Muscatine weekly journal. [volume] (Muscatine, Iowa) 185?-1890, 1863-09-04

Provost Marshal General that credit will not
De allowed towns for any excess of volunteers
they may have furnished over their quotas
under previous calls. The Provost Marshall
General has also decided not to allow credit
for volunteers raised since June 18th, 1863,
in districts where the draft has taken place.
but in districts where the draft has been COM
menced, credit will be given for recruits sent
to regiments In the field, and for volunteers
endorsed in companies which may be raised
in such districts and mustered into the U S.
service between the 18th day of June, 1868,
and the day preceding that fixed for the draft
to take place, merely endorsed, will not be
credited. They must be mustered into some
organized company. #
JEFFERSON CRY, Mo-, Sept. 1.
The radical emancipationists met here in
State Convention to-day, and effected Der
manent organization, with Judge Wills, of
Cole county, in the Chair, and two Vice Pres
idents from each Congressional District
Four fifth of the counties in the State are
represented and other delegates are yet to ar
rive. Candidates for Supreme Judgeship of
the the State will be nominated.
The following resolution created the widest
| enthusiasm, and was referred to the committee
on resolutions:
Relying upon the unanimity of feeling ex-
listing between the Union men of Missouri
and Illinois, we respectfully request the latter,
while assembled in mass meeting at Spring
field, to join US in appealing to the President
for such change in the administration the De.
partment of Missouri as will correct the
evils OF the policy of pro slavery -conservat-
ism and concession to rebels, which has per-
mltted the massacre at Lawrence, and under
| which truly loyal men of Missouri are to day
| suffering the infections of a murderous civil
strife, from the presence of large numbers of
enemies to the Government, while every foot
of her soil is under Federal rule. ..
resolution was adopted declaring it ex-
pedient for the convention to make necessary
arrangements for calling Constitutional Con-
vent'on to adopt and submit to the people an
ordinance of immediate emancipation, and
such other measures as will tend to pacifcate
| the State.
Resolutions were also adopted recommend
ing the people to instruct, in writing, by a
majority of voters, any member of the pres
ent Legislature who will not pledge himself
In writing to vote for the call of new con-
vention, and the name of each member betray-
ingg his constituents be published in every
newspaper in the State.
The following was also adopted
Resolved, That we respectfully demaud of
Gen. Schofield permission to recruit wagons
belonging to disloyolists in this State and
that as the exigencies of the times indicate a
change in Department commanders, we APP
point a committee to draft a memorial which
shall be signed by the members of this Con
vention, requesting the President to assign
Gen. Butler or some other suitable man, to
command this Department; that we regard
the Presidents Proclamation in January,
1868, irrevocable, and we request our Legis.
lature, Senators and Representatives in Con.
gress to use their utmost endeavors to have
our National Constitution amended prohibit
ing slavery forever in the States now free, or
hereafter applying for admission into the
| Union.
FRANKFoRr, Ky, Sept. /.
Gov. Bramletta is inaugurated. In his In.
augural he contends that the Confederate
States did not change their status by REBEL
ing. That all that is necessary for them to
d. is to return 10 that fealty TO take their posi-
ton as States That rebellion did not remit
them to territorial state He says we have
Missouri and will have, when the rebellion
closes, the identical Constitution which the
extremists seek to destroy. 1t is restored
Union, not reconstructed one.
The Governor strongly objects to The
armng of slaves, and asks what is to be don
with such soldiers at the close of the war
He points to the result of the recent election
as proof that Kentucky will not fraternize
with rebels, &c. He declares that Kentucky
has ever been and now is and always will re-
main loyal to the Government of our fathers
New York, Sept 2.
The follow is President Lincoln's letter:
EXECUTIVE MANSION, !
Washington, Aug 26.}
My DEAR SIR:-Your letter inviting me to
attend mass meeting Of unconditional Union
men, to be held at the Capital of Illinois, on
the Sd day of September, has been received.
1t would be very agreeable to me thus to
meet my old friends at my cd home, but
cannot just now be absent from the city, SO
long as visit there would require The
meeting is to be of all those who maintain
unconditional devotion to the Union, and
| Oil ouhS elos PoAltlCdl lIlSuuS Will kildllh
me for rendering as l do the nations graft
tude to those other noble men whom no par
lizan malice or partizan hope can make false
to the nations life. There are those who are
dissatisfied with me. To such would say, you
desire peace and you blame me that we do
not have it, but how Can we obtainit? There
are but three conceivable ways first to sup
press the rebellion by force of arms. This |
am trying to do Are you for it? if you are,
so we are agreed; if you are not for it, Sec
ond way is to give up the Union. l am
against this. If you are, you should say so
plainly. II you are not for force, nor yet for
dissolution, then only remains some imagin-
able compromise. do not believe that any
compromise embracing the maintenance OF
the Union is now possible. All that can
learn leads to directly opposite belief The
strength of the rebellion is its military, its
army. That army dominates over ali the
country, and all the people within its range.
Any offer of terms made by any man or men,
within that range, in opposition to that
army, is simply nothing for the present, be-
cause such man or men have no power what
ever to enforce their side of a compromise if one
were made with them. To illustrate, suppose
refugees from the South and peace men of
the North meet together in Convention and
frame and proclaim compromise embracing
the restoration of the Union, in what way can
| that compromise be used to keep Gen. Lees
army out out of Pennsylvania Gen. Meade's
army can keep Gen. Lees army out of Penn
sylvania, and think can ultimately drive it
out OF existence. But no paper compromise,
| to which the controllers of Gen. Lees army
are not agreed, can at all effect that army in
an effort at such compromise. We would
waste time which the enemy would improve
to our disadvantage, and that would be all.
A compromise to be effective must be made
either with those who control the rebel army,
or the people first liberated from the domino
ton of that army by the success Of our arms