Cedar Falls gazette. [volume] (Cedar Falls, Iowa) 1860-1895, 1868-09-25

disbanded, the rebel soldiers skulked
to their homes In 1865, glad to escape
tie vengence Of an outraged people,
With eyes averted and plying
looks, they implored the poor boon
of life, and offered as an atonement
for their vice and infamous treason
the fragment Of their property which
should have been buried with the
thousands of their dead. For -four
years no kind of authority was en-.
forced in the South except the bristl.
ing bayonets, and when this was
planted in the earth as sign of de-
feat, the millions of that unhappy
land were huddled together, black
aud white, as mob, without law or
the means of preserving order.
Crime transferred from the ranks
to the highway, tore and tossed the
people, and rapine and
assassination became the employ
ment of young men too lazy to work
too proud to steal but chivalric
enough to murder and burn. Gov
eminent in ten states was at an end,
because rebel bayonets had usurped
civil authority, and rebel guns fell to
the earth from the well diret ted
blows of stout hearted soldiers. Men
who were just fresh from the field of
with the misguided prom
ises of Andrew johnson, soon re-
covered from their paralysis of fear
and began to assume the right to
shape the destiny of a people whose
sons, brothers, husbands and kindred
they had brutally murdered on the
field and in prison pens. Embold-
ened by the counsel of an accidental
these same felonous
wretches have shaken their CORY
locks, and waved their hands drip
ping with the unchanged crimson OF
our brothers, and again defy US to q
combat over the graves Of our com
rades i'm arms. Perured wretches
they have violated their paroles
every one of them. They promised
as men OF honor, that they would
never take up arms against the
United States, and yet before theft
lips are dry, we hear their war cry in
Tennessee, and in every valley O
the South. There can be no mistake
They mean war If the Democracy
win, and they mean it If they fail
The triumph of the Democratic par
ty this fall will bring reaction ant
revolution, and our failure woult
but rivet upon US the horrors of an
other bloody rebellion. Arms are in
abundance among the people of the
South. These dangers crowd upon
US threatening the peace of the ma
ton, the honor of our land, and the
liberties of the people.
We should prepare for the worst
Ambition, cruelty, CALLING defeat ant
treason, are conspiring as they did ii
1860, to prevent the nations rising to
the high position assigned to her by
the genius of her government and
the loyalty of her people.
Republicans, let your watch-fires
be kept burning; take counsel Of
your comrades i'm battle; remember
the sacrifices you have made; the per-
lis you have encountered, and the
victories that crowned your earliest
and latest efforts.
The greatest crimes ofthe 10th cen
fury were committed in the name o
liberty. The most revolving and des
olating horrors were visited upon us
in the name of Democracy. This
name prostituted to the infamous
purposes of aristocratic despotism, is
now invoked to restore a defeated oil.
igarchy to the places they forfeited
by an open adultery, manstealing,
buying and selling human flesh and
blood, theirown children, by engraft-
ing upon the latter civilization, the
crimes and barbarities of the dark
ages. For these, in the name of our
country, we charge the leaders of the
Democracy with the deliberate pur-
pose of unjustifable revolution and
rebellion, and call upon our fellow
soldiers to stand firm by the side OF
the Chieftain who compelled the sur
render of Gen. Robert 4. Lee, the
captor of John Brown, and the MUIR
derer of thousands of American citi-
zens.
The late Elections.
The effect of the late elections in
Vermont and Maine, is seen i'm every