Sioux City register. [volume] (Sioux City, Iowa) 1858-1871, 1862-09-27
.dly, sneaking, unreliable, runaway

0IAWiuS ITO" eue government lie OlOOu
the pretty sum of twelve thousand dollars
year. These brave and loyal" dignita.
ries, at the first approach of a red man,
arc the first to leave the country and
with such rapidity do they fly, pale and
breathless, for the States, that boy could
play marbles on their horizontal coat. tails.
And on they 60, Governor, Secretary,
Judges, Attorney General, Clerks and
Prostitution in one wild, panic stricken
express train Of "loyal" officials, crying
At the top eff their voices, "s.a.a'a.re
yourselves, people-s.a.a a.re yourselves,
the sq-uaus are after u.s. Well, the
people became frightened and looked for
officials, but could see nothing but the
vanishing coat-tails Of the latter disap
peariug on the far shore of the Big Sioux
river. Safe in Sioux City, under the pro-
lection Of four military companies and a
battery, these "loyal' officials, like rats in
q hay-stack, stick their heads from under
their wives multitudinous crinoine, and
whisper. with white lps-"Are they com.
ingT Reason answered-No. Then out
comes our gallant Governor from his silk.
en- ambush, and, with military essor. he
follows the mail.stage to the Territorial
Capital. and Immediately issues Procla'
nation, offering an escort of Cavalry for
all families who wished to leave the Ter.
ritory, aud prohibiting all single men from
leaving at all. Well, we waited two days
for somebody to &c. ready to leave. and
not family went Then becoming im-
patient with fear for his own Executive
scalp, be orders detachment of Cavalry
to Vermillion, and thereupon issued passes
to some for or five of bis Abolition friends
single men-who voted the Jayne ticket,
and then with them be again fled the Ter
ritory under military escort.
1t is curious fact, Mr.. Editor, that the
only citizens who have left this county, in
its time Of peril, are leading rabid, loud
mouthed Republicans men who have fed
from the States to the Territory, to avoid
the war for the Union, and are now escap
ing from the Territory TO leave their own
homes and families 20 the mercy of the
savages. 1t is no wonder that the fate of
our nation to day hangs heavily and dark
in the scales of destiny, if the republicans
of the North have sent to the war such
stamp Of cowardly bathrooms as compose
the officials Of this Territory
For the past two weeks the Territory
has been without head. OF all the off
cial, and staff officers OF the militia, the
only one left at the Capitol for five days,
was the Assistant Adju.ant General, who,
at the time was expected to perform the
duties of Acting Governor and Comman.
der in chief of the Militia And this same
staff officer was las. winter styled in the
Legislature a 'disloyal Democrat" by
these same Republicans who are now the
Grst to fee the country when the govern.
mont needs them to sustain her Territorial
organization. 1t is my honest conviction
that our officials, by their cowardly fight,
have frightened more people out Of the
Territory than the Indians.
The Captain of Co. "A, Dakota Militia,
is comfortably quar,errd under the pro,
lection of the Sioux City Cavalry. From
the benefits that your city has already
received from this part of Dakota, in
years past, and from the trade and pat.
ronage of years to come, it would seem
that the bensvolence of your people sho'd
prompt you to bestow upon the Territory
the assistance of one Of your Companies.
for about two weeks not to fight, but to.
quiet the fears of the people al relieve
our settlements uatil crops are harvested
and reinforcements arrive. Sill our Ter
ritory can live and keep her head above
water until assistance arrives but the
critical period in the life of Dakota hangs
on the next two weeks. The Yank,ons
are friendly and are nightly standing guard
with the whites.
Election is over and With all he glar.
ing, barefaced frauds perpetrated in tgo
obscure districts in the Governors behalf
he is defeated in defiance Of all, and his
shame aud disgrace in the eyes of the
people will be deep, damning and eternal.
In the little precinct of Brule Creek, where
last year they polled twen,y-sx votes, they
this year cast seventy three for Jayne
In the Pease settlement, where las. cleo.
ton their entire vote was fify.seyen, they
this year cast one hundred and forty.two
for Jayne These two counties ou,voted
any other two counties 10 the Territory,
and yet, last Spring the Governor vetoed
an appcrtionment bill simply because, as
he stated in his veto, these same two
counties had not population enough to
entitle them to representation equal to
that Of Clay or Ysnkton counties. The