The weekly Ottumwa courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1857-1872, 1863-01-15
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As few Of our readers ever read the secesh
organs ia the North, va copy The f,lowin
article from the Bun lington Daily Argus, Of
the 10th inst. From this specimen brick
our readers can form III opinion of the cop
perhead press of this State and the North.
1t is perhaps a. well that they speak their
real sentiments, and proclaim THAR treason,
AS such talk carries its own antidote with j..
The draf, for three hundred thousand
more which Gov. Kirk wood aan ,uaced
sume time ago he would commence with the
new year, and IN anticipation of which the
aboiitlonists were in such tremDrs, is not to
take place. The Davenport papers anthori-
tnliveiy announce that His Exceliency has
thought it wiser for his hide 10 dispense
with that little business for some time t.
come. What the Governor intends to do it
is nos stated. He has got about all the men
he will ever get from this State. to steal n,-
gers, or help Old Abe to destroy the Con.
stitution. The ''road> aud by ways" that
were to be thronged with jealous abolition
lists when the emancipation proclamation
WAS issued, has proved to be myth The
aboltionists have not come to time" Not
a highway has been booked up so far. and
we see 10 disposition on the part of Kirk
wood, trends 10 help their chef out Of the
Dad scrape he has git hiinsetf into. The
thin ranks Of the old regiments are not flled
up. When the avowed policy Of the war
was to be carried on t. restore the Union
and maintain the Constitution, there was NJ,
lack of men To volunteer and risk the,r.hves
for their country. But now. it having been
made war to destroy the government a.
our f4taers male ii, to free tie ne gro ana
build up u despnti,ln Oh the ruins of a free
people, even the threats of u draft, or any
other appliances Of power will not force a
patriotic people 10 enter into the ranks in an
uHholy crusade against their own liberties
Fig htlng now can make no impression on
tie rebellion. by the turn the alnnistra.
ton has given the war, with near "A million
OF men in the field last August, we are
worse off to day than at any tim. since the
rebellion broke out. Tne miserable perver-
sion OF this war o an abolition raid, has
cons ,lidated the South. and oh iterated and
extIngushel the Ua'on feeling widely pre-
valent at the commencement OF The war Ii
has wasted prodisions resources. >q4nderei
Of Thousands and has exhausted the long
suffering patience of the country. 1t stan..>
hetore the world as the most gigantic and
hun.iliatlng failure in history.
Its barely possible that reconstruction
Of the Union NAV be secured. but it cannot
be accomplished by longer fighting on this
insane negro policy, and only by n, irnned
late change OF men and measures Ii this
~ not done, another demand for men will
meet with no response from true patriotic
snd loyal men, and Governor Kirkwood
O1nnot. by transcription or otherwise, fill up
the old or organize new regiments. Ii this
disastrous, Insane. destructive policy is con-
tinued the hour Tor the final dissolution of
this once glorious Union is at hand, and
once free people must bid fa,ewell-a long
farewell, to oil its con. titutional freedom and
greatness - nation.