news, we give the following, which we have from a soldier at Fort Scott:   

 Fort Scott, Oct. 21st, 1863.
The following letter was written by the bushwhackers and tacked to a tree, after the disastrous affair at Baxter Springs.  It was found by the express rider, at Low Creek, and taken to Fort Smith.  Some of the officers at that post kept the document, but the contents was remembered, and told to me as here written:

"Hellow, Jim Blunt! do you recollect the letter you wrote to Col. Parker, last Spring, and the execution of Jas. Vaughn?  Stop and turn your eyes to Lawrence and Baxter Springs, and see what your amiable policy has brought you to—see what you have done for your fellow soldiers—and then remember the dying words of James Vaughn.    
A Bushwhacker."
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The above had no date, but was evidently written the same day that Gen. Blunt was defeated at Baxter Springs.

Colonel B.F. PARKER, of the Confederate army, in a letter, dated Jackson County, Mo., dilates, for Gen. BLUNT'S benefit, upon the outrages inflicted by his authority, and concludes thus:

The perversion of the war for the Union to a war of extermination forces upon us retaliation. And if another Confederate soldier or citizen is executed without due process of law, five  Union soldiers or citizens shall with their lives pay the forfeit. This, Sir, shall be done independent of the consequences. To take effect on and after the 20th day of May, A. D., 1863.

To which Gen. BLUNT replies:

HEADQUARTERS, DISTRICT OF KANSAS, FORT LEAVENWORTH, May 13, 1863.

Col. B.F. Parker, Confederate States Army:

SIR: As you do not designate the locality of the headquarters of the Confederate forces under your command, as honorable belligerents always do, I am compelled to adopt this method of communication with you, in reply to your long tirade about constitutional liberty, &c., about which you appear to have as correct an appreciation as a Hottentot or a South Sea Islander.

I have the honor to say to you, after reading your long lecture, that you need not defer your proposed acts of retaliation until the 20th of May. It is of little consequence to me to know what are the instructions of the "Government you represent." It is sufficient for me to know that you and your motley crew are insurgents and assassins; that you are organizing within the military district of the Federal forces, and are engaged in murdering and plundering unarmed loyal citizens, thereby barring yourselves of all rights and considerations extended to prisoners of war.

I have instructed the officers in command of troops in the border counties of Missouri, (and the same rule shall extend to all territory under my command,) that every rebel, or rebel sympathizer, who gives aid, directly or indirectly, shall be destroyed or expelled from the military district.

All those who are in sympathy with your cause, and whom the military authorities may not feel justified in putting to death, will be sent south of the Arkansas River. They will do well to avail themselves of this my last friendly admonition.

Trusting that you will fully appreciate the motives that have prompted me to adopt this humane policy toward your misguided friends, I have the honor to remain your obedient servant,

JAS. G. BLUNT, Major-General.