The Burlington weekly hawk-eye. [volume] (Burlington [Iowa]) 1860-1876, 1863-09-26

a.
We are under obligations to Mr.. J. R. Nell
son, with the TIN Iowa, for copy of the
Corinth (Miss.) Chanticleer, of the 18th
inst. This paper, it will be recollected is
published and edited by member of the
Second Iowa, Gen. Tuttle's old regiment.
In this number we find the following com
munication from member of the same
regiment, who seems to "talk right out in
meeting:"
CoRINTH, Miss. Sept. 4th, 1s63.-Fr5e,.d
Chdnticleer: will endeavor to creep out
of the shadows and gloom of my feelings
long enough tonight to write you few
lines-I should write home tonight did I
know certain had one to write to sir. NV
people consisting of mother, sister and
two brothers were living in Lawrence
when Quantrell's hell hounds entered the
town and murdered innocent women and
children. l have reasons to fear that they
are numbered among those who were bar
barously slaughtered in their homes. Who
are the persons am looking to this night,
as culpable for that most fendish act of
this whole war, and who by the living God
I shall hold responsible till the last day of
my life. The murderer who plunged his
knife into the bosom of defenseless men
while women and children chung around
his neck pleading with tears for a life pre-
cious to them. I am bold to say sir that
his, (tiend as he ISL worse than that hot
footed fiend from the Internal regions-his
hands are no morestained with their blood,
than that damnable clique in Missouri
with Gov. Gamble at it's head. Its the
fruits of the policy which has been carried
out since the removal of General Curtis,
man, a General who was too loyal to suit
a nest of Internal traitors, Of evolves in
sleeps clothing" am too sorry to have
1t to say that in our own beloved state the
same class of political scoundrels are
seeking power, "They have the stolen liv-
cry Of heaven, to serve the devil in" and
have found a chieftain in the person of
James Tuttle, not General futile, for am
now speaking of politician. AS cast my
eyes over the columns of the Memphis Bui-
tetln OF this date my heart beats with joy to
read the resolutions of the old 7th and I'd
Iowa, have exclaimed thrice in those most
emphatic, though trite words known in SOL
diers' phraseology "Bully Boysv' never
stain your bright record BY endorsing the
Copperhead creed, the most loathsome rep
tile that crawls from the jungle or brake in
TINS southern country is innocent compar-
ed with them. There is only one sort of
Union men you can possibly know. They
are the men who are in favor of any and
every means for putting down this rebel
lion. If mules could be trained to kick the
brains out of rebels, let us say amen to it.
thank God that as far as my acquaintance
in the I'd and 7th, there is not
a man but what understands the principles
involved in this war, and cannot be made
any wiser by Copperhead instruction. AS
private, appeal to those of my own rank,
If star has been flung in the mud, don't
get upon your knees and crawl after it. or
IN other words, do not endorse the man
who would ''crawl in hell for the privilege
Of strutting on earth" will help send any
candidate down to deserved oblivion whose
whole soul is not engaged in this war
There is no middle ground to stand upon.
But am spinning this letter out to an un-
'remeditated length, I will go to bed and
ry to drown in sleep, the dread suspense
II mind am in-adieu. Respectfully,
w. II. NJ, I'd Iowa Infantry.