The national Republican., 1861-12-02
BY YELEGRAPH.
From Missouri.
PROCLAMATION or GENERAL PRICE

PROCLAMATION or GENERAL PRICE.
Seddltd, No., Nov. 30.-The following proca
nation has been issued by General Price, com.
mander OF the rebel forces. II is dated ut
Neosha. but bears no date.
!" FELLows CITIZENS: In the month Of June
last, WAS called TO the command Of handful
Of Missourians, who nobly gave up home and
comfort to espouse, In that gloomy hour. the
cause Of your blee ding country, struggling with
the most c useless and cruel desp 'tis,n known
among civilized men.
When peace and protection could no longer
be enjoyed but at the price Of honor and liber
y, your Chief Magistrate called for $4,000 men
TO drive the ruthless invader from a soil made
fruitful BY your labors and oonsp Grated by your
homes. To that call less than 1000 responded
out OF male pol uation exceeding 200 600 men,
One in forty only stepped forward to defend,
with their persons and their lives, the cause OF
constitutional liberty and human rights. Some
allowances are to be made on the score Of y
want Cf military organization, a suppressed
want of arms, the necessary retreat of the army
snuthward, the blockade Of the river, and the
presence Of an armed and organized foe. But
nearly six months have now elapsed; your
crops have been titled; your harvests have
been reaped, and your preparations for winter
have been made. The army Of Missouri, organ.
lied and equipped, has tough, Its way to the
river.
The foe is still 10 the field. The country
oleeds, and our people groan under the inhic-
lions of q foe marked with all the character.
istics of barbarian warfare. And where now
are the so, 900 to avenge our wrongs and free
our countryl Had $4,000 men iocked to our
standard with their shot guns in their hands,
there would not now be Federal hireling IN
the State to pollute our soil. Instead OF ruined
communities, starving families, and desulated
districts, we should have had people blessed
wants and necessities and comforts OF life
Where are these so 900 meni Are MissOurians
no longer true to thsmselvesf Are they tmid,
time. serving, craven race, At only for subjec.
sense Of what constitutes the dignity and true
greatness Of q people. few men have dared
the dangers Of the battlefield. A few have
borne the hardships Of the osmp-the soorch.
ing suns OF summer, the frosts Of WINE err the
malaria Of the swamps, the privations incident
to our circumstances, fatigue, and hunger and
thirst, often without blankets and without shoes
with insufficient clothing, with the cold. wet
earth for n bed, the sky for a covering, and
stone for u apillow-glad only to- meet the enemy
on the field, whore some paid tho noblest devo.
tion known among men on earth TO the cause
Of your country and your rights, with their
lives. But where one has been lost in the field
there have been numbers lost by disease in.
duced by privatiOns and toll.
During all these trials, we have murmured
OF. We offered all we had on earth at the al.
ar OF our common country-Our own beloved
Mssouri-and we only have to ask our fellow
citizens, our brethren, to come to us and help
rious INHERITANCE from the cruel hand Of the
spoiler and the oppressOr.
Come to US, brave sons of Missouri. Rally to
our standard. I must have SO, 900 men. / call
upon you,i the name Of your country, for these
any thousand men. Do you stay at home to
take care Of your property? Millions of dol.
lars have been lost because you stay ed at home.
Do you stay at home for gratifics'ion' More
men have been mu"'"""d at home than have
lost In five succes, titles. Do you stay AT
hOma IL.
I warn y0u that the DAY may soon come when
you may be surrendered to the naer0ies of that
| enemy, and your substance be given up to tbs
Hsssians and the jay -Hawkers. l cannot.
| will not, attribute suoh motives to you, my
| COuntrymen.
But where are our Southern rights? Friends,
we must drive the Oppressor from our land. /
must have $1,000 men. Now is the crisis of
the State. Now IL the day for your political
salvation. The time of enlistmenttOr our brave
band is beginning to be beyond endurance.
Do not longer sicken their hearts by hope
deferred. They begin to inquire, where are
our friends? Who shall give them an answer 7
Boys and small property. holders have, in the
main, fought the battle Tor the protection OF
your property; and when they ask, whore are
the men for whom we are fighting, how shall
how can explain?
Citi1sns OF Missouri, 1 call upon you-by
every consideration of interest, by every de-
sire Of safety, by every tie that binds you to
home and your country-delay no longer. Let
The dead bury their dead; leave your property
10 take care of itself; commend Your MONIES to
the protection Of God, and merit the admira-
ton and love of childhood and wOmanhood, by
| showing yourselves men--the sOps of the brave
and free, who bequeathed to us the sacred trust
OF free institutions. Como to the army of Mis-.
souri, for week or month, to free your
country:
Strike till each armed foe expires;
Strike tor your altars and your fires,
For the green graves Of your sres,
God and your native land"
The burning fires OF patriotism must inspire
and lead you, or all Is lost-just at the moment
when all might forever be saved. Numbers
| give strength. Numbers intimidate the foe
and save the necessity often of fighting bat
| ties. Numbers make our arms irresistible.
Numbers command universal respect and in,
spire confidence. We must have so, 900 men
Let the herdsman leave his fields; let the farmer
leave his fields, and let the mechanic leave his
| Office, till We restore the supremacy. Let the
| uani rants for Office and placa know tbev will