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

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/ atty or treason-to take even q stray Gun
and shout foe? What now that The ens.
my's country is really 10 suffer, and
troubled homes to call for absent traitors
Ito return from the ranks, give IN their
treason, and receive the offered amnesty
for their heinous crime
These recent disasters, these fresh out
brcakings of the hidden fires OF rebellion
Tin States supposed secure, have filed the
very air with the thrill of q new purpose.
| AS by instinct we catch it. Under the
influence of it, our new army of three
| hundred thousand men will spring from
the ground. armed, like the harvest from
the dragons teeth. Congress has sane
toned the instinct, and now it is law.
The President, it is said, is Just ready to
proclaim the old policy dead; the new
universal and supreme. The sense and
Judgment OF ali loyal men are solid in it's
support. So disaster turus to Triumph.
God has to grind men aud nations like
apples before he gets The virtue out of
them. He has been grinding and press
ing US till we are ready for the great cri-
SIS In which we stand. Under the old
plan Of clemency and play war, new ar
mics could not have been raised except by
levies. Under the new law Of war, real
war, the heart of the nation will beat biph
and strong. These 500, 600 men will has.
ten to the lines with tramp that shall
be glorious in the ears Of all true men,
which shall'be the tramp of doom to trea-
son !.
Now | charge you be strong and of good
courage. Put away every complaint. If
you are sick make haste to be we'll
There's great work to do---and you will
have your hand in it. These States be-
hind us must be reconquered and treason
once for nil crushed out. Traitor States
are yet behind us. Treason everywhere
not rooted out of single community in
which it ever throve.
But now with principle of war, which
means war, every advance will signify 20
much Of loyal ground. Treason dead in
it forever and ever. Let them give US
Is they seem ready TO do, this law. See
to it, that behind you Is no traitor---no
subsistence, but for staunch loyal lneu----
no estate belonging to any traitor---no
covering for the head of any traitor In
thirty days there need be no rebel State
Of Mississippi. She can be made to sue
FOR peace and re admission. When VIC
get in earnest and carry with US amnesty
for the quickly penitent, ruin swift, dire,
without remedy for all others, this re d
full strife will end--til, then, never,
never
We must grasp now the dire, sweep
ing desolating brand. The slaves Of reb-
els must be freed the crops of rebels
destroyed the houses of rebels wrapped
in flames Everything which can be ap-
propriated TO the sustenance and comfort
OF our troops so used Everything des-
tructible must he destroyed; oil rsal es-
tate posed il fee simple by the United
States government; all able bodied male
rebels sent to Northern military prisons,
or set to work on loyal labor. No ves-
tige of any rebel thing aught to be left
in our track. The agony will be sharp
but short. We have waited, and borne,
and hoped long. Merciful war is always
cruelest.
Another cry burdens the air. Trca-
sons dagger has we'll nigh reached the
heart Of liberty and popular government
the heart of great nation. This ma
jestic, wrathful shout sweeps down on the
north wind like the voice of the seven
thunders. "Let the assassin perish, per-
ish, PERISH, root and branch, utterly ard
forever T. 1t is the unanimous voice OF
100000 Of loyal people against trea-
son. The breszss Of God bear it. Tho
will of God il 10 it, All lesser cries and
wallinss shall DO drowned in these.
Through whatever may come of suffer
ing, and hardships, and perils, even to the
sacrifice Of life itsef, We will swear to-
gether. comrades, BY oil the gallant cap
tiyss, by all the glorious dead, by all the
sorrows of the bereaved Of our own and
other States, by all the glory. beauty, be.
mighty Of onr impariled government To
crush out treason with an iron heel and
relentless hand.
May God shield and speed the right
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