The weekly Ottumwa courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1857-1872, 1863-04-30
ment, alike disgraceful to the nation and

ment, alike disgraceful to the nation and
its soldiers, is cobbled up-that hereafter II
will be rather disgrace, than an honor, to
have been q soldier Of the grand army.
believe in the advice of old Polonius to
his son Laertes. "Be ware entrance to q
quarrel,bn being in, bear It that the orpos-
err may beware of thee"
Fam in favor of all the laws, human or
divine, that have passed, or may pass,
Christian or Barbarian, fair or foul, that
looks in the remotest degree towards sup
pressing the rebellion. My conscientio US
craples about using the negro or any other
means, to this end, have played out.
I would fight them with white soldiers,
Niggera. Mules, Jsckasses, Polecats, Stink
pots, fire in the front-f1re in TIE rear
and Hell-flre and Birthstone, evoked in my
power internal spirits to torment ttBm, give
them the seven years itch without any an
ger nails to scratch with, make thSn live q
thousand yeats exclusively on arnt rations,
with the inviting portals Of the inkrnal re-
gions standing wide open to rec&e them
all the time, and when securely tere, en-.
joying themselves hugely after h "hard
tack" rations, Twould send Grat and his
Engineer Corps to dig ''auother cnawl'' to
put their FIRE out In the expressive lang
uage Of pious young man in ouregiment,
in my hearing recently, II wald fight
them till He'll froze over, and hen fight
them on the ice."
But speaking seriously the wswill 90 on.
the rebellion will be suppressed-if not in
3 years why then in 80 years. r an at
tempt is made to patch up trn with the
rebels, recognizing the bastard vonfederacy
by dishonorable compromise, If, in other
words, the civil authorities At unequal to
the occasion, / firmly belle that the
army will never submit, that tB will rally
around some idolized leader. nsist upon
making him dictator, and beis led against
the common enemy of their puntry and
mankind. Whether this i deplorable
state of feeling or not, it exiso general
But no such unfortunate exipcy will hap
pen. am happy to learn 1t the war is
becoming universally popuf again with
all parties. Let me assure well beloved
friends of the Copperhead persuasion
(and I recognize some of mpest friends in
-Ottumwa as being tinctureiwith the her.
esy) that they are deluded5e rebels des.
pise and loath you, nothin short of the
disintegratlon of this count the establish
ment Of great Southern pslavery Con-
federacy, with the negro ane Alpha and
Omega, the corner stone ofe snperstruc.
ture, the circulating mediunf the country |
with little negroes throw in for small
change will satisfy them sou must make
up your mind to this or 'fn" and whip
them. The "Conscript Fers' are after
you. And opine that evong you will
be as willing as all the soils are at pres
ent, to let out, even to thegro, the inesti
mable privilege ofbeing q at. Of eating
"hard tack" and bacon, AIDING swamps. I
digging canals, sleeping ethe ground, and
in the water, with myriS Of mammoth
Bull Frogs singing youlullaby, all for
glory, your country, andhirteen dollars
20. B." per. month.
But my last sheet dra 20 an end. adj
monishing me that mdbring this short
epistle to "halt." luminous sound Of
the everlasting Drum ausife. that is this
moment being played ins thousand camps
from the golden shore 6e Pacific to the
Pioneer Corps of Higgip and Moptgon-
cry in the lagoons Of Flo,, tells me and
six hundred thousand min unmistakable
langusge-Lights out'Nclock Ruh--a-
dub--dub--dub-dubi
"TARSw