The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1864-08-26

and cannot shoulder the musket and fight
to maintain a cause which you Claim to be
holy and righteous one, involving your
rights and interests as citizens, you should
devote portion of your property to pro-
cure the services of those who can, and
whom you claim are bound to figh: for
the protection of your interests as we'll as
their own and their neighbors'. If you
should sell few of your village lots and
appropriate the proceeds to aid the fami-
lies Of poor volunteers your voice has urg
ed into the bloody field. you will leave a
richer legacy to your children by thus
teaching them to discharge their duties,
than you will to teach them to keep their
Inheritance in the condition you have
done, and because they received but one
talent between them, to hide that away
and bury i. in napkin.
Shame on you for voting against the
bounty tax to support the families Of poor
conscrip,s |! Last year you denounced all
who should vote against like tax for u
like purpose as Copperheads and traitors
to the country, worthy only traitor's
doom. If you were true patriots then,
can you, upon your own hypothesis, claim
to be anything else now than traitors to
your country! Some of you have &C cu-
mIlased what property you possess by
continually stirring up the dirty waters of
strife and thereby preventing the prosecu-
,ion of public Improvements which would
have made Manitowoc great town, and
such Of you small toads in .he puddle
Some Of you aspire to a seat in Congress
from this Congressional distric: because of
your noisy, blatant, and unconditional
support Of all the acts Of the present ty-
rannical Administration. We think you
who give your votes and lend your ilhu-
ence TO Cypress and grind down your poor
neighbors at home and refuse to be taxed
to relieve them from the worst terrors of
a draft made by your sworn chiefain,
would make as poor representative. OF a
constituency as you would be plant tools
in the hands of corrupt Administration.
Shame Oh you, Abolition leaders,. You,
too, voted against the bounty tax. You
have accumulated large amount of prop
erty in our midst, while most Of you have
done nothing to promote the public inter-
est, and now refuse to have that property
taxed to carry on war which has put
Thousands of dollars in your pockets
One Of you have acted as bloodhound of
this Administration, and for months have
been true 20 the bloody instincts of your
master and been keen on the scent of men
suspected Of disloyalty TO the Administra-
ton, and actually locked up in jai! one
poor inofensive man for saying he did not
think he should 60 into the army You
exercised an impertinent surveillance over
all who mi ght be subject to a draft, and
for all this dirty work you have drawn
pay from the government to an amount
sufficient 10 furnish two volunteers a wear
at the price of 800 or $500 each. Have
you done this No! You have put the
money in your safe, where it remains un>
der lock and key, and look on and laugh
at :he miseres of your Deighbors and re,
fuse 10 vote dollar towards the bounty
necessary to fill the quota Of your village,
and wait impatiently for the 5h of Sep
tember, when ABE LINCOLN, through YOU.
his willing tool, will help himself TO what
ever number may be required to fill our
quota; and when you have looked upon
the back of your last victim. and your in.
famous work has been accomplished and
you have pocketed the price Of blood, you
SIBREE, and the others Of the ignoble band
of the black brotherhood will congrepate
together, and on the grave Of the buried
hopes Of your poor neighbors, chant, in
loud tones, the song of "Picayune But
ler."
If our citizens have not become com.
pletely de,noralized and lost to all sense
of decency and propriety, such conduct
will be Indignantly condemned, and these
men will he deprived Of the power as
agents of the people at least, of harming
the public interests and disgracipp the
community they represent.
~Mr. G. w. FIrcH, The genial and
companionable editor Of the Racine Jou,>