The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1862-07-30
KEOKUK IOWA: "WEDNESDAY, JULY 80, 1862.
weep the loss Of husbands and fathers
slain in battle, let them be widows and or
nhans of dead rebels.

weep the loss Of husbands and fathers
slain in battle, let them be widows and or
phans of dead rebels.
III homes must be made desolate, let
the hearthstoneh of rebels be cold We
pass over their country and leave it pro-
ducing more food for rebel support than
when we came. | would leave it black
ened waste!' We have men enough In
t'iis army TO do it. Suppose we should
march to the gulf, carrying iuin and
desolaiion wherever we went; when TIC
tale was told to Georgia, that the Union
army had really devastated the State Of
Mississippi, and Was upon their border 10
utterly uproot and destroy everything up
on which rebellion could exist, how long
would they be in returning to obedience
TO the law? tell you not long They
| in their british ignorance, cannot com
prehend the meaning Of the term mog
| nanimlty. Our miIdness they believe to
be the result If uuwartice. You dare not
treat us otherwise. say they.
We have too long supported and pam
perel them with our right hand while
We sarlel off their blows and softly i'd.
monished with our left. | believe in
giving it TO them with both hands and
foot. tooth and nail. We need larger
army, and hear call for more troops
has been issued by The President. Now
think and know, that this army can be
Increased from fifteen to twenty per cent
very easily, cost nothing, bu, be saving
to the government. Take my regiment
for instance; We have about 459 men for
duty, Of these over sixty are constantly
employed on extra aud daily duty, in
driving teams, loading and unloading
wagons. cooking etc. Plenty Of negroes
offer their services land in these capaci-
ties would do good service ios the extra
daiy, pays these ieamsters, etc, draw
from goyernh emit.
BY employing the negroes, these sixty
or seventy men could resume their mus
kets. assure you. am most heartily
sick Of the sentimental tenderness we
have shown these miserable wretches A
truly noble, intelligent man can rcspec,
another without fearing him, but these
people are not Of that stamp, they bage
been Taught differently from their infan
cy. They haze With the lash beat respecl
for themselves into tie onward action ol
the slave. and with the grinding heel oi
aristocratlc despotism, the rich have
forced the poor into like manifest stions
Of esteem. The heart catches something
Of the feeling manifested outwardly, and
they respect that which they fear. When
we have visited them with terrible pun
ishment, they will fear and respect and
obey the law. and not until tEcn via '!les
| do So. You have no ade, uate conception
Of the ignorant bruti.h stupidity of these
lrcbels. They are slayes. Southern Chiy,
airy Great Heavens what stupendous
humbug. The ehivalry of the snea.king.
cold b.ooded migrate, who partaking o.
| bis hospitality, would plunge the assassin :
dagger into the heart of his host. am
getting malicious toward these wretches,
whose deviIish work is making SO many
hitherto happy homes sad and desolate,
who arc madly striving to tear down the
fairest fabric of republican governments
the wisaom Of man ever devised, who are
| prolaning everything sacred and holy,
who are destroying everything noble, gen.
erous and good, who are trampling upon
every prinelple of recti,cde and honor,
thst do not often speak or write of them
| would not willingly be vindictive or
malicious. but their hands are red with
the blood of innocent men. They draw
the sword. by the sword for rope) would
have them perish.