Muscatine weekly journal. [volume] (Muscatine, Iowa) 185?-1890, 1864-05-20
Renegade SONS of New England.

~ SUCH SueukS aS EUuy lnayef anu
many others we might name, who are
continually bowling because Informative
hills and valleys in New England send
SO few men to war, we commend the fol-
lowing, taken from the Elgin, Illinois,
Gazette, as containing a successful refu-
tation of their ISLANDERS upon the land
that gave them birth:
Almost ever since the war broke out it
has been asserted that the New England
States and New York do not and have
never filled their quotas. The taunt
usually comes from men processing to be
Western men. 1t makes oar proud H.
linOis blood boil every time we hear the
charge, and we have heard it for the last
time without exposing its falsity and de-
nouncing its injustice. What we shall
say will be as an TlinOisan, natire and to
the manor born.
What are the facts? What are the fig
ures, us shown by the census of 1850
Look at them! In the following West
ern States and Territories, the number of
males in ercess Of the number Of females
is as follows, in round numbers
California, 142, 900; Indiana, $4,000;
Illinois, $4,000; Iowa, $4,000; Kansas,
11,OVVy II,
900; Missouri, $1,000; Ohio, Al 900; Ore
gon, II 900; Wisconsin, 80, 900; Colorado,
81 900; Nevada, 5000; Nebraska, 1900;
New Mexico, and Washington, 6,O0O.-
Total, sol 900.
In the following States the excess Of
females is as follows:
Connecticut, 5000; Massachusetts, ST.
900; New Hampshire, 1000; New York,
IL 600; Rhode Island, 5000. Total 69,-
900.
In Pennsylvania, the numbers are
nearly equal, with a slight excess of
males, and the same is the case with
Maine and Vermont. New Jersey has
a slight excess of females.
Yet men there are all over the west
who ask Massachusetts, with her crcess
of 81, 900 vo0,en, to furnish thesamequo-
ia on population that Illinois does with
her erceSsof "a, ,000nlales! Weare proud
to believe that no such sneaking taunts
ever come from nutire born sons of IL
linOis. No; it comes chiefly from men
who were born and raised in New York
and New England, and have emigrate6
West, leaving behind them their moth
ers, sisters, theirbdby brothers, and their
gray haired grundtathers; and we are
exceedingly sorry to hearthose can,
by their long residence here, really and
truly claim to be Western men, repeat
ing the foul slander upon glorious old
New England the mother, alas of too
many unworthy sons.
Yes; it is right, it is just, it is equita-
bic, it is the duty of Illinois, of Iowa, of
Wisconsin, of Indiana, and of all the
Western States, to furnish the greatest
number of men, for they have the abili-
ty-the men are here, and they ought to
go. There are COG, 900 of them more than
there are females, and what is more, they
Why call on New England? What con-
stitutes the male populationo New Eng
land: 1t is largely the baby brothers
and the gray haired grondsires of these
cOwardly fellows who are Justify calling
on New England to till up her quota =
Who will fill that quota: Shall it be
the mOthersand sisters, those baby broth
ers, and those old grandfathers, some of
whom fought in the warOf 1872? Where
are the men of New England and New
York ? They are in Illinois, Iowa, Wis
consin, Indiana, Kansas, Colorado and
California. AS son of Illinois, ,rc say
shame on such an unjust demand. We
have no doubt that if the Government
would accept their services, the Won,en
of New England would enlist, don the
eueral UNIFORM, I'LL up tnelr quota, ana
thus shame their Western brothers.
If the quota of the several States was
based upon the arms bearing portion of
the population, we should not hearquite
so much about theWestern States being
ahead of their quota. The taunt might
come from the other quarter, and from
the wOmen of New England, they who
are the "calicomen" afterall. Sodon't
stop to quarrel about New England not
filling her quota, when she has nothing
but Wonaen to do it with, but go you'-
selues, and make yourselves worthy of
the glorious States where you were born,
and the noble one in which you live.
So stop higgling about "quotas," but
hurry and fill upthe call for 100 days.
New England and New York have
$4,000 men in the naval service. Mass
achusetts alone has $4,000, for which she
has no credit. Rhode Island has 13, 900
in the naval service. ...
There is another fact connected with
this examination Of the Census Report,
and that is, that in every State in rebel
lion, except North Carolina, the white
male population is in excess of the fe-
male from 10000 to 10000.
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