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

surge, sweeps toward the middle classesl
A few more campaigns. and they will
form part of the general wreck Each
grave and each tear, eacn wasted fortune
and broken heart, puts us that much far
ther off from the object of the struggle,
and that much further eff from peace and
happiness ]
Viewing it thus, the terrible question
was presented to me, as to whether l
should continue my lot in an enterprise
so fruitess and SO full of woe, and help
hold the masses Of the people to this ter
rible despotism Of Davis, where ruin only
awaits them, or whether should be q
quiet observer of it all. or lastly, whether
j should assist in saving the remnant Of
you from the wreck.
have chosen the latter. / shall send
this address to every hill and corner Of
the State, to the citizen and soldier, at
home or in prison, and shall send with
it my prayers to Almighty God TO arrest
them in their pathway of blood and ruin.
Why trust jeff. Davis longer? Had he
twice our resources he would still fail.
With success he would be despot But
the whole thing is tumbling to pieces.
Soldiers are leaving disguised and dis.
heartened and whole States have gone
back to their home in the National gal.
axy Maryland and Delaware will new
er again be shaken. Kentucky has en-
trenched herself in the Union, behind a
wall of bayonets in the hands of her own
sturdy sons. Missouri is as firmly set
in the National galaxy as Massachusetts,.
Tennessee, tempest. tossed and bolt-riven,
under the guidance of her great pilot,
steers for her old mooring, and will be
safely anchored before the leaves fall
while the rays Of light from the old
North State, flashing out fitfully from
her darkness across the troubled waves,
shows that she stirs, is not lost, but is
struggling to rejoin her sisters. None
of these States will ever join the South
again. Then, with her crippled armies
with devastated fields-with desolate
cities-with disheartened soldiers, and
worse than all, with weak and corrupt
leaders, what hope is left to the few re-
naming States, but especially to the
poor oppressed and down.trodden Arkan
sas ? None Better get our brothers
home while they are lett to us. Open
the way for the return of husbands,
fathers and sons. and bind up the broken
links of the old Union. The people must
act to do this. ! tell you now, in grief
and pain, that the leaders dom, care for
your blood. Your sufferings move them
not. The tears and walls Of your an.
guished and bereavsd ones, fall on hearts
Of flint While they can make dollar
or wear an epaulette, they are content.
Finally, with grief and sor-
rowful heart, implore mothers, sisters.
wives and daughters to assist, by all
arts, in saving their loved ones from this
terrible scourge. ere ruin overtakes you
and they irretrievably While God
gives me strength, daunted by no peril,
and swerved by no consideration of self,
| shall give you my feeble aid
To break the force OF these utterances,
honestly. patriotically, and sorrowfully
made, the Johnsons and certain reptiles
who crawl around Little Rock under
Federal protection, together with all 9TH
er like men, who from their own innate
corruption, are not able 10 appreciate
pure motives in others, will tell you that
desire to go to Congress has influenced
my conduct. De you suppose that |
would lose the last dollar | have, and
subject myself 10 their SANDER and abuse
for the chance of running for an Office
when peace is made Does not my re-
fusing, upon principle, to take my seat
in Congress in 1860, after triumphant
election. in which l carried twenty-five
out of twenty-eight counties, show them
what little value set upon such bau-
blef But l will stop their mouths by
the solemn assurance, that there are not
people enough on tho continent 10 induce
me TO 90 TO Congress. am sick. tired
and Disguised with public life Peace
peace and the safety of what is loft Of
our noble and suffering people. is my
holy ambition We must bear in mind,
too, as we 60 along. that in concedins
the chance of Congress" they ac-
knowledge the fsaue OF the Confederate
cause.
The shortes: way. in my opinion. 10
resume our relations with the Federal
Government, is to instruct Hon. w. h.
Sebastian to take his seat in the United
States Senate. 1t is by all means dssira
BILE that such instructions be so clear
that the United States Government may
be at no loss to see that our people are
loyal, and that Mr.. Sebastian may have
but one course OF conduct left. | feel
sure that he will respond fayorably to
your wishes.
4 Whenever it can be done. meetings
should be held promptly, instructing
him 10 resume his seat in the Senate.
!, Where 1t cannot be done, or where citi-
zens cannot attend meetings. let them
get up petitions TO that effect. The pro-
, ceedings of such meetings. and the pc
!, titions, If sent 10 me at this place will
receive prompt attention. We should
I do all this before the meeting Of Con-
gress ir December. We will have trade
, open and get all the other benefits Of u
government that much sooner.