Muscatine weekly journal. [volume] (Muscatine, Iowa) 185?-1890, 1863-04-10
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CAMP OF THE SECOND Iowa CAvALRY,)

CAMP OF THE SECOND IOWA CAVALRY
Il LAGRANGE, TENN, March %.
Ed. Journal;-In such times as these,
when the much mooted question of patriotism
Us. treason is being discussed and commented
upon throughout the length and breadth of
our land, it occurs to me that no one has q
better right to speak out the sentiments and
motives which actuates him, than the soldier
he who is battling for his country's liber-
ties and rights, and in so doing periling life
and health, and suffering exile from the home
Of his childhood and dear ones left behind.
Much has been said about the soldiers now
in the field wishing and praying as ardently
for dishonorable peace as those blatant
traitors who spout open-mouthed treason on
the streets of our northern cities. This has
been denied time and again, and satisfactory
evidence Of the baseness Of the falsehood has
been submitted to the people. There are,
however, even in the Second Iowa Cavalry. q
few men (and am happy to say their num-
Der is but few who would be willing to dis
grace the Government that has protected
them from childhood, and trail the proud en-
blem Of our nationality in the dust, at trait
ors' feet. These men read the Courier, when
you find one possessed of sufficient intelli-
gence, and imbibe and adopt it's sentiments as
their own. Ignorance is their peculiar char
acteristic, and when you find man unable to
write his name, or with difficulty read a
newspaper, and who bears the iDdellible stamp
Of worthlessncss written in legible lines on
his countenance, there you will find deyotee
of the CoMrier's treason, and worshipper Of
that precious pair Of jail-birds, Mahony and
Thayer. My feelings upon this subject are
very strong, but not more so than the vast
majority of the men that compose our army.
We feel that those men who are continually
denouncing every measure of the Administra-
ton enacted for the good Of the common
country and for the vigorous prosecution of
this war, are real incendidries, who are ex-
erting all the means in their power to create
dissentions among brave and united army.
We look upon them as traitors, in the broad
est acceptation of that term, and eminenty
worthy of traitors doom. Cowardice, a
fear of pecuniary loss, and natural meanness,
are the motives that prompt these men to
give utterance to their sentiments of treason
and to prove themselves recreant to the flag
that has guarded them from earliest infancy,
and under whose protecting folds they have
always lived and prospered. 1t is grati6-
cation to know that the South looks upon
them in their true light. The rebels feel
that they are not to be trusted, and spurn
them and their peace offerings in contempt !;
and if at the end of this war they remain I'M
hung, it were better for them had they never
been born. The finger of scorn will pc point
ed at them, and their names will descend in
infamy to future generations.
We OF course are tired of the irksome du-
ties of soldering, but nevertheless are still
willing to endure the hardships attendant up.
on soldiers life, and fight OH under the glo-
rous stars and stripes until the present armed
rebellion is effectually suppressed, and the
au hority of the Federal Government restored
and respected IN every part Of our Nation.
SABRE.