St. Charles City Republican intelligencer. [volume] (St. Charles City [Charles City], Iowa) 1857-1861, 1861-04-25
Citizens Union Meeting,


St Charles City and vicinity, without
distinction of party, met at Gilbcrt's
Hall, on Saturday Evening, April Goth,
1861, to take into consideration the
imperiled state of the country. The
Hall was crowded.
On motion, Hon. David Wiltse was
elected Chairman of the meeting.
On motion, Robert G. Reiniger was
elected Secretary of the meeting.
On motion, the Chair appointed A.
b. F. Hildreth, Z. B. c. Wright and Z.
A. feeling committee on resolutions.
During the absence of the committee,
the st. Charles Band entertained the
meeting with martial music.
The committee on resolutions came
in, when Mr.. Hildrcth, their chairman,
made the following report:
WHEREAS, The painful intelligence has come
to us that civil war is actually begun in at
least one of the States of the American
.hioli' anu 'ne lfes,aei,. AZ washington mas
ny fiociahlatioi'' caiiea upon an ioyai ciu-
zchs 10 iaci'itate ana ana MN IN MAINTAIN,
ing inc laws ,he INTEGRITY OF the National
ci'lol anu 'he PerPetui.y Oh the popular
government ana TO redress wrongs long
enough endured" therefore
Resolved, That we, the citizens of st Charles
City, without distinction of party, pledge our
selves IN tai he praSilnot in tho IN
endeavors.
Resofced, That, come veal or come woe, We
will stand by our country's flag and maintain
that Constitution and that Government which
were established by our patrioric sires, and
which are how imperillcd by rebels and trail
tors
state of our country. we are prompted by the
She Impulse patr'otism.that political! party
the two parties, patriots and traitors
hesotSea' Ihai the patriotic impulse OF Coy
leave couch of sickness in answer to his
country cal, ana his proifer OF his money
ties him to our warmest congratulations and
praise u.s., 1h,, .,a r,,ou,,,, ,,,,;.ou ,,,,.
panies of our State who have already rendered
znr for the same u % shew tbat she
patriotism of Iowa is beyond cavil or reproach.
all the Forts and other Goxernmout nr"ne ,S
seized and held by the rebels should be speed
y Res"i He That the intelligence that more
than 2oo, 900 men in the Northern States will
woehs anh ,hn f,o. ,h ~, uoy ;, MINI s ' S"
lars have been already rendered for the sup
hat th;S nantast ,;i 'I H "s n WIZ" 5 e noe
and soon again the Union, the Constitution
a,u ;ne laws VIII, DC re-lns.a'eu, IN al .her
hitherto prosperous and happy country.
A motion was made and seconded
that the report of the committee be
adopted
When RF WRIGHT David NV;ltsc
J. G.. Patterson and others smoke on
the motion and in favor of the rcsolu-
tons
d. D. w. Carver then smoke do.
nouncinr the proceedings the resolu-
tons. the spcecb of Mr. WRIGHT and
,Judce Wiltsc for bc;nr in +he Chair
and moved to amend the resolutions
so as TO make it apnear that this was
a Republican meeting and not a meet
ing of citizens without reference To
party. His motion received two votes
only and of course was lost
&c. Stinson moved to amend the
9th resolution, so as to read, that all
the Forts, &c, in the seeded States,
now held by the Government, should
be speedily evacuated. This motion
was seconded by Mr.. Carver, when
the amendment, after argument by
Messrs. Stinson and Carver in the af-
and John Mahara, Peter
O'Hair and others (all Democrats) in
the negative, was lost, and the rcso-
lutions, as reported by the committee,
were adopted, with only a few dis
senting votes.
The Chairman stated that business
called him away. so that he could not
preside during the remainder of the
meeting, and requested that some 9TH