Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1862-01-01

ordered the Post Offices on his route be-
tween Mineral Point and Casssille to be
supplied By Mr.. Mahlon Fawcett.
This order and the like must be inter-
preted to mean that terrific endings are to
follow feeble beginnings--6rst the gentle
blow, then the storm. Kirkpatrick has
committed no overt act Of treason; only
by borrowed words and phrases has be re-
veaIed leaning within towards the treason
and its causes. The inventors Of the Ian
guage Of treason, those who yend the arti-
Gle, are 10 be punished, while the retailers
are to he but admonished in this manner
by dissolving trusts and contracts. BY
this dissolved contract we arc to under
stand that apologizing for traitors and rdi-
culng the war, unkind flows Of wit and
vulgar sarcasms. and other manifestations
of disloyalty on the part Of government
contractors, agents, post masters and the
ike, are to be taken as crimes of some
magnitude. 1t appears also that saying,
"Oh, I'm for the Union as much as any
other man." words stereotyped and in the
mouths q every traitor of high and low
degree, are not to be taken as any evidence
Of loyalty, but rather the contrary, for the
true Union man never waits to proclaim
his loyalty, but hastens to act his part, by
enlisting, by urging enlistments, by con-
tributing means-by generous good
heart for the war in defense of his coun-
try. Men are to be judged by their man
fest sympathies and actions, rather than
by their union professions interspersed with
gall and NORWOOD against government
and war. Goodness towards the Union,
the uttering Of ISLANDERS and misrepresenta-
tons against Union men, are 10 be taken
as reasonable; also the saying that this is
an abolition war, war for abolition, po-
litical war, war that might have been
avoided by such concessions as the South
demanded, that all the South wanted was
to be let alone, that these "truckling,
Psaln-singing Yankees" are the cause of
the war in not minling their own business
and by meddling with mems niggers, and
deal more such ready-made stuff in
vented by the masters of sophistry and
cent wholesale through the country to be
retailed by honest men like Mr.. Kirkpat-
rick.
The Government rule, exhibited as an
iron law by this removal of Mr.. Kirkpat-
rick, may well be warning to scores in
this county, some of them far more de-
serving Of cersure than he was, for he
merely retaied their slang after picking it
up in by places; he has played the man by
publicly proclaiming his sympathies and by
openly retailing bis wares that he came by
honestly while the coiners Of his stock de-
serve penalties not far below the extremes
of law and constitution the private vendors
of pollution are far more dangerous to So
ciety and government than thoss wno SOW
the seeds of death from the house top; so
let justice be done accordingly.
Gen. Jones invented words of treason
as well as acts,and scattered them through
out his State, possessing the influence at
home for years 10 almost destroy Dubuque
with treason AMI moral pollution. Grant
county but lacks men Of his influence to
mould mass of treason in every town; that
thee are those possessing the will AMI abil-
Iity to act his part is well known. and also
plenty Of honest and misguided citizens
like Mr.. kirkpatrick TO carry on their work.
In this matter Government has acted wei
the father, first by a gentle admonition.--
If treason be thereby nippcd in the bud
then very well; if not let the terrors Of Fl.
Lafayette be felt by those more deserving
that fate. AS a citizen Mr.. Kirkpatrick
has the respects Of all; he is generous and
a good type of the early western pioneer
---in no particular that we know of is he
below the standard of good and loyal citi-
zen, except in this great question Of Union
or no Union; and but for early preiudices
and natural hatred Of progressive opin-
ions, arts, inventions, education and all that
makes or country great and glorious, he
would be shining light to the country,for
be possesses good intellect AM common
sense.
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