The Tipton advertiser. [volume] (Tipton, Cedar Co., Iowa) 1856-1962, 1863-02-26

LETTER FROM HON. J. A. KASOON
The following letter was read 1t ID
meeting on Friday last, and resolution
was passed that it be published 10 th
Advcrtiscr.
| WASHINGTON, D. c., Feb. 18th, 1863.
DEAR SIR: Your letter of the Bis
was forwarded from Des Moines, and ha
been SO long delayed that my reply maj
not reach you before your meeting. Til,
business with which l am charged vii
not permit me to leave this city for ont
or two weeks to come.
wish with all my heart it was posi-.
bic for me to Meet the loyal people Of
your county on an occasion when they
assemble to testify anew their devotion
to their country, and again swear fealsy
to the Union Of the States, one and nm
divided; not seperablo but indissolubly
bound together by mountain ranges, and
grand rivers, and continuous coast lines /;
as we'll as by commercial interests, COM
mon lineage, identity of language, aud
by all the mutual memories of glorious
national history. The dissolution of such
a Union is the mere madness of maniac.
There has been but a single element
of serious discord. No great nationality
has ever had less. AL the leading ma
tions Of Europe have been at some period
torn by civil war. Its calamities have
now, 10 the order Of Divine Providence,
fallen upon us, and for purposes which
the future must reveal. He who 'maketh
the wrath of man to praise Him" will yet
make it plain. l accept it, with all its
burdens, in uufaltering faith that out Of
all this evil Almighty God will bring
great good. Let the people judge where
that monstrous wrong is which has call.
ed down upon US the great affection Of
civil war
But while We recognize that the cruel
ixion was the will of Heaven, We do not
therefore cease to detest the Judas by
whom the betrayal was made, and the
cowardly, halfway believers who fed
from the Saviour 10 his time of trouble,
many of whom followed no more after
him" Our country has been openly
betrayed by the Judasses of the South,
who received their thirty pieces of sil:cr
at the minis, custom. houses, and other
repositories in the South; and if we Of
the loyal States stood solidly united to-
day, we should quickly see the sequel to
this betrayal, when it might be said Of
this rebellion also, that oil its "bowels
gushed out, to the universal disgust
Of mankind.
If l could be with you on the av ef
your meeting, which 80 nearly commelb
crates the birthday of the Father 81 ii
country and the founder of our Unio1
| would say,-'bate not one jot Of /
or hope. In the single year 1862,
armies and fleets have driven thoIei
from Kentucky; they have d
almost pacifed, Missouri; =
covered a large part Of -
have conquered the lowss
the Mississippi with its
and defences, together with
and large part of the State of L.
they have taken and now hold,
the command of one of the best Cd
of our own gallant State, the most &
tant strategic point in Mississipn
its surrounding district; they n .lx
en- the enemy from the front of ,eo
'ngton; and notwithstanding OCCASIONS u
reverses, now hold the largest part Of
Virginia, very large portion of North
Carolina, the best hartor aud surround.
ing district of South Carolina, and all
he forsrssses and commercial ports Of
Florida, with the strongest tort in Geor-
,ia, and controlling its commerce. Only
three important seacoast Notifications re-
main for capture, those at Wilmington,
and Mobile. In our con-
quests and victories west Of the Alleg
homes, what State claims prouder re-
membrance than our own? Besides our
first General, Curtis, there are Dodge,
who forced loud praises from the ps Of
the enemy at Pea Ridge, who never lost
a battle, post, or skirmish Heron,
" "oSS youeu SoiiiSO Win IL the VaiOF OIL
a veteran futile, Lauman, Vandever,
Croker, and Mexican, who like the 9TH
ers won their silver stars upon the battle
field; and hundreds of others, officers
and privates, whose prudence and cour-
age equally deserve the tribute of our
homage. At the same ii your NAVY
has maintained the most perfect block
ade known to history, and while guarding
vast line of coast, has made numerous
and valuable captures of commercial
property and munitions of war, and in
sundry desperate fights has maintained
the traditional glory of our naval history,
On the seas as well as on the land Iowa
may claim share of our newly acquired
renown; for to one of her Senators, who
Is the life and soul of the Naval Commit.
tee, is the country indebted, as much as
to any other man, for the vigor and ener.
gy infused into naval construc tion. and
naval operations. All cur previous his.
tory taken together does not show mar
ai'eI to the last two years progress of
our naval strength, without which We