The weekly Ottumwa courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1857-1872, 1864-10-13
Unirn Men: Are YOU Ready

Are the people of the country fully i'm
pressed with the importance of the election
on the 9Th day of November We are fear
full they are not sufficiently So From varie-
ty Of reasons, we are satisfied there are some
Union men, who do not fully estimate the
responsibility which devolves upon every
citizen, and the exceeding vital importance
of having the vote Of every Union man, and
his influence from this time until the close
Of the polls. Everything we hold near and
dear is ut stake in this election. If McCIel-
Ian and Pendleton are elected, on the infa-
NOUS peace platform Of the Copperhead par.
ty, all for which we have been contending
will be irretrievably lost. The war for the
Union, which has been so bravely waged by
our gallant army, will be repudiated. An
srmistice, which will amount to nothing but
giving the now exhausted rebels breathing
spell, time to recruit and prepare for further
slaughter of our bravest and best, will be
called or under the controlling influence of
Vallandigham, the Woods, Seymour and
others like them, who will control the ad
min.stration of Mcclellan, if elected, PEACE
UPON ANY TERMS, however humiating and
disgraceful, will be entered into with the reb-
els. The success of the Copperheads, in any
event, would most certainly be repadia.
ton of the war, of the army and of the I'm.
Ion, but without bringing peace. Even If
the Southern Confederacy was acknowledg.
ed. which the copperheads desire and in
tend, this would not bring peace but only
war, more fierce, bloody and protracted, for
never, no neuer, will the loyal people of this
nation consent to surrender the territory
which has been wrested from rebels at such
cost of blood and treason; they will not give
up the Mississippi with the places on its
banks, nor Tennessee, nor West Virginia,
nor New Orleans, nor Mobile, nor Beaufort,
nor Fortress Monroe they will not consent
to have their victorious iegions, the heroes
OF SO many glorious and bloody fields, or.
dered home in disgrace and dshonor, leav.
ing the graves Of their dead companions to
DO trod and defiled by vindictive, insolent
foreigners No, that thing can never be done.
The copperheads would attempt it beyond
doubt, but it would Only lead to new and
worse complications, to enhanced bitterness,
to new divisions, and to wide spread anar.
cby.
The election of Lincoln and johnson, the
success of the Union ticket, means the pros
ecution OF the war until the rebels submit
it alone will endorse, sustain and honor the
army it alone will keep down sedtion,
preserve order. and maintain the authority
and sanction Of law in the North; it alone
leads to an early, certain, an honorable and
lasting peace; it alone will save the Consti
tuition, the unity Of the States, the national
honor and the national credit.
How important, then, that every citizen,
who has for himself and his posterity go di.
rect and so vast an interest in the issues
now at stake, should be up and doing. -
Three short weeks only intervene before the
election. Will not EVERY MAN turn out and
spend these three weeks in canvassing and
organizing their neighborhoods, in crcula-
ting documents laboring with and persuading
their neigbors and if they can talk in ad.
dressing public meetings? Will not every
Union man at least be at home and vote ?
1t seems hardly possible that any one who
In impressed TO any extent with The solemn
responsibilities of the hour, can consent for
any matter of pleasure, of business or per-
sonal interest, to lose his vote at this cleo.
,tion, for be assured if this election goes
against the Union party, pleasure, business.
peace and prosperity will be strange things
in this country for long time to come.