Council Bluffs bugle. [volume] (Council Bluffs, Iowa) 1860-1868, 1865-03-02

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Txzd6msaa whlE, Fss. III
Thass are no aafounded fears. When
tho var began, tbs Ssathegn press gava
fhe Southern people falr warning that il
waa 10 ba aar of unaxamplsd fssoaiEy.
Bas the peopls could nas be inade 70 be-
lisse that their late associates, who spoke
The same tongue, worshippea shs sana
Tod, and TsSaFed he salas heroes. and
sae anne ssadisioess eoala ha devils In
carusae, more pisiless than tbs Aaads Of
the pit. Which they hare prosed. Let The
horrors of the var teach a. what the kor-
roF of sahIugasion viii DO.
The Philadelphia LnqaiFsE. In late
lssne, cansaias Ia one oolamn ths sxsg-
gsfated accounts of certain newspaper
eeFFespoaaenls who bad been isnprisonea
III Salisbury. Their salEsriugs we're mag
ai9ed wisa the ART which 10 peculiarly the
Yankees ewn--tha arc Of lying, But
another column Of the same paper con-
tanned the DISPOSITIONS Of q number OF
poor women Who bad been employed to
make oloshing for sha Isakae Govern
ment. Their average weeks par, altar
six days Of continuous labor, from early
dawn unssl nearly midnight, was foar
doilars. Four dollars FOE one hundred
hnars hard labor. One woman declared
that she could make but tws dollars and
. half week. Other womea ayowed
that II waa with great dilfealsy they cold
gat paid ss eli, however small theiF week.
ly pit1anea mlghE be- Rsmsmbeg, ahsss
women ware working for tbs Yankee Cor
ernment, making clothes for sha solaisxs
al the philadelphia arsenal. II Yankees
ass thus to THAR own wemen, What will
ba their sander msrsy toward the women
Of the South when they hare them In their
powera God forbid that day shall ever
come!
Thss man who talks of peace now,
means to send his mother to the kitchen,
his wife 10 the slops Of the bed ahalnber,
bis daaghteEs to the wash-tab, and bis
sisters 10 the scrubhing bruah. He means
this, and nothing bat this. lie can mean
nothing else. IL is true that no man nov
dreame Of peace who 10 not Yankee by
birth, or Yankee at heart. The Yast
majority are born Yankees. They have
aznassea fortunes out OF the blood Of our
soldiers, and saars OF cur aide W. and OF.
phans. They havs taken COED care to
keep ont Of tie army, snd have coined
money by hundreds Of thousands in their
suction stores, their dry goods stores and
Other shops. Thar hope Ia 30 sarn their
money into gold or greenbaeks, and thus
save their own wives and children from
degradation. Net one thought do they
bestow upoH the mothers. sisters, wives,
and daughters Of the soldiers In Lees
army, who, IL peace be purchased al the
price of snbmisaion, will retRFu home no
more, and their mothers and sisters will
be slaying for Yankee masters and mis-
sresses. v bat does the Yankee dry goods
man cara for thai? What are other PEG.
ple's mothers and sisters to him2 SO be
but saves bis ill-gotten gains, he reeks
not II every Southern woman from the
Potomac 10 the Bio GFande be stepped In
poverty and rags, and become the bond
woman Of the basesk of their femala
slaves, who have been made the para
mours, perhaps the lawfully weddedswives
OF hireliag Yankee soldiers.
/ We hare . plain word 10 say to these
miscFeAnts, who are known by name and
fame wheFeyeg they nay hide in the land.
We tell them their day OF opulent ease is
over. Providence has decreed that this
wag Ehsli continue until the gains
amassed BY the YaDkee sharper and Inc
hone.span Spectator shall be disgovged,
and that which was wrung from tie peo-
pie IN agony, shall be made to defray the
price OF their freedom and their joy. It
10 well thst this be understood hrst a.
Lass. The traitor at heart, the ineuEahle
Yankee whose mouth has been haahsd
whils ali went well. may 90 home this
night, With the distinct consciousness Of
tha fact, that there is not true-born
Southern man, whether In the army or ont
Of it, who has the remotest idea Of per-
tniEting bis mother and his wife, and bis
daughters and his sisters - DO reduced 10
slavery for the sake of saving the treas
ures accumulated By those who have keps
out of the army.
The basest, the most sordid OF motives
cannot rule ths Eoost in this land. Still
less can they be allowed to impair the ef-
feiency Of our brave soldiers in the 6eld
or in the trenches, These soldiers must
be fed, clothed, paid, reinforced and
until this is done il will be vice in all
Yankees to keep their mouths shut. Hs
who whispers peace, IL it be with bated
breath in bis back counting room, Is in
danger. We will NOS SAY what that dan
ger is ar hoW gear at hand, but IL Is q
great danger, il 10 40 farther Of than the
trenches which eoEtain the men whose
mothers are threatened with degrade
ton not TO DO atoned for By the snapped
nacks Of all the Yankees ID this Gonfed-
eracy.
war Correspondence from GsR. Lees
Array.
[From The tSeIaz5oro' n C STATE JonrazI
CAHP EwELL, February 7, 1865,
IL O'Clock, 2. y.