The Council Bluffs nonpareil. [volume] (Council Bluffs [Iowa]) 1857-1867, 1861-06-08
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ceRREsPesDENcE OF IaE NesPAREIL
| Ma. EDIroa:-I would beg q small spac.
in your columns for the purpose Of replying
to an article which appeared in last week's
BEgle over the signature of "A Farmer"
4 think that il the writer had been aware
that all sane men, aud more especially his
sequaintances, would haveso easily detected
bis real name, from the tone Of bis writing,
be certainly would have withheld it from the
gaze and scrutiny Of an injured and nsu.,ed
public.
Poor, brainless fop, to suppose that be
coald publish bis traitorous sentiments
against our Constitution and Government,
and not be discovered BY the penetrating
eye Of justice, and brought before the bar of
humanity, be tried and convicted BY public
opinion, and branded a. poor, low, filthy,
aod miserable traitor, destined to grovel
and end his days 10 pit, whose smoked
walls are not blacker than his own finty
heart.
With crocodile tears streaming frop. ms
eyes, and blood continually befo.s b;s a..
iirious visicn, he calls upon nabh..s to come
to "staud' with hin. i.or a little season
for halt, he sa-s, must take place sooner
or 'Ase'' s..d ~hy not now, before our hands
are ,.ained with brothers blood; while
We Can yet look Heaven in the face aud say
Se are clean from the blood Of this genera
ton. o, consistency! thou art indeed a
jewel. Babbis and Sigler, looking high
Heaven in the face, with conscience void Of
offence toward God or man! Who'd o
,hunk il?
In his wonderful letter to the secession
sheet of Council Bluffs, the great l. NJ.
Sigler, Of "sod-corn-notsrie,y," says-
"War, il commenced, will present to the
civilized world, one Of the darkest pages in
ancient or modern history" Iwould ask
him il he has been drunk ever since the
cowardly attack Of ssren thousand brare
South Carolinians, upon a Government Fort,
garrisoned by seventy starved men, who were
compelled to lower the Stars and Stripes or
be bu,chered in cold blood, by Williams Of
the deepest dye, who have attemeptd to
overthrow the fair fabric of American Gov
ernment; a form Of Government not equaled
since the dawn Of creation.
lie, perhaps, did not hear the booming
cannon, that has echoed and reverberated
over every hill and valley in our land, call
ing American freemen from the plow, the
workshop, forest and prairie, to crush ou,
tho most diabolical rebellion that ever dis
graced any country.
The sight Of butchercd women and chill
drcn, seem 70 be before his red and suolien
eyes continually. Crimsoned and CORY fields,
stained with the blood Of his South.rn breth-
rem are seen in his midnight dreams, making
| his heart sick and faint, arousing springs Of
sympathy in his philanthropie bosom for the
noble patriotism, and Arm adherence to the
Constitution, Of those Of like natures unto
himself, 10 tho much-abused and down.
trodden South.
In supplication upon his knees, before HI.
Cod, he asks, with hands lifted toward
u.ore, ,.at Congress be Immediately con-
o,oa and ,be hahn, ~ gilead offered to the
seeded States to heal their wou..ds, and the
mantle Of purity thrown over their naked
shoulders for the consolation Of Yancey
and wigfall, who have shown their naked
ness to the vulgar gaze ct a not very adm''
ring world, md now would glas'T creep
back and suck the teats Of their Govern
nsnt again to sustain life that is, n mT
ep;uion, already ebbed out. You will End,
Mr., Farmer, that nineteen millions OF
American citizens can, and will, most as.
sursdlv, wipe from the land, such traitors as
thou art. and re-unite the grand con'ederaey
Of American States, and march onward With
rapid strides through the fields Of progress,
70 sulfll the high calling for which We are
called; to carry oas fully the aims OF the
Constitution. and show to the eastern world
,ha. our sires tough. not in vain, on the
we'll contested, and blood stained fields OF
the Revelation, but that the Liberty they
o,;ned, will be handed down uu:arnishsd,
10 the last generation OF mankind.
| II his sdelrium, he talks Of reptiles, chill
dren's cribs, war with Mexico, Government
of ST. Petersburg, the grea. love Nero had
far Rome. and finally clutches Col. Babb,st
bv the Goa. tail and in pleres him to pull the
curtain over his eyes aud shut from his sight
the grassy plains, crinsoned With the hearts
blood Of ma,rops, maidens, and innocent
children. Oh, Isaac. who would have
thought that you we're so near the brink OF
in.ani,y, and brought there soo' eJ the
ra;s;no OF too much sod-corn on level
With your port OF entry, :.
Go 10 Crescent City once more, "Farmer,
and max. such . speech as you dad last
winter. and the sehool-boys will be com
psll.d 10 run you ous Of the country.
For fear Of ~earying your patience, Nr.
Editor. l shall close, hoping that the din OF
Arms may not cease, but the loud.boonins
cannon. and shr,il- -screeching dfe, together
With the sharp rattle Of naskssry increase,
until all traitors are subdued, and the Stare
and Stripes Goat proudly from every oa.sis.
mens aud aag-ssaE within the limits Of 'ns
tn;,ed States Of America
A RASGER.
c.x,crSr Crrr. May 2esh, ls6l.
sIGNIFlCANT QUESTION
| A correspondent Of the Brandon MIs'.
Rrprblican writes 70 that paper as ioi'0"s'
arh. entire strength Of the Confederaes