Muscatine weekly journal. [volume] (Muscatine, Iowa) 185?-1890, 1863-04-17

you, and shall take upon myself the respon-
sibility OF prescribing for you, as it Is very
essential that your health should be restored
Immediately. as our country is sustaining 8
severe loss in not having the couassl Of that
nicely balanced brain Of yours. No doubt
the medicine will be unpleasant to take, but
l shall have to insist on your taking It, as We
cannot afford to lose the assistance Of SO val
liable and loyal citizen as you. The pre-
[scription is that you wrap yourself up in the
stars and stripes and take strong decoction
of United States greenback tsa, and continue
to take it until permanent Union cureis ef-
fected. 'sAt 80 .f'ss - fi-s,''s''F-sA 3
Judge, as regards that Courier bill, if you
will 60 before Justice of the Peace and make
oath that you have not received that one dol
lar and fifty cents for printing posters for
said Capt Clover (Which will cost YOU TWEEN.
ty.five cents, which will make the bill 81, 75,)
and forward copy Of said oath to me, those
few odious greenbacks will be forthcoming
Immediately. have no doubt that if you
had few greenbacks it would do more to-
wards permanent alienation of that soft
and ponderous substance called brain, than
any thing else that could be prescribed Judge,
l am really sorry that you did not succeed in
getting position under President Lincoln,
for it would have been much easier for you
to obtain greenbacks from Uncle Sam by &C.
cupying some honorable position and using
what little influence you have in assisting to
put down this rebellion, than it is to obtain
them..by uttering dtsloyal sentiments.
The Judge also presumes am afraid the
war will end. My wishes are right the re-
verse. If this rebellion could be crushed
within thirty days, and the thousands of brave
men that are in the field could return to their
once happy homes, which are now made des-
o'ate by their absence, I would be satisfied,
but am not willing to submit to anything
but an unconditional surrender Of the rebels.
know such are the sentiments of the men
of this regiment. Suppose for a moment that
we have an armistice-what then? Let us
disband our army, surrender up the forts we
have captured from the traitors, raise the
blockade and have peace for six months, who
will gain by 1t? Certainly not the party of
the Union. We have recollection of an ar
mistice under the vigorous administration Of
Mr.. Buchanan, in which he stipulated not to
reinforce Fort Sumter, and the rebels were to
abstain from hostilities. They employed the
time given them in erecting works and plant
ing cannon upon every point that would COM
mand the fort and harbor, and when Presi-
dent Lincoln would have sent troops to the
aid of Major Anderson, it was found to be i'm
possible, and our soldiers and fort became an
easy prey to the rebel Beauregard. Are we
to have the same game played over again p
Give the rebels six months to strengthen
themselves, and to obtain arms and supplies
from abroad-will it be easier to conquer
them then than nowS
Judge, would say to you and all peace
Democrats, your truce is worse than armed
rebellion-it is a base subterfuge, originated
by political demagogues, who either have
been purchased by the rebels, and now have
the price of treason in their pockets or mean
to 60 South whenever the independence Of
the Southern Confederacy is recognized. But
if the scheme should fail, as fail it must, and
secession not be accomplished, what then p
Judge, do you know what will become of you
and your followers in the North, who would
rather see the Government destroyed than
that they should be thwarted in their pol,i-
cal aspirations? For you and those cowardly
and traitorous peace men, history will reserve
place, and you will become as Infamous in
the victorious Union as the ''cow- boys of the
revolution"
Judge, with gentle pat on the back, bid
you adieu for the present.
G. c. GLOVER,
Capt. Go. K, 18th Iowa Inf'y.