Muscatine weekly journal. [volume] (Muscatine, Iowa) 185?-1890, 1863-02-13
Won't Come Back /!

SO stop your crying, you little fellows clad
in butter.nut; there's no use - your tears
will not bring back the hayward sisters"
They know you are false hearted and hypo-
critical. They haven't a particle of confidence
in your sincerity. They have openly declared
that "you would be just as anxious to prose
cute the war as anybody, if you could only
get your fingers among the money bags."-
That's what's the matter. Now stand up; be
men don't carry your heads as though you
had sheep on your back. It's true, you
have acted in very disgraceful and treason
able manner, but you are welcome to the
Union circle if you'll only be true to your
country. But stop don't go off as though
you were only talking with an abolitionist /;
we want you to hear from your ''wayward
sisters" once in while. Isn't it little
strange, that while you little fellows in butter
nut have such dear affection for those sis
tiers, your press, your medium Of information
and instruction, never publish such little mis-
sives Of love as the following:
WARNING TO PEACE DEMOCRATS. - The
Richmond Dispatch of the 2sth has long
editorial arguing that there is but one road to
reconstruction" and that is cover the dead
bodies of every man, woman and child in the
Confederacy." 1.-THE North" says the Dis
patch, twill never be our masters, and we
would not have them for our slaves" The
editor concludes as follows:
We warn the Democrats and conservatives
of the North to dismiss from their minds at
once the miserable delusion that the South
can ever consent to enter again, upon any
terms, the old Union. If the North will allow
US to write the Constitution ourselves, and
give us every guarantee we would ask, we
would sooner be under the Government of
England or France, then under Union with
men who have shown that they cannot keep
good faith, and are the most barbarous and
inhuman, as well as treacherous, of mankind.
Suppose two men engaged in partnership
fall out, and one of them, after violating
every article of the agreement of partnership,
destroys the property of the other, burns his
house over his head, butchers his wife and
children, and then asks the other to renew
their old partnership, and go on in business
again as if nothing had happened This is a
faint image Of what the Northern reconstruct
tionists ask of the South. If we could agree
to it, our folly would be only equalled by their
villainy. Loyalty to them is treason to our
dead, to ourselves and to humanity.
If the reconstructionists want peace they
can easily have it, upon the terms on which
they could have always had it - letting us
alone. We ask nothing more or less. We
are making no war on them. We are not in
vading their territory, nor giving their homes
to the flames, their population 10 prison and
the sword, their women to fate worse than
death. Let us alone That is all we ask
Let us alone and peace will return once more
to bless distracted land But do not expect
us to degrade ourselves and cast dishonor up
on the graves Of our kindred by ever return
ing to the embrace of those whose hands are
dripping with the tears and blood of our
people.
Won't the Courier publish the foregoing
extract? Do keep your readers posted