The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1862-01-20
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aour views, aud bring about their adoption
/ if found correct. The giving of honest
council and the rendering of faithful ser.
vice make up the duty OF all true men.
The war has brought on us severe tri.
ais, and others are yet to come. Many
of our best and brayest men have died up
ION the battlefield or in the hospital, and
many more must die. Our business op-
erations have been interrupted, our mar
kets have been closed, the prices of the
products of our industry have been less
ened, we have been compelled to wholly
forego or materially TO curtail the use of
some iuxuries which, by use had become
to us as comforts of life, and these things
must continue to be. They are the inev-
liable attendants of war, and mnst be
borne bravely, unhinchingly and cheer
fully. Life is valuable, but it is intend
ed to be useful and how can any one
make his life more useful I'll an by giving
it to his country? Could our own brave
men who died at Wilson's Creek, Blue
Mills, and Belmont have used their lives
in any other way to better purpose than
by losing them on those bloody but glo-
rious battle-felds2 Their names will
live after them, enbalmed in the hearts
of our children and our children chill.
dren, as the names of ,nen who died for
their country, and their example will fire
the hearts of generations yet to come to
deeds of equal and as noble daring.
MO IN or, ~ flv v,a,oaf,l ~ ca.na
loving people, and the interruption Of our
peaceful avocations by war and it's Incl.
dents bears heavily upon us but We must
remember that the only way to bring back
and make permanently secure to us that
peace we love SO well, is to convince those
who have thrust this war upon MS and to
convince all others that although we love
peace much, we love our country's honor
and the perpetuity of the Union more
But do we not exaggerate the evils of
our condition. | am we'll convinced
there is not in the wsrld a people of
equal numbers, all of whom enjoy to-day
30 many OF the necessaries and of the com
forts Of life as arc enjoyed by our people.
Ia our own State our cause of complaint
is not that VIC have not enough of the
necessaries of life, but that we cannot get
high enough prices for what we can spare
of our superabundance not that we have
not food, but that We cannot sell to ad-
vantage food we do not need
But we will have to pay heavy taxes
True. We will and it il equally true we can.
We have to do but one thing. and that
thing we must do. We must give up the
idea of money making to great extent
until this war is over. We must be con-
tent to devote to the preservation of the
country a portion Of all OF the surplus we
have been accustomed to lay up in years
gone by. We may be required to return
% customs and expedients for many years
abandoned. We may be compelled to do
as our fathers and mothers did, clothe our
selves as they did with the products of
their own farms and hands What then I
Our men will be none the less brave, loyal
and loving; cur women none the less true
hearted, lovely and beloved. We may be
required to do and may do all these things
and yet suffering and want still be far
from US. We may be required to do and
may do all these things and yet will not
have done nearly so much az our fathers
did to hand down to us the rich inheri-
lance we are now striving to transmit un-
impaired to our children. And, if re.
gured, will we. not do it promptly and
cheerfully
] cannot close this address without pay
ing well-dcserved tribute to the brave
men who represent our State in the great
army collected to do battle for our coun-
| try. We may well be proud of them
We here as officers, aud all our people as
citizens, should feel that there is much for
us to do to maintain that high reputation
they have won fo- our State.
Trace the Iowa LIST on their weary way
10 Springfield; see them ragged and hum
CRY, but cheerful and ready; listen to
their marching song as it rolls along the
column, lending new vigor to themselves
and comrades hear their fierce shouts
and witness their daring deeds on the field
where Lyon fought and fell witness the
heroic spirit Of devotion and self.sacrifce
with which the Iowa Third at Blue Mills
attacked, and the bravery with which they
fought the enemy in overpowering mum.
bers to delay that enemy's retreat until
expected reinforcements could arrive
Il See the Iowa Seventh on the bloody field
of Belmont, heading the attack and cover
ing the retreat; witness the cheerful en-.
durance, the unllrIng IgIci VI. s.sG
table valor If III our froons w hanovnr NJ
wherever tried, and who does not feel
proud that he too is an Iowan! We owe
j these gallant xi9n much, The rank and
file Of our regiments have never been sur.
passed. ! doubt very much if they have
ever been equaied. There is not com.
pany in any Of our Regiments which doe,
not contain 10 its ranks men who, in In
telligence and moral worth, arc the peers
Of any man who hears me- They have