The Tipton advertiser. [volume] (Tipton, Cedar Co., Iowa) 1856-1962, 1865-09-28

that General, again attempted to cal
J about me enough of you to make a re-
spectable show, and how many of thes.
brave 5000 men reported at the call!
. One sore.eyed man, with green goggles
: But you rally like brave and gallant me
around Uncle Sans Commissary stores,
and l now come to surrender you, and
hope that you will make better citizens
than you have soldiers. Voice from
i the crowd, General, talk to US like gen
tlemen.') Now You just dry up until l
/ get through, and then you can get up on
\ this barrel and talk. | know there are
some gentlemen here, and know there
are some id sneaking, cowardly dogs
who "have never done nothing on nary
side" and I am going to talk to you all
In the first place l want to say this to
4ss.~s The Eaderss oslioers Who have
come here to parole aud feed you, have
acted as gentlemen in good faith. They
have not gone about peeping under your
coats to see if you had pistols; they have
not spied about your camps to see if you
were secreting your arms, but they have
treated you as gentlemen; and tell you
that you have not acted 10 good faith
Those Of you who had arms, with very
few exceptions, have left them at home,
aud those who had Government horses
have failed to report them here Now
let me say to you; one and all, those of
you who have retained your arms, as soon
as you get home, take them to the near.
est military post and deliver them up, or
burn them, or get rid of them in some
manner, for as sure as there is God in
heaven if they are found in your houses,
just so sure will your houses be burned
to the ground, and l hope to God every
one of you who keep good arms or prop
erty of any kind in your houses will be
hanged, aud you will be too.
Now | want you 10 go home and work
hard and take care of your familics, work
early and late and get up at night and
see if your crops are growing. Above
all things avoid political discussions. II
any man says nigger to you, swear that
you never knew or saw one in your life.
We have talked about the nigger. for
forty years and have been out talked; We
have fought four years for the nigger and
been ID badly whipped, and now it is
not "your put" the Yankees have won
the niger, and will do what they please
with him and you have no say in the mat
ter; if they want him they vii! take him
and if they say you must keep him, yo'
must do it aud NO mistake. tell yo'
you oughtn't to have any. Go home an,
stay there; don't 20 anywhere but to mill
don't 90 to church, for the ministers vii
put knots aud mischief in your heads apG
get you into trouble. BE good citizens
and then those Of you who have beer
good, honest and brave soldiers hsv.
nothing to fear; but warn those of you
who have been nothing but sneskiug
cowardly jayhawkers, cut throats snd
thieves, that ust retribution await,
you, and | hope to God that the Fedora
authorities will hang you wherever ant
whenever they find you, aud they will d,
it sure.
Now want to talk to you Mssourians
You are talking about going to your ole
homes to live again. What did every
one Of you say last fall, when you wen
: into Missouri and expected to renal,
thcre1 Why, that you would max
every Uuion mar "climb tree" au,
many threats of a similar character. No,
.. do you think that those Union men whor
YOU threatened with the halter fc,
|, days ago, if you got the power, are no,
!. going to permit you to come aud liv
among them, and have all the rights an,
: privileges they enjoy? Not much. Nov
!, the tables are turned; if you go bacl
:. there they will make you climb trees; ant
: | hope they will, for many Of you richl
'. deserve it. (About this juncture lou
: murmuriug was audible in the crowd AM
a bystander suggested to the Genera
that they might mob him. "Mob HI
+: don't care d-n!" replied the General
| want you all to 90 home aud b
peaceable, quiet citizens, and if maraud
D ers and outlaws come among you, do no
+ take the law into your own hands, but,
yen.A9 do it, arrest them and delive
them over, with such evidence as yo
can obtain, to the commandant Of tn
nearest military post; by this means yo'
will place the responsibility upon others
and avoid Deigbborhood quarres an
strife.
Do not complain if you are not permit
ted to have voice in elections and civi
affairs. You have forfeited all sucl
rights, and it now becomes you to submi
to such laws and regulations as the Fed
eral authorities may deem proper to en-
act believe, and know that they viii
do the best they can for you, especiaIl
if you show henceforth that you now dc
sire to merit their confidence by stric
obedience to the laws where you ma,
reside.
We are conquered, subjugated; W
have no rights, but must accept sucl
privileges and favors as the Governmen
may see proper to bcstow upon US:
J IMPURE WORDS Beware Of impur