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Go To Work

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Parent Issue
Day
24
Month
May
Year
1861
Copyright
Public Domain
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Tlio nuiubcr of rcgimcnta tlun St;ite is to be pcrmittcd to furnish to aid in sustaining tlie govcrnraent, are determined; the companics to constitutc these regiïuents are dcsignated by name, and tiieir ranks are ruportcd full or nearly so. - With the regiiuents in excess of tlie cali which New York, Pennsylvania, Ohio, and other States near the lincs of dótense and attack, havo offered, it nood not bo auticipated that the cali on Michigan vvill beincreased uní ees it tnkes thegovernment longer to put down the insurreetiou than it anticipates or the people hope. This beiug settled, all our citizens, mechanics, farmers, laborera, etc , should quit " playing soldier '! and go to work. - Couipauies need nut disband if they are so skuated that tbey can keep up a healthy organiz;Uion and at the sime time attend to their avocatinns daily. - They can Iiave their weekly drills, and at the same time do within a fraetiou of a week's work. Thero is euough to do, and meo should not forra habits of dleness while waíting lo serve tiieir country. - We might well paraphrase of the poet, and say - Ltíarn to hibor icklc you waii, for when the country does cali onc able bodied laborer will bc worth half a dozen idlers. Aud, besides, 3-ou may do your country as good and honorable service in the mechanie's shop or at the plow as " in the tentftd field," and it belioovcs every raan to be about it. While our brothers fight let every man who stays at home refrain from lives of cither listless or excited idleness, find something for his hands to do, aud do it with all bis might. Go to woik, wc say.

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Subjects
Old News
Michigan Argus