. . . we presume, understand it to be within the scope of our editorial duties and obligations to expose by name, persons in our community who express sympathizing sentiments or manifest disloyal proclivities. And in that view of our obligations we fall under their censure for failure of duty in our columns this morning. Now while the present case may be one justifying public reprehension, it did not strike us as sufficiently serious or so dangerous as to demand at our hands the necessary labor required to hunt up the evidence, get at the precise facts and merits, and become responsible for the proper presentation of them to the public. Mr. Sample has assumed that responsibility in the present case and vouches for the truth of the statement over his own signature, and we give it circulation in doing so we would simply say that there are scores in our city whose sentiments are not less obnoxious than those attributed to Mr. Garber, and as the ball is now opened they had better “dry up” and dance to the music of the Union or make tracks for Dubuque with convenient dispatch.
– Published in The Gate City, Keokuk, Iowa, Thursday, April 17, 1862
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