Cedar Falls gazette. [volume] (Cedar Falls, Iowa) 1860-1895, 1867-11-22

Mr.. Pollard, of ths Richmdnd press
and author of the History of the Re.
bellioh, and who was also one OF the
first ahd foremost Of the southern chiv-
airy, has lived 20 see the days of letur-
ming good sense. In defense of him
self through the press, against the at
lacks of ex-Gov. Wise, he retorts Sc
verely and charges upon such fire-eat-
ers az Wise, the responsibility of en-
quilting the South in the late bloody
war. Pollard was lately assaulted in the
streets of Baltimore, by the two sons OF
Ex-Governor Wise. whc'l Had gone there
for the purpose of killing Him for his
attack upon their father. They only
succeeded in shooting Pollard n the
arm, when they were arrested.
AIr. Pollard commenting on the bonn
bastic speeches ofthe.ex.Gov. when the
war cloud was gathering, very truth
fully says 81. .,gf5.r -.......4 ~
Now, will the candid reader say the
character of Bonbastes Furioso is over
drawn for the man who could talk as
en- Governor Wise did, on the brink OF
one of the greatest commissions OF mod
ern times? Et was just such windy
nonsense as THAT quoted above which
impelled the South into'the gulf of war.
It was lust such bombast that disfigur-
ed our cause in the eyes OF the world,
and made it ridiculous. The people OF
the South recollect how they were told
by Wise and such men that the war
was to be despatched by few blades OF
'old IRON; that the Yankees would run
at levelled corn stalks; and how the
Ex-Governor attempted to scare the en-
envy i'm Western Virginia, by decking
himself with immense yellow leggins
and q pair of old flint lock pistols
Such nonsense deserved something
more than the slight penalties of ridi-
Guile. It was an important element OF
the war, an indispensable part of its
story /; it has incurred large share OF
the responsibility for the misery which
oyerspreads and Expresses our land ;
and if all the big, passionate words In
which we were told that the war was
simply to be foot-race after Yankees,
and the South needed no other arms
than sharpened bits of carriage springs,
with which to pursue the fugitive foe,
were gulped down the Threats of their
authors until they choked, they would
be treated as they deserved. r... -.
At least, let such men observe the de-
cency of silence, and be dumb in view
of the great ruins of the war which
they once 80 lightly and insolently dis
cussed. The public is done with their
bombast. The day of the Henry A.
| Wise's and Roger A. Pryors and Mar.
tin ombs--the times of tine gongs
and the bubbles, and the buckskin leg
gins, and the flint-lock pistois-is over
and country covered with graves
SCARED, mutilated, and in torment. ii
| monument of what few swollen
fools may do. Shame and silence befi
such creatures now! .. ....
These are the words OF one who wa.
once one of the most bitter enemies the
North had, nevertheless, they show
| that the war has done more than mere
ly conquer the Southern armies. I
has given them greater supply of tina
commodity, much needed-good sense
instillfng into their minds more com
prehensive idea Of Northern courage
and hardihood. The South have need
ed greater respect for Northern insti
buttons and for progressive Northern
ideas. The ball is successfully rolling