The Tipton advertiser. [volume] (Tipton, Cedar Co., Iowa) 1856-1962, 1862-09-11
FROM WASHINGTON.
correspondence ofthe Advertiser.

WASHINGTON, D. c., Aug? %, 1862.
EDITOR ADVERTISER:
News items are very scarce here in
the capitol. To be sure new regiments
are daily arriving and passing through,
but We have no reliable news of the
doinss of the Army of Virginia for q
week or ten days past. 1t is believed
that Gen. Siscl took, by strategy one
thousand rebel prisoners. We have news.
paper reports of other operations on the
Happahannock, but We are learning not
to believe any thing but official reports,
unless perchance we have the news d.
rect from "rcliablc person"
Government has notice of the threat
cned resistance, in some districts, to the
draft an / arrangements have been made
that will soon bring any who wish "to
try that On y to speedy punishment. 1t
Is fact that our governmental burthcns
are so light and the restraint of our re.
publican institutions are so seldom felt
IN opposition to the citizen's freedom of
action, that most have never even thought
OF what they owe the government that
protects them in this freedom.
In all European States the subjects of
the several governments are reminded Of
their obligations in this respect very frc. |
4uent!y-cspccially that part of them /
that requires the governed to sustain the
government with life and property. In
the German States every man has to
serve as soldier, and the large standing
armies Of England and France require
recruiting officers continually to keep up
their numbers. These keep in perpetual
remembrance the duty that is binding on
every man to support the government
under which he lives with his lifc--and |
the tax ratio in those countries reminds b
the tax payer Of his duty 10 contribute y
his property to the support Of govern t
!ncNt. We, Of tie United States, in il
ytars past, have 50 seldom seen soldier d
or any Of the material Of war that many tt
u. Us have forgotten that it was by a \
Ion- aud bloody war that our forefathers L
established this free government aud Sc A
cured to US Cur hitherto happy homes, or n
that it was by war that our national b
rights were vindicated before the world c
in l>l2. La our own conviction that o
none but fools would ever attempt to !
overthrow or break down SO mild and t
bcnlicent a government as ours, under |
which oH had prospcrcd more than any ,
other nations citizens or subjects, we
had, also, forgotten that nar was the {
only means to crush a rebellion aud save {
A government when attacked by traitors. y
We had generally been law abdin:
people and III our prosperity, under our
irvo institutions, had paid our light taxes
aud sUppos cd this our whole duty The {
events Of the past two years have rudcly n
Awoke Us to comprehension Of the fact E
tLat within and under the best Of GOV Ii
crnmchts there arc men who can be trait G.
"rs. Men who, if they cannot rule in c
heaven, would tcign rule in hell Now, il
cvr'y citizen is called upon to support d
the government against these traitors So
Every GOOD citizen will chccrfulIy do, to al
support our republic, what is required &C
Tor the SUPPORTED all govcrnmcnts-sve is
It's NoptIt? and, if need be, his life to co
l"rretuatc this government for the ben. th
CIT Of his children and humanity. If th'
>ltre is man who does not love his "
c-ua;ry and its free institutions well AM
enough to do this, let him leave it-let til,
"," have .aii christian countries, for Le pic
J. ,h'y fit to dwell with savaycs where /
",-ht nahls ,ght. There he will find .sr
~oIn. "vulAI place suited to his cUwardly tn
nature. so
THE opposition to drafting cmanatcs til
trou the elders an ! abcttors of treason p(
aud VIII b. treated accordingly by the d
HoyvtNlucnt. 81
LoRZo. II