The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1862-08-11

thing We make of it for these able bodied
men to leave home and serve in traitor
cause /! We place guard by the fields
when their slaves are toiling to kesp reb.
ell masters houses in comfort and atffuencs
and SO send tidingsas it BY letters mis-.
sive to the hostile camp, to all these
traitor fstheYss brothers, sons, 80 stay
and fight. Your women do not need
you. All there are well and safe. You,
plantations arc well Tied. Your crops
are looking finely. Your estates are all
safe. Your laborsrs are kept hard to
work. Fight on Never you mind about
leaving the army and coming hems to
make peace with the government and
keep your family out OF trouble Fight
away then where you are
We will take care Of all your interests,
and see to it that you get no harm from
being absent in rebel arms Nay if
by your neglect and treason any of your
households should seem likely to suffer we
will take good care of, and feed them,
even from supplies provided for our own
armies will send down from the North
abundance of all things neediul for dis
tribution. Net unlikely some little rills
of this wondrous river of our beni6cence
will even reach your camp and nerve your
arm for harder blows and greater endur.
ance 1" Treason crushingl It seems,
upon my soul, it seems as if there were
. dream somewhere that these armed reb-
els would be in the Union again by aud
by with votes and power and gifts for
those who had treated them most tendesly.
Our own eyes have seen these "xar
measures Of elemency." At our approach
to his plantation. on recent march, Z
rich old man made haste 10 meet US and
claim guard for his estate. He con-.
fessed that his six sons were all in the
rebel army, and did not hide his ewu
treason. He and his household we're
living in luxury, sustained as they had
always been by the labor Of their slaves
able to furnish subsistence to the reb.
els Is ever. But he got his guard and
was left as much rebel, withas fullabili-
.ty to aid the rebel cause as before our
coming. We marched back past his resi-
dence, and in less than week the town
was occupied by rebel troops--subsisting
on the produce, Of this region through
which we had passed On one of our
marches, the drht day Of our occupancy
of the town, / dinsd with man-a good
Union man., | called him next day.
Meanwhile, General had called and
politely assured him that we troubled no
body for his opinions, that all quiet per-
sons were perfectly safe, no matter what
their political views might be: and that
day he was rampant secession with all his
house. The first day he eagerly invided
me to dine and would take no compensa-
ton. The second day he invided me even
more eagerly, pressed me 70 to stay to
dinner that waited an hour and half
rather than refuse his urgency, and then
before l was up from the table told me he
should charge me fifty cents for my din
ner. That was sharp practice for one of
the chiyalry. / was greener than now.
and paid 1t. Ny country forgive me
Hard crackers and raw pork are better for
me than dinner on which thine enemies
fatten. / henceforth viii knowingly eat
no secession bread paid for in loyal sill
yer.
A black time has come upon us, black.
est of all since the Bull Run disaster
Our whole theory ofthe war exploded and
the result of great sacrifices lost by it.
Disasters, more or less complete, have
overtaken our arms in the valley Of the
Shenandoah /: before Charleston-oh the
singing disgrace Of abandoning tho at
tempt to reduce this cocatrice's nest,
whence all the venemous reptiles Of this
rebellion were Matched 1t makes our
cheeks Jingle with shame. Disasters be-
fore Richmond, where We trusted our war
ere this should have closed IN glorious
victory instead Of almost total destruction.
This disastrous insecurity Of States fought
over and thought on only as safe and
loyal.
Serpents At the North-only scorched
not killed by the indignation Of patri-
otto psople-ronsing to coil together in
noxious, Shiny venemous reptile parties in
scarcely covert aid of treason. An army
everywhere greatly reduced by disease,
wounds, deaths on the field and the debi-
lily occasioned BY fatigue in an inhospit-
able climate. An army-it needs TO be
said in order to full understanding Of
our psril-an army sick, Disguised, out
Of al heart, and wanting to 60 home, be-
cause they are patrols over negroes. They
think they are capable Of more dignifed