The Buchanan County guardian. (Independence, Buchanan County, Iowa) 1858-1864, 1862-09-09
The Shareholders, Rebellion.

H- Now is The time for patriotism.
Now is the time for sacrifice, courage,
aud devotion to liberty. Nov is the
time for that love OF country which ev-
cry citizen Of the free States ought to
feel.
Breathes there the man with soul so dead
Who never TO hmselfhath said
This is my own, my native land
Whose heart hath he er within him burn'l,
As home his footsteps be hath turn'd,
From wandering on Il foreign strand
II such there beathe, go, mark him well
For him no minstrel raptures swell
High tho his titles. proud his name,
Boundless bis wealth as wish can claim
Despite those titles, power, and pelf,
The wretch concentcrcl all in self,
Living shall forfeit fair renown,
And, doubly dying, shall go down
To the vile dust from whence he sprung,
Unwept, unhonor'd, and unsung."
Now is the time to support the admin
istration in every effort il puts forth to
subjugate tie ferocious demons of the
Slave Slales, who are endeayoring toru
in this republic and destroy the best gov
eminent which tie world has as yet ever
secl Now is the time for the people to
speak in thanlcr tones SO that President
LINCOLN may feel and know that the ma
ton desires every means TO be used in
putting down this shareholders REBEL
ion, which the laws of civilized warfare
will authorize The President, in his
letter to HORACE GREELEY, says that if
he could "says tie Union by freeing
ALL the Slaues,' he would do it, This
assertion recognizes the fact that it would
be lawful TO free ALL the slaves" in or
der to save the Union, and, as OLIVER
JOHNSON pertlnenty and farcbly argues,
:" il is the business Of all good men that
love their country, and of all honest
presses, to try AMI convince him of this
truth while it is yet day. For the night
cometh -
The main policy O. the last fifteen or
sixteen months has been TO have as little
as possible to do with tho negro, and TO
show him and his master that we could
do wilhou! him. What has been the re-
suli a year OF average defeat in com
patison TO what ought to have been eff
fected with our means. We have pos
session Of New Orleans and Norfolk, but
ofscarce milo beyond their limits, while
not only Richmond but Charleston and
Savannah are as far from our possession
as they were a year ago. The enemy
which we then really despised, We can
no longer affect 10 contemn, though all
freeman must, Of course, detest them
Instead Of falling to pieces. end this re.
bellion being suppressed Gin ninety
days" as Mr.. SEWARD asserted it would,
what do We see 3? An army equal to
ours in number and discipline, inspired
by indomitable hatred Of Z" the Yankees, ="
under the command OF man OF military
genius, in whom his troops have enthu-
sias,ic conf lence, end who has the same
confidence in himself. The Southern
States. under such leadership, present an
undivided and unbroken front towards
us. No treason and no traitors to their
cause are permitted to exist in their do
minons. JEFFERSON DAVIS has gather
ed into his hand the passions, the ener-
gies, the resources Of his Confederacy,
and is hurting them at US with the skill
and force Of sta,ecraft. Washington is
at this moment in greater danger than
Richmond, and the North looks TO the
great battle which impends with dread
rs well rs hope The policy OF repress-
ing the negro, ofprotectiag rebels in the
enjoyment Of his services, of delivering
him up basey to torture and death, Of
driving him from our camps aud re(us
ing the help he has always been ready to