Sioux City register. [volume] (Sioux City, Iowa) 1858-1871, 1863-03-14
CONSUMPTION,

According to republican asshori.y there
will be on immediate call under the new
act for 100000 additional troops; the
draft to include first The young men be-
tween The ages Of Is and IS. The quota
to be furnished BY our State will 10 oil
probability take oil Of this class who are
sot from physical disability exempt. 1t
wil be to US . severe burden as it will
take from us those without whom the
ordinary industrial pursuits Of life can
scarce be prosecuted. This draft will be
peculiarly Objectionable for the reason
that it 10 designed to fill up old Regiments
already in the field. I. is therefore call
for privates, not officers. While We realize
the hardships that will be imposed upon
Us and sympatbize with those who may be
required to enter the ranks, we would not
BY single word counsel lawless opposi'
ton. We have fallen upon evil times and
are suffering the curse as We believe. Of
an incompetent and corrupt Administra
ton. Yet rs Democrats, we have always
claimed that the citizen rests under no
higher duty than to render cheerful obe-
dience to the laws of the land. If the
people have been dsluded by ca sting their
votes for bad men they must suffer the
consequences Of their own acts until such
time as they have an opportunity Of apply.
ing the necessary corrective in legal
manner. That time is rapidly approach.
ing and every odious act Of the party 10
power only adds additional grievances to
the already accumulated load, and renders
their doom more certain.
Factious and violent opposition in the
North can only tend 10 strengthen the
rebellious lords of the South, while il will
add to our troubles civil war and blood.
shed at home. Far better is it TO submit
to tho calami,ies to which we are already
sutjected-holdng the authors thereof TO
strict accountability at the bar Of public
sentiment. We believe that necessity
for these stringent and oppressive meas.
ures might have been avoided that but
for the pervering Of the war from pat
rlotic effort to restore the Union into
wild crusade against slavery volunteers
would have continued to rally around our
standard in such numbers as to have long
since overwhelmed those in rebellion
More than this, we believe that even now
All entire change Of policy-an abandou.
ment Of the insane projec. Of compelling
white men to degrade themselves to the
level Of liberated negro slaves would give
such an impulse to the Union sentiment as
would speedily end in a brilliant triumph
But if our efforts in this direction are
powerless the only alternative is left US of
relying upon the good sense and patriotism
Of the people to effect oar deliverance a,
the earliest opportunity which the forms
of law will permit. il is q terrible trial
for men to whom belongs The brthright of
American freemen to be required to peril
thcis lives for the Liberation Of negroes,
when IN all human probability the condi.
ton Of this class will be made worse
rather than better-to fight side by side
with degraded race. But We have the
consolation Of the assurance that the pen
ance will be of short duration. aud that
for all these acts OF oppression there will
ere long be full settlement at the ballot.
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