Charles City intelligencer. [volume] (Charles City, Floyd County, Iowa) 1864-1866, 1865-08-03
Communications.
Correspondence Of the Charles City Intelligencer
Letter From New York.
New YORK, July 10Th, 1856.


at present passing through a criminal era OF
perhaps, more correctly speaking, kind o
criminal contagion, of certain character, II
passing over us, injecting different localities
with moral disease which threatens to resnli
in the most disastrous consequences, il no,
checked in its rapid and apparently ungov'
ernable strides. I cite your readers, in evil
dence Of this moral disease, to the recent ca.
ses known as the West RoxbGry rape and mur'
der; East Albany rape; the Boston rape
the Cypress Hill rape the Green Point rape
and many others, the details of all which are
absolutely sickening and appalling.
Communities should at once be startled and
awakened to the fact that something must be
quickly. Somewhere there is remedy.
Where is it! Not, as some contend, by the
suppression of the revolving facts by the press
this would be clearly wrong. SURPRISING an
evil never yet annihilated it on the contrary,
1t fosters and encourages it, The press does
but its duty in the publication Of the cases,
If it does it in proper manner, for exposure
is terrible thing to guilty party and often
prevents an evil that would otherwise in Sc
cret be INDUCED in. The system of exposure
is good thing, but not an effcctual remedy.
We can only hope to find the cure by the
sure, certain, determined and immediate pun
ishment of the criminals. They should be
handled in the same unequivocal and summa-
ry manner that the garroters were few years
ago. Let the hand Of swift justice fall upon
them like thunderbolt and destroy them,
even as the eleven tribes of Israel united to
destroy the twelfth, for the abduction and raw
ishment of their daughters in ancient days.
Your County Treasury has been robbed of
a large sum of money, and your Supervisors
have offered liberal reward for the arrest of
the robbers and recovery of the money stolen
Will simply this secure the object! 1t may,
but would il not be more certainly attained by
each of your property holders giving, say $40
a. piece towards general reward fund, there
by raising a sum that would place on the
scent of the robbers skillful detectives! and
could they make more prudent insurance in
vestment Of ten dollars Then, to this add
the personal vigilance of every man in your
county to ferret out the hiding places of the
thieves, and teach them that one Of the OBJ
jects Of civil law in Iowa is the protection of
property, and another is to demonstrate to the
blowers of LOCKS that, although the mills of
the gods grind slowly they always grind sure
ly. Book your correspondent for five dollars
to that fund.
see by the Inteihgencer Of July 9Th that at
your celebration, there was no one willing to
speak for Jefferson Davis. Times and men
must have radically changed since the writer
was resident of Floyd county, for then there
was no difficulty in discovering creatures cal
speciality, regular, incessant business to talk
persistently for the benefit of the aforesaid JEFF.
ferson. They counseled wisely among them.
selves, and said that Justice, humanity and
the true sense of the American people requir
ed the election of one George b. in order te
stop the unconstitutional persecution of tht
amiable Davis, who was only defending him
self against abolition fanaticism by torturinf
to death the authors @ of the war"
No one to speak for Jefferson Davis Wher,
was the tall, graceful, classical, Shakspearial
Stow he was present.-ED. who diggeth po
tatoes and gathereth sheaves of grain in tn
rural village of Floyd Could not he hav
said something about incarcerating free borl
American citizen within the dismal cells @
the grim bastile of Fortress Monroe, and pla
cling between him and the civil courts of ou
once free land long line of glistening bayo
nets
Where was the lithesome Robert N, who's
linen is weekly cleaned in the goodly city G
Rockford Why did not he renew his count
lessly reiterated assertion that "the Union
gone to hell and prove it by showing tina
Davis is arbitrarily confined by virtue of
! different process than was ever issued by an
justice Of the peace Of which the world LA
record,
Where was he whose grocery store blinds th
temperance eyes of Charles Citys l thin
his name is John. Could not he have show
that according to the spirits }" which the VI
terrified democracy of Floyd county have III
bitually sucked from his paternal fount. Ii
, blessing of q free government means libert
to charge abolitionists as being the possesso
, of the cussedness that produced the rebellion
and therefore, as jefferson Davis was new,
guilty Of saying worse than this, he is entitle
to the blessings Of free government!
That none of the trio said one word of tn
amazes me, and conclude they are about
change base and will soon assemble in CONVEX
tion upon the waterless but rich and SAND
bottom stream ycleped Flood Creek, son
} evening, just as the setting sun is placing
jewels in the crown of nature, and the tea
of angels are hid upon the petals of the ros
and say by the mouth of R, who talket
much, Feller Dimmerkrats, the niger is
, man, likewise brother, and frequently
ther has appetites, likes and dislikes, al
> can drink as much whiskey as us white mer
|, he reads the Bible, prays as often, sings
D to bed, sleeps and gets up, just the same
human beings; he has got grandfather
grandmothers, nephews, nieces, wife and chi
q dren his color Is not 30 white but what
might be blacker; and not SO black but
might be whittier his instincts and outstinc
have preserved his loyalty to the flag Of d
country therefore. because he is all of d
foregoing, am in favor of allowing him
vote and If we as dmmerkrats ever expe
Q to carry an election in this State, we mt
!. cease to be the oppressors of any class, par
, or thing on account Of their color
: Mr.. Editor, prophecy that the delegat
y 10 the State Democratic Convention Of low
from Floyd county, will not be copperheads
.. Yours, W.