You cannot immagine how it makes our blood boil to hear of such disgraceful compromise meetings, & conciliatory resolutions of these Northern tories. down with them is the watch word.  While we are enduring all maner of hardship & many a brave man has suffered marterdom, & are dieing in loathsome prisins in the South, others worn out on the march & in hospitals, aside from the thousands who have given their life blood on the battle field, & breathed out their lives amid scenes of carnage & the roar of fierce battle, with no kind hand to alleviate their sufferings, or even an opportunity to send a last farewell to loved ones at home  Our neighbors are doing all in their power to defeat the cause for which we are fighting.  I tell them there is a day of fearful retribution, & it may at the point of the bayonet let them see to it.  We would rather fight them than these poor deluded Butternuts Southern rebels, sined in ignorance.  Traitors in the North have sined against much light
