The Buchanan County guardian. (Independence, Buchanan County, Iowa) 1858-1864, 1863-01-13

| husbands, children and mlstresses men,
women and children left at last to suffer
and starye and die on the roadside;.
This is slight synopsis of the memories
of the abolition armies Of your baboon
President.
Can you longer stand still while those
things are being enacted before you A
programme of peace aud settlement is
what the people expect OF you. All
eyes are resting upon you for action.
You should at once proclaim to the
world that not dollar of the bonds
Federal, S ate or cipal-issued by
the Federal usurpers for the prosecution
of this unholy war, shall ever be paid
Few strangers have taken shares in the
despotic loans, and this just blow will
fall almost exclusively upon the usurp-
ers. There is need that history should
be marked by the utter annihialion OF
the debt created by the conspirators
against the rights and liberties Of Amer
lean citizens and States. The licentious
dollar should now receive such retri-
butve lesson, that bar should be rais-
ed for all time against its being had on
this continent for the usurpation OF the
rights and liberties Of sovereign citizens
and States.
Not only do you owe it to yourselves
10 repudiate epery dollar of this uncon.
stitutiona debt, but you owe it equally
to your posterity to pay the Aalf, if nOs
all, the dedthe people Of tie South hare
had 10 iRcur TO maintain the rights Of
citizens and Of States, in the establish
ment of free trade.
Do these things generously, heroical-
ly, and New York City, as if by magic.
will reassume the enviable position sIo
/ held before the black 9Th Of November,
1860. Her magnificent streets will con
tinue their march upon Manhattan Is
land and her Central Park will pro
gress in multiplied mass Of beauty, in
statuary, and fountains, and foliage.
True, your political relations with tic
South will probably never be restored,
and II is now useless to discuss. But YOU
will nevertheless get much by the revo.
luton. You will be rid Of HE infdel
/ Puritan rule, which has been nearly As
oppressive and intolerable in New York
as in the South You will have FREQ
navigation and free trade with The South
and Greer trade than eyer) with the
world
Let hear, aud brain into the revolu.
ton accelerate and direct the move.
ment get rid of the B boon, Tor what is
it Abraham Lincoln, pacic,lIy if you
can, but by the blood of his followers it
necessary. Withdraw your support. ma
terial and moral, from the invading ar.
mics, and the South will make quick
work with the Abolilionists that remain
on her soil. Suffer no degenerate son Of
the South, upon however plausible pre-
text, to embarrass your action, by throw.
ing into your way often .planks Of re.
construction Unity is no longer possible.
The very word Uuion. once SO dear, has
been made cover for SO many atrocious
acts, that The mere mention OF il is odi-
Gus in tie ears of Southern people. The
State Legislatures will be called upon to
obliterate the hated name from counties
and towns.
Commercial relations are attainable.
and every hour Of alienation from the
South is your loss. The recent elections
show that New York City is the centre
of circle of 100 miles radius, with q
compact, organized majority Of 1000
against your abolitionized government.
, 1t Las but to will. 10 do. Halfway meas
ures, always unsuitable in revolutionary
necessities, will not avail you. lmmedi.
ate, wholesale reputation is your only
safety valve.
Against the abolition invasion. the
! whole nation OF the Southern Coniedera-
cy is now resolved into an army. the
most numerous, intelligent and spirited
the world ever saw in good health and
/ high discipline, ready TO fall upon the
! enemy with that momentum which be-
: longs only to the patient soldier, fired
with Indignation against the invader.
4 While Abolition generals have been
Il successfully Withdrawn in disgrace from
r the field, our generals and subordinate
officers. brave and efficient from the first.
y have steadily increased in character and
: number Never has an army been Off
cered by such a body Of accomplished.
,f high. toned and gallant men as the Con-
!. federate army boasts day. And while
> her generals give the graudest proofs
of their skill and scieuce i'm the manage