Muscatine weekly journal. [volume] (Muscatine, Iowa) 185?-1890, 1861-09-20
A Few Plain Trllt IDS.


Gov. Kirkwood, in . speech made at Des
MONIES on the 4th inst, told few plain and
wholesome truths, which it is important thu
public should know, not only As vindica
lion of himself, but As an exhibit Of what re
mains yet to be done by the people Of the
state. We quote from the cer6atim rspo,
Of the Register:
s.It has been said that have net raised
men fast enough. have raised all that
have been asked for. Iowa has poured forth
yer thousands as fast as called Tor by tn,
General Government. 1t has been said thai
the Iowa voluntee, have not been clothed as
we'll and rapidly as they should have been
clothed That is your fault, not mine. !
mad not the money to do it. The clothes
worn by your FIRST, Second and Third Regi-
ments to-day have not been paid for Nota
dollar has Ieen paid for them. Three thous-
and men-among them your sons and bro
shers-are wearing clothes which are yet un.
paid for. Much fault was found with Ire be
cause your soldiers at Keokuk did not re-
ceive their poor pittance Of pay, which they
were to receive from the Stale for the period
intervening between the time Of the enlist
nent in the service of the State, and theii
acceptance into the service of the Uniteo
states. They were there without money to
Guy even tobacco or postage stamps. You
know as well as that the Executive Of this
State had not dollar to advance to the SOL
hers. After they were mustered in al
Keokuk, Ezekiel Clark, Hiram Price, of Dav-
EXPORT, and your speaker, borrowed on their
private crealt the money, some thirty thous
md dollars, which was required to pay them.
and paid it, and the debt IL un> atiSfied to-
,iay. The Executive OF this State drew some
s., 900 out of the State Treasury viii h h.
nad no more right by law 10 take for tina
purpose than any one Of you; the balanc.
sc borrowed on our individual ere dit, ana
YOU owe it to US now If there be a FAULT i'll
this connection On whom docs it rest? dc
not like to say these things, but justice l.
myself compels me to say them. The PEG
| Of Iowa have not furnished their Executive
With money for the expenditures which b.
vas required by law % make, rs they .ould
nave done. The bank of this city holdy my
protested notes for 5000, and have Dor
rowed 50 much that thought it was $l2,-
| 200 unit | called at the bank to-day and in
aured | was absent from home last week
! md found upon my return notices OF FRO
tested paper of mine to the amount of ST,
| 100 more; and also not less than seven o
those little tickets which bankers send ou'
10 give ,.ot:cs of notes falling due. Now il
ia not agreeable to q man who has hitherto
Kept his commercial credit unimpairsd thus
10 find it dshonor,d and 1t is still more
! iispleasing when he is cursed all over thu
State for not doing what he was powerless tc
accomplish, and it IS right you should know
i it.
but let US pass from this. 1t is moi
agreeable to you nor to me. only mention
It because it is right you should know here
that the clothes your sons and brothers art
wearing to-day are not paid for, not because
[ am unwilling to pay them, but because
have rot the means. 1t is right you should
know that the money your boys had, do
GOT come from your State Treasury, but was
borrowed upon individual credit, and and is
aot yet refunded. You SHOULD at Least en-
ieavor to help furnish the means to refund
this money by subscribing for State bonds
grew pathetic in newspaper appeal few
days since, asking you to subscribe for STATE
bonds. Now there is scarcely man OF you
who, If life, limb or properly were at stake,
could not take 500 at least of Iowa State
Bonds, and thus furnish the means to carry
on this work. AID have it done right. And
let me say to you plainly though as can,
didate ought not to talk so to you-that in
80 doing you would be performing your duty
As well as in carping and taulttinding. Now
am probably making mist"ke. | don't
know. ought pern.ps to make handsome
vows, speak soft and honied words, things !
cannot do; bu. will tell you the truth 70 |
understand and believe it, and if you don't
like it, you have the remedy in your own
hands, YOU know. But it is due to you for
me to mention what Iowa has already done
in this war She was sent into the field
and now has in active service in Missouri
counting the Iowa FIRST and every man in
Iowa will always love to count the Iowa
First Loud and long continued applause
Ssren thousand men She has in camp a,
Keokuk, 1000 men under Col. Bussey. Sac
has in Burlington another full regiment Of
cavalry under Col. Warren. She has il
Iowa City a regiment Of Infantry cor sistine
f 900 men, waiting the arrival Of another
company of 100 men to complete the regi.
ment which was to have been under the
command of COL Bennett And here lie,
me say of Col. Bennett, he has proved himself
| TO be the patriot as well as the soldier. lie
has acted the man. When he found that his
appointment as Colonel would cause heart
! innings and dissensions in the regiment, hi
said to me -"Placc me where yen llease
but haze the regiment formed" Applause
This was what Col Bennett did. At Dav
export there is a full regiment Of infantry
commanded by Col Hoffman, and full reg
'ment Of cavalry whose reeimental officers
have not yet been appointed. We have,
hope, to- day at Dubuque full regiment OF
infantry under Col. Vandever. Tn is what
Iowa has done; 1t is what your State Au-
thorit;es have done without money to do i
18th, but will not speak Of that again for
am satisfied you would rather hear of some.
thing else"
A HORSE PANIC-TERaIBLE STAMPEDE OF
OVER THREE HUNDRED HoRsEs.-The st. Lou