Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1861-10-04
Rare DEVELOPMENTS.


Rare Developments.
Learning that eur German neighbor yaunt-
inely offered his files in proof of his loyalty,
we concluded to ascertain from reliable
gentlemen what the facts are, as follows !:
Whatever his paper contains, about the
Saloons and other public places, Mr..
Rothe has occupied his time in fulsome
and boisterous adulation of the Rebels in
loud and heated remarks upon the griev-
Gus burden of the war, falsely representing
that taxes will be doubled on its account !;
prophesying in lugubrious tones and boding
words, such as false prophets are wont to
use, that the Rebels would be yictors in
the end After our defeat at Bulls Run,
he was more agile and voclferous than be-
fore, as if to express his great satisfaction
in the event, hielng from place to place, ut
sering and repeating ev erywhere, the ON
inous declaration that to the cause Of the
Government All Was Lost We learn
these facts from the most reliable sources.
OF course, we know nothing by examina-
ton of paper which we cannot read Nor
do We care to know anything from tit
is enough, that its editor has voluntarily
and gratuiteusly employed himself in the
manner above stated and infinitely more
than enough that, after acting thus, he has
the unparalleled duplicity and baseness
to deny that he is a traitor, and profess
that he supp orts the government
/ that the way in which loyal men sup
port Government ?-dwelling and harping
dolorously upon the grievous burdens the
war will bring upon the people; extelling
the public enemy-such an enemy--with
whom the Government is at war, and in
vidiously insinuating that the Loyal Cause
must ultimately 60 UNDER. Who is Sc
ignorant, or demented, as to not know
that these are the distinctive Gear marks
of every Northern traitor Wonderful sup
port Of Government for which, doubtless
Congress will vote this extraordinry patri
OF a leather medal.
Now, neighbor, just add an appendix tc
your next issue, and look these matters
full in the face instead of repeating thu
joke of asking US to examine your file
which you know we cannot read. W.
leave it fer the discriminating to judge
whether person whe is so arrant traitor
in the streets and Saloons, can be anything
within hailing distance of a loyal editor
AT the same time, to make hypocritica
pretensions for the purpose of misleading
his readers, is only intensely characters
tic.
From reliable informant, We learn thai
the most reprehensible course is being ia
ken to prejudice honest and unsuspectins
Germans in this vicinity against the Gov
eminent and the war, by basely represent
ing to them that the Government is goin!
to compel the foreigners to pay all the ex
traordinary expenses incurred by resisting
Tie rebellion. Some unsuspecting Ger
mans have been SO wrought upon by these
secession intrigues, that they have seriously
contemplated returning to their fatherlanc
in order to avoid what has been held III
to them as the crying injustice and tyrani
cal oppression of the Government. THAI
this is the work of Watertown secession
lists, with whom Rothe is in league, there
cannot be reasonable doubt. If he were 6
friend to Government and the country, in
stead Of coniving at such equally base ant
silly falseheods, and probably inventins
them. in the sacred name of friendship VIII,
has he not come out in his columns ana
yindicated the prosecuted Gevernmen
against these vilest and greatest of calum
matters. He is no friend to the war. t.
the Union Cause, or the Government
rather he is manifestly the NEST hypocritf
cal and bitter enemy of them ala trai
SCR in disguise.
From an incensed German, who came in
TO our Office and stopped his paper becaus,
we unmasked the Secessionists here we in
directly understood that Rothe is attempt
ing to awaken sympathy in his support, b,
falsely representing that efforts are being
made to suppress the German Press, anc
this seemed to be one object of his ar
ticle copied into our last issue,
We press the question, whether respecta
bic Union men, of any political stripe. car
honeraoly act IN connection with these Sc
cesslonists in the election this Fall.
Writing Men Down.