The Council Bluffs nonpareil. [volume] (Council Bluffs [Iowa]) 1857-1867, 1864-01-30

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indae, and may take your house. your
fields, your eyeryth hing. end turn you Al
out helpless 10 stafve, u may be wrong
hsrs that don't otter the case. In waf you
can not help yourselves, and the only pos
aible remedy Is 10 stop war. KNOW this
IL no easy task, bat 1t Is well for you 10
look che fact squarsly IN The Aace and let
your thought and sets tend z ting great
Those trsan who led the people ifltowar
promised nil manner of coed thing 20
yoti. and where are their proniiSss Il
Child may FIRE city but il takes bot
of strong men to extinguish il, 80 . deni-
aaogue may fire the nlinds of q whole
t,eonie, bat 10 will take host like your
selves to snhdue the flames Of anger thus
Ebegeotter. The task is d mammoth one.
but still YOU will, in after life, be held
IrecreaTst if you do not lend your humble
ASSISTANCE. / know that hundreds and
lii ssssands of good Southern men 49,
init their error Id appealisS To war, asagl
-. engaged in a worthy effoEt 20 SsQp II
before all is lost. Look around gGr and
see che wreck. Let your whole minds
|cUrrtelnplAte the ishOle South iu5l ikeseazAe
OF and disorder, sasAd what pictnse
Those who die by the bullet are lacky
osSnpaked with those poor fatherS and
wives and children who zee their all tax
en-, and thsnselvss left 10 perish or lin,
ger out their fets years in poverty.
: Our duty IL ss0E 10 build up. Ills rather
TO destroy both the rebel aesay and what
ever OF wealth and propeEsysit has founds
ed its boosted strength upon wherefore
don't look to any army to help you. Study
your real duties to yourselves and fafai-
lies, and if you remain inert! or passively
friendly TO the power that threatens our
national existence, you must reap the fun
consequences; but If, like true men, you
come out boldly and assert that the Gov
eminent of the United States Is the only
power on earth which can insure to the
inhabitants of America that protection to
| life, property and fame which can make
| life tolerable, ycu will then have some
reason to ask of us protection and assist
ance, and not oshersoiss. d. ..
| Gen. Grant is absent. doubt if he will
have time to notice your petition, as he
deals with larger sphere, and ] have
only reduced these points to writing that
your people may have something to think
about and divert your minds from the
questions or cotton. negroes, and petty
depredations in which the enemies of all
order and all government have buried up
the realissue of the war.
am, &c, WV. T. SIBERIAN,
Major General Commanding.