The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1863-02-25

unbridlsd soldieryf Tell them Of the
pictures your own eyes have looked upon
| in this desolste and unhappy country
Do they want the work Of years to be
laid waste in single hour, by the hands
of an army In short, do they want the
experience of all the evils and horrors OF
civil war al their own doors Is you and l
have seen it in this desolated landf Let
them hatch the egg of treason that they
thave laid, and they shall have it.
Do they want peace, peace that will
bring with it back the days of"Auld Lang
Syne" and the name of an American, un-
tarnishedi Do they want the noble sons
and brothers that have gone forth TO fight
the battles over, that our father fought
in the olden Revolution, to return to hap
by homes and joyous hearts! Do they
want once more 10 see The great watery
highways which bind the length and
breadth Of this continent together, bcspan.
gled with the crafts Of commerce, laden
with the products of the North, the East,
the West and South? A peace that shall
bring with it honor, prosperity and hap
piness bring to US the enjoyments and
privileges We once enioyed-happioess at
home and honor abroad--they must en-
dorse the measures of the Government in
putting down this rebellion. They mast
NOT see IN the acts ofour Government only
error and prong, and IN the South only
right and justice. They must remember
that the South has, in taking up arms,
forfeited all her rights, soen that Of tye,
for the just pcndlty Of treason Is DEATH.
Do these men hope, BY raising up this
division in the North. this grand scheme
Of wholesaleing away their honor, their
liberties, their Government, their all to
this slaveholding tyranny Of the South,
to be upheld by the army now in the field?
Tell these men tha, could they see the dis
pos tion made of the reasonable letters
they write and the infsmmatory documents
they send to the field for the purpose of
infusing treason into the minds Of the
soldiers for the purpose OF creating insub-
ordination and discord among them tell
them that could they zee the treason they
send here in their letters and doc1ments,
gathered in pile on our parade ground
and consigned to death by FIRE, while the
fife and drum play their requiem 70 the
tate of Yankee Doodle, and the soldiers
whooping the war-song of death to trait
ors around the funeral pile, they would
tremble at the return of soldier to his
home. Say to them, TRAITORS of Iowa,
make for yourselves covering like unto
. turtles shell, that you can hide POUR
self and be safe at the approach Of Un-
ion soldier" Should you meet those men
while absent from your regiment in the
discharge Of your duties as recruiting
Sergeant; should they approach you with
their willy treason, should they attempt
to SOW the seed Of discord in your mind,
repel them in such manner that the
blush of shame will mantle their coward
ly cheeks; repel them in manner 90
earnest that they shall drag their SILVER
ing forms Of dsgradsd manhood beck to
their dark deps Of treason. there & find
in association the poison with which to
feed their poisoned n.inds. Hold up tothem
the baseness OF their course Show to them
the horrors Of civil discord as you have
seen it in this unhappy State, and tel
them that the result VI what they plan and
purpose will be to inaue urate this. Tha,
| curse shali fan upon tho limbs Of mon,
u Domestic fury, ana civil strife.
Shall cuiabsz all parts Of shis soss happy land,
Dsstrustios, blood, raDlse and nasAss,
Shall b ssch familiar thisss, tAas nssAsn,
Shall but smile when they shall go,
Their infants quartersd ny the hands Of var,
| All pity frozen In The hearts cfmen, By their
Familiarity with horfib IL dsedr.
And if the danger be 80 great as they
would tell MS, stay where you are and
fight if it shall come to that. And I
would tell you, take the men that you
shall recruit for the 10Th Regiment .na
fight these rebel demons At their own
firesides; teach them that tho vages Of
treason, born aud bred in Iowa Is damna-
tion.
Stay, would tell you if you are need
ed, and if these men, in THAR madse,s
shall take mp arms TO carry ont their
dendish purpose. fight them to the bitter
death, and and let the names Of those
friends who felIby Jour side on the, bloody