The Tipton advertiser. [volume] (Tipton, Cedar Co., Iowa) 1856-1962, 1864-04-28
TIPTON, IOWA, APRIL %, 1864.

thing to the Clerks desk, to be read. L
is % extract from paper recently pub
liahed IN his own city"
The Clerk read as follows: ...
"Mr. Fernando Wood has the effront
cry to deny in tho House that Will,
Mayor Of New York he sent dispatcl
to Georgia regretting that arms intended
for that State had been stopped in New
York. He averred that his dispatch re
lated to merchandise only. Here are hi,
dispatches:
"MnLEpoEvrLIK, Jan. "a, 1861.
ITO His Honor, MAYOR wooD: . =. ''1SI'.
ISIS it true that any arms intended 70,
and consigned to the State of Georgis
have been seized by public authori.ics
in New York! Answer at once. a.
.-......-.4 e. . Il. TooMBs."
To this the Mayor returned the fol
lowing answer:
"Hos. r. TooMBs, Milledgcvilc, Ga:
"In reply to your dispatch, I regret
to say that arms intended for and con
signed to the State Of Georgia have been
! seized by the police of this State, but the
city of New York should in no way be
made responsible for tho outrage.
"As Mayor have no authority over
the police. If I had the power should
summarily punish the authors of this
illegal and unjustifable seizure of private
property. FERNANDO WooD."
Now what will Mr.. Wood say to-
Mr.. Schenck Cuterrupting the Clerk
THAT will do. l will ask the ques-
tion myself-ask it, too, under the light
Of the further fact that, six days before
that attempt to give comfort to rebels in
arms, Georgia had solemnly declared her
secession from tue Union, and set herself
by that solemn act in open rebellion. 1t
was an Outrage not to send arms-and
he is no War Democrat Sir, he is a
War Democrat-one whose War Demoo.
racy consists in an Endorsement of war
by his fellow, rioters, led forward under
tho influence of his teachings in New
York, who foully and cruelty murdered
among others, even one Of the officers of
your noble army while wearing tho ma.
tional uniform.
ooh no; probably he slunk away in
the midst of tha. riot. Probably he was
not seen in tho streets. Probably he
held no weapons in his hand, and applied
no torch to any building. But who does
not know that it was the infamous teach
ings Of him and his school that reused
that angry, that unreaecsing, that iguor-
ant populace into deeds of violence, of
ruin, Of rapino, of murder, in which it
indalged! And now he stands here
smoothly talking about peace, and about
1-'-1-~ Nar Ds;s
"But, sir, he would propose terms Of
peace, and that peace he would offer to
those who scorn him. He would proposc
terms Of peace to those who will extend
to him the hand of welcome at his com.
ing. But still he will press upon them
his good Offices, reluctant as they may
be. He sings the siren song of peace,
for the effect it may have at home. For
that he is willing to crawl pr;strote to
the feet of insurgents in arms, and say
to them, DO with us as you will; tear
from the flag of our glorious Union half
its cleaning stripes, blot out as many of
those stars as you can reach and eStin.
guish, only join Us again that you may
help Us to save tho Democratic party, 30
that We may hereafter, as heretofore, en-
JOY power and the offices together! For
there we will SO humble ourselves as none
of Gods creatures ever humbled them
selves before Laughter]
"Mr. Speaker, We are, as l have stat
ed, in the presence of tho enemy. Eve
ry man in this Union is to- day in every
sense citizen soldier. Our people are
either in the lines of the Union army in
front, facing and fighting the foe, or
they are in the rear striving by every
means possible to strengthen and advance
the common cause. repeat, every man
is citizen soldier, and we who are here
no less so than others. .aa
"Now, when a soldier marching with
the army toward the face of the enemy,
or holding mis- place in the line of battle
ready to meet the onset or to make tho
charge,-if that soldier-and | beg par.
don of our honest, brave fellows in the
field for even making such supposition,
If that soldier, instead of attending to
his stern and grave purpose, to the con-
slderation how he shall best aequit him
self in tho deadly struggle before him,
and to the duty which lies present there
for him to do, would turn to his CON-
rades about him, saying to one, "we can
not beat the enemy, to another, 'our
cause is wrong, and we never can con =
quer," and to another, ''let us demand
of our commanding officer to stop shed.
ding blood, and have truce between the
two armies" If soldier at such time
should talk thus in the ranks what would
you do with him? You would shoot
him And is citizen soldier who un
dertakes to breed destruction in the
country, who claims that we cannot put
down the rebellion, who insists that the
rebellion, in his view, is altogether right
and justi6able, who would compromise,
who would temporize, who would have
his government debased to the condition
Of begging from the insurgents, is he less
deserving execration and punishment