Upon the whole we are rather sorry . . .

. . . that the rebel recruiting station over on the Des Moines was broken up. Had it been permitted to remain it might have ridden our State of numerous pestiferous secessionists, who would do us less harm as open enemies in arms than as spies secretly laboring to undermine the loyal cause in the State. Now they are laboring to discourage loyal people by prating of taxation – the terrible cost of the war, which they characterize as wicked and causeless. Let them go down into Dixie where they belong. They are out of place in Iowa.

– Published in the Burlington Daily Hawk-Eye, Burlington, Iowa, Saturday, April 19, 1862