Excerpt from A Plan to Stop the Present and Prevent Future Wars

I, Robert E. Beasley, of the Twin House Rancho, Solano County, California, issue this my Proclamation, number one, that the present war, said by some to exist in the United States, shall cease by limitation, on the 4th day of March, in the year of our Lord, 1869, under penalty of my sovereign displeasure. I issue it not as the servant of Mexico, China, Louis Napoleon, or any other power, unless it may be that I am a servant of God, (of which I have serious doubts for reasons that I may some day make public), but as one of the many thousands of sovereign people of the sovereign State of California. As such I issue it. Robert E. Besaley.

Plan.

I now respectfully suggest for the consideration of the Governors of the several States concerned, as a means by which it may be stopped at an earlier date: That each governor issue writs of election at an early date, requiring all legal voters, under penalty of one thousand dollars, to attend the polls and vote that the war shall be vigorously prosecuted, or that it shall stop. If the prosecution of the war shall have received the greatest number of votes, then all persons so voting, and all having failed to vote, shall be organized and placed in the army, and compelled to assist in prosecuting the war. So shall they fight with courage, and each according to his desire, as to the side he may wish to fight for.

It is my opinion they would fight with such a will and "vim, " as to deter other nations from interfering in our domestic quarrels. We cannot fight always.

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