Muscatine weekly journal. [volume] (Muscatine, Iowa) 185?-1890, 1863-11-06
Can the Volunteers be had?


Doubts are expressed as 10 the success of
the Presidents call for volunteers. We be-
lieve the three hendred thousand can be OBJ
tanned if serious and determined effort is
made. Only lack Of reasonable faith and
effort cause failure. In this case
sour doubts are traitors,
And make us lose the good we oft might win
BY fearing an attempt"
that volunteering can be stimulated to the
desirable result. The inducements are great;
never before were such liberal bounties offer
ed-S4O0 for re-enlistments and $500 for
new men. Local bounties and State aid to
the families of volunteers add much to these
inducements. The season too Is favor be. 49,
Harvest work is how about over, and many
thousands of able-bodied men are rceas ed
who can do better for themselves as soldiers
than in any other business. A la &c proper
ton of these men are heartily int rested in
the national cause, and patriotism unltes
with the pecuniary consideration in inducing
them to take up arms and finish up the work
of subduing the rebellion, now apparently so
near its end.
Mt only for the necessary purpose of
promptly hl!ing up our armies is it desirable
that the entire energies OF the people shall be
given to the work of recruiting, but ais, for
the moral effect The rebels have calculated
largely ucon the decay of Northern interest
in the war, and the poor success of our late
draft has given them great encouragement
1t is favorie idea with thtm that the Fed
eral Government IN get no more men, and
that if they can hold out few months lon
ger, we shall be obliged to concede their in
dependence for lack Of soldiers to keep up
the war. Let them see another grand pop.
ular uprising like that with which the war
commenced, and three hundred thousand
fresh volunteers and returning veterans
brought into the field by the first of Janu-
airy, and they will feel that the loyal PEG
pie of the Union are in earnest in their de-
termination to defend it, and that the
cause of the Confederacy is hopeless. The
fact that the North is determined to pro-
secute the war to entire success, declared in
the fall elections and proved by fresh rally
of volunteer soldiers, will be worth many
battles to the loyal cause, and will tend to
bring the war to an end without any more
serious fighting. 1t is Already difficult for the
rebel leaders to file their men up to thefighting
point; the feeling is getting TO be common
throughout the South that the cause of the
Confederacy is already in fact lost Letthree
hundred thousand Union volunteers rally I'M
der the stars and stripes, before January, and
that feeling will become fixed conviction,
and we shall not only hear of frequent de-
sertions and mutines among the rebel SOL
diers, but the popular demand for peace, now
silenced by force in North Carolina, will
make itself heard in every Southern State.
Three hundred thousand men can be had
if all loyal citizens will respond to the call of
the President and cooperate in the work of
recruiting. Only the copperhead democrats
will throw obstacles in the way, and they are
destined henceforth to be few in numbers
and unimpcrtant in influence. The response
of Governor Seymour of New York to the
Presidents proclamation is significant of the
course to be taken henceforth by the demo
cratic masses, and by all the sagacious demo
cratic leaders. Their influence in favor of re-
,cruiting may now be relied upon, and again
we have united North in ali that il essen
tial to the earnest prosecution OF the war
Politics may be safely left to take care of
themselves. The party that neglects the ma
tional cause to plot for its own success will
make nothing by it. The people are getting
too sharp for the party trickstcrs. and are
too much in earnest for the salvation OF. the
nation to tolerate any party gambling with
its grea. interests. The politicians who do
most for the patriotic cause and defer their
own schemes to the general welfare, are the
men who will be honored and rewarded by
the people when the labors and sacrifices of
this time of trial have brought permanent
prosperity and peace. Even such, then, as
have no higher object than to make pc itlcal
capital for themselves and their party, can
do no better than to aid in the grand rally
of reinfoicements by which speedy triumph
and peace are to be won.