The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1862-01-11
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ment is the lauaable purpose which has
called many of your most worthy com
peers from their homes to endure priva-
tons and meet pcrils, and which induces
you to endure tho probability of bereavcd
hearts and melancholy homes. But, while
the defense of our country is one thing
and important, morals is another, and the
more important, for a redeemed country
could not be safely committed to homes
ruined by demoralizing influences and
habits.
Throughout our favored Iowa there is
prcponderanee OF religious and moral SEN
timent, and of parents thus happily stu
ated and whose anxious care has given to
the character responsibility Of their
children, army officers, colonies and cap
tains are asking sons to resist the enemies
Of the government aud vindieate our ma
tional banner. These they have freely
given, baptsng the offering with tears
and accompanying it with blessings and
prayers; but not that warfare may
be wagc1 against the morals Of their sons
and thus against all they hold dear in
their homes, by lessons and example in
blasphemy, profaning the day of the Lord
and all sacred things, drunkenness, and
RIGHTEOUSNESS with all it's hideous char
acter. Traitors war against the Federal
Government, officers Of such example,
against the. sacredness of your homes by
! the power of influences which will bring
your grey hairs with sorrow to the grave,
returning to mothers and wives, husbands
and sons walking personifications of OBJ
seenity and profaneness, more of q curse
than blessing to their friends.
There is to be future of home, com
mnnity and state reckoning. The war will
end and those who survive will be among
you again, and these men who have re-
turned yeur sons moral wrecks will be the
most obtrnslye in asking the suffrages Of
the people to place them in the Legisla-
tive and Congress halls, where they may
infuse the elements Of moral death into
| the laws which shall govern you, thereby
riyoting upon your homes the dcformities
aud vileness With which they had already
cursed your sous, and completing worse
ruin than even rebels are capable Of con-
templatlng
Fellow citizens, it is hoped that the
thigh character of your morals and clti-
Ezenship will be maintained, and that you
| will hold yourselves ready to yindicate
sour rureEt affairs from base implications
OF unworthy sons You have watchmen
upon your walls, the various churches are
well represented in the army as well as
the highest mora! sentiment of the coun-
try; and while all virulent party lines
are laid in the dust that our fair republic
may be firmly built upon the rock Of
truth, see well to it that there shall be
hands worthy to receive the redeemed in
heritance bought with blood and purified
BY fire.
There is great difference between OIL
GERS who contribute to base influences
and vile example by all the sanctions of
that official position entrusted to them by
their country because they were thought
worthy and officers who by assiduous
care guard the morals Of Your sons, ma
king the nigh trust committed to them
available for their country S highest good
which merit will be found immortal and
traced in the future career of these men
amid the benign thankfulness of their
eountrymen. and their hestowmcnt of re.
ward while the former, if the age oil
light and purity and holy impulses fol
which We hope beyond the war draweth
near, after having purloined the nation 5
suffrance and honor for base purposes, will
receive the mark of Cain, and be driven
from her affairs and shrincs, fugitives and
yagabonds in the earth
The blasphemous, drunken, and the
libertine intrusted with the high and holy
mission Of yindicating the purest prin-
ciples of government organized by God
There vii! be found no pure pen or wor.
thy historian to give them a place in the
archives made by our sacred Union, and
upon the pages of which will beam the
rising light Of our Saviour's coming king
dom. Pearl p. INGALLS,.
Camp Benton. Jan. l, 1862.
! sy>The Fort Smith, Ark Times Of
J the 18th ult., discourses upon an alleged
J victory at Bushy Greek, $50 miles from
J Fort Smith, gained by Col. Cooper with
1890 Chiekasaw, Creek and Choctaw In
: dians, over the loyal Chief Opothleyhuio