The Evansville daily journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ia. [i.e. Ind.]) 1848-1862, 1861-12-02

barbarian warfare, and where now are the
$4,000 to avenge our wrongs and free oul
country Had $4,000 men f1ocked to oul
standard with their shot guns in their hands
there would not now be Federal hirehngS
in the State to pollute our soil. Instead OF
ruined communities, starving families and
desolated districts, We should have had a
people blessed with protection and with
stores to supply the wants, necessities and
| comforts of life. Where are these $4,000
men Are Missourians no longer true to
| themselves Are they q timid, time
serving, craven race, ft only for subjection
to despot? Awake countrymen, to a
sense of what constitutes the dignity aud
greatness of a true people A few men
/ have fought your battles, q few men have
| dared the dangers of the battle field a few
/ have borne the hardships of the camp, the
! scorching sun of summer and the frosts of
| winter, the milaria Of the swamps, the pri-
vations incident to our circumstances, IA
/ tigue, hunger and thirst, often without
blankets, without shoes with insufficient
clothing, with the cold wet earth for a bed,
the sky for a covering and stone for a
| 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 where one has been lost on the
field, three have been lost by disease, in
duced by privation and toll. During all
these trials, we have murmured not. We
offered all we had on earth, at the altar of
| our common country, our own beloved
Missouri, and we only now ask our fellow
citizens, our Southern brethren, to come to
Us and help US wear what we have gained,
and to save our glorious inheritance from
the cruel hand of the spoler and oppressor.
Come to US, brave sons of Missouri Rally
to our standard l must have so, 900 men,
L call upon you, in the name of your country
for 80, 600 men. Do you stay at home to
take care of your property Millions of
dollars have been lost because you nave
stayed at home. Do you stay at home for
your own safety More men have been
murdered in their homes than / have lost
in FIVE successful battles Do you stay at
home to secure terms with the enemy ?
Then | 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 Hessian and the Jayhawker
cannot will not, attribute such motives
to you, my countrymen But where are
our Southern rights" friends2 We must
drive the Oppressor from our land. / must
have $4,000 mem Now is the crisis of
your fate. Now, the golden opportunity 70
save the State Now is the day of your
political salvation. The time for enlistment
for our war band is beginning to expire
Do not hold their patience beyond endurance.
Do not longer sicken their hearts by shope
deferred ~ They begin to enquire, "where
are our friends ?" Who shall give them an
answer Boys and small property holders
have, IN the main, fought the battles, for
the Profession Of your property; and then
they ask, ''who the men for whom we
are fighting 2" How shall 1, how can l ex-
plain, citizens of Missouri?
call upon you by every consideration of
interest," by every desire of safety, by every
tie that binds you to home and country,
delay no longer. "Let the dead bury their
dead" Leave your property 10 take care
of itself Commend your homes to the
protection of God and merit the ap-
probation and love of childhood and woman
hood, by showing yourselves men. Il
Sons of the brave and free, who be- i
queathed to US the sacred trust of free in
situations, come 10 the army of Missouri |
Not for week, or month, but to free
your country.
''strike 'tin the last armed foe expires;
Strike Tor your affairs AMI your fires
strike Tor the green graves OF your sires-
God and your native iand"
The burning fires of pat riotism must in
spiFe and lead you, or all is lost lost too,
at the moment when all might forever be /
saved. Numbers give strength, numbers /
intimidate the foe. Numbers seek the I
necessity often of fighting battles. Numbers |
make our armes irresistible Numbers |
command universal respect and insure con-
fdence. We must haze 5000 D,ent Let
the herdsman leave his folds; let the farmer
leave his fields; let the mechanic leave his
shop; let the lawyer leave his office, until
we restore the respect of law Let the
aspirants for office and place know they
will be weighed in the balance of patriot
ism, and nlay be found wanting If there
be any craven, crouching spirits, who have
not the greatness of soul to respond to their
country's call for help, let them stay at
home, and let only the brave and true come
out TO join their brethren on the tented field.
Come with supplies of clothing aud tents,
if you can procure them. Come with your
guns of any description, that can be made
TO bring down foe If you have no arms
come without them, and we will supply you
as far as it is possible. Bring cooking
utensils and rations for a few weeks, bring
blankets and heavy shoes and extra bed
clothing, If you have them. Bring no |
horses to remain with the army, except
those necessary for baggage transportation.
We must hare $4,000 men. Give me these
men, and by the help of God, viii drive
the hireling bands of thieves and marauders
from the State. But if Missourians fail
now to rise in their strength and avail
themselves of the propitious moment to
strike for honor and liberty, you cannot
say that we have not done all we could to
save you.
You viii be advised in time, at what
point ts report for organization for active
service. Leave your property at home.
What if it be all taken? We have two
hundred million dollars of Northern means
in Missouri, which cannot be removed.
When we are once free, the State viii in
demuify every man who may have lost a
dollar by adhesion to the cause of his coun-
try. We shall have our property, or its
value, with interest but in the name Of
God and the attributes of manhood, let me
appeal to you by considerations infinitely
higher than money Are we a generation
of dwelling, snivelling slaves Tor are we
men, who viii assert and maintain the rights
and the principles of everlasting recti-
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