Cedar Falls gazette. [volume] (Cedar Falls, Iowa) 1860-1895, 1861-05-24
Manifesto Of the Pirates.
From the New York Tribune.

Upon another page will be found an au-
thentlc copy of the Secessonists Bill author.
izing piracy against the commerce of the
United States and all citizens engaged in It.
while travelling on the high seas, inlets and
harbors. 1t offers in terms a bounty of twen.
ty dollars head for every male person sail
ing under the Flag of the Union; twenty
dollars if murdered by fire, steel, or water.
through piratical attack; and twenty-five
dollars ii made prisoner, to be subject to
the tender mercies of slave-lashing mobs of
traitors and rufiians
When the Vice-President of the so-styled
Southern Contederacy, A. II. Stephens, was
not yet traitor, but tried in the Georgia
Convention to keep his State out of the Sc
cession circle, he spoke of the United States
Government as the most beneficient of gov
ernments, likened treason crawling into our
country to the serpent in Eden, with prom
Use of the same deadly results, and said that
Secession was the fruit of disappointed
political ambition This was but the other
day. Now the most beneficient Of govern
ments has become in the opinion of the trail
! tor Stephens, the model-tyranny ormankind,
and he turns pirate by putting his signature
to pirates manilestoes. Out of such an I'M
qualified falsehood, treachery, meanness and
crime, is the Southern Blood-bubbe blown.
The acknowledged leading politician of the
South who lately found no cause for Seces-
sion, is now chief utterer of the mendacty
on which ii lives, moves, and has it's being.
and turns criminal second in command.
With these lights, past and immediate, be-
fore us, the Free States know how to act
they feel they have offered no aggression to
the South, but have been patient and long
suffering under aggression and injury. They
have conceded everything to the South
With each and every compromise-those of
1920, 1882, 1s50-they have drunk the cup
of humiliation, compromised against light
and Liberty, and for darkness and Slavery.
But the day Of compromise is past and gone
forever. The South has drawn the sword
and thrown away the scabbard They have
hurled the last indignity in the face of free
people; they have gloried in the arch cow
ardice Of ten thousand men attacking one
hundred, weary and starving; they have
sought to infiamc the majesty of free pco-
pie by every gibe and lie that swagger and
low breeding can fling at the tenderness of
an honorable and courageous spirit; they
have inflicted every personal indignity, which
stripes, tar and feathers, mutation, and
to be savage and brutal, and living evil
dence Of the effects Of Slavery painted by a
Jefferson; they have murdered our troops,
the men of Massachusetts, the descendants
ofthc heroes Of Lexington, Concord, and Bun
ker Hill-murdered them while first and elo-
riously rushing to the rescue Of the Capital
at the requsition Of the President; they have
organized terror and rebellion throughout the
Slave States; they have disorganized trade
and industry, and spread suffering, calamity
and want; and now they come with the
grand climacteric of war to the knife under
the Black Flag OH the high seas
Let them go on. Events will take place as
they ripen. The North had to be kicked in
to defence, before action was had; but il
came finally. Murder our sailors Murder
our travellers! Murder our men for $40
head There will come retributon for this.
Our troops, whether in Florida or Maryland,
have acted against slaye-disaffcction The
Governor of Pennsylvania has refused the
transit of black troops across that State.-
| The people of the North have desired no in
cendiary action. They are for the things
which make for peace All their career
shows this. They do go armed in peace like
assassns to destroy. They fear no servle
instructions. No mother in New York
presses her infant closer to her bosom every
time the tire-bcil rings in the dead of night
as the mother in Richmond does, according
to that sure witness, John Randolph. We
are secure, because free, and we have ever
been ready to enforce the security of the
South. But, the South now having nailed
the black pirate flag to the masthead, let the
traitors beware, lest retaliation come in a
way most to be deprecated, through an indi-
vidual spirit of revenge, which Government
cannot watch or control.