Charles City Republican intelligencer. [volume] (Charles City, Iowa) 1861-1864, 1863-05-14
NJ IT, vi. !.ifEB.F
Gbt ynteIligel,ters
A GOOD GUESS.

There was recently shelled from the
Hon. Howell Cobb, that eminent Se-
cessionist, a kernel of remark, which
we have already printed, but upon
which it may be harmless and even
profitable to dilate. Quoth Cobb:
But two things stand in the way of
settlement-th Landing Of the Pill
grims an Original Sin" This is not
sententious, but it is sage. Cobb is
philosophical, Cobb is and Cobb is
laconic, is Cobb-a Platonist in wis
dom and Socratic in brevity [! Deep
also in Divine Things is Howell;
wonderful in his insight into human
nature and something marvellous in
his knowledge of the Holy Scriptures;
astute is he in Theological Problems,
and immense is he in Political Disqui-
sitions. Our own private opinion is,
that he would have united the Gordi.
an Knot, as if it had been simple
shoe-string I; and that in a rencontre Of
wisdom between himself and the
Sphinx, be would have been able to
guess the great conundrum in a jiffy.
We hasten to say that we quite agree
with Cobb, who is evidently no cobbler
at this business-the causes of this
rebellion may be found in the landing
Of Plymouth and Ewes most unreason-
ablo and unfortunate colloquy with
the original Copperhead in the gar
den. Bus il is necessary for us to
make Q Just discrimination of the
different parties Influenced by these
First, then, in behalf of the North,
We own up, with, contented cheerful
ness, to the Pilgrim Fathers. Cobb
holds them in high contemplate des-
pises the breaking waves that dashed
high he loaths the stern and rock
bound coast he contemns the woods
that against . stormy sky their giant
branches tost and as for the band
of Pilgrims that moored their bark on
tho wild Ncw-England shore, why
Cobb considers them as mere ruffians.
Not as the conqueror comes p
growls Cobb III should think not,
but as the sneak comes, as the scamp
comes, as the ragmufin comes. as the
empty. bellied adventurer comes-that
is the way they come, sniveling
hymns and nasal prayers. and ma
king asses of themselves generally!n
Freedom to worship God /! /" he con-
tinues CANNON freedom to rob
henroosts, you mean, and freedom to
run off my niggers, and freedom to
swindle my own beautiful and sunny
South--all that is what the crop-earcd
rogues were after !'' And go from
that ill-starred landing, Cobb. we sup
pose, deduces theelection Of President
Lincoln-a most Puritanical event,
which compelled the South to exhibit
its virtue by stealing money, ships,
and munitions Of war, and whatever
else il could lay its larcenous but ho-
ly hands upon, and to betake itself to
high treason and petty treason and
constructive treason. and to go gener-
ally into the business of perjury.
Never were men before so vilcly
forced by the excessive virtue Of their
enemies. to betake themselves to sin
and iniquity
For here is where the serpent
wriggles and rolls himself in. It re-
qnires no great historical .crudition
to know that the old and original SER
pent was also the old original Seces-
sionist and primitive rebel. He was
having an excellent time of it in Heav-
en-, and like Cobb before his fall, was
an angel universally respected /; and
he might have gone on to this hour,
enjoying many good things, as Cobu
might but, as the Devil would have
rebellion, he was kicked out of his
native country, as we hope Cobb will
be very soon indeed. but here the
parallel ceases. After the fight oil
Cobb, it is not likely that Cobb will
be capable of any mischief in any
country which the Police Courts OF
said country will not be competent to
grapple with whereas the original
serpent came down to Adams planta.
ton, and by the aid Of Adams wife,
with whom he was upon terms of i'm.
proper familiarity, raised another re-
bellion the longest in history, based
upon the original sin to which Howell
forcibly alludes-a rebellion which the
serpent has been able to keep up ever
since against Divine Truth and JUS
~tice, and Of which the latest demon
stration has been made by Cobb and
the Confederate States of America.
We offer this little commentary
with profound humility. Cobb knows
. great deal more about original sin
than we do; and he may be disposed
to claim that the present sin OF the
Seceders is brand-new original orig.
inal sin. aud has no connection with
the little business transacted in the
garden. But can Howell consent to
give up the prestige Of ancientness |?
With the Shem- Hama nd applet doc.
trine Of Slavery, the assumption also
OF the old original sin will render the
position Of the Confederacy very COM
plete Take our advice, Cobb and
go in for antiquity
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