One day last week a couple of ladies in the southwestern part of the country, who were soliciting aid for our wounded soldiers, came to a house where, after hearing their business, the lady of the house told them she had nothing to give for Union soldiers, but would have no objections to giving something to help along Jeff. Davis. One of the ladies informed here they were going to collect for him the next week. ‘You are! for what purpose?’ said the secesh lady. ‘To buy rope to hang him,’ answered one of the solicitors. ‘Oh,’ said her companion; ‘no matter about that; my father’s a rope-maker, and he will make one for nothing.’ They eyes of the lady of the house flashed indignantly on her visitors, and she turned away slamming the door in their faces. The lady is the wife of a prominent citizen in that neighborhood; but happily persons of such views can have little influence in this county.
– Published in The Davenport Daily Gazette, Davenport, Iowa, Wednesday Morning, April 2, 1862, p. 1
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