Sioux City register. [volume] (Sioux City, Iowa) 1858-1871, 1865-01-14


and the draft to gil the quota Of Woodbury.
county will take place, unless our citizens
take immediate measures to obtain volun.
| teers.
Our Board Of Supervisors have done
we'll in sppropriatiug $500 for a bounty
for each recruit, but this amount is not
sufficient when other localities are offering
larger bounties. Men enlist in our days
for the pay patriotism has played out,
aud they will 60 where they can get the
most. There are plenty Of men in this
vicinity who can we'll afford to 90 into the
army, and who will 60 if they are offered
sufficient iuducemen. The only question
for our citizens to consider is, whether
they will individually subscribe and raise
a fund, which together with the County
Bounty, will insure the enlistment o: VOL
unteers to gil our quota. or allow the
draft to take place and the burden to fall
upon the poor unfortunate men who may
be drafted, and who by the resolution Of
the Board Of Supervisors ian unjust one,
we think) will receive no County Bounty.
OF the number drafted from this place
last fall, the proportion that wen, into the
army was very small. Substitutes were
furnished in most cases. But now the
hardships Of the draft will be greater
substitutes will cost more the distance
to tho Board OF Enrolment is increased
one hundred miles-and the examinations
more rigid. Let it be borne in mind that
we all must take our chances in the wheel,
aud The men whose Interests and families
render it fatal for them to 60 into the
army are Just as liable as those who have
neither interests nor families to be injured
or destroyed.
We urge that to raise volunteers is the
most economical aud certain way to fill!
our quota by the 18Th Of February.
1t will cost money, but no. more than
will lie spent in getting substitutes after
tho draft. 1t will gill the quota, as no draft
has done, or ever will do. It will send to
the army men willing to 60, men who have
no families, or having families, have been
able to provide for them by the bounty
1t will save the friendless poor from the
hardshps Of the draft, and, in fact, disarm
that draft Of its oppressiveness, by substi.
tu'ing for it the only practicable mode Of
raising good troops.
The enrolled men Of this &C unity, ell Of
whom are subject to the draft, by small
contribution each, could raise q und equal
to the payment Of q most liberal bounty.
That would be the proper and the mos.
equitable mode Of raising the bounty fund.
In moralizing upon the close Of the cd
and advent Of the new year, the leading
newspaper Of the abolition persuasion in
New York is thus pa.he,ical|y and ho-ri.
bly, imaginative in its patriotism:
ave may not be oblivious of tho prob
able pain which awaits us-we may fully
comprehend that ours is mingled desti.
ny; but not the less do we stand fast BY
our faith in final ompishment-a faith
without which all life, public o. private,
would be .in.olerablc for an hour If a
vast ma jori,y Of our population did not
believe as surely in the extinction of the
rebellion as they believe in the sunrise of
to morrow, it would be idle Tor Us TO affec.
the forms an! shows of enjoyment, for We
should carry our falschood upon our faces,
and bc,ray it in every syllable OF our fall
tering Speech
When it is remembered TINT this same
newspaper has repeatedly urged ,ha. the
south should be permitted to secede peace
able, and that no force should be employed
to maintain the Union; and when it Is re
msmbered that for years before the rebel.
lion, it was daily denouncins the Union;
and when it is remembered that since the
war began, it has counseled that I've
should mako the best a.tainable peace !
knowing that the contingency upon which
such counsels was founded would compel
disunion peace-we may properly mp
pleciate the emotion it expresses in con.
temp'ating the disruption Of the republic.
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Gen. Mcclellan, it is reported, will sail
for Europe in February; bis wife and
child will accompany him. Burleigh,"
the Boston Journals correspondent 10
New York makes the following stateme Is
in reference to the Generals movements:
"A company Of gentlemen in this city
have fitted up fast sailing clipper ship in
elegant style, placed on board every con-
ceivable luxury, manned her completely
with fine crew, put in charge Of one Of
our abless captains and rendered her to
General George B. Mcclellan for ono
year, to sail where be will with his family
and friends-she entire expense 10 bs
borne BY the gentlemen
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