The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1863-10-09

exemplifed by you and your class of talk
ing patriots" We hear what YOU saw.
But the Draft, the Draft. Mr.. Mat. II.
Carpenter & Co, tel4s different story
" The proof Of the pudding is the eating Of
it." We observe that you talking chaps
all pay your $500 or hire substitute for
less, and remain at home, leaving the de-
cima,ed army to fighti, out alone. Your
" patriotism " may be louder when YOU
talk loud, and warmer when you haste
yeur stomach with good things at home
but what care the rebels for your " pat
riotism," warm and loud, unless Won are
down here in the ranks with a musket in
your hands. That is the kind Of &" patriot .
ism, y and the only kind, on your part.
that they respect. :. Tell them. You say,
Chat is the soldiers " that we pray for
them morning and evening" That is all
very easy aud very cheap and You have
a soft carpet, doubtless, to kneel upon in
your devotions. Prayers are commanded
of US, but they are worthless, in this case,
without men with muskets in the ranks in
front of the enemy. ..
down here where YOU can aid in answering
your own prayers The prayers Of YOUR
self and others of the stay at-homes. will
never be ansH cred to yOu, however the
heavie>t batiaIions and artillery and pray
evs Of fighting men in the field, NAV be
answered to them. Suffer me to inform
you that the soldiers of the army have be-
come nauseated with the empty and cheap
professions, specimen Of which YOU have
given US. Tell them" you say, when
their work is we'll done, to return -
Their work !'' Why our work, more than
yours, and others ike you? All. that is
the depth ofyour patriotic feeling You
intend to remain at home, eat sleep, make
money, enjoy your uninterrupted comforts,
talk patriotic. and leave others TO bear the
" heat and burden ofthe day, in the field
and when We have beaten back the rebel
lion without your aid, torsooth, YOU ale
willing to grant us the boon Of returning
home and you say YOU will then vel
come US with nthusiasm-ia asmuch.
suppose, that you have escaped from the
trials and hardships incident to the work
that is done
You add that at our peaceful coming,
traitors in the north will flee" Who do
you call traitors? We hear YOU denouuc
ing men as copperheads F" and Traitors"
but what more do you for the cause than
they, unless you esteen mere heartlest talk
and hypocracy of account. Yes, give no
practical aid. You talk well, but skuk
by paving your money, when drafted,-
and they do likewise except the much
talking. You vociierously praise the con
script law, and when your drafted come
not! They oppose the law aud the draft,
an! come not! who, then, ale more sin
cere and honest? Let me tell YOU. sir
when the soldiers return home the mere
plaant patriot p.etences will have lit
tie of their confidence or respect, more
than the " traitors you so flippantly de
nounce. The subsistence Of the matter
seems plainly to us soldiers, that YOU ex
elusive, talking, some patriots, are simply
playing the delnagogue for political effect,
and to "put money in your purse as we
have seen it prscticed throughout the
war.
General Cutler truly says, the soldiers
" scorn the man who would withdraw
his < support from the government
When we see and know man. at the
north or south But the soldiers have
learned, long since to decrinotc between
the fact and the malignan. charges OF de
magogueS, pecuIators, and fanatics at
home, who have fa,.ened, in the nations
tribulations, ont of the substance Of the
people and the public treasury. and who
SANDER their neiehbors with the hope Of
holding on to their fat places.
A SOLDIER OF THE SECOND BRIGADE.