The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1862-05-22
ArmY Hsfsrc CsrintA.
Headquarters LIST Brigade, Davis Div,
Al Miles from Corinth, May Ia.

/ Al Miles from Corinth, May Ia.
j EDrroR GATE CRY: / sent you let
ter Sunday morning, giving the position
Of our army 1t that time. Yesterday we
moved to the new line three miles nearer
Corinth. While sitting here at my desk
| hear the cars coming in from Grand
$Junction.
Sherman, on our right, has been build
ing bridge to-day under cover of his ar
tillery. The enemy has been annoying
him constantly. Even since dark an oc-
casional shot il heard.
1t is supposed that Beauregard is run
ming all the forces from the Mississippi
into Corinth. When the battle comes of.
it will be an artillery fight unless the en-
envy uses more strategy than we give him
credit for at present. We have 700 pieces
of artillery on this (outer) line, about $50
of which are the celebrated Parrott guns.
The prospect now is that Grant forces
will open the ball, as the enemy will not
suffer us to approach too nesr the @. 4
M. r. R-their way Of escape-without
fighting.
Mexican Division is on our left We
believe that General Halleck is master Of
his position. This oblique front draws
| ma .or aud naArar II arr ana lto 81 nc
General Halleek for his tardiness, ii is-
cause they know nothing about the great
and mighty effort he is making. The
salvation of our country is almost staked
upon this throw. We must secure vic
tory beyond doubt. The enemy may
outnumber u, but they havn't the artil-
lery nor the number of well drilled troops
that we have.
18TH, "A. M.-The bugles are sound
ing the morning call along the line. Re-
markedly quiet during the night. The
mail goes shortly. Have Clagett's Con-
stitution of the 9th. The more intelli-
gent citizens here are clamorous for pa
pers, but in my heart Of hearts / cannot
consistently ard conscientiously give them
such papers rs his or the infamous Chi
cage Times. / have seen the effect OF
such things. Andy johnson could do
nothing in Nashville if such a paper as
| the Times was published there. A North
ern doughface fire -in-ths-rear traitor, who
covers his dark designs by singing pcans
to the Constitution is a thousand times
more execrable than those arrayed under
the Rattlesnake Flag. We know exactly
how to understand the latter. HI. S.
Parson HrownIow in Now York.
/ We mike the following extracts from
the speech Of Parson Rrownlow recently
delivered in New York:
THE NORTH IsSocENT-rHE SOUTH
GUILTY.
! The people Of the South, the dema-
gogues and leaders of the South, are to
blame for having brought about this state
OF things, and not the people of the
North. [Cheers.] We have intended
down South for thirty years to break up
this Government. 1t has been our set
tied purpose aud our sole aim down South
To destroy the Union and break up the
Government. We hare had the Presi-
dency in the South twice to your once,
and five of our men were reelected to the
Presidency, filing period of forty years
In addition to that we had divers men
elected for the one term, and no man at
! the North ever was permitted to serve any
bat the one term; and in addition to hav-
ing elected our men twice to your once,
and occupied the chair twice as long Is
you ever did. We seized upon and appro-
priated two or three miscreants from the
North that We elected to the Presidency,
and plowed with them as our heifers.--
EGreat laughter and applause. We ask
ed OF you and obtained at your hands a
Fugitive Slave law. You voted for and
helped u TO enact and to establish it. We
asked Of you and obtained the repeal Of
the Missouri compromise line. which new
or ought to have been repealed. | fought
it to the bitter end, and denounced it and
! all concerned in repeating it. and re-
! peat it here again tonight. We asked
and obtained the admission Of Texas into
the Union, that We might have slave ter
ritory enough to form some four or FIVE
more great States, and you granted it,
You have granted us from irst to last all
We have asked, oil we have desired and
hence repeat this thing Of secession,
this wicked attempt 10 dissolve the Uni
on, has been brought about without the
, shadow Of cause. # il the work Of the
worst men that God ever permitted to live
on the fAcs Of the earth. [Applause. ] 1t
is the work Of set of men down South.
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