Bradford reporter. [volume] (Towanda, Pa.) 1844-1884, 1863-02-12

HEAD QUARTERS, Mo. INFANTRY voLs..1
PACIFIC, FRANKLIN Co. Mo-,
Jan 91 lSe3

| HEAD QUARTERS, Mo. INF ANTRY VoLs..1
| PACIFIC, FRANKLIN Co., Mo-,
| Jan. 81, 1868.
| Ny DEAR FATHER AND MOTHER Since
wrote you last our locality has been changed
from Macon to this place, after stopping about
two weeks at Benton Barracks We arrived
here about the 25th December, aud proceeded
at once to relieve the 4th Missouri Volunteers,
stationed in squads and guarding bridges be.
tween St. Louis and Jefferson City on the Pa.
| cifc Z. Il. and Southwest Branch.
My Company is stationed at this place,
| Head Quarters Commander of the Post mark.
| ed on the map as Franklin, but the Post OF.
flee is Pacific" from the fact that an Office
of that name (Franklin) exists in Boone Co.
| We are just 81 miles from st. Louis, in the
great Cataw0a Wine district The inhabi-
tants in town are mostly Germans but the
country around is decidedly "secesh" Still,
the heavy bonds they have been placed under
prevents them from showing too much of their
rebelIouS proclivlteS-a poor excuse, | think,
to make man l0yaL 10 his country!
DO you suppose that money would buy nv
patriotism ? Was it money that made our
forefathers rebel against King George Yer.
| lily not the principles that founded this great
Nation aud made it shine above all others on
the globe, still exist and as long as | can
| WIeld the sabre for those principles, let me be
conscious OF the act that patriotism alone
prompts me, and let my. right arm drop to my
side parazed when | cease to persecute to
/ the death the rebel miuiouS who dare set up
ior themselves in defiance of that beautiful
ensign OF Liberty that so often gaze at
but to a 'nire
Tae Stars 4 Stripes" were good enough
for my ancestors, and they're good enough for
me.
But while Missouri is striving to her ut.
most to regain q position in the constellation
OF that banner" and to extingnish that curse
which has blotted her fair name, the only
cause why King JEFF. has his eye upon her and
still! claims her-the " bone Of contention .
l mean the nigger y say when this horr
ble war here in Missouri has brought the peo
pie to see the influence that has been exerted
10 drag this State from the Union, they are
nov resolved 10 do away vita that curse for
ever and III the face Of this the noblest act
OF the State, party has sprung I'D, calling
themselves Conservatives" j" ~ who seek in
every possible way TO block the wheels Of
Government, calling this unconstitutional and
that usurpatloD, and ell for what? Ah ! |
can tell you =" Demouacy" All, that Thom-
as jefferson AID Andrew jackson Of old could
but rise in their sepulchral robes and view
this " modern DemocracY,7 in its attitude for
place and power over the ruins OF this great
Republic How they would blush with shame
aud hide their heads in disgust, after viewing
the acts OF such men as Falandigham, SaulS
bury u 90. Ii makes my heart bleed to
contemplate the ylllainy practced by these po-
Ht!cal bIoodhoands, who are secretly plotting
another ReTolution, while the honest soldier
IS trudgng along in his wearisome work Of
putting down this fendish Rebellion. Oh !!
where is that American pride, American hon.
or, American feeling-the spirit of their faith.
erS? Whittier has fed the fires Of ancient
Democracy ?-whjther has fed their American
souls, whittier their personal honor to thus.
in the face of bleeding thousands of Union
soldlers-(say nothing of the treasure that has
been expended )-conspire against the gov
erhment-the government that made and sus
tanned many OF them, but to regain place and
power! There is but one course to pursue.
Ile Government must put its hand firmly up
Oh the neck Of the first breathing embryo of
this conspiracy, let it manifest itself where it
Will. Whether it be conservative Democrats
Legislature, Governor or Senator-anWhang
that threatens to iuterpose itself between the
Government and the child of its wrath to
thwart the purpose of the former, to chastise
into obedience aud restore to good order the
latter, must be strangled in its birth.
Yet fear dark future in contemplating
the past twelve months but GoD is on the
side of g freedom," and if our enemies gain
the ascendancy for time, twill be but for US
to hurl them farther down to regions of in
fanny from whence they first sprung.
Your wandering boy,
\. j. CAMP,
no