The weekly north Iowa times. [volume] (McGregor, Iowa) 1857-1867, 1864-08-24
From the 21st---A Soldiers Opinion
OF Politics.
SAaf LIST low a ARGUMENT,
M0RGANZA, La. Auv 9. I'D

CAMP 2lsr Iowa REGIMrNT,1
/ IN MonGANzA, La, Aug. 2, 'G4.
|. Eds. Times II send you few lines 70,
publication, provided you think then
worthy place in your columns. The boys
are generally healthy. We have rattle,
too much duty to do, but guess it is
military necessity and so we 60 on wthou
grumbling. Col. Guppy, of the 23d Wis.
commands our Brigade; he is an excellen
| officer.
Our rations have been rather short
lately, and the boys think the Government
gery generous in paying us 3 dollars q
month extra and taking it out of oul
rations. There is Suter here that sells
potatoes for 10 cents pound and onions
for 1915 the boys, however, seem pretty
anxious to relieve him of,.them, and them.
selves of their money. One Of The Suffers
| got knocked down the other evening, and
the fellows that did it were unfortunate
| enough to be caught, so that the Provost
Marshal had chance to order them under
Negro Guards, which he did not fail to
do. ---...- .....s .......... ~
We have but little news from the North,
SO we don't know much about the politics.
The boys seem to be in favor Of "Old Abe"
No honest, upright, thinking man can be
in favor of Fremont, and it is very imprcb
able that the Chicago Convention will prove
themselves any more satisfactory. Soldiers
are mostly in favor Of war till the rebels
submit. They hate those who ask for
peace, bat when the war is over they will
go with the so.called "Copperhead party"
in regard to the negro question. But, few
Of the soldiers are in favor Of negro suffrage
or negro equality, and those who are, have
always been Aboltionists. There is one
or two men in our company that pretend to
be intelligent, who argue that negroes are
entitled to all the rights and privileges of
an American citizen, placing them ahead of
the white citizens who have the Amcri-
can birth right, so that if that party was
strong we would soon be in danger of hay
ing negro for President Of the United
States.
The Government is arming the negroes,
and leaving them to garrison forts on the
most Important points, with Abolition Off
GERS in command, while Abolitionists up
North are busily at work sending teachers
and preachers to inform and instruct them
Of their pretended equality to the descend
ants Of the brave men who fought the
battles of the Revolution and framed the
Constitution for the benefit of their sons
and such Of the foreigners who would emf
crate to this country If the negro don't
get what he is taught to be his rights, he
will soon with the aid of the Abolitionists)
have means, to do as the rebelsdid. NH
e The rumor just now is that the rebs
have driven in the cavalry pickets, so that
we don't know how soon we will be attack
ed. Dick Taylor has strong force, but
the boys seem TO cant him to try us on
here. We are we'll prepared for him.
MANENT.
REMARKS have seen and heard of
many letters from soldiers in which it is
stated that Lincoln is losing popularity in
the army as rapidly as in the civil ranks.
Democratic papers are excluded from
the lines, and hence the Administration
Journals have every means to misrepresent
the intentions and policy Of our party, bxt
letters for six months past have gone
through, and in this way every soldier has
learned the true state Of parties at home.
lie: the writing Of facts to the "boys in
blue" continue, ana thus, in despite of
tyranny, the rank and file will learn that
their true interests are best protected by
those who are stigmatized as traitors at