“All hail to the Union.
The cloud is fast lifting from our broken nationality; and the stars and
stripes will soon float over the entire area of our country; and then let them
float forever. You will have great news
soon; rebellion is biting the dust, and God grant that we wreak a nation’s
wrongs upon the guilty heads of the scoundrels who set it on foot. – One great
wail should go up from gibbets, loud enough to startle the universe – ‘behold
the doom of traitors!’”
I know you will ring out from your loyal heart a loud
Amen! So mote it be!
As ever your friend,
_____ _____ _____.
To SOLOMON STURGES, Esq.,
Chicago, Ill.
– Published in The Burlington Weekly Hawk-Eye,
Burlington, Iowa, Saturday, March 22, 1862, p. 2
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