The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1879-04-24

of the South, the first exhibition of tort
ure and malgnity for the benefit Of the
he and she devils of the South was
made at Jackson, Miss, where the pris-
| oners, fastened on platform cars, had to
endure, In their helplessness, the amuse-
ment of the Confederate soldiers run
ming their bayonets into them, while
the Outstanding women laughed as only
she-devils can laugh at seeing "the
id Yanks" SO tortured.
Worse constantly followed. When
the physical strength of the rebels
could infict no further torture On the
helpless Union prisoners, starvation was
called in as an ally, and the weakness of
sick and dying men seized upon to fur
ther aid the noble and brilliant Con-
federates," as some Democratic papers
North now call them, as means
to make torture still more demoniac
and cruelty still more hellish. Hundreds
of men, one hair of the head of whom
was worth more to the American re-
public and to God than the whole horde
Of unrepentant rebels, or the whole gang
of Confederate Brigadiers who escaped
the gallows to lead the Democratic
party in the new rebellion now just get
ting on it's feet, were slowly and with an
unrelenting cruelty that would shame
hell itself when painted at It's blacklist,
starved to death-and died before the
eyes of their comrades, when single
crust of the bread that these noble
Confederates" now in Congress were
then throwing to their dogs would have
saved them to their families and to the
republic. At Macon, at Andersonville,
in Libby, all through the Sunny, CHI
Various and hospitable South" the men
of Iowa who are in their graves in that
accursed soil now, and unable to speak
for themselves, were tortured, starved,
MANNED, and murdered, and frequently
mutilated after death and these dev-
ilish deeds on sick and dying and dead
men were perpetrated by some of these
very devils who are now boasting of and
clarifying their treason in Congress,
and threatening to "tear the last yes
tige of the war measures" from the
statutes, and having their speeches
praised by Iowa Democratic papers and
other doughface Democratic papers
North as being brilliant and patriotic"
Who calls this too bitter? What
Northern Democrat, adding now craven
ingratitude to the Union soldiers to the
cowardice and crime of excusing treason
and eulogizing traitors, dare stand be-
fore Union soldier, who has seen his
noble comrades starved or tortured to
death by these devils now strutting be-
fore an outraged nation as leading Dem
ocrats, and who has himself felt the
iron weight of their hands and the in
effaceable deviltry, bestiality and cruel
ty of their fendlsh natures, and say:
"You talk too bitterly-let us have
peace, even if it does mean a peace of
cowardice-the war is over-let us for
get bygones and be brethren together?"
Is there, among all the dough-faced
Democrats of Iowa, one man mean
enough and shameless enough to offer
to survivor of Macon, Andersonvil]e
and Libby, and of their tortures and
their infamies, far exceeding in atrocity
even the before matchless inhumanities
of the Duke of Alva, with a traitors
tongue and a craven's throat so meas
ureless an insult. Do not let any Dem
ocrat ask any such man to look upon
any such Democratic leader in the
present Congress only as one would
look with adherence upon fends and
devils who had tortured him to the
nearest neighborhood with death, even
If they are now as members of the
United States Congress and leaders of
the Democratic party boasting of their
deeds as rebels and devils.
To those of us who saw the sun rise
at Shiloh seventeen years ago this
morning upon q gallant Union army,
eager to do or die for the republic; to
those who passed through that terrible
day and the red rain of death that fell all
about them, and on thousands of their
cherished friends and comrades; to those
who saw the night fall with that noble
army defeated and themselves in the
clutches of the rebels; and to those who
suffered more than the pains of death
and more than the tortures of hell in the
many weary, hopeless, almost eternal,
months that followed, it is useless to
cry peace that does not exist and to
talk with lying tongue Of partisan
eulogy, for base partisan use, about the
honor and the patriotism of the very
devils at whose hands they met such
Observation-Disclosures that has made the
very name of the South the execration
of the whole future, and that will leave
it as synonym of all that is meanest
and most cowardly and most cruel for
all time. Let all who will, these very
fends incarnate, who are blotched all
over with the blood, and patched all
over with the dying curses, of men
whose nobility this nation and this
people can never for q moment forget
without themselves being cursed by
God. For our part we want nothing of
them. The world is wide, thank God,
and there is room for them and us to
live in. But to accept of such men as
else than the wretches they are, much
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