Charles City intelligencer. [volume] (Charles City, Floyd County, Iowa) 1864-1866, 1865-08-24
Communications.
Correspondence Of the Charles City Intellgencer
Letter from Illinois.

EDITOR lNrELLIGENcER Rain, rain,
rain I! Oh ! do you have so much rain
up there in Iowa? Last night again
it rained during nearly the whole
night and the roads and lands look
"like" they had been flooded. But
thank kind Providence, our farmers
have got their crops nearly all secur.
ed though wheat, oats, and hay are
injured to some extent. The corn and
potato crop are very promising they
were never better.
This is truly the seventh year since
that last excessively wet season; and
it does really seem as though there
was kind of systematic periodicity
in regard to these rainy seasons.
have no distinct trace Of it farther
back than the year 1874. But count.
ing that as the beginning of the Sc.
ries it has progressed with great regu
larity since then. 1t has been predict.
ed by some Of our old river pilots and
steamboat captains on the Illinois riv.
er, that. within the present season the
waters would be as high as in ~ or
81. They are great observers of the
weather. But as yet their prediction
has not been verified, for the Illinois
has uot been out Of its banks.
The clouds and rain cleared away
again, in the night, and the morning
appeared clear, and beautifully serene.
This denotes another rain within two
days. Well, We must take it as it
comes, without complaint. bowing in
submission to the order of Providence.
am much gratified with the form
in which correspondent from Ala.
bama presents the chit of the Southern
cause. He says that he has made the
discovery that the question is not
"what shall be done with the blacks.
but, what shall be done with the
whites?" That is truly just the thing
think he has struck upon the right
chord. Ithas been perplexing ques.
tion with me all through the war,
what should be done with the blacks!o
But since the war has closed and the
rebels are left to act out their nature,
exhibiting just what they are, the prob
lem is solved. 1t has solved itself, or
rather the rebels themselves have solv.
ed it for me. The mans experience
with the snake which he found frozen,
and to which he extended such sympa.
thy and kindness, may very fitly ap-
ply to their case. They have been
pardoned and left to themselves to
show proper appreciation of the ten
der mercies IF the Government spon.
taneously proffered them, by a correct
department to all and due submis.
sion to the supreme authorities. But
what is their history? When we see
them still clamorous for power and
thirsting for blood, and delighting in
the most barbarous cruelties inflicted
upon the helpless and unoffending, and
hear such pompous boasts of the nigh
ty deeds they will perform against tho
authorities and the established order
of things, l am brought intensely to
feel the force of the question. "What
shall be done with the whites 2" Treat
them as the man did the revived snake.
Let them perish. The question wheth.
er the blacks can take care Of them
selves, seems in fair and speedy way
Of being settled in favor of the propo-
sition that they can as we'll as the whites,
if they only have the opportunity.
And as they are about to be proved to
be competent, and are thus disposed
it only remains for the refractory
whites to be disposed of SO as to leave
the country to remain in peace and in
the pursuits Of happiness.
1t seems that President Johnson has
been trying experiments. He has
been making Governors out of the
same material which, bot few weeks
ago was arrayed in spiteful antago
nism against "the powers that be-
1t has seemed to me very bad policy
very bad. I fear that experiment will
not succeed.
| The fact is Andy Johnson knew per
fectly we'll the nature of the critter,'
just as we'll before as now. He was
born and raised among them, and al
though he might have been no philoso
pher, yet his observation must have
taurht him that such a nc6icv woulT