Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1862-09-09
How TO Crush The Rebellion.

/ gfoeS IS something that should be sacredly
safe from confiscation and from military
medding, we say that such protest is equiv
alent to proposition to lend 4 certain
amount OF money to Dayiss Secretary az
the Treasury. We beg leave to quote,
upon this point, the excellent authority oi
a Venetian jew:
'.You take my house. when you do take the prop
/ That does sustain my house; you take my life
When you Go take the means whereby i've"
Immediately after the delivery Of this in
pusputably correct observation, Shvlock.
we are told, left the Court House upon the
plea that he felt very unvell- no doubt
he told the truth. There is means which
God, in the interests Of His ternal Justice,
has put into our hands ofmaking the Rebels
a great deal sicker than Shylock was; and
we hum and haw and split whole head
Of hairs and leave the rebel to the use of
'the means whereby he lives" Wise is it
not9
Look at the money which the Confed-
eracy now owes, and which it has given
paper promises to pay Th re are $45,-
/ 100000 due to its soldiers; $50,000,00O
to banks; $65,o00,000 for property seized
$45,000,000 for : tate aid to lie reimhurs-
ed; S1,000,C00 of Treasury notes; and
War Loans to the amount of $65, 900, 900.
What is the property vi ich this indebted
ness represents? We answer Black Men!
And what would these certificates Of in
debtedness be worth if the Black Men ceas-
ed 10 be property? We answer with the
same emphasis-Nothing If the Gov
eminent of the United States could by
some stroke Of policy, make this rag-cash
SO utterly rotton that the hungriest Rebel
would not touch it, even with gloves on,
wouldn't it be worth while to do it? Well
YOU can do it p! This paper represents adebt.
The debt must be paid BY taxation. The
property TO taxed is mostly in negroes. Of
course, the most bufled secessionist must
see the truth Of the fcrmula-No mig
GERS" no Taxes; No Taxes, no Pay! The
Confederate Notes will be excellent for
shaving paper; but where is tie bearded
bankrupt to find soap! The United States
Government has it in his power to utterly
beggar the paper shop at Richmond IN a
week. That swindling concern has no
capital bat slaves, because without slaves y
rebel planter, If we credit his own testI-
mony, will find his land worth nothing and
lis iour-legged stock very lttle except to
eat. Take away lis slaves and he cannot
pay lis taxes the coifed + .cy will burst
| like a soap bubbiel But when you pre-
pare to subject him to this highly s.dutary
discipline, We gods, what bowling Take
COWS, bulls, sheep, oxen, lands, barns cloPs
take anything but blacks There has
| been a great deal Of foolish talk in tins
world from the time Of its creation, bat we
do not believe that the world ever listened
to such consummate folly before. It's like
giving up to a highwayman his horse and
his eaponss and taking from him by way
Of forfeiture bis undcr-waistcoat! You
meet a rebel in the field; and You shoot
him or he shoots YOU That's all fair, and
: we understand it. But suppose, having
bis life your power, he proposed to you, to
you to buy his life at the cost of bis re-
groes. sob" you must answer, "the pub
lie interest demands that | have nothing
to do with your blacks Keep them ia
the name of the Constitution" and so
YOU pop at him, and down he goes, leaving
tie blacks to his executors! What charm
| ingly sensible piece Of Uni3nism! Or sup
pose rebel prisoner in Fort Lafayette,
dreaming of a halter. and waking up to
wife to the President: "Dear Sir: Take
mYliie, but pray do not take my 'niggers.' "
How extremely probable What the rebels
wants, doubtless, is their lives and their ne
groes both--together with their cash and
their plantations and their pretty little
Confederacy-bu if they are not entitled
to all, they are not entitled to either.
The rule of all war is not only TO hit
hard, but to bit where you can bit the hard-
est. Now, when the Confederates at the
South, and their allies and accomplices at
the North, set up such an agonizng yell,
if the emancipation Of slaves is but mon
toned, we see at once upon what particu-
lar part of the lack Of this Confederate
steed the raw is established, and we call for 4
vigorous application Of the lash in precisely
that direction. We do not approve of
sparing the beast, merely because basting
him will please the Abolitionists. We
are not afraid Of pleasing them foo well
-thoy are not SO easily satisfied. Move
than anything else, we want restoration
Of our territory Of which we have been
wickedly disturbed Give us back our
great, prosperous and happy American
| Unionl Give back to these wives and
mothers the dear ones who are risking
their lives in this straggle! Give back to
the honest mechanic the labor Of which this
Crime Of Crimes has defraude him
Give back to us the respect which we once
inspired abroad Restore the supremacy
Of the Laws! If our National integrity
and individual prosperity cannot be recor-
cred without Emancipation-then Elaan-
cipation This is War for the Enforce
meut Of the Laws-Enforce them all I!
RE- 1t is not true, as recently stated II
some accounts Of the affair, that in the re-