Sioux City register. [volume] (Sioux City, Iowa) 1858-1871, 1864-02-27
HEAR WHAT GOVERNOR STONE
SAYS.
Den MolSEs. Feb. 2 1864

DEF. MOlNES. Feb. 1864
TO President Lincoln, Washington, d. c.
Ihave just received your dispatch for q
draft for FIVE hundred thousand troops,
after March 10th. There will be no draft
in loss. fYos shalt haze our quota with.
out it. I'VE are coming, Father Abraham
with Five Hundred Thousand More"
BY order of Gov. STONE.
:, N. B. BAKrs, Adjt. Gen.
Bully for Governor S.onel We are
right glsa"so hear tbs. ",bers will b. no
draft in Iowa" a. the Governor 90 conf
IDENTITY asserts. It must be that Stone has
the names Of sufficient number Of the
Union Leaguers who are ready to fail into
ranks, and BY their patriotism save Iowa
from the dishoaor Of draft, else he could
not 50 confidently assure the President
that our quota would be furnished without
resort to one. g - '@@ ~
The above dispatch reads nice, and the
friends Of Stone think II one of the strong.
est evidence, Of BIS loyalty; proof concln-
sive that his zeal in behalf Of the Union
il unequaled. Illustrating ~ one Of his
organs says, "",he dashing energy and
,horoughness of the man." But right on
the heslsof this egotistical dispatch comes
the Proclamation to the people Of the
State, telling them, in substance, that be
10 advised from numerous and reliable
sources that very large number Of per.
sous are on the skedaddle for Idaho, to
avoid impending draft! and ordering Pro.
vost MarshaIs and others to prevent all
persons subject to draft leaving the State
until after the 10Th Of March, the day on
which the draft IS to take place.
Nov We submit to the friends Of the
Governor, II he has not got things slightly
mixed here, and question raised as to bic
veracity. Confidently asserting that there
could be no draft in lora, then issuing
Proclamation combining us to tie limits Of
the State until the draft is oner. Is the
Governor crazy, or is be only ambitious to
distinguish himself as bis illus,rious pre-.
decessur has done, in the business Of
issuing Proclamations But seriously,
what right has Stone to prevent our leav.
ing the State? He says himself that there
is no necessity for such an act, when he
says there will be no draft in Iowa. Is he
endeavor,ng to see how far he may with
impunity invade the rights Of our citizens,
and curtail their privileges? Perhaps
he Is impressed with Lincoln's idea, that
under the war power be is superior to al
law, and tia. he is the supreme authority
by which the body polite Of the S,dte lives,
moves and has its being.
But who can expect anything better Of
Bill Stone, a man 90 blinded by party
prejudice, and 60 partzan ia his character
Is to declare in his frs: State paper, that
he would 10 no case, in the administration
Of affairs Of State, regard the wishes or
opinions Of the Dem ocratic portion Of his
fellow citizens, who he is pleased to de.
nominate as traitors and sympa,hizers
with the South. A man who boldly avows
the doctrine that the minority have 40
rights which the majority are bound TO
respect; and who will carry his political
spite so far as to refuse to commission
men for the Office OF Notary Public. simply
because they are Democrats. A man who
claims that the Government is composed
Of Father Abraham, Seward l. Co; that
We should regard them as superior to the
Constitution, because the Constitution is
only an inanima.e piece Of parchment,
while Father Abraham l. Co. are living,
breathing souls. That Washington should
no longer be regarded as the Father of
his Country, but that Old Abes daddy
may justly be regarded as that individual!
No Inv estigation.
The hue and cry against Senator Hale