Holmes County Republican. [volume] (Millersburg, Holmes County, Ohio) 1856-1865, 1861-12-05

Fr0a Missouri.
A gentleman who left Springfield on
Tuesday last, says that McCulloch's forces
had marched for, Arkansas, having pass
ed Pond Spring at the latest accounts.
PRICES forces were reported 10 be still
moving northward. H #f
M SEDALIA, Nov. 80.
The following is General Prices procla-
nation issued at Neosha, but bearing no
date:
Fellow Citizens:-In the month of June
last l was called TO command handful
Of Missourians, who nobly gave up home
and comfort to exposure in the gloomy
bour-the cause Of your bleeding country,
struggling with the most causeless and cru
el 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
fifty thousand men, to drive the ruthless
invaders from our soi made fruitful by
your labors and consecrated by your homes
TO that call. Less than FIVE thousand re-
spondsd. Out of male population ex-
ceeding 100000 men, one in forty only
stepped forward TO defend, with their per-
sons and their lives, the cause Of constitu-
tional liberty and human rights. Some
allowances are 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 organi-
zed foe. - ,.f,
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
Missouri orgahized and equipped, and
fought its way to the river. The foe is still
In the field, tho country bleeds. and our
people groan under the infections of foe
marked with all the characteristics Of bar
barian warfare.
Where now are the $4,000 to ayenge
our wrongs and free our county! If fifty
thousand men had focked to our standard
with shot guns in toeir 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 people bles-
sed with protection and with stores to sup
ply the wants and necessities and comforts
of life. Where are those fifty thousand
men9 Are Missouriaus no longer true to
themselves? Are they timid, time -serv-
ing, craven race, fit only for subsection to a
despot.
Awake, my countrymen,to sense of
what constitutes the dignity and true
greatness Of people. A few men have
fought your battles; few men have dared
the dangers Of the battle field; few have
borne the hardships of the camp, the
scorching sun of summer and frosts of win
ter; the malaria Of the swamps, the priva-
tions incident 10 our circumstances, fatigue
and hunger and thirst often without blan-
kets, without shoes. with insufficient cl,.th-
ing, with the cold, wet earth for bed, The
sky for covering, and stone for pillow
glad only TO meet the enemy on the field,
where some paid the noblest devotion
known among men on earth to the cause
of your country and your rights, with their
lives. But when one has been lost in the
field three have been lost by disease, indu-
ced by privation and toll. During all these
trials we have murmered not. We offered
all we bad on earth at the altar of our COM
mon country and our own beloved Missou-
ri. And we only now ask our fellow citi-
zens and brethren to come to US and help
to wear what we have gained, and to win
our glorious Inheritance from the cruel
hand Of the spoiler and opprsssor. Come
TO US, brave sons of Missouri! Rally to
our standard! / must have $4,000 men.
Do you stay at home to take care of us
and your prope,tyi Millions Of dollars
have been lost because you have stayed at
home. Do you stay at home for gratifica-
ton? more men have been murdered at
home than have lost in five successful
battles. Do you stay at home to secure
terms with the enemy? then l warn you,
the day may soon come when you may be
surrendered to the mercies Of that enemy,
and your substance be given up to the
Hessan and the Jay Hawker. l cannot l
will not attribute such motives to you, my
countrymen. But where are our Southern
rights friends! We must drive the op
pressor from our land. l must have 5O,-
900 men. Now is the crisis of your fate
Now the golden, opportunity to save the
State! Now is the day of your, political
salvation! The time for enlistment for
our brave band is beginning to EXPIRE
Do not hold their patience beyond endu-
rance Do no longer sicken their hearts
BY hope deferred. They begin to enquire
where are our friends who shall give thep
an answer! Boys and small property
holders have in the main fought the bat
ties for the protection of your property
And where, they ask, where are the men
for whom VIC are fighting? How shall
|, how can ! explain, citizens Of Missouri
l call upon you, BY every consideration
of interest; by every desire Of safety; by
every tie that binds you to home and coun-
try, delay no longer. Let the dead bury
the dead leave your property 10 take care
of itself; commend your homes to the pro-
lection of God, and merit the appreciation
and love Of childhood and womanhood BY
showing yourselves men-the sons of the
brave and free, who bequeathed to US the
sacred trust of free institutions. Come to
the army of Missouri mot for a week, or a
month; but to free your country: /
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