Muscatine weekly journal. [volume] (Muscatine, Iowa) 185?-1890, 1864-05-06
S,aptain 4. B. MIlIer..

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at the battle of Pleasant Hill, will cause q
feeling Of sadness throughout the State. In
the performance of his official duties as Reg
lister Of the State Land Office of Iowa, he was
brought in contact with men from all parts Of
the State. No man ever met Captain Miller
without being impressed that he was an hon.
est man and true gentleman. He had no
Notwithstanding in his heart or acts could
make them. A few months since, sad rumors
came of his death from disease. At that
time ne took occasion to lament his death in
these columns. Afterwards we grasped his
warm hand Of friendship, by way of con.
graduation at his safety, and to bid good bye
and God speed. His life was Of more value
than the whole rebel confederacy, and IT'S
going out causes his friends to hate rebellion
more intensely. And SO Christian gentle
man. true patriot, a courageous soldier and
kind husband, has gone to the spirit world,
another sacrifice to stakeholder rebellion.
MIR. G. innell vindicates New Eng
i@'N lund. = %. .
In the course Of q speech upon he motion
to expel Long, Of Ohio, on the 18th inst,
Mr.. Grinnel, of this State, repeued one of
the ISLANDERS Of an Indiana Copperhead upon
New England, as follows:
Mr.. GaINNELL. l will say to my friend
from Indiana, Mr.. Holman who is so fertile
in objections and so prone to explanations,
that his colleague did say-and am borne
out in it by dozen members = first, that the
soldiers Of New England had no stomach for
the fight, and then he backed out of it in
what SHOULD call elsewhere very slippery
way, by saying that the Representatives Of
the people of New England had no stomach
for the fight But, sir, as it is said that tow
ers are measured by their shadows, and great
men by their calumniators, think the people
of New England will not feel much grieved
over his calumnious assertions, vet for the
soldiers repel them. .,..' -,'f,.t..
Sir, am proud to own was born in thst
New England, although now resident of the
prairies, snd will never allow man to
speak in defamation of the land where was
born, that hold the dust Of my fathers or Of
he mother that bore me, unrebuked. And
will here state what is the belief of the SOL
diers of the West that the soldiers of New
England have fought as well during this war
as the soldiers from any other portion of the
country. The soldiers Of tbs East and of the
West have slept in the same tents they
have fought side by side, moistening many q
battlefield with their blood and whenever
they have been led by generals worthy to
lead them and determined for victory, you
have found the soldiers of New England,
whether at Bull Run. in the swamps of the
Chickahominy, with spade or gun, fighting
above the clouds on the mountains of Ten
nessee, true to the flag, true TO their ancestral
fame, and true to their God:
"Rizht in the van
On the red rampart's slippery swell,
With hearts that beat charge, they fell
Forward, as Cts q man. .0... -
could not listen to insults to their charac-
ter and reproaches to the brave dead and be |
silent. a.; rr ..-. 70 ,5.- |
We heard threats and semi traitorous prop
ositions year or two ago, during the western
about Union, but leaving New |
England out in the cold-New England, the |
home Of the agitators, the abolitionists and
Puritans. They simply proposed to cut off
the head of the body polite and leave out
New England wealth, brains and history,
with Concord and Lexington and Bunker
Hill, and all the memories Of this war-New !
England, which sends her soldiers first to |
fight our battles, to save thus capital, and to
fall by the hands of traitors in the streets of
Baltimore, on the 18th Of April. 1861. They |
are the brothers of my constituents, noble
soldiers who sleep uncoffined on the great bat
tie fields of the West, and are alike enthroned
in the great heart of the nation.
love New England and her soldiers, ard
am proud of her early and later history.
believe the gentleman from Massachusetts,,
Mr.. Boutwell,, is to get the floor tonight,
and will leave the further defense to him.