The Council Bluffs nonpareil. [volume] (Council Bluffs [Iowa]) 1857-1867, 1861-05-18
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Traitor is dark and terrible epithst. II
stands in the list Of crime side BY side with
murderer, for successful treason il naiiondl
murder. No wonder. then, thasls Crates
har.hly on thee Of aman whose mother
taught him to love and reverence his country,
and, il need be, to die in its defense. No
wonder he struggles, with frantic eagerness'
to make the people Of Western Iowa believe
against the evidences Of their own senses,
that he has not penned . line nor isped .
word Of treason.
infatuated man be has dared the verdict
of Iowa enthusiastically the handwriting
decreeiug his fate has gone out upon the
wall, aud the letters which are pouring IN
from all quarsers with psr-empsory com
mands to stop his traitorous sheet, should
start him from his drunken dream, ike the
shock Of an earthquake. .
At this critical moment IN his country
existence, he could render it more service
than he has ever done before. But while
his fellow countrymen are ignoring the Is
sues Of the past, casting aside like straws
the differences which had divided them, and
like one man throwing their whole souls into
the noble work before them, be is devoting
his columns to petty, senseless invective
against abolitionists, and absurd homiiles
on the blessings of peace. My God! where
is the man or woman who does not know
that peace is blessing-but the men anu
the women whom he stigmatizes % blood
THIRSTY wretches, rushing into needless
conflict, we're taught by the heroes and he
roines of rs, that war is not the worst evil
that can befal people. Cowards and slaves
NAV choose peace, and bow their supple
knees to any Molock OF Juggernau that
sets itself up in our midst, but the free peo-
pie of the Mighty North, are made OF stern
er stuff. If necessary, for the peace and
preservation Of their Liberties, they will an
aver the call s:to arms" until every true
man from Maine to Iowa has gone to the
war, and the Women God bless them, will
defend their fresides against the traitors
who stay at home, and cultivate the fields
until their fathers, and husbands, and broth
ers return in triumph. But if the editor OF
the Buqle mas no soul to appreciate such
love of liberty, such devotion to country,
if he must dabble in the sinks and cess pools
Of treason, why does he not endeavor to elm
mate some new idea, why not try to make
the hideous dsformed old monster look bet
ter in the eyes of Patriots ? Why resort
to the miserable subterfuges that traitors
have always used? His long, tedious excuse
for not feeding the soldiers of his country,
when marching through this City, was made
in much more concise terms, and better
style, by Judas Bcariot. "Why was not
this ointment sold for three hundred pence
and given to the poor ?" As for his invec-
tive against me l care nothing for it. l have
no personal enmity against him, no revenge
to crafty. make no pretensions to more
courage, moral or physical, than the Amer
lean people generally possess, but am ready
to 60 at my country's call, any where on the
continent, or of it, to defend the Stars and
Stripes; and if, as the editor of the Bugle
intima.es, he will eventually forswear trea-
son and take up arms for his country,
will be among the frstto welcome him back
among true men, and forget his madness.
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