New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1861-07-01
PLAIN TRUTH IN PLAIN WORDS.

FLAlN Truth IN PLAIN WORDS.
To the Editor Of The " y Ty6une.
SIR: l send you extracts from letter written br
citizen ,Odeons of the pc, guard. the from. rank. Of cur
army twill be well for home traitors TO pause perose
sham with single eyes"
CAMP -. Va, June %, 1861.
DEAR - see with gritty indignation indications
in our Northern papers that cowardly traitors,
sneaking around the homes have left, are mooting
a compromise. Two hundred thousand men have nos
left their homes with cleaning bayonets and unainch
ing wills to bargain with treason The day has gone
by for trhing with glorious inheritance Of Govern
ment founded in wisdom, humanity, and justice. Pro-
claim aloud TO these rascaly traitors the declaration OF
our fathers, re-declared In onward march--"Ws
the people have ordained
Listening for years to q most insulting war Of words
Ia the counsel chambers Of great nation and be-
holding the glory Of The ediice cromblng, rushed
to and took up march for the Gulf OF Mckee.
Are we the tools OF debased politicians that we sho$a
retraco steps and the glory depart Hea,Sn
Forbid We not iDsensibe " the magnitude Of our
errand sacrifices. The tears Of our wives and
pratlle Of children does not delay usbut-ratber-
nerves on on u on until the work is done. We
have with lives, If need be, TO perpetuatS
for them ard their children, protection under old
flag, in peaceful homes. sges 10 come In our very
hearts despise toe sneaking cowardly traitor who
aims blow 1T the unity Of our common country. We
veus Mexican anarchy 20 throw its dark wing IN
the rath OF our progress. Tie very least expect
from you at home is TO blot out the enemies OF our
country therefor whom We have deeper hate
than for the pirats who furnishes us dead at so
head or the Rebel lurking for our Lives now within
sound Of our drum"
Having ventlsted bis wrath one species of
traitors the writer turns 10 aDother
There Is terrible day Of reckoning coming to those
whose savage greed has crippled cur Efforts by "trsc
in food aud clothes. II President Lincoln should
urge upon Congress the passing of law TO punish all
In, I'M hor IN fnpO
with ten years imprisonment and confscaton OF prop.
erty the penalty would he Parsdise conIrsstea
with the vengeance 10 be meted out TO Them
wheu we return We have them marked and their
names registered on the same page with our caths.
Wholesale bargaining ia III aces is treasonzbls
stab at country. Us example and tendency is TO
demorsliEe, and where is the reward for fighting
the virtue Of the people be not preserved AS only
yirtuous people can MAINTAIN good government and
execute its laws firmly and faithfully, swinders and
cheats will never do IT,"
One word Astothe 4" sacred coil of Virginia We
bows find il possesses many WORKOUT Enthusiastically
worn out by surfacsp anting and lack of necessary
msnures. The genial sun and soft breezes play &c
lovingly about us here as on our New-England hills.
Why then, this Of nuing sons 70 destroy their
own blessings The answer 10 in that eternal law
God has planted deeper than the coil We tread upon,
making tyranny recoil with double curse upon Tie
tyrant.
The eye of eandor can but zee that If, instead of
fraud Slave Ogarchy nursing despotic sins aDtgoniste
u
mechanics" Of nations industry, and portion q
the scum" Of Northern Society, the I" of-scourDg"
of our school boutes had been invited and protected
here, tho chivslry" OF the soil would have been
kept alive and it would to-day blossom as tie rose.
We daily see the Chivalry skulkiDg about. We
had been taught to regard the men who kiss tho
Southern sun as more brave than we; but our ex.
perieDee, alasl has taught US 10 believe that tho
hsacred" is worn out, as well the coil. We have
picked up brass button lost BY rebel; one ado
is tho significant Waterbury, Ct.," on the
other, sic semper tryanuis." The frt wori-sic-k-
seems Just now as peculiarly applicable the present
condition of this once "Mother Of honorable men,"
Contrsband negroes, coming to US, carry the breed
ers" mark on their brow. White blood 80 finely
poured into their veins speaks louder for the bursting
asunder Of their chains than q century's aboltiJa
harangues.
fee to us for protection with stretched hands and I'm
ploinQ voice will never turn them back ~ breed foy
Market" that this barlot of our States may have
capital to roll onward into the blaze OF the nneteenth
the clank of slsve chains the accurSed relic
Of an age Of midnight.
Our Colonel Is ss humane az brave; we all love him
for his manly virtues as well soldery bearing. He
freely gives all the luxuries showered upon nm by
reason of position 10 rank to the few sick in tie regi-
mept and their gratitude ia a rch reward for bis
watchfol fatherly Kindness.
suffers se to some Of men, who unfortunate
IN their tastes bad quality of whisky they drink 10
not To excese but to obviate the effects Of bad water;
lint. from anxious observation, can say we who
touch not feel betterless aeitude, have less suck.
lsss than the OILERS. 81,
Don't understand from my observations on the
working Of Slavery, In land bOassing OF Freedom 20
all the world that purpose Is 20 inseriere WIN tns
rights Of others We have to do with
impatient for the hour of earnest work, 4,
Your, 5s