Year: 1863

army, OUT OF tne account, now are you
treating your country. your own govern
ment. the embodiment of your oaon royal
sovereignty? AS an enemy, whose inter-
ests are hostile to yours, with whom you
are to drive sharp bargains, who is to be
outwitted in every possible way! You
ought to volunteer in numbers more than
enough to FIJI our ranks now so speedily
as to make the shortest kind of work with
this hollow and collapsing rebellion, which
nothing but your unpatriotic apathy can
keep alive three months longer But you
refuse even to come where the fairest of
al. possible methods Of designating citi-
zens for defense has pointed you out and
called you to the field, Your country. all
that is our institutions which is most hal
lowed with sacred associations, which
claims your trucst allegiance, calls for one
grand, indispensable, personal effort from
you, and you respond with handful of
paltry greenbacks. The birthright you
have boasted of all your life in the face of
all nations, is in peril, and you grum
blingly offer $500 to Five Points
pimp and gambler to rush in aud save it
for you. | am ashamed to read in your
newspapers, an account Of the draft in
any place and its lame and impotent con-
clusion. A hundred draw prizes in the
lottery Of glory and pat riotism. Sixty
five of them obtain exemption on account
of some physical disability and the vari-
ETY. of diseases invented for the occasion,
exhausts the medical vocabulary aud gives
more desert of praise to the doctors for
ingenuity than for patriotism. Twenty
one pay over their undesired tribute of
$500 into Uncle Sans treasury. Eight
furnish substitutes, and five patriotically
answer the call in their own person.


A hundred of those actually enrolled
into the military service Of their country,
start for the place of rendezvous. Fifteen
mysteriously disappear before reaching the
point in the State designated for that pur-
pose. Twenty break out of their bonds
and escape before the details leave to join
their respective regiments; seven are
wounded or killed in attempts to do and g.
likewise; eight of the remainder are claim
ed as deserters from some regiment already
in the field, or some other rendezvous of re-
cruits. Again, taking one hundred Of
these last remaindefs for third "attenua-
tion," to speak homUopathically. they EN-.
bark in the steamer for the seat of war
fifty five of them are among the missing
at the port where they are landed eighteen
more elude the vigilance of their guards ol
are killed and wounded as above, before
they reach the field, and the rest-are they
not indeed veterans already, to have passed
through 50 much before they have once pu'
musket to shoulder


Faugh ! Is this the way in which the



loyal people of the North show their pat
riotism, while the disloyal engage in riot
and bloodshed in open resistance to thu
government? Is this the spirit in which
you pay the price demanded, for all that
you hold dear in your country's civil and
political institutions? Is this the opin
ion you deliberately wish to express of US
your own neighbors and friends. whom
you sent out at the beginning of the wal
with your prayers and blessings? If SC
then please stop talking about our victo
ries. Don't be heaping praises on the
courage and devotion of your armies. Dc
not speak of the glory of the old flag
the sacredness Of our cause, or the value
of our institutions. Itappcars that they
are altogether worth--a begrudged and
reluctant three hundred dollars. Here's
to the flag of our Union Long may il
wave. And if three hundred dollars will
carry it deep iuto the ranks of the foe
here's your money Down with this cur
sed rebellion, with cannon, muskct and
bayonet. And if three hundred dollars
will send 5ayonet, there are the green


backs. To arms, to arms, my country


men All you hold most dear is in
jeopardy. Rush to the rescue. Take
with you my blessing and--this small