The Tipton advertiser. [volume] (Tipton, Cedar Co., Iowa) 1856-1962, 1861-01-24
FIRE.EAT1NG PEACE.

Diesseu axe INC cace-WdheIs -oeH
Davis for example. He did his best to
goad Mississippi into resistance to the
Federal Government in 1850, because of
his and her dissatisfaction with the Com
promise of that year. lie ran for Gov
ernor that year on the Nulifers' ticket,
and was not only defeated but disgraccd
for Henry s. Foote was elected over
him. He took a leading part in the sen
atorial doings last winter, whereby Mr..
Douglus was put under the ban Of the
South, "ud the Democratic party split in
two. We consider the Republicans con.
siderably indebted to him for their re-
cent triumph. He is master spirit
among those who have resolved that the
Union shall continue to subserve the ends
of the Slavery Ex,onsionists, or shall
cease to exist But he is dear lover of
peace, is jeff! The honey of persuasion
drops from his lip, the music of his e!o,
quence charms the general ear, as the
Cicero of the Senate implores the
majority to avert the effusion of frat ernal
blood, and give the country peace!
Certainly, let us have peace; but how?
Manifestly, by refraining from acts Of
war But are the friends of the Union
and it's sworn officers alone to fold their
hands while the secessonists are brand
ishing swords? Federal forts in the har-
Dor of Charleston are seized and armed
by manned traitors-let MS have peace
The Federal arsenal in the city of Char
lesion, which has been we'll stocked with
every warlike appliance by disunionist
in the Cabinet, is seized, and its contents
wholly appropriated by the Secessionists,
and those whom Maj, Anderson sends
thither in citizens garb for ammunition
are sent back with nothing in their hands
! and feas in their ears-but let US have
peace The Federal funds in the Char
the rebels to tie payment of their own
eutgoes aud when Maj. Anderson sends
thither for money to pay his men, he is
refused thefirst dime-but let us have
peace A merchant vessel having re-
endorsements and supplies for Fort Stump
ter, aud prominently displaying TIE flag
of the United States, is fired at and re-
paatedly fired into by the insurgent bat
teries--a clear, emphatic act of treason
but let us have peace The steamship
of leading mercan lie firm in this city,
trading regular to Charleston, is coolly
seized in that port by the Nulliiicrs, and
converted into a means of assaiing and
imperiing the troops and the property OF
the United States-but let US have peace.
North Carolina, Georgia, Alabama, Lou
isiana, without having yet gone through
the farce of seeding from the Union
seize the Federal forts and arscnals with
in their respective geographical limits
and convert the Federal cannon, smal
arms, aud munitions to the uses of the
ebellion-but let US have peace La
the name of all that is wonderful, if this
is what Gen Davis delights in as peace
how can there ever be war? He has OF
course learned from Hudbras that there
is no fight SO long as one party gives all
the blows, and the other is content te
take them; but how much Of this can
we expect great nation to bear from its
own rebellious citizens without being
compelled to enforce it's laws and punish
the in!uriatcd traitors who assail them
~ Y. Trt'June.