Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1861-05-10
eff any one attempts to haul
down the American Flag, shoot
him on the spot. '-JohH 4. Die.
Character Of the Enemy.

One of the most important points to be
considered by the people and the Govern
ment, at the present time, is the character
of our enemy. The same questions at is
sue could not be regarded in the same
light, If made by common enemy, as If
made by semi barbarians, who were I'M
PEELED by 10 ordinary motives, ard govern
ed by no ordinary rules of civilized war
fare. Tn this case barbarous institution
has demoraiized the South, and rendered
the mass of her people worse than ordi-
nary barbarians Ialeness, unrestrained
lust, and habitual cruelty have made them
more savage than Indians, and full as
treacherous and blood thirsty. Even the
women have forgotten their sex, and she
who should be an angel has fallen to de-
mon misunderstanding she would like to
cook at the White House for day'-thus
intimating desire to exterminate the
Presidents household by poison; the in
strument of the basest assassins and most
degraded murderers. Assassins and in
cendiaries upon the land, and pirates upon
the sea, are commissioned by tie Southern
Confederates, to burn our cities, destroy
our lives, and plumber our commerce
than which history does not furnish a more
diabolical array If we consider the ob-
ject of their aim, and the means tacy are
using to secure it, (by which all character
is to be estimated) we NUT conclude that
more despicablo enemy never took the
field the due chastisement Of which, if
not their utter determination, is demand
ed by every consideration of justice and hu-
mainly. All civilized nations agree, that
assassins, incendiaries and pirates should
be suppressed and punished No country
or community can be in healthy or pros
porous condition, which tolerates such
men; and the only way to save this happy
land from doom worse than that of Sod
ON, is to treat these rebels, numerous as
they are, like the worst of felons To toll
crate them in the least, is to abandon ev-
cry thing to the utmost their malignity
could invent, or their british lusts, and
avarice, and cruelty could crave Imagine
the most hateful despot in the universe
standing in exultation over his fallen foe
racking his besotted brain to devise the
most humiliating method for CRAFTY ing re-
venge and manifesting his malignant tri-
umph and you have a just illustration of
the manner In which these rebels against
God and man would treat us, were we to
submit to them. Then by every consider
alton and emotion with which the honest
sailor should resist and attack the pirate,
and tho cit izen should meet the assassin
and incendiary and the Freeman the des-
pot who was attempting 10 violently wrest
our liberties. should every man Immediate
ly fly to the post of duty, and never de-
sert it until the last rebel is bound hand
and foot, and passed into the hands of the
executioner. Never did people have such
an issue thrust upon them, never did the
gaze of the anxious nations fall upon field
teeming with more momentous issues
Fellow citizens-one and all-let Us be
equal to the occasion, and worthy of cur
noble sires.