The Tipton advertiser. [volume] (Tipton, Cedar Co., Iowa) 1856-1962, 1861-08-29
MELpIsE, Mnscatine Co. Aug. II, 1861.
FRIEND DANIELS:

honest, well meaning citizens, whose
minds have been poisoned by the villain
Gus soPhistry of persons who assume to
be party leaders. We ought to feel some
charity for the former class; but the
knaves who stand in the latter category
should be lashcd without mercy Pre-
facing their treasonab'e arguments with
aSseverations that they are Union men,
these base deccivers hold forth earnestly
in condemnation of what they call Lin
coln's violation of the Constitution he
had no right they say, to call for troops
to increase the army no right to dcpriv,
certain rampant traitors Of the benefit OF
the writ Of habeas corpus-no right, in
short, to do anything to save the capital
of the nation, even the government itself,
from being captured and ovcrthrown. -
Not one of these scoundrels ever opens
his lips in condemnation Of the rebels
for forcbly seizing the government forts,
robbing its mnts, stealing munitions of
war, and finally pouring torrents Of shot
and shell upon the United States garris-
on in Fort Sumpter-- there, by com. cling
the government either to meet force with
force, or to abdicate its powers and yield
up the capital cf tie nation to armed
traitors. Oh, no; u~t word do they
mention of these things but if question
ed as to who began the strife, they arc
ready with the shameless falschood that,
"the war was inauguratcd by tt. b!ock
Republican Administration - The mcn
who would talk in this way, and misrcl
resent history in this brazen manner, 81,
the blackest of traitors in heart, and
would be the bloodcst in action if they
were not as cowardly as they are mcnda.
cioas.
Recently they have commenced harp
ing upon new string. Their cry now
is that, the war is running the couutry-
that all the products of labor are falling
in price, so that toiling millions can make
but very small profit; and that the gov
errmcnt stands ready by the imposition
of cxorbtant taxes, to take away even
this. Men who use this argument are
dcspicable, sncaking traitors There is
no misrakin@ their position>-Judas was
not baser than they. They assume that
the persons to whom thcr direct their
mercenary arguments, would rather see
the government destroyed, than part with
little money But suppose this were
the case. Suppose We should refuse to
furnish to the government the men and
means it imperativcly requires to defend
itself against rebellion what then
Recollect there can be no compromise
now-we must conquer the rebels, or
they will conquer us. If we desert our
Has-cripple the government, and permit
the rebels to trumph-we shall wake up,
when it Is too late, to find larger bill
to foot than ever entered into our imag.
ination. The rebel confederacy will have
expended or become accountable for the
payment Of probably five hundred mil
hon d"llars-aud who will have to pay it,
think you? Not jeff Dayis's friends
and SUBJECTS, You may rest assured. That
is not the way that cunquercrs manage
these matters. They always make the
conquered country pay the expenses of
the war. The north, if conquered-and !
she can only be conquered through the
baseness and perfdy ot Lcr own sons-
would not be able to get jeff 5 foot off
her neck, until she agreed to pay all his
expenses, and to take lis own word for
the amount thereof in the bargain. So
that it just comes to this: If the good
people of the north shall allow themselves
to be humbugged and bamboozIed by
smooth tongued, desi signing traitors into
yielding the conflict, rather than contrib !.
ute portion of their substance to sus
tam our troops, they will in the erd dis. .
cover that for every ten dollars mcanly
from the good old Government
framed by our fathers, they will be com
PEELED to pay at least one Lnudred to the
ncw-faugled government Of jeff Davis.
That will be the inevitable result of
the teachings Of the base traitors, who
are now raising hue and cry about the
ow prices produce, the prospect of ex-
,cssive taxation, &c These infamous
have no other object in view
than that of dividing and discouraging
the people Of the north, so that JEFF. can
lsurp the government and plunder the
States to his hearts coutent-
himself and all his fellow con-
spirators, including the very traitors
among US, who are now working in his
behalf in sneaking and insiduous man.
ner, and at the same time impudently dc.
claring that, "any one who says that they
are unfriendly to the Union, is liar
1t is to be hoped that the real character
and aims of these rascals will soon be