The Camden daily journal. [volume] (Camden, S.C.) 1864-1864, 1864-09-07
Fnroflase your Mourning Cio,l,cs


FHrohase your Mourning CIo,Ircs.s
Lincoln has called fora five hundred thon-
sand more victims On the 5th of Sep, embcr
'ha't a million OF men arc to be drafted to- fiji
up tne ranks OF the army to fighting dimen-
s1oes-to get.soldiers for the sunny South
yet ready Set your houses in order. Make
arrangements to secure your fall crops by proxy
ana get ready to join the throng of the hun.
ureds OF thousands who have gone before
Let tho women and mourning goods now. for
ID a month or SO there will not be monc,,
enough IN the country to use for the nurnos,.
1he draft comes. No one wants to ro to
war. Patriotism is sick The nation IS dis
couraged. Half the men sent before have been
iost to us and the country. The seyenty.6,e
Thousand Wide .Awales who were to swcen
the rebels into the Gulf of MexicD have riot
been heard from lately. ualfa million m re
men are 10 be taken. away from their indus
cr'al pursuits L. is, now revolt, Cnna.!a or
hgnt. Let us see what the people will do.
IN that Wisconsin had a Governor with
PUCK equal to the emergency. Would to God
tna' inc Chlcf Magistrate. of this State had
nerve TO say to Abraham Lincoln that not n
il"n snould 60 from the State till the quotas
OF the New England and the Eastern States ar,
n.feo. How the people would respect that po-
sltlon. But no; the young Wet, must bc
saappcd and drained of its IE, blood, whu,. IN
the abolitionized Eastern States. which arc
growing rich out of this war, are thousands Of
men IN arrears under former calls The IA
nat'cs and SPECTATORS Of New England sit at
the feet OF Lincoln and their States are pa: sed
over: Ihe working men Of tho West h..ve no
= |1flend Mt court and can 60 to war in answer to
calls or be hunted down.
=, II we conld see but glmmcr Of lioh;s
onrough this darkness, all would be we'll. IF
tne halt million men now called for would end
Tue war, wed go at once, if never to return.
Dut tnere IS no head to guide or arm to direct.
ihe administration has lied to US daily from
Its organization. 1t has made its last call half
dozen times be!ore-it has resortcd 70 al,
means to fill tho army-it has sacrificed =
million of lives on the altar of 1ncompctencv
1t las ignored or ,shcvcd the best military tai.
ent of the age-it has disappointed the land
every month for three ysare, and still the war
goes on.
Only half million more? Oh, that is noth-
13g: we are bound to free the nicoers or
oie! Let's all go The rebels can't tioht,
'one 70 Northern: abo|itionist who rants and bravs
'1S i1,, oetter than ten Southern men to tiuht -
= no leoels cannot raise men enough in nil tho
I..Tn IouTu m"Ke m army, or make descent
oatte ~ Ihe rebels have deserted till none ore
left! The South is barren waste ond 1,n. a..
my has .subsistcd on quarter ratiops for threo
years! The rebels are bankrupt in means
Ipen and military SKILL, '""e'
Ihe n1ggers are all free by Old Abc's proc
."matlons and are now our allies The arm
ing OF the blacks docs away with cainr for
moro :,! white troops This is merely a little
m'itary excursion party, in which no one will
De hnrt The rebels are sick, starving, naked
lied - oeiliofai-
Inns IS what the administration has tauobt
ns' ana being facts, where in Gods name Arc
readya ''''' az
IA haliy, round the flag, boys. Continue the
administration in power and we can all 90 to
war, war, Canada or to the warm place 6crore
loo; loo; my ha'f million! Modest Atra-
h ham!' Might better have called for a million
'0r they will be needed before this abolition