The Virtue & Patriotism of Fernando Wood

When Fernando Wood comes West to enlighten the people on their duty to their country – bringing the [w]reck and filth of the “backslums” of New York to defile the free air of Iowa, won’t it be well to inquire of him about those guns he was anxious should not be stopped on their way to savannah? Perhaps he will be able to satisfy his auditors that his anxiety to supply the traitors of Savannah with arms was the result of the purest patriotism and the most exalted virtue! At all events he should have an opportunity to try his hand at that problem. It will be an interesting effort. It will enable him to exhibit his aptitude for lying in the boldest manner. – Chicago Tribune.

- Published in The Union Sentinel, Osceola, Iowa, October 10, 1863