Cedar Falls gazette. [volume] (Cedar Falls, Iowa) 1860-1895, 1865-09-29

Try uhu Hnu Ilme 10 write you from
there. shall go out into the harbor
and snuff the salt sea breeze" and if l
see the sea serpent will tell you hoW
he looks.
L" haste all tho time fb4Y STATE.
Something for the Soldiers.
The Soldiers Committee of the Sol
diers' Convention proper has issued
stirring address to the soldiers of iowa,
of which the following Is the closing
portion:
Your ancient enemies have suddenly
become your warmest friends. You
are advised by these would-be allies to
cut loose from those who were your
friends in your troubles and unite your
fortunes with those who have all the
time been your enemies. When you
left home and family 10 enter the mill
tary service of your country, these new
friends Of yours said to you derisively
"Lincoln hirelings,' Cut-throat MUIR
derers of our dear Southern brethren
When your wives and little ones asked
for bread, they gave them n stone
When the waves of the rebellion were
surging against this Capital of the Ma
tion, they said there Is no right to drive
back these waves by force of arms
When traitors were striking at the
heart Of the Nation through the hearts
of your friends and neighbors, they ssid,
'pGt another man. When you asked
for little naoIey TO send to your fami-
When you asked for aid In putting
down the rebellion by ballots as well
as by bullets, they said you are engaged
In an unholy and wicked war and you
shall not vote. When you asked Con-
gress to pass conscription law to ill
the vacancies of your dead comrades,
they said il was unconstitutional
When you asked that the currency of
the country should be made q legal ten
der, they said "unconstitutional.' ''--
When you asked that active traitors
should be arrested by military author-
w, and tried by Court Martial, they
said Unconstitutional" When SYM
pathizers with the rebellion were ar
rested, they said, the Constitution is
violated. y When Abrsham Lincoln,
your martyied President, suspended the
writ of hdbeds corpus, they said tyr
amy" "usurper. When you were
victorious and rejoiced, they CRASHED
their teeth. When you had driven the
rebels from Shiloh and Vicksburg, and
Gettysburg, you Were glad-they des-
ponding. When, at Lookout Mount
ain, above the clouds, you, with your
swords dyed with blood, wrote victory,
they cried "faiIure." When you CON
tinually, from Mission Ridge to Attain
tn, and from RappahannOck TO Peters
burg were proclaiming victory, they
were cry ing failure. When their friends
in the South were clamoring for your
Presidents blood, and calling for assas-
sins, they echoed back tho Gemoniac
howl, "the tyrant! let It's have his
blood ~ when their teachings culmin-
ated in the assassination of President
Lipssoln they rei2iccd. When his MUIR
derers were executed they mourned.
Now that the rebellion is crushed and
you are ut home, these, with their rec
ords of infamy upon them, bending un-
der the load of insults they have infiict-
ed on you and yours, ,ttotter up to you
and attempt TO t.se you by the liand
and say my friend, while their fingers
are dripping with the gore of your
own friends.
No, soldiers, such Union as this
can never be effected. As well expect
any other impossibility. There is not
sufficient. cohesive power in all the ma
ton to unite Union soldiers and Cop
perheads on the same ticket. Let us
try our united efforts at home. Place
and keep in power those only who
have been our friends. Let US not be
divided by the foolish statements that
regro suffrage is the only question be- l
fore US. We know better. The Leg
to be elected In part Mt the COM
ing election, will have to elect q United
States Senator to fill the vacancy caus-
ed by the resignation 81 Secretary HAr-
Ian, and also TO elect q Senator fer the
fuli,term of six years. The .constitu-
tional amendment prohibiting slavery
In the United States will have to be
passed upon by the next legislature. -
These questions are certaiply tSf .s.ore 1
Importance to the people Of lSwa than
the question whether four hundred
thousand negroes shall or shall not at
some distant day .exercise the right Of
suffrage. 1t 10 &ipsply q ti0k Ct ,nnWor-d
Thy men, hoping thereby to again get
again % teach the the doctrine a of STATE . sovel. ma
eighty and the right Of secession by
States, and at sems euspicious moment
again PLUG ge,t the nation into civil strife.
Let the soldiers Of Iowa teach these
miserable demagogues aud tricksters
that they know the power Of the ballot
rs well rs the power of the sword; that
they are ps well skilled in the use of
the one as the other; that since they
have compelled by the sword their open
and more manly foes to ground arms,
they will by the ballot defeat and drive
into obscurity those worse men who
wished the success Of the rebellion, but
who were to cowardly to enter the rebel
army. and fight along aide of their
friends.
Col. ,Benton,s name Ia Thomas H