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The Athens Post
Athens, Mcminn County, Tennessee
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A correspondent reports on widespread peace meetings across the country, signifying growing public opposition to the war among farmers, mechanics, and merchants, who reject profiteering from government contracts and supplies. The meetings alarm war profiteers and jobbers who benefit from the conflict.
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A correspondent of the N. Y. Journal of Commerce writes:
The great number of peace meetings now being held all over the country are most significant; and the studied efforts of the ultra war journalists to suppress all information concerning them, evinces a wholesome dread of their influence. The people are waking up. The reign of terror no longer awes them into silence. It is becoming very evident that the voice of the farmers, mechanics and merchants of the rural districts is not for a vindictive or abolition war. They have no profits to make from contracts with Government, and seek no share in the unclean drippings of public plunder. These peace meetings are of course quite alarming to those who are accumulating magnificent fortunes as jobbers, contractors, sutlers and followers. Peace will put an end to the selling of old vessels, shoddy clothing, wooden soled shoes, tainted pork, beef, &c., to the Government, at three, four, or five times their value. Then there will be no longer an inviting field for agents and middle-men, who divide the spoils with the contractors and jobbers, or shave the soldiers of a percentage on their rations and wages. If we have peace, these worn out party hacks and soldiers of fortune: who continue to put themselves prominently forward on every committee which has the handling of large sums of money, will lose their golden opportunities for amassing fortunes. Such may, well threaten to hang those who favor peace. For to them, when war ceases, "Othello's occupation 's gone."
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The great number of peace meetings now being held all over the country are most significant; and the studied efforts of the ultra war journalists to suppress all information concerning them, evinces a wholesome dread of their influence. The people are waking up. The reign of terror no longer awes them into silence. It is becoming very evident that the voice of the farmers, mechanics and merchants of the rural districts is not for a vindictive or abolition war. They have no profits to make from contracts with Government, and seek no share in the unclean drippings of public plunder. These peace meetings are of course quite alarming to those who are accumulating magnificent fortunes as jobbers, contractors, sutlers and followers. Peace will put an end to the selling of old vessels, shoddy clothing, wooden soled shoes, tainted pork, beef, &c., to the Government, at three, four, or five times their value. Then there will be no longer an inviting field for agents and middle-men, who divide the spoils with the contractors and jobbers, or shave the soldiers of a percentage on their rations and wages. If we have peace, these worn out party hacks and soldiers of fortune: who continue to put themselves prominently forward on every committee which has the handling of large sums of money, will lose their golden opportunities for amassing fortunes. Such may, well threaten to hang those who favor peace. For to them, when war ceases, "Othello's occupation 's gone."