Year: 1864




Infsmy Of the Muscatine Courier.


In the early part of this week the
President OF the United States called
upon the people for 100000 men to aid
in suppressing the rebellion of the South
Every man in the nation saw the neces-
sity of that call. All know that our
army is as numerically strong as that of
the rebellion. But we cannot ignore
the fact that within the next three
months thousands OF veterans, whose
term of service will expire, will return
to their homes. With the President the
alternative was presented to call out new
levies or abandon the work of restoring
the Union. He was appealed to to do
the former by the loyal masses of the
North, including men of all political
opinions, except Peace Democrats. The
people protested that the work upon
which so much blood and treasure had
been spent should not be abandoned un-
til the last rebel laid down his arms
The appeal OF the President to the peo-
pie came, giving fair warning that fifty
days must bring the required number,
or he should then resort to a draft.


The Muscatine Courier received that
appeal in the following language:


"The fat has been proclaimed! King Abra-
ham AfricanuS demands five hundred thou-
sand fresh victims. u appease his thirst for
blood! Five hundred thousand husbands, IA
theirs and sons to be dragged from desOate
homes, to lay down their lives for Lincoln's
plan OF emancipation.


ID rhe II &c cal m has % gone forth; Mi IT be respond


I can cali spirits from the Vastly deep


And Hotspur replies:


why, can / can any man;


But will they come, when you do call for thenl?
SIN this period of the war we may well ask the
question, Will five hundred thousand more men
come 'wnen you do call for them, Mr.. Lincoln
We believe they will not come, becauss they
cannot come The blunders and crimes of all
imbecile President has nearly exhausted the
country of its fighting material.


but we say the country mas had fighting
enough. We believe that large majority of the
American people are of our way of thinking
Now, then, the Proclamation OF the President
speak out BOBBY Arnold the Chicago member
of Congress- telegrnphs the President that the
Northwest is painting for call for 90, 600 more
men. Let the Northwest speak out, and say for
itself whether the people court another draft
meetings Of peace men be held all over the
Northwest. Let these meetings pass resolutions
informing the President that ne has been inn
posed upol by such men a. Arnold 'Ine right
of the people 10 assemble and to petition the
Governnent,' is still constitution Al provision.
soon King Abraham will learn that there
limits to which even the wickeiness of an i'm
bec:le despot can go.


I'VE have had war enough: The people be-
lieve this. Now let them talk it out. If they
have not the courage to tell Mr.. Lincoln to HIS
teetI tlat tney nave ha enough OF war; let
them stay at home an be drafted. For our part
shall speak the mo-e earnest as the day ap-
proaches for enforcing the draft. We believe
that the fate of the nation rests upon Mr.. Lin
coins not succeeding in dcaftlng 30 900 more
men. Here is the turning poin' in the eountrys
destiny. Another army makes
disunon fixed fact. No more men and the
Union may be saved through peace


Thus writes an infamous sneak, whose
garments are already dripping with the
blood of American citizens whose lives
have been sacrificed in a struggle pro-
longed by the cowardly fellowship of
himself and associates with those who
are seeking our national overthrow. 1t
is no new course that the editor Of that
rebel sheet pursues. From the firing on
Sumter to the Presidents last call his
record has been black with reasonable
infamy. He has never uttered a loyal
sentiment between those two periods
At the very time when there is most to
encourage the hearts of our own people,
and when the rebels are most despond
ent and gloomy, when Sherman's victo-
rious eagles are perched upon the last
stronghold of the rebel armyin Georgia,
and the enemy seeks safety in hasty re-
treats, when our hearts are gladdened
with the notes of victory sounded by
our heroes under the gallant Smith,
when the willy Lee fails to divert Grant
from his fixed purpose to deal sturdy
blow against Southern empire, by
knocking at the gates of our National
Capital, when, at every point of our
national compass, the rebel lines are be-
ing contracted and ours extended-it is
in such an hour that man who howls
most Justify against the suppression of
free speech is permitted by the grace of
liberal policy to threaten the Presi-
dent.


"We are for peace, Mr.. Lincoln, and
you are for war. You want men. We
now have you by the throat and propose
to choke you into peaceful submission.
You urge men to enlist and we shall
persuade them not to. You order a
draft and we will resist it," That is the
substance of Mr.. Thayer's braggadocfO.


Men of Muscatine, do you propose to
be Influenced by the Shiny rebel who
would thus effect the defeat of our arm
les. Go and walk over those mounds
that mark the fields of Wilson's Creek,
Do1 101, Ion N;nly oh rrrr
and the Red River country-look upon
those boards which tell of the last resting
place of the brave dead along the banks
of our western and southern rivers-lOok
over the rolls and call to our Mason
Michener, Buchanan, Ady, Mikesell,
Daniels, Blanck, Hill, Auge, Burmeis-
ter, John, and host of others like unto
them, and ask yourselves if it is proper
to reward their faithful services by heed
ing the voice of this villainous Thayer.
When we have accomplished so much
toward restoration of the Union at
such cost shall we now basely surrender?


How base and ignoble must be the
man who will hesitate to aid his govern
ment when it calls upon him. Is there
man who exhibits greater degree of
damning infamy than this man Thayer?


Men of Muscatine, will you continue
to give him your support and ask to be
regarded as "patriotic?" ..-


p@. Some of the Copperhead papers
are comparing Semmes, the pirate, to
John Paul Jones. our Revolutionary
naval hero The difference between the