Charles City intelligencer. [volume] (Charles City, Floyd County, Iowa) 1864-1866, 1865-09-21

uPoh oul SnloH anu Liberty.
A late editorial in one of the mos,
respectable journals of New York gave
furthcrance to the false charge Of
many that the Abolitionists have
talked much but fought little in tho
war just ended - is fair to say thai
no class in the nation has furnished
more men, money, and sound counsel
for the defence of the Nation in its
late dangers than this much abused
class. The names and blood of Wade,
Wilson, Beecher, and hosts of such
long friends of Liberty and Union, I"
have been found on every battle field
of the Republic since April 1861. This
clap-trap cry of the so-called conserv-
atives is but the echo of late rebels in
the South, for it will be noticed that
throughout the South these great Con.
servatiyes are now busy electing them
selves to Office, and abusing poor help
less colored people, simply because
they cannot fight the Nation openly in
the field. They consider this good
way Of proving their loyalty. Most
likely those who never were traitors
will dissent from these foolish and
wicked proceedings.
The abuse of the Doubleday and 9th.
er Military Courts will do no good, for
the results of the labors of all these
will be clear vindication of the wis.
dom of the Government in thus far
having used them where it has been
deemed essential. The Honorable Sec
retary of War can afford to take the
abuse of his enemies better than any
public man in the past or present his
tory of this nation, for history will re-
gard him as one of the principal means
of the salvation of the Republic. The
next Congress will be one of great in
tercst. The Reconstruction Policy,
Bankrupt Law, an improved internal
revenue law, wise tariff, a just and
liberal provision for the disabled ode
tenders of the old flag," with multi
tude of important questions arising
out of the war, will tax the patriotism
and wisdom, as never before was any
legislative body taxed. The names of
Wade, Wilson, Morgan, Howard, Trum-
bull, j. H. Lane, II. S. Lane, Yates in
the Senate and Green Clay Smith,
Colfax, Eggleston, Hay, Delano, Hub
bell, Conckling, Kelly, Newell, Schenck,
Garfield, Blaine, Orth, Washburne,
Farnsworth, Deming, Boutwell,, Kas-
son, Bingham, and their faithful col
leagues of the Union party in Congress,
is sufficient guarantee that there will
be no going backward in Congress,
whatever may be desired or attempted
elsewhere.
Col. Il. Clay Crawford, late of Ten
nessee, now of Pennsylvania, visited
this city few days since in the yacht
Plover, with party of ladies and gen.
tleman on pleasure. He visited his
old friend President Johnson, upon
whose staff he served over a year in
his native State, from which he was
sent to West Point by the President
when he was first elected to Congress.
The battle fields of Mexico, which he
trod while yet boy of fifteen as a
private, and the fields of Donelson.
Loudon, Shiloh, Knoxville and many
others of the late war, will make him
hosts of friends in his new home where
he will be an acquisition to the cause
of liberty and union in the county of
Berks not heretofore known as "ever
unfaithful" to the Democratic party
past and present. The Coloners ha-
tired Of slavery is as intense as any
aboltionists.
"Sherman's Grand March, is a book
which no library will be complete with
out The Harper Brothers in the pub
fishing, and Major Nichol of the Gen.
erals staff, its author, have done the
reading public service for which it
will ever be grateful for the style of
its getting up, and its terse, elegant
recital of the facts of that most event
ful of all campaigns. Its greatest
merit is that it is no fiction but good
history. The war has developed a
class of business men of great impor.
tance to the nation, viz !: railroad men.
The names of w. p. Smith, Garrett
Woodruff, Jackson, Hinckley, Jewett,
Ingle, Strader, Paulson, and host Of
others will be recorded in history as
having done very much towards crush.
ing the rebellion by their lnpmpt and
efficient efforts in the way OF transpor.
tation of troops and munitions Of war
Hon. r. G. Mccormick, Secretary Of
Arizona, will return thereto shortly
from which, in due time, he will doubt
less return as one Of its Representa-
tives, when it shall take it's place ir
the Union as State.
The mastering out of service as gen
erals without proper promotion in th'
Regular Army of such tried and faithfu
soldiers as Generals Doubleday ant
Heintzelman, is remarked by all as un
kind and unwise, while many of thei
J juniors in the service, without as goo'
a fighting record, remain to wear tn