Charles City Republican intelligencer. [volume] (Charles City, Iowa) 1861-1864, 1863-10-08

was informed that there was no room
or need of it, the gallant Irishmen me
to consider what to do next and. afte
considering the subject in all its bear
ings, determined and voted, eight hun
dred and sixty to four, that " we viii
keep up regular drill and discipline
and preserve our organization i'm ful
vigor until We stall be needed"
The little town Of Proviso feels tha
she must be up and doing at once
and with all her might. Proviso ha.
ninety voters she gives Instant,
seventy-iive men to the service of heI
country. Freeport, with no particu
lar story to tell, except that she is do
ing her duty, telegraphs in a genera
way TO one of the Western papers
" We have NO desire to outlive on,
Government if it fall, we and OUT
children fall with it," Aledo, like
every other town in the West for a
year past, has been sorely afflicted by
the political war-whoops continually
raised about her Republican and Demo
cratic poles. In these first days o
her Pentccost, Aledo determines tla
there shall be no more Democrat ant
Republican, but only patriot anc
American. So, full of her good pur.
pose, she musters all her sons of eve
ry name, marches to her poles, lowers
them carefully. skillfully saws them
into slices, splices each carefully
to each until they are one pole, ant
then with mighty shoutings rails,
that, with the flag of the Union flung
ont over all.
No unreadiness on the part of the
State or general executive could chill
this impulse and instinct of the west.
ern mainland woman. We have
seen that the Iowa lst was raised in
a few hours. The boys came in from
farm and town in common working
costume. Iowa felt that it was hard.
ly the thing TO send her sons out So
yet there was not uniform in the
State, and the men were wanted in
stantly. So she .clcgraphed to Chi.
cago for blue flannel, and had it mp by
the next train which numberless
wives, mothers, sisters and sweet
hearts attacking with shears aud nee.
dies, her regiment was put into uni
form in few hours more, and sen'
away rejoicing. There was laughte,
at the sight, as the stalwart youth
came on through our great cities !; but
it was laugh of infinite Tenderness
TO see how the heart of the people bea,
on the upper Mississippi.
=. The impulse to do something for the
country was not confined 10 age
for here is Mr.. Bates, of Pendleton, In.
diana, believing that he can fight yet,
if they will let him, cnlisting accord
ingly but rejected, to his intense dis
gust, because he has owned to being
ninety years Of age; or to sex-for
here is Mary w. Dennis, standing six
feet two inches in slippers, who, being
unknown in these parts, and disguis.
cd as a man, enlists in the Saltwater
company of the lst Minnesota regi
ment, and Mary being q handy as wei
as a handsome fellow, is promoted t,
be Lieutenant before she is found out
or to the average of ordinary patriot
ism-for here is famil y of sixteen
yonng men residing in Dayton. Ohio,
cnlisting at once, and in one compa.
ny and another Iowa editor telling
how hard it is to get his paper out, be-
cause his two sons that he had count
ed on to help him, the youngest only
fifteen years of age, have enlisted, and
walked two hundred miles TO join their
company, and now lac has third
counting how long before he can go
too, with four more growing finely
and he hopes he may yet have sever
more to go or to commercial usage
for here is an eminent Detroit firm
offering to furnish the Governmen,
with fifty tons of shot and shell, TO be
paid for whenever it is convenient.
And one morning gust Of laugh.
ter passed over Chicago, as the story
goes, that, the day before, a great
house in New Orleans had te!egraphed
to one in Chicago for large quantities
of, corn. The securities were safe
the margin splendid, but the reply
was instantly flashed back, Eat your
cotton |" Another laugh there was
when the Illinois boys had slipped
down quietly to Cairo to watch fol
whatever might come over from Ken
lucky. and stopped steamer bound
down the river laden with lead. The
lead was unloaded on the levee, anG
presently gentleman from the South
inquired Why that lead wasn't sen,
down to which the Captain replied
hc believed those Illinois fellows wcr,
Intending to send il down Ia sfnallcl
packages f. a1eal "a.
Sneh was the response of the West
ern man on the instant, to the cry o
the country for aid against her enc
mics. The messages of the Govern
.ors, as they were published one b,
one, full of earnest patriotism as the,
were, did but echo the cry that had al
ready gone out of the heart of the peo
pie themselves. . Morton, of Indiana
said :. :. The voice of party should nov
be, hushed and forgotten let US maxi
one party, and that for the country
Blair, of Michigan: "Ihold that TIT
State witch refuses to aid the Govern
ment now is as much guilty of treason
as the State which makes actual war.
Ramsey, of Minnesota This wa
began where Charleston is it ough
to end where Charleston was" Kirk
wood, Of Iowa: The people o
Iowa are ready to pledge every fight
ing man in the State, and every dolla
of money or credit, for the country !;
and the people heartily shoute
Amen"
In the summer of 1861 the write
was called by telegraph to attend
funeral in secluded village in Mich
gan. The Lieutenant Governor Of tn
State was dead. Sitting with til
widow and children afterwards, "
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