St. Cloud Democrat. [volume] (Saint Cloud, Stearns County, Minn.) 1858-1866, 1861-04-25
st. Cloud Soldiers.

The st. Cloud Guard have voted nat to
respond to the call Of the President and
Governor for troops Is defend The Ameri.
can flag. Three men, Hon. Stephen Mil
LEI, Miles Brown, and Epbnim Curtis
have volunteered and will join ! company
from some other place. But one Ameri-
can flag is floating in town. This is from
the Ssearns House, and no set Of St. Cloud
men have ever given il, !, cheer. va can u.
not get cloth to make one; for, our Office but
hope to hoist the old stars aud stfipss some
day soon. ,igHI 9di " a;5Nl'o 80 y,
:, ; The reason Of the apathy Of gu. people
is first, that we are on the extreme from
tier-the soldiers have been removed from
che forts and many apprehending trouble
with the indians think all our men should
stay At home, but this is all CANNON
Twenty U. $. troops at each fort will keep
the Indians all right, or if they could not
Hole-in.the. Day can be safely trusted to
look after the Sioux, or there are women
enough to repel all the Indian invasions
that ever will BE- here. However, the In.
dians serve as respectable substitute for
various reasons not given The first of these
is distrust of the Administration. 1t is
believed here that our Republican
administration is controlled in it's local ar
rangemeuts by Lowry, who is an open Sc
cessionist. He profe.sed for many years to
have hada claim against the government for
$4,000 Of goods furnished the Winneba.
60 Indians. Under Democratic rule it
never was allowed. But he has Just re.
turned from tour to, and sojourn in
Washington, with an order on the Land
Office for Sc, 900, the balance to come by
and by. The principal and officer was
appointed through his machinations all
his newly acquired wealth and influence
is used in favor of secession. Working
Republicans and decent Democrats are dis
heartened and disguised. The old rowdy
clique which has been rebuked and dis
owned by County and State elections, has
been omnipotcnt WITH Republican authori-
ties at Washington. and our people feel
that they do not know what they would
be fighting for in supporting an Admins
tration which disowns its friends and re-
wards its enemies-don't know but there
is private understanding between Lincoln
and Davis, as there appears t. be between
the secessionists and Republican Congress-
ional Delegation Of this State. The feel
ing is such that there is talk Of raising a
Palmetto flag in Lowry Town; and we
doubt if the Union men would pull it down.
They would not know but it was raised
with the appreciation Of Messrs. Wilkinson
Window and Aldrich. The evidence of .
collision with them ard Lowry appears
so conclusive that we know no way Of ex-
planning it; and the effect upon the pub
lie enthusiasm is like wet blanket on
light fame. Miller, Mitchell and Stearna
are simply laughed at when they try to
rouse the people to action and folks won.
der If they want to win a few more victo-
ries that Monsieur Lowry may have more
Offices at his disposal, and get more money
from the United States treasury, to make
his secession sentiments more important.
So men will stay at home and let the Ad-
ministration call upon its secession allies
here Er volunteers.