The Tipton advertiser. [volume] (Tipton, Cedar Co., Iowa) 1856-1962, 1863-08-13
Upton, IOWA. AUG. 13, 1868.

an unfaltering confidence 10 God, and in
! the ri righteousness o, their cause.
1t would be slander to assert that
there are no moral men, or religious,
among the rebels The contrary is the
fact. They religiously believe that they
are light, but are not the less mistaken.
SO do Jews, Turks, aud Mahommedans
believe that they are right-aud yet, if
they should take up arms against our
holy Christianity, their sincerity would
prove no shield to them. Force would
would have to be repelled by force -
They are, nevertheless, the blind dupes
of wicked and selfish men, and engaged
in doing the DEVILS own worst work.
But it is equally slander, to assert that
the rebels, as h, have deeper flow
of piety, and more of it, than our own
brave and good men And as to general
intelligence, the rebels are vastly, vastly
inferior. The mass of them, on general
topics, are lamentably iynoront-the
''poor white trash of the South" as he
aristocratic cotton lords term them-nd
this very ignorance is one secret of tie
success of the leaders in instigating then
to rebellion. They read no news paper,
and the truth is habitually concealed
from them.
|. | met a good looking young Georgian
who had been in the army two years,
and who, when l spoke to him of New
Orleans, Nashville, Memphis, and other
places being in our possession, said, 81
do not de|ieoe cord Of H-they are oil
Yankee lies %
Most, if not all, of the complaints
made against the Government and citi-
zens are unfounded. They do all in heir
power to relieve the sufferers as fast as
possible, and no community has done
more than the people Of Getty sburg-
We have observed it as an almost inva-
rable rule, that the lcudest croakers
against the Government and citizens are
those who do not themselves turn fnqer
to relieve the sufferers. They come as
mere selfish 81 ght.seers, and if not rolled
from place to place on plush seats, in
duce IN bitter investivcs.
At the close of his varied and interest
ing statement, attentive|y listened to
throughout, Rev. Hutter remarked that
the thoughts uppermost in his mind,
since his return from Gettysburg, have
been the following:
|. The gigantic and heaven daring
wickedness of the ,Scuhern demagogues
and politicians, by whom, and by whom
alone, this cruel and desolatipg war has
been inauguratcd. On their heads, IN
the sight of God and man, rest the guilt
and responsibility of every drop of blood
that has been shed, North and South
Gigantic crime. Horrible iniquity -
To characterize it, as it deserves, delies
the descriptive energies of language
II. The infinitely y augmented value of
the Union and Institutions formed by
our fathers. BY the duty we owe to our
selves, our posterity, to God and man
kind, let US, on tie, thousand holy alters,
swear renewed fealty to them, intermit-
ting no sacrifices, until the by ydra. headed
rebellion shall have been effectualIy and
forever "crushed out"
III. The deep and abiding debt of
gratitude we owe to our brave and gallant
Army and Navy. The memory of the
fallen let us cherish in our heart of
hearts, as martyr heroes, who have sacri-
feed their lives in defence of as holy
and good cause as has ever appealed to
the love Of men. The living, especially
if they be manned and wounded, togeth-
er with their dependent families, let US
noursh, protect and care for, as one of
holiest treasures ever committed by God
and His Christ to the prayers, the sym
pathies, and the substamial aid" of
the church, of society, and of every hu-
name and philanthropic citizen. Now,
more than ever, let us open our hearts
10 kind and generous flow of sympathy
to the wants Of suffering humanity
Let us be kind to all men that claim our
kindness; but let MS be especially and
nceasingIy kind to our braue and noble
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