The weekly north Iowa times. [volume] (McGregor, Iowa) 1857-1867, 1864-11-02
McGREGOR, IOWA. WEDNESDAY, NOV. 2, 1864


How Many More Years OF War!
How many more years Of war, asks tn
Albany Argus, are we to have? How
many more drafts? How many more thou
sands of millions spent? How long arr
our institutions 10 be crushed by military
rule? How long is labor to be drained b)
the exhaustion of men and meansr
Let US look for the answer among those
authorized to speak.
Abraham Lincoln said at the Philadel
phia Fair-"I only ask for four years more
of war to abolish slavery in every one o
the Southern States"
TIE Newport IN. H.) Argas has this
paragraph:
"A TWENTY YEARS WAR.-Col George
stated in his speech in this town, on Satur
day last, that Gen. Butler told his partner
William l.. Foster, Esq, while on recent
visit to the Army Of the Potomac, that the
re. election of Lincoln would be equivalent
to TWENTY YEARS WAR"
Gen. Jim Lane. in speech to the Re
publicans Of New York, declared amid ap'
plause by Cd, l want to make this
war a permanent institution"
Thurlow Weed, who is we'll acquainted
with the interior purposes Of the Republi-
can organization, says:
abolition influences in Congress and in
the cabinet have doubled the millions OF
dollars, and deepened the rivers Of blood
spent and shed, in war, which, so long as
such influences and counsels sway the gov
ernment. promising nothing but an IN
TERMINHBLE CONFLICT or an inglo.
rious termination"
Dc kho Nan,
York Times writes from London Of the
peace rumors:
II try it every way and cannot cypher
out peace. So long as the North insists
upon suhjugating the South governing it
by bullets and ballots. and so long as the
South resists this subjugation, the war must
60 on. The Russian war in Crcassia lasted
twenty years. The Spaniards and Moors
were at war eight hundred years. The
Moors were driven out of Spain, and Cir
cassia has been conquered, the remnant of
the people who refused to submit to Russia
taking refuge with the Turks. In ten, or
twenty, or thirty years, the Southerntrs
who have not escaped to Canada or Europe
may take refuge in Mexico"
Gov. Seymour brings some evidence up
on the subject, in the following passage CT
his recent speech at Philadelphia:
"The men who were drafted this year
under the five hundred thousand call have
but one year to serve. The three years
men who were taken into the army in 1862
will 60 out OF the service next year. Their
terms begin to expire in the spring. In
nine months, the army will need the larg-
est additions that have been made at any
one time. As the administration shrank
from calling for more than three years men
just before an election, the places to be va,
Gated by the one year men must be pro.
vided to be filled in nine months, and thus
it is reasonable to believe that THE LARGEST
DRAFT THAT HAS YET BEEN MADE WILL BE
ORDERED AT THE BEGINNING OF THE YEAR
1865. do not speak unadvisedly, for the
administration has intimated to me that
they expect another draft. The State OF
New York had furnished an excess of three
years men, aud | asked that, in making
up the quota of New York, one three years
man should be counted as equal to three
one years men. They said they coule moi
do that, as they needed men Immediately
but they provided that a three years. man
should count as one man on this draft, as
one man on the NEXT DRAFT. and as one
man again on THE THIRD DRAFT, and
thus the matter would be equalizcd. So i,
appears from this we arc to have at leas
two more drafts. Voice, THAT'S refresh
ing."l Every man knows that we mus,
have this draft. After the war is ended
under the policy of this administration, We
shall be compelled to maintain large armies
to hold the people of the South in subjec
ton to carry out the emancipation procIa
nation and conGscation act"
-Four years more," says Lincoln
Twenty years more" says Butler "Thir
ty years." says the New York T.mss; "Ar
interminable conflict" says Weed; "Th.
War a permanent institution" says Jiu
Lane-and then follow drafts and drafts.
What say the people?