Charles City intelligencer. [volume] (Charles City, Floyd County, Iowa) 1864-1866, 1866-03-01
See what the Memphis Appeal says

See what the Memphis Appeal says
now:
The confederacy Is gone, and while we
hold in sacred reverence its glorious memories,
and treasure in our heart Of hearts those few
in Sardis who did not defile their garments,
those noble breed OF men and women who
showed most true metal the greater the sAcri-
fees they were called upon to make, and who
to the last gave an unreservei allegiance to
their country, drinking
:" Love in each life-drop that flowed from her
breast
we. bitter rebels as we have been, can give the
charity Of silence to sles, 49,
"'1he slave
Whose treason like deadly blight
Crept DER the councils of the brave
To blast them in their hour of might
Yes, We can give him or her the charity
of silence. Ii he sees fit to live in and seek
a competence in the land he has BETRAYED
why let him cat the bitter bread of remorse In
peace, and be assured that if single element
of man remains within him, that bread will
indeed be bitter Ts ~
Tennessee loyalists begging to have
the military retained for the protection
of loyal men, and saying that the reb.
els there are as cruel, malignant, and
insolent as ever This is indorsed by
their Governor, the dauntless Brown
low. What do you think of recon
structed Tennessee!
Five hundred loyalists from the
Businesses of Alabama say
the same of that State. "They talk
of insurrectionary violence yet in Ala
bama," says Maj. Gen. Swayne.
The New Era, a loyal paper, pub
lished in Arkansas, sums up the whole
situation thus
|" Arkansas, as she stands before the coun-
try now, can never be admitted upon a footing
of equality with the loyal States, and we fer
vently trust never will until loyalty shall be
supreme in the State. Arkansas is no worse
than other insurrectionary States on the con-
trary, she contains considerable loyal ele-
ment of the conservative stripe. But that ele-
mcnt is even now i'm danger, If 1t has not al.
ready done SO. of losing the prestige il SO far
possessed, Certain il is that when once adj
mittel on the floor of Congress, and the mill.
tary protection of the Uuted States removed
the late disloyal element, which is as much
opposed TO republican principles M ever, ant
vastly superior to the loyal element, not onl,
in numbers but brains, organization, wealth
and everything to make a party successful
will make short work of the present State gov
eminent, laws, and ordinances.
49, Eternal vigilance is the price of liberty;
tke rebels are seeking TO gain by the ballo
what they could not gain by the bullet. Con
vra ola cto h.t t,h1 1;,h
ment of the power of the old slave oligarch,
and the triumph rof republican and radical I'm
ion principles. E,-
"God grant that Congress remain firm and
not abandon the principles for the especial win
dication of which the Almighty seems to have
raised up this nation.
This is but a type of the whole.
General Grant is sometimes cited al
an authority to show that the South il
pacified, trustworthy, and loyal. i
so he has queer way of showing it
See what he says in answer to an ap
plication from Gov. Parsons, of Ala
bama, for Withdrawing the military
from that State ::
For the present. and until there is full Sc
curity for equitably maintaining the rights
and safety of all classes Of citizens in the State
lately IN rebellion, would not recommend th,
withdrawal of the United States troops iron
thence. The number of interior garrisoni
might he reduced. but a movable force sutfi
cient 10 insure tranquility should be retained
While such "a force is retained in the South
doubt the propriety Of putting arms in th,
hands of the militia
And l might multiply these terrible
proofs to any extent. Do you nce'
any more evidence that the "leopar,
has not changed his spots - If Sc
peruse carefully the report of Genera
Carl Schurz. He found no loyalt,
there, only bold, defiant treason.
In not single southern State hav'
they done justice by the freedmen. Ii
not one have they passed just ant
equitable laws that will protect him il
his rights. The courts are rebel, Jun
ors rebel, Legislatures rebel the me
who fought our flag boast of scar
won in behalf of treason as honorable
and receive in reward Office, honor, an
profit. They do not disguise their hat
for Union men who are excludes
from all those honors and privilege
because of their loyalty. Freedom @
speech, as Of old, is mockery Ii
the name Of God, is such people en-
titled to representation on this floor
Are you ready to receive them bacl
now, to make laws for the wido,
whose husband they have slain fo
the orphan whose sire they have mul
dered; for the manned and helples
soldier whom they have robbed of arm
or legs or eyes, and left him to dra
out a miserable life? Is he to be
pensioner upon their bounty? Ar
you ready now to leave without prt
lection the loyal men Of the South bot
white and black, and hand over tn
whole power Of your Government j
those States to their enemies and ol
pressors Who are these loyal whi,
men of the South ? They who fled
the mountains and the caves WI
worshiped the old flag, though it trai
ed in the dust, with more than easter
lidolatry who suffered loss Of hom'
family, property, all but death itsel
for their country.
] And the four million black men VIII
were the slaves and under the contr'
of the rebels, who were away from I'll
Union lines and it's protection, who ol
ly knew God because they saw Him
the stars and heard Him in the WIND
for the Bible to them was a forbi'
den book-they who had only know
the flag from the stripes it gave thel
and the Union from the chains it boun
them with they who from the firs
sent their morning and evening pra,
ers to Heaven that the nation migt
live, who furnished our soldiers 1yin
from captivity and death with guild
and shelter, food and fire, while tn
master let slip bloodhounds on the I,
gitive's track who of the four mi
lions betrayed loyal man? Not on
who but exposed the traitor maste
This faithfulness on the part Of thos
poor, simple, ignorant men is to m
mind one Of the grandest phases tina
the war has developed.
How strange the contrast betwee
the slave i'm his chains and the maste