The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1905-03-15
FORTY YEARS AGO.
Excerpts Taken From st. Paul Papers
of March 4, 1865

| James ]. Hill. Esq, has been ap
pointed general freight and ticker
agent at this place, of the North
western Packet Co. This is an i'm
portant and responsible position
and we congratulate friend Hill
| upon his appointment, and the com
pany upon its selection of che mar
to FIJI it. Mr.. Hill is well known II
this city and throughout the state
as an active. thorough-going bust
ness man. He enjoys the confidence
of the business community in an
eminent degree.
The second inaugural address Of
Mr.. Lincoln possesses one meritor-
ious feature, and that is its brevity.
Mr.. Lincoln attempts to prove that
slavery was somehow" the cause
of the war, and that its scourge
may not pass away from the north
and the south until the product of
slave labor for $50 years shall be
sunk, and an amount of blood shall
have been drawn by the sword
equal to that drawn by the lash dur
ing the same period. His whole
argument is nothing out stale aboli-
tion twaddle, and the interlarding
of Scriptural texts savors more of
fanatical cant than of anything else,
unless it be OF irreverent political
demagoguery, disgraceful to the
incumbent of the presidential chair
and to the nation. Pioneer, (dem.)
The Richmond Sentinel, leading
rebel organ says: Woe to the con-
querors, for then would begin the
banditti warfare, the guerrilla war
fare, the lying in wait, the ambus-
cade and surprise, murder in de-
tail, assassination in every form.
1t our affairs should come to the
worst we would by guerilla war
fare make the south too hot to hold
the intruding Yankee landlords.
They would be shot, ambushed and
shot down by night and by day,
like beasts of prey. Few men, find
ing themselves, their wives and
little ones driven from their homes
would hesitate, if necessary, to way
lay the intruding Yankee robber.
mo armies from the north could
put down such a warfare as this, if
we fight but half as we'll as most
other nations similarity situated
have fought Alregdy this mode of
warfare has been inaugurated in
Kentucky, Missouri and Tennessee
and on both sides ofthe Mississippi.
''Did not blind madness drive
the Yankees on they would recoil
with a just terror from that result
which we have but family sketched
but to attain which they are striv-
ing with frantic eagerness. Moth
ing remains for us but, taking the
watchword, "Never surrender, to-
prosecute the war in whatever form
we may and with all the energy we
can command, until we drive our
foes from this fair land which God
has given US.
The draft to fill the quotas of the
subdistrict in this state, under the
call for 300, 900 men, will commence
in those towns that are not likely to
fill their quotas with volunteers on
next Wednesday. No man, under
any circumstances, will be permit
ted TO enlist as volunteer recruit
after the date of his being drafted.
s Lieut.. Col. Cal. S. Uline of the
Second Minnesota leaves for the
south Monday morning. He takes
100 recruits which will bring the
regiment up to 500 men, and allow.
the full complement of commissions.
Yesterday, March 8, was the cold
est day of the winter, the thermom-
eter indicated SO below zero.
Gov. Miller has appointed Mrs.
Louisa Goodwin state librarian.
She is. the widow of Lieut.. Goodwin
of the Fourth Minnesota, who was
killed at Vicksburg.
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