The Buchanan County guardian. (Independence, Buchanan County, Iowa) 1858-1864, 1863-11-24


and smoking ruins, and plantations aban
doned and laid waste, meet us on al
sides, and anarchy and ruin, disappoint
ment and discomfort, lower over all the
land.
FOREIGN INTERVENTION.
You rely upon foreign Intervention ?
Alas, and alas how many lives, hopes
and fortunes have been buried under this
fata. delusion. Ii has held us on to a
hopeless struggle, while the belt of desc.
lation has girdled us closer, and rhe sea
of anguish and sorrow risen higher, flush
ed with the tears Of ruined and bereaved
ones. Louis Napoleon has at heart the
building of the transit route connecting
the two oceans. If he can keep up this
struggle until that is accomplished, the
star of England's ascendency on the
ocean goes out before him, and the whole
commercial world becomes subsidiary to
him. To keep US at this struggle, he
will delude us continually with false
hopes, recking nothing how much we
bleed and suffer. l even suspect the
pretended loans to us in France rest up
on policy of this sort and til 1t lie is at
the bottom Of it.
But if Louis Napoleon does propose to
interfere and take us under his "protec-
ton" what then? Another Maximilan
for us-for Americans "Forbid it my
countrymen /! Forbid it Heaven !" Our
fathers threw off colonial dependence up
on European crowned head. 1t would
be ignominious in us to 60 back half a
century and more TO accept what they
freed us from. Much less TO risk des-
pot over us. SO eager are some of our
leaders for this interference, that ] am
told ii is proposed to give Napoleon Tex
as as bonus for his good graces and
kindly aid And the /" Lone Star" may
be handed over by Davis al any moment
so far as he can do it. The thought
ought to make the blood of every Amer
lean citizen mount 10 his cheek. When
ever this is attempted, I shall be one 10
meet the legions of France under the old
flag, to battle for the safety of republi
can institutions But, suppose he offers
recognition alone. 1t is barren offer
ing. Suppose he offers it coupled with
assistance ? 1t comes too late 7imeo
Danos munera ferentes, No more dan
gerous and destructive alliance, in our
prostate condition, could be formed, how
ever eagerly we might, at first, have
grasped it. For, even if we should sue
ceed with his aid, and the struggle would
be as doubtful as terrible, land he would
abandon US at any moment, the French
Emperor of Mexico, right at our doors,
would swallow up Cuba, and all the con-
tigaous islands, and absorb that part Of
Mexico that we, as nation, would hope
TO get. And the day we settle deliber-
ately, a monarchy on this side of the
ocean, we prepare crowns for kings, and
letters for the people. on every foot of
ground upon the American continent.
But as | said, there will be no interfer
ence.
DIssEEsIoNs IN THE NORTH.
Have no hopes ola divided North. II
is on the surface. Scarcely goes to the
bottom of their politics, much less sha
king the great masses OF their determin
ed people. Remember, too, that much
Of the South is with them There is nc
division as far as fighting US is concern.
ed. The mildest of them simply propose
peace by reconstruction. That rejected
they are TO press us with redoubled en-.
ergy. Let us not, after all our misfor
tunes and blunders, construe the strug
gle between politicians for place into
sympathy for ourselves. But how could
they propose peace ? Who would bring
the message To whom would il be de
livered ? And should the proposition
be made and rejected we are that much
worse off for it, We must propose peace
for we ought to know when we have go
enough OF the thing.
GUERILLA WARFARE.
Do not rely upon splitting up our army
and adopting this mode OF warfare.
will contribute nothing TO the genera
result and only entail more suffering l
practiced behind the Federal lines it sub
dues our own people. 1t converts many
Of our soldiers into robbers and plunder
ers, and brings down, oftentimes, terri
BILE retribution upon the heads of ou'
citizens. What does the shooting of 4
few friends and foes on a railroad train
amount TO And your own friends. a,
prisoners, going or returning, are oil
nearly all them. La order to shoot q
citizen or soldier opposed TO you. yo,
risk taking the life of a relative. a friend
or perhaps brother soldier, who having
| fingered long in prison, is returning Will
his sad heart full of home and lowed
ones.
And thea TO fire upon steamboats, l
is dangerous to your friends /; unmanly
and unsoidierly in the extreme. Befor,
city is fired upon. it is the duty Of lht
commanding officer 10 give his adverse
ry reasonable notice TO remove the wo
men, children aud non combatants
Steamboats, always have more or less o
this class of people on board. A single
shot may destroy a steamboat with all it
passengers. How much stronger thel
the reason not to fire upon it until lik
notice is served
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