Gone to Hell.

Although death has visited many a Northern home during the two and a half years the war has been waged, desolation, starvation and pinching want have visited the Seceding States alone. Nay, there is now no equal extent of territory on earth that has as large a delegation in hell, as the Southern Confederacy can boast! Rebels have gone to hell from the South since this ware commenced, at a fearful rate, and still the cry is, they come! Some may think this profane language but it is nothing more or less than a recital of facts in plain unostentious language. Parson Brownlow.

- Publishied in The Union Sentinel, Osceola, Iowa, December 19, 1863