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

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old notion in the world that war is es
pecialy u scouree and curse to the sec
tions Of an enemy's country in which i
is waged. We are here in u hostile
traitorous section. Malignantenemies de
not fear to wag malignant tongues in oul
! faces at every turn; do not hesitate tt
speak spprosingly Of fathers, brothers
husbands, sons in arms against US; to
wish US utter annihilation; to taunt us
with reverses and decry our Victories
They see our sickness, hardships and
death with undisguised satisfaction. They
move oil the powers OF domestic labor
and economy, all the energies Of agricul.
ture and necessity born manufacture, to
the sustenance of the treason We are
here to crush. The wheat that is to feed
their armies, grows, ripens. and is gather
cd into rebel garners. The corn waves
and mods its rebel plums and tassels in the
sunlight as we march past. Hospitable
trees stretch out their arms full of golden
fruit to our tired and fainting troops
fruit forbidden as was that of the tree Of
life to Adam-fruit saved to i DO poured
in refreshing, bealtlful abundance into
hostile camps, to invigorate the arms OF
traitorous fratricides.
Nothing may be- inolested, lest it may
be our troops are detailed to stand guard
At their wells and poultry yards, over their
sheep and cattle, hofscs and hc.roes,
their orchards, fields, estates and persons;
detailed to stand ut their gates, like
servants, and here the treason talked
which deserved the halter to smother pa
triotic wrath and protsct---not hang-but
protect in every particular the traitors; to
eat their hard bread within sight of luxu-
rious traitors fare. The land blooms be-
hind as before US. Treason is as safe, rs
rampant, save in few violent tokens, on
one side Of US as on the other. Crush
| out treason! Great God Ii thrives un-
trampled beneath the very feet Of our
loyal armies. 1t is spoken to eivilly,
courteously,. cared for, protected, pctted,
guarded from stray penny worth Of harm
u if it we're some rare and costly exotic
it would be u loss and pity to breathe
rudely on. As if it we're not the damn
able sin which has murdered a hundred
Thousand Of our sons already. As if it
were not the miasm the Upas, which has
pitched our hospital tents in this burning
cline and filled them with suffering ones;
which has sown oil over this soil the bodies
of our dead-seed for the harvest of the
Resurrection; which has changed every
third man in all our hosts to eane-bear-
ing skeletons ghostly mockery of the
manliness that was his. We spat it fair,
az If there were no walls in the air, NO
sackcloth and oshes for widows and
orphans; as if nation was not perishing
by its daggers; as if it were not accursed,
plotting, thieving, lying, robbing, per-
jured, murderous lreason
Crush it out O, it is wonderous
process. Why, this same people, in
whose midst we are, had forgotten the
color and ring of silver and gold. We
have made ourselves merry at the FIVE,
ten, twenty -6ve cent notes of banks and
railroad corporations, towns and pot
houses, taverns and faro banks, with
which they have been making change;
have bought them and sent them North
to our friends as curious tokens of the
ruin Of bankrupt people. Our armies
are pouring rivers OF silver and gold into
to veins and arteries of this monstrous
treason which We are here to crush out.
And we get almost no equivalent. Fifty
cents quart for milk, forty cents pound
for butter, and twenty-five cents for
chickens, either very young or very old,
and this in hard money always, for these
favored gentry will not receive our honest
United States paper. Such markets were
never as these rebel traitors find in u.s.
They have drained this whole army of its
silver and gold, till our FIVE dollar notes
are useless, except in exchange for goods
to their whole amount. Through its army
they are draining the whole North
Such God send never came before
with victorious army into hostile
country? Nay, in our human fear, lest
there should be suffering in these nests
OF traitors, We call on the patriotic, bur-
dened, weepeng north to send food to
feed the rebel States. We open our com.
missary stores for sale to them ut con-
tractors prices. adding nothing for trans
/ portation. and that too at times when our
army was on short rations and could not
BE- supplied. Every dime Of silver, eye-
~ pound Of salt, or -four, or tea, or coffee,
every sheet Of paper, or boz Of clothing,
which gets from US into their hands, ID
but so much of aid and comfort render
ed the rebellion, by the treason crushers |!
Crushing out treasong Strange pro-
cessl The traitors within our lines 9
occupation are treated like loyal men.
When we Withdraw from any town or
section, every man tempted by our pres
enoe TO show loyalty. ia afflicted. persecu-
ted, tormented: his property confscated
i an his life in nAril ~ no In thaao e.,.~