The Tipton advertiser. [volume] (Tipton, Cedar Co., Iowa) 1856-1962, 1861-09-26

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would not have been severe wtta excite
ment, lest Washing ton should fell into
the hands of Bcauvcgard
talk to you under the assumption
that you are honest and patriotic men,
and that it is your wish 10 do right; but
you will pardon me if say that you ex.
pect too much Of your public othcers. S.
You expect them to be what you are not
yourselvcs-pcrIectiou. You cant ex.
pect from them exemption from error.
You and | can very easily see after a
thing is done whether il was rightly or
wrongly done. Yet had We been called
upon in the frs. instance to meet the
same ex'sency, We would in all prooatil.
ity have committed graver error Now
| press this thing not on my OWL ac-
count, because what becomes Of nc is of
little consequence. But you have the
Administration at Washington, on the
support of which every thug depends -
Upon you and each of you the Admins
tration leans for support, and | say it
! plainly and boldly, you are not standing
by that Administration as you should
staud b. it. You may search the hi,,o,
ry Of this world over, care ne where
you read its pages, aud You cannot tiud
Il Government which has ever done ia the
same length Of time tithe of what has
been done by this Administration in the
last four months, taking into account the
condition Of affairs as it found them
Wien it came into power. And Yet picl
- your newspapers, 90 into your bar
rooms or offices, 90 whore you will, anc
instead of finding encouragement for the
good it has done, you fud curpng anG
! d"nunclaton. | came recently from
Washington City, and say to you what
think | know, that this same spirit of
taI!t tnding, this same spirit of denuu--
>.aiion, is discouraglng and weakening
your Administration at Washin2ton 1t
has to fight Jeff. Davis and Beaure ard
Gu the one side, and men who should
! rally around it on the other. was pleas
cd with remark of presidert Lincoln
which | saw attributed to him il a news
paper the other day. When urged to
/ change lis Cabinet, lie said, 'Go to
work fighting the enemy and stop fight
! ing your own friends - You will find
the newspapers filled with, and you will
hear wherever you 60, attacks upon this
man, or upon that man in the army, the
navy, the cabinet and all the departments
OF Government. n newspaper editor, o
a newspaper correspondent. perhaps with
al disappointed Office seeker beside
sezcs his pen, and with single dasl
will dcm"N~h General in tie army, ;
member # a." abinet, and even the Tx
ecurIve Of inc Government himself
charging corruption to this man, imbc
cilty to that, and incthciencv everywhere;
assaiiny the best men # the Nation as
remorsclessly as you would set your foot
upon worm. This is wrorg, aud they
who do it do the country wrong Ifyou
expec' to find public officers who commir
! no mistakes, then you must get Arch.
angels and not men! And | do insist
upon it, that instead 6f hunting some.
thing to find fault with, You should
strengthen and uphold your public agents
Give them credit for what is right and
if you see that which appears to you to
be wrong, remember that You may be
mistaken as we'll as thcy. and u,on if
they are wrong, attribu.: - 10 ne natu-
raj lmpertections Vt ban. 1t has been
said that | have net raised men fast
enough. have raised all that has been
asked for. Iowa has p"1rrd forth her
thous. nds as fast as called for by the
General Government 1t has been said
that the Iowa volunteers have not been
clothed as well and rapidly as they should
have been clothed. That is your fault, ,
not mine. had not the money to do it
You have it, and | have not been furn-
i>hel with it. The clothes worn by your
First, Second and Third Ne.mcnts to-
day have not been paid for. Net \ dol
lar has been paid for them Three thou,
sand men-among them your sons and
brothers-are wearing clothes which are
yet unpaid for. Much fault was found
with me because your soldiers at Keokuk
d'd not receive their poor pittancc of
+ pay, which they were to receive from the
State for the period intervening between
the time Of the enlistment in the service
of the State, and their acc, ptauce into
the service of the United States They
were there without money ~ bny even
tobacco or postage stamps. You know
as well as thst the Executive Of this
State had not dollar to advance to the
soldiers. After they were mustered in
at keokuk, Ezekiel Clark, Hiram Price,
Of Davenport, and your Speaker, borrow
ed on their private credit the money,
some thirty thousand dollars, which was
required to pay them, aud paid it, and
the debt is unsatisted to day. The Tx
etutive of this State drew some s. 900
out Of the State Treasury which he had
no more right by law to take for that
purpose than any one of you the bol-
ancc we borrowed on our individual
credit, and you owe it to US now. If there
be fault in this connection on whom
does it rest? | do do not like to say
these things, but justice to myself com
pels ne to say tn m. The people of
Iowa have not furnished their Executive
with money for the expenditures which
he was required by law to make, as they
Should have doue The Bank of this
city holds my protested uotcs for Sc, 900,
and | have borrowed so much that |
thought 1t was sl2, 900 until | called at
the Bank to-day and inquired. was
absent from home last week, and found
upon my return notices of protested pa,
per Of mine to the amount Of $4,000
more; ard also not less than seven of
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