, 1863-03-03

in the victories won By our brave boys in the
West; when We thought our State the most
loyal, the most patriotic, md the grandest Of
them all, md 1t was conceded to us; but how
stand NC now? To mention the name Of our
State brings forth the humiliating questions:
"Why, Illinois is preparing to sccede; your
Legislature is going to adjourn temporarily,
in order to ascertain whether jeff. Davis is
sc9i,tg to accept your State as one Of his Confs1
eraey.' Some Of your regiments have al
ready mutinfed, and refuse to fight against
their Southern byetAren.1 - "1llinois sustains
and upholls the most arrogant rebel nd9spa-
per published iu the United States, and per
1nite the Knights Of the Golden Circle to hold
public meetings denouncing the Administra-
tratlon, the war, the national currency, the
East, against paying taxes, threatening to pre-
rent draft OF the capture Of desertcrs and an
attempt Is even made in Chicago by the tories
to rescue rebel prisoners who are sent
there By the Government to be held, and the
rioters go unpunished-" These and many
more such taunts arc thrown ut us, and, be-
cause of their truth, VIC are made ashamed.
What are you doing at home? Why do your
loyal people sit down sucking their thumbs
or, at best, making weak, windy threats Of
what the soldiers will do when they return,
while the traitots and tories are organizing
and preparing to bring revolution to their
doors, and open fire on our rear? Governor
Yates should arrest and hang the villains in
tial laT, suppress all disluyal papers and
meetings, call ont and arm the loyal citizens
and squelch the internal plotters- at once
Let the loyal citizens Of Indiana do the same,
and one week ofgood, effective work will put
a quietus upon al such secession carvings
on. Take warning by the rebellion We arc
now fighting. It was seen coming on just as
Wc see the Beginning Of 1t In our state, and
the Bame time-scrVlng, coward1y, do-notling
policy which permitted It to come forth and
defy US will be the result in Illinois tell
you, If You want to save our E.ir State from
ruin, from years Of misery md terror, strike
down treason before it rIpens, for you know
What war is, what awful scenes you will not
witness Of carnage, riot and destruction: #
W. are compelled 10 return to help
with the rough and bloody experience oftwo
years in the field against armed treason, there
will be no gentle dalliance with their nidcrs
and abctters in the Prairie Stae. But it will
be revolver, CT rhine md sabrc; swift, sure
and terrible 1etribution. The old weather
beaten veteran III the de1d IRE in no anliablc
mood of min l. They hate rebels and will
never consent peace or armistfcc until they
lay down their arms md submit to tho laws,
but tel you our hatred for Coppesheads Is
tcnfold hotter. We regard them as pnck Of
sneakiug, trcacherous, cowardly williams, who
have opened fire on our rear, while we arc
battling with enemies Of our country.
This is no time for argument. The North
ern man who is not already convinced that re-
bcl1ion is wrong, Is as bad as rebel and de-
Eeryes to be treated as such. Birdie the
reasonable utterances Of the tory press, sus-
pend the habtas corpus, arrest, imprison trail
tors, and arm blacks and whites, destroy by
fire and sword, il need be, but save the nation.
If we must, let us cxterIninate the breed Of
vipers who are now plotting and fighting
against the best government on carth- This
Mctions division at the North has been the
main stay which has held up the dropping
hopes of the rebels. Talk to q rebel five
minutes, and you will be told that their ''pco-
pie are suffering, starving, dying; but still
they have only to hold out 4 little longer, and
the Northern army will have to be withdrawn
to save their OVID States from rebellion; that
unity, notwithstanding all their poverty, Is
and wealth, if we are diridel." How humilia-
ting! Rcycracs In the field, cold, hunger,
| thirst, cowardly traitors for commanders,
sickness, and all the nlsfortunes that haVe be-
| fl1len this fine army, failed to weaken its
ardor, lis patriotism, rs confidence in ulti.
| reaction which apparently has taken place In
| the North. To be forsaken By the very pco-
| pie who sent US here Is thc-deadiicst stab We
! have encountered. We knew that all We
| to SO sudden and unexpected and Immense
t 4 war, where all has to be learned, and
! where every commander must be tried; but
| we did not suppose that there could he men
base enough, dastasd1y enough, in the North,
to become trnitors to their country, and stab
ished, however, to sec theapathy or cowardice
! Of our prG1essed friends, who look on with the
illustration aud the consequence Of the war
! In which VIC are now engaged staring them In
the -shcar1ng them Of their wealth, rob,
b1ng them Of their sons-iu not rising up, be-
/ ID IN inf r4.
bcllion which is growing up in their own
midst; and which, If permitted to culminatc,
will b. as much more terrible in Its conse'
qucnces over the war now in progress as this
f we are compelled to return and put II
down, we will not whit for our enemy tc
come forth fully prepared and dressed IL
battle array, but VIC will seek him il hi
house, his cellar, his garrct, and when once
begun there will be few left to tell the tale O.
met his traitor DOOM You may, perhaps
think what write is idle talk; if you do
come to the army, converse with the officer:
and men, and hear them express themselves
You will soon beconyinced that there Is vol
cano ready to burst ont and oyerwhelm every
thing Its way il this Internal fire in the reari
not stopped. The soldiers " i'll stand anything
better than that. And this feeling Of hatrce
towards the treachcrous rebel allies is grow
Ing stronger and fercer every day as the sol
to the Copperheads, beware there is q day o
| reckoning coming when you viii call on tn
| mountains to fall on you and hide you iron
the consuming anger Of those whom you hay'
so cruc1ly. 6aseiy aud Eickedly BETRAYED
| willis thrv werp h9rinr- f1,c;r hos6ms tn In
~. ,n5 srofI ~ cr-nsa tra,eon and s-;p;r.
,,1' t,n;. i,Sas T., nrar tot nr @ t,,6ro,
| W Iue4l oNA ives III otuet Luat Jul b4V4lI4ou
Union might live. ".
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