Charles City intelligencer. [volume] (Charles City, Floyd County, Iowa) 1864-1866, 1864-10-27
adlsst6arb tbt Cours. Of empire takes its aalap."
Es CITY, FLOYD COUNTY, IOWA THURSDAY OCTOBER 2 1854

remove. Social equality therefore i
morally impossible, and If social equal
ty cannot exist, then there is u,
equality about it, and hence it is sim
ply iudicrous to assume that Mr.. Liu
coin purposes doing that which can
not be done. The doom of SLAYER,
dates from the Inauguration of the re
bellion. and the rebels are alone re
sponsible for its downfall. Mr.. Lin
coin laborcd for nearly two years Il
save it, bot signally failed. He i'm
plored the rebels to abandon their sui
cidal policy, but they hooted at bis ad
monitions and scorned his ovcrtures
and now because they have been a.
lowed to reap the harvest OF their fol-
~, they denounce him as dictator ,
and their Chicago allies join them in
it. Mr.. Lincoln can and will preserve
the Constitution as il is, but if the
whirlpool Of the rebellion shall cnguli
Slavery in its abyss. as il most assur.
edly will, neither he nor Mcclellan can
restore that feature Of the Uniom as il
was. A mightier arm than theirs con.
trolls the matter. and the rebels will
be permitted to cOnsunmate their
work Of self-dcstructioD, and when
that is done. Slavery will be number
ed among the things Of the past. As
10 arming the negrOrs, we have sim.
ply done that which the Sonth dare
not do. Had they dared do it, every
able bodied negro would long since
have been armed against us. The
difference is that while we can arm
them with safety, they cannot. They
have armed everything that they dare
trnst with arms--old men, young men
and boys. aliens. citizens aud savages,
and are now organizing and employ.
ing the slaves in every way possible
to facilitate the operations Of their ar
mics against us. .'E
The peace managers ask us when
will the war end We answer /:
Whenever they cease their efforts to
retard the progress and defeat the
success of our arms. Their example,
their speeches, their newspaper arti.
cles. their Misrepresentation and their
clandestine corporations with the en-.
cmy have protracted the war at least
a year, and now they come forward
with a platform embracing two pro-
jects for its tcrminatiOn--an armisticc
aud Convention Of States. The first
would be supreme folly. and the latter
is impossible. - The truth is that the
whole platform might be already set
forth in one line Recognition of the
Southern Coafederacy That is what il
means, and what it's trainers desire to
accomplish through il.
Some Of our friends seem busy in
devising plans Tor reconstruction.
Their labors arc premature. The time
has not arrived for the discussion OF
that question. We must drive tho en-.
emy to the wall and bring him to
terms. Then the process of recon.
struction and reorganization will be
simple and easy. We can then reach
the people Of the seeded States. un-
awed by armed bands and domineer-
ing leaders. There is no class Of men
more anxious for the restoration OF
peace than those Of us who are in tie
army. The event would be hailed by
acclamations af Joy all
along our lines. But as ardently as
We desire to see the end Of the sirng-
gle, and to return to cur homes and
iire-sides, we are unwilling to submit
to any thing short Of an honorable and
permanent peace.
THoS. II. BENTON, in.
Col. 2eth Iowa Infy.