The Buchanan County guardian. (Independence, Buchanan County, Iowa) 1858-1864, 1862-02-04

49, A''' '""H0 P''"''5 O4No y - ,
around loose down at Boonvile, Mo-,
seem to have concluded to lay down, tenn
pora,ily, the shooting iron and take up
he shooting stick TO cease, for the
nonce he leoli Tor forms to knock over,
aud take TO forms" that require setting
up-to eschew leaden bullets and use
l~aden tyrcs--to substitute columns Of
raatter" for columns OF men-to make
the dash Of the soldier give way 10 the
!, dash" Of the printer--to give up the
rebel chase and take to the printers
clase to stop running after PRIcn
ana so TO running of a paper. The
result is that we now find on our table a
neat lille sheet Of lG columns, under the
above title. 1t is edited by C. ]. REED
and Gro. c. JoRDAN-both of whom we
have right to claim as being also Of the
Guardian--and is "set up and printed
by JOHN II. TowLE, w. S. PECK, w. H.
BRowN and JoHN p. GETrs--all but the
lalter being of Company E, and from
this county. The paper is printed much
better than any army paper we have yet
seen, and We are certainly justified in
saying that il is most Interestingly and
ably edited. We find little 100 much
tenderness on the slavery question:
little too much sneering at the " niger"
"A too evident desire to put out of sight
the criminal connection Of slavery with
the rebellion. AMI TO soothe the rebelious
feelings Of slarerydom in that vicinity
into loyalty bya meek acquiescence in,
and favorable consideration for, the hell
ish system which not only robs millions
Of their humanity, but now seeks 10 des-
troy the most benefcent government,
and to ruin the most prosperous people,
the world has ever known. 1t may have
been policy for our friends to have thus
deprecated denUnciation Of slavery and
lis acts, and TO sheer at the bigger"
but we much mistake if day they have
not mach more confidence in the friend
ship Of The slaves than they have in that
OF any avowedly loyal STAKEHOLDER within
the boz ders Of Missouri. There, at Boon
vile, with TIE evidences Of the service
wiich ,lese d,spised slaves rendered
the gallant EPSTEIN, and his handful of
Union followers, constantly before them,
it would seem impossible that the mutu-
al victims of this accused slave svg-
tenn should not feel a sympathy one with
the Other. Ii there is any deprivation of
comfort. any sacrifice of interests, any
danger from disease and deatb, encounter
ed by our brave fellows in their present
position, each aad all is to be attributed
to, each and all has certainly arisen from,
this system Of slavery. They are vic
Tins OF this so called domestic institution
as assaredly as are the slaves, and why
their sympathes should be with the en-
SLAYER rather than tie enslaved, is past
our comprehension And If, as Mr..
REED says. in his letter in this weeks
parer, Tie officers OF the regiment lend
themselves 10 lie retain Of the negroes
10 tondage-if they put the men under
their command il the attitude Of blood
hounds, to huat down aad return fugi-
tiyes back TO their hated despotsm-in
our opinion they ne doing yillainous
service. 1t is no part other duties I'm
der the orders Of Gen H,LLEcE--in fact,
is in violation Of the orders-anl II Col
WoRrnINGToN, or Provost Marshal LEE,
or any other military authority at Boon
Vile ret"rns the slaves, he does the dirty
work willingly, and should receive
hearty exccraion. And we hope that
Gov. KIRKwocp, like Gov. ANDREW, will
rebuke The act. We have no kind Of
idea that the soldiers are willing for this
work. We do not believe that they
would have the record OF the Iowa Fifth
to be that they stood Watchdog al The
gate Of Missouri Shareholders, to guard
their dusky property, in order that these
shareholders may be Induced to maintain
despcable neutrality. We are sure
that they must revolt at such service, and
that i, must take native Of Kentucky"
TO order the dirty work.
But we have been led away from what
we intended ns only . simple notice OF!
the paper Aside from the exception
noticed, we think the paper is excellent,
giving large amount of interesting
matter relative to the regiment, and we
hope i, may be continued for the bene-
fit Of the friends of the regiment. Be, /
low we give several extracts. The pa |
per is dated January 9Th:
AcclpESr-An Incident occurred on Thurs
day last which came very near proving fatal.
A member Of Company C, while in the act of
printing his piece, in drilling. accidentally dis
charged it, the contents Of the gun passing