Cleveland morning leader. [volume] (Cleveland [Ohio]) 1854-1865, 1861-12-02
FROm mIssnuRI.

RoLLA, Nov. %.
A gentleman who left Springfield on Tues
day last, says that MeOulloch's forces had
marched for Arkansas, having passed Pond
Spring at the latest accounts.
Prices forces were reported to be still moT-
ing northward.
SEDALIA, Nov. 30.
The following is Gen. Prices proclamation
issued at Nsosha, but bearing no date:
Fellow Cilizens-In the month of June
last / was called to command handful of
Missourisns, who nobly gave up home and
comfort to exposure in the gloomy hour-the
cause of your bleeding country, struggling
with the most causeless and cruel despOtism
known among civilized men, when peace and
protection could no longer be enjoyed but at
| the price of honor and liberty. Your chief
magistrate called for 6lty thousand men, to
drive the rathless invaders from soil made
fruitful by your labors and consecrated by
| your homes to that call. Less than Eve
| thousand responded. Out of male population
| exceeding 100000 men, one in forty only
stepped forward to defend, with their per-
sons and their lives, the cause of constitution
al liberty and human rights. Some allow
ances are to be made on the score of the
want of military organization, a supposed
want Of arms, the necessary retreat Of the
army southwark, the blockade Of the river,
and the presence of an armed and organized
foe.
But nearly six months has now elapsed !;
your crops have been titled; your harvests
have been reaped; your preparations for the
winter have been made, the army of Mis-
souri organized and equipped, and fought its
way to the river. The foe is still in the field,
/ the country bleeds and our people groan
under the infections of a foe marked with all
the characteristics OF barbarian warfare
Where now are the so, 900 to aVenge orr
wrongs and free our country2 If fifty thou
sand men had hoeked to our standard with
their shot guns in their hands, there would
not now be Federal hirelings in the State to
pOllute our soil; instead of ruined COM
| munities, starving families and desolated
districts, we should have had a people
blessed with protection and with stores to
supply the wants and necessities and comforts
of lie. Where are those fifty thousand men2
Are Missourians no longer true to themselves
Are they atinid, time-serving, craven race, ft
only for subsection to desDot2
Awake, my countrymen, to q sense Of
what constitutes the dignity and true great
ness of people. A few men have fought
your battles; a few men have dared the dan
gers of the battle field; a few have borne the
hardships of the camp, the scorching sun Of
summer and frost OF winter the malaria Of
the sWamps, the privations incident to our
circumstances, fatigue and hunger and thirst;
often without blankets, without shoes, with
insufficient clothing, with thecold, wet earth
for bed, the sky for q covering, and stone
for pillow, glad only to meet the enemy on
the field, where some paid the noblest devo-
tion known among men on earth to the
cause of your country and your rights, with
their lives. But where enc has been lost in
the field three have been lost by disease, In
duced by privation and toll. During all these
/ trials we have murmured not. We offered
all we had on ear.h at the altar of our COM
mon country and our own beloved Missouri
And we only now ask our fellow citizens
and brethren to come to Us and help to veal
what we have gained, and to win our gle
rious inheritance from the cruel hand of the
spoiler and oppressor. Come to Us, brave
sons of Missouri Rally to our standard
must have $4,000 men. Do You stay a
| QOub 70 Ldhc EhEp VI " dL4 fOAA RADBUAty
millions of dollars have been lost because yoI
have stayed at home. Do you stay at hons
for qualification 2 more men have been mur
dered at home than 1 have lost in i've sue
cessful battles. Do you stay at home t.
secure terms with the enemy2 then l war;
you, the day may soon come when you MAJ
be surrendered to the mercies of that enemy
and your substance be given up to the Hes
sian and the Jay HsWker. cannot, l vii
not attribute such motives to you, my coun
trymen. But where are our Southern right
friends2 We must drive the oppressor from
our land. I must have $4,000 men. Nov
is the crisis of your fate Now the colder
opportunity to save the S.atel Now is tn
day of your political salvationl The tim
for enlistment for our brave band is begin
ming to expire. Do not hold their patienc
beyond endurance. Do not longer sickel
their hearts by hope deferred. They begil
to enquire where sre our friends who shal
give them an answer Boys and smal
property holders have in the main fought th
battles for the protection Of your property
And where, they ask, where are the men 70
whom we are fghting2 How shall /, hoV
can explain, citizens of Missouri
/ 1 GaAA P4A JSNl ~ NSA9AASANsA1A Y
interest; by every desire of safety; by ever.
tie that binds you to home and country, de
lay no longer. Let the dead bury the dead
leave your property to take care Of itself
commend your homes to the protection c
God, and merit the appreciation and love c
childhood and womanhood by showing your
selves men-the sons OF the brave and freS
who bequeathed to us the sacred trust of fre
institutions. Come to the army of Missouri
not for week, or month; bu. to free you
country:
Scrike till each arm'd foe expires
Strike for your altars and your fires
Strike for the green graves Of your sires
God and your native land 1"
The burning fires of patriotism must II
spire and lead you, or ali is lost just at tt
moment, too, when all hight forever be save
Numbers give US strength numbers intimidai
the foe; numbers save the necessity, oftel
Of fighting battles; numbers make cur arm
irresistible; numbers command uniYeTs
respect, and insure confidence. We mu
have $4,000 men. Let the farmer leave b