The weekly north Iowa times. [volume] (McGregor, Iowa) 1857-1867, 1863-03-25

soldier" and his wife and children, you gave
them in order that they might exchange thel
for "little PORK and Il little -four with the IA
mcr." You knew also that in u short time tn
issue Of these warrants would xceed dOubl
the amount of the tax you had levied for tn
pu' pose of paving them, and that this tuc
alone would have a tendency to decrease theI
in value more than one half, and vet with tli
knowledge before your eyes, and with your bu
som heaving with an overload Of love for tn
"dear soldier and his wife and children, you
sir, recommend the soldier loving" board t
receive these warrants only in payment for tha
special tax. To save yourself from the posi-
bility Of II military draft, you had promised tn
''dear soldier" ifho would volunteer an equiva
lent to sixty dollars, and ut the same time t,
provide for his wife and children in his absence
No sooner however, than the soldier has don,
SO, and taken up his line Of march for the bat
tie field, to eight for your rights and mine,
than you t urn round and insult him.. by tellin.
him they were only given to him, his wife ant
his children to enable them to exchange thei
warrants with the former for "little pork" an.
. "litte lanr.", And to show xe,sg exstene,
and overfowing love for the ''dear soldier" wht
you say is ''la. isling his blood upon the battl.
field" you not only recommend u course, bu
you persuade the board to adopt one, which
you knew would throw these Warrants in the
hands OF the soldier, his wife and children dowI
to less than half their face.
"What honest purpose had you in view
when You wrote that message and made thi:
recommend to that "soldier loving" board
Was it because you wanted to fix the value o.
these warrants low, that in the fullness of youl
love for the "dear farmer" you wished to give
him a chance as well as the 'dear soldier'' to
"exchange' with the starving wife a 'little
pork" and 'little -four for them, that he
might pay the tax you have imposed without a
grumble ? Or wits it because you saw and
fecred that ii these warrants were received IN
payment Of aH county taxes 1t would be the
means OF lessenlng the value of these regula,
county warrants, which you, and the "sOldiel
loving" board receive for their pay. Yes. in
your supreme. overpowering, and Immaculate
love tor the ''dear SOLDIER" his starving wife
and little children, you have not forgotten to
take good care OF yourself, for while YOU send
them round among the farmers with sack
upon their backs. to hawk their warrants for a
"little pork" and "little -four" ut the rate OF
thirty, forty, and fifty cents on the dollar, you
SO manage that the warrants YOU receive for
you pay as member OF the "soldier loving
board, are worth to you nearly dollar for dollar
Nor would blame you much for keeping
soldier is away ''6yhting for your. rights aud
mine," if you did not boast so loud about your
love for the "uear SOLDIER" and talk so much
about "lavishing blood" "'battIe fields" '.com.
mon country when the truth is, us soon as
your necks were fairly out Of that dreadful
cOnsciiption, you did not care if the devil had
the soldier, or his wife and children either-
Only Il few days ago. had you been in this city,
you mi ght have seen IL true picture of YOUR
overhowiiig, AMI owe towering love for the
wives and children OF the "dear soidier,' in the
way OF Exchanging" their warrants for 4
"little pork" and a "littlc -four"
Day after day, while your county treasurer
was here collecting the taxes, you could have
seen these broken-hearted, discOnsate wives OF
the ''dear soldier" with their shivering children
around them, crowding round his door, asking
and beeg ng those who passed in and out, 10 give
them any price, almost, for your "bloUu lavish
ing" warrants. have no doubt had YOU been
there you would have told them, as YOU have
in your reply to me, that they were only sven
to them, in order that they might "excharye''
them with the farmer for Il "l;ttle pork" aud "a
"little flour, and that they hal no business t.
hang round the door of the county treasurer
and sell their warrants to speculators. What a
sweet consolation it must be to the "dear sol.
tie fields, fighting for your rights and mine,
when he hears that his wife aud children has
the kind and protecting hand of the president
of the board OF supervisors over them, and
shat he has given the warrants which they are
enabled 10 exchange for little -four and a
little pork with the farmer.
When the soldier agreed to 90 and lavish
his blood upon the battle field, and save YOU
from military draft, you issued to him a war
rant, drawn on the county treasury, for Ger.
tain number OF dollars, because you loved him.
But this issue OF warrants creates debt, and
you levy tax upon the people and the soldier,
to get the money back and pay the debt, but
the farmer is himself in debt, and he cannot
pay, and how is the matter to be liquidated, so
that all may be square again anu no money
lost. This is certainly one Of the great uues.
tious OF the age, and you sir, aud your wise,
far seeing, and soldier loving board have hit
upon the only plan by which alone this great
questions can be solved, and that is, to let the
solder exchange his warrant with the farmer
for one-llalt what it calls for, and get a little
pork and little flour in return. The farmer
can then present this warrant at the counter of
the treasury, the debt is paid up. ard we are
rll right and tight again and no money lost in
the operation, and now you love the farmer.
In the meantime the soldiers wife is cheerful
and happy over full meal, the little urchins
dance around the hearth stOn, S, barefooted and
ragged, happy as larks with their bellies full
OF pork, and the dear soldier knowing all this
to lavish another drop Or two of blood
upon the battle field, and now YOU love his
dear wife and little children.
For the love Of the dear soldier, and his wife
and children, for the love OF the dear people,
and tor the love OF IL common country, | con.
lure you, sir, to write another message, and
lose no time in bringing his great tina, ccli
ing plan OF yours before Sec. Chase, and it he
can once see into it. he will make every cop.
pcrhead i'll the country commit suicide, and run
this war until the day OF judgment.
1t is not true as you assert that advised the
board to issue county warrants to the soldier,
either Oh the 1th OF August last or ut any 9th
er time or place, and you knew it was not true
when you asserted it. On the other hand,
advised your board not to do so, but to adjourn
isr shtvv days to SCI IT sumo plan could ,.vt bV
adopted to get the money, and l distinctly
stated to your board that | was opposed to is
suing batch Of county orders that would be
appreciated in the hands OF the soldier and
bought up by the speculator. l even put the
question to your board adjourn for three days,
in order to adopt some plan to raise the money.
but all to n0 purpose. The draft was upon
you, and nothing but the issue Of your worth.
less paper could. as you thought, save you from
its terrible and impending grasp, and it was
With the utmost difficulty that Mr.. Gilmore
procured un adjournment for even q half hour.
Since that time you have gone Oh in the
most careless and needless manner. grinding out
batch alter batch OF these nearly worthless
trash. and without even knowing. or caring,
the soldier enlisted in Clayton county
Or not, and at the same time stand by, and see
chem hawket about by women, and bought up
by spectators without takiag the first step to
prevent it, and make them useful to the widow
or the orphan. You say you have levied "a
tax for the purpose Of redeeming them, and
yet, according to your own reasoning, that tax
is only tor the purpose Of gathering up among
the farmers those warrants that the wives OF
the dear soldier have exchanged for little
pork and little -four, and still the issue in.
:reases by the thousand over and abeve any
tax. You will not receive them for the regu.