The Tipton advertiser. [volume] (Tipton, Cedar Co., Iowa) 1856-1962, 1865-07-27

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organising plumber ~ the basis for sup.
porting system Of national brigandsge.
Yaur seton, and that Of these With who's
you are in lssgus, hss its best comment
10 the sympathy extended to your cause
By tho despots and sristocrsciss Of Eu-
rope. You have succeeded in throwing
back civilization for many years; and
have made Of tho country that was ths
fress., happiest, proudess, richest and
most progressive but two short years
ago, . vast temple Of mourning, doubt,
anxiety and privation--our manufactures
Of all but war material nearly paraly sed,
tho inventive spirit which was forever
developing new resources destroyed, and
our flag that carried respect everywhere,
now Knocked by enemies who think its
glory furnished and that its power 10 soon
to become . mere tradition of the past.
For oil these results, Mr.. Davis, and
for tho three hundred thousand lives
already sacrificed on both sides in the
war-ssms pouring out their blood on
tho battle. field, and others, fever. strick-
en-, wasting away to death in over.
crowded hospitals-you and your fellow
miscreants who have been your associates
in this conspiracy, are responsible. OF
you and them it may with truth bs said,
that If all the innocent blood which you
have spilled could be collected in one
pool, the whole government Of you. Con.
fedeYacv mioht svim in III
e..Ss In vAscn sns prevailing etiquette
Of our army is in the habit of considering
your conspiracy. 1t has come to pass
through what instrumen talities you are
best able to decide-that the greatest
aud worst crime ever attempted against
the human family, has been treated in
certain quarters As though it were mere
error Of judgment on the part Of some
gifted friends thing to BE- regretted, Of
course, as causing more or less disturb.
ance to the relations Of amity and esteem
heretofore existing between those charg.
ed with the repression Of such eccentric.
tiles and tho eccentric actors in fact, a.
= slight political miscalculation or pecca.
dillo, rather than o an outrage involving
the desolation of . continent, aud de-
handing the promptest and severest
retribution within the power Of the hu.
man law.
For myself, I have never been able to
take this view of the matter. During
Of active service, I have seen
tho seeds Of this conspiracy planted in
the rank soil of slavery, and the upas.
growth watered by just such trickings Of
courtesy alike false to justice, sxpedi.
.ucy and our eternal future. Had w at
IN earlier day commenced to call things
BY their right names, and to look At the
hidsous features Of slavsay with our or.
binary common sense, instead Of through |
he rose colored glasses of supposed 20.
itical expedienoy, there would Be three
,undred thousand moro men alive TO-DAY
IN American soil and our country would |
never for q moment have forfeited her
proud position a. the highest exemplar
Of the blessings-moral, intellectual and
be derived from free form
# government.
Whether your intention of hanging
40 and those Of my staff and other off.
ers who were engaged in organizing the
'irst South Carolina volunteers, in case
10 are taken prisoners in battle, will be
kelly to benefit your cause or not, il q
natter mainly for your own considera.
ion. For us, our profession makes the
acrifcs of life a contingency ever present
nd always to be accepted and although
UGH form of death as your order pro
'oses is not that to the contemplation of
which soldiers have trained themselves
feel we'll assured, both for myself and
hose included in my sentence, that We
could die 10 no manner more damaging
10 your abominable rebellion and tho
'bomlnable institution which is its origin.
The South has already tried one hang
ns experiment, but not with success
no would think-to encourage it's repe.
'tlon. John Brown, who was we'll
nown to me 10 Kansas, and he will be
newn In appreciative history through
enturies which will only recall your
anne to load it with curses-once entered
|irginia with seventeen men and IN
dsa. The terror caused by the presence
+ his idea, aud tho dauntless courage
which prompted the assertion of bis faith
salnst all odds, need not now recall.
Tho history is too familiar and too pain.
ul. 'Old Ossawatomls' was caught and
hung; his seventeen men were killed,
captured, or dispersed, and several Of
them shared his fate. Portions of his
> kin were tanned, I am told, and oi,cu.
lated as relics dear to the barbarity Of
the slaveholding heart. But more than
a million Of armed white men, Mr.. Davis,
are to day marching South, 10 practical
acknowledgment that they re- gard the
hanging Of three years ago as the murder
OF martyr; and as they march to battle
which has the emancipation of slaves as
one Of its most glorious results, his name
is on their lips; to the music of his
memory their marching feet keep time !;
and as they sling kuapsscks, each one
becomes aware that he is an armed
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