Muscatine weekly journal. [volume] (Muscatine, Iowa) 185?-1890, 1863-04-17
0URsARMY CORRESPONDENCE.
HEADQUARTERS 38TH Iowa fNF'Y,
New M MADRID, Mo-, March 28th,

New MADRID, Mo-, March 2Sth.
At meeting of the officers of said regi.
ment this day, the following resolutions were
unanimously adopted, and on the same day
were presented and read to the regiment al
dress parade, and adopted with one dissent.
ing voice: io'' % " 2' ''o'' tM "
Rssolped, That the war in which we are
engaged, was forced upon the United States
without cause or provocation, by men who,
for a long time prior to actual war, had been
plotting the destruction Of our Government
by armed resistance to its rightful authority
who, as declared by Stephen A. Douglas in
1861, were engaged in an :" enormous conspir-
acy formed more than year since formed
by leaders of the Southern Confederacy more
than twelve months ago, whose scheme was
carnage and civil war in the North, and who
hoped in the Northern States party questions
would bring war between Democrats and Re-
publicans, when the South would step in with
her cohorts, help one party to conquer the
other, and then make easy prey of the vic
tors" olr ~gH . l'g
Resolvsd, That we endorse further the dec
laration Of Mr.. Douglas, that "every man
must be for the United States or against it,
There can be no neutrals in this war only
patriots and traitors" 9. Slae,t g.'
Resoloed, That traitors are our enemies and
patriots are our friends, whatever may have
been their past political associations, or
wherever may be their present habitation. q
kesoIced, That the issue Of this contest by
military victories, not by political or peace
conventions, that every armed enemy must be
subdued by the power of the Government,
not placated by concessions; that we are op.
posed to an armistlce, because it would weak
en- our cause, strengthen the enemy, and pro-
long the war; that peace obtained by any 9TH
er means than the laying down Of arms by
the citizens Of the Southern Confederacy, and
their unconditional submission to the laws of
the United States, would be delusive, treach-
erous peace, and but an interlude between
recurring wars, more atrocious
and embittered at each renewal.
ResoIced, That we will give the United
States Government our best efforts to prose
cute the war until every armed foe shall be
subdued, and our earnest support to all meas
ures necessary to re.establish its authority
over every foot Of its former jurisdiction, in
the most speedy and thorough manner .s
Res0lued, That we detest the cowardly,
treacherous demagogues of the North, who
are striving, by appeals to party prejudices
and other passions, to create disatfection and
in the army, to discourage en-
listments and encourage desertion, to injure
the credit of the Government, and to carry
portion of the citizens in opposition to the eff
forts Of the Government to prosecute the war,
upon the success of which depends our ma
tional life and individual security and we
warn them that if they persist in their scheme
Of opposition to the Government, and bring
civil war to our hearth-stones while we are
absent battling against malignant foe, whose
defeat Is equally necessary to the security Of
their property, homes, wives, children and
friends as our own; that the day which marks
our return will be to them day Of terrible
retribution; that we shall hold them answer
able for all wrongs inflicted upon and suffer-
ings endured by our families by reason of
such revolutionary action, and mark as enc
mics all ins:igators, aiders and abettors
thereof
Resolved, That our motto is "Long live
the United States Government and its loyal
defenders, and speedy deah to the REBEL.
ion and its supports"