Port Tobacco times, and Charles County advertiser. (Port Tobacco, Md.) 1845-1898, 1847-07-01
MISCELLANEO S.
THE RETURN OF THE VOLUNTEERS TO
NEW ORLEANS.

New Orleans, filled with admiration for tn,
patriotic and heroic achievements or on
citizen soldiers, are DESTROYS of expressin.
the sentiments of joy, pride and affection
with which they hail their return to TIT
arms of grateful country. ! am thei
honored organ on the occasion, and mos
warmly do sympathise with their feelings
and participate in their wishes.
Welcome, then, gallant volunteers! "
war-worn soldiers, welcome home! The
heart of Louisiana warns towards you.-
Welcome, thrice welcome, from your glori
Gus bat1e-6elds! In the name of the cil
zens of New Orleans, greet and embrace
you all.
No longer do you tread upon hostile
shore, nor gaze upon foreign skies. Use
less now are your sharp swords and uner.
ring rifles. No lurking foe aylays you in
the impenelrable chaparral, or among the
gloomy gorges Of the mountain. Hence
forth your path will be ambushed ONLY by
friends. You will find them more Difficult!
than the enemy to quell. They will pour
upon you volleys of grape as you pass
not the grape whose iron clusters grew SO
luxuriantly on the hill-sides of Monterey
and along the ravines of Buena Vista, whose
juice was the red blood-but the grape
which comes from the battery of the ban
quot!
year has not elapsed since saw most
of you bivouacked on the old battlefield be-
low the city, drawing inspiration from its
mighty memories, and dreaming, perchance,
of those great achievements which you
were SO soon to accomplish. Since then
you have passed through all the vicissitudes
of soldiers life-lhe camp, the march, the
battle and the victory. Y on have played
your parts noblv. You have gone far be-
yond your own promises or your country 5
expectations. You have borne, without a
murmur, the ordinary hardships Of military
life-hunger, fatigue and exposure. Y on
blenched not when death came in the sad
shape of diseas struck down your
comrades arc ~ submitted cheer
fully to dis inverted the raw
material of eavery into the ter
rible, irresistiN (of combined courage.
But it was upon Il innate batle-felds you
gathered those unfading laurels upon which
your coun,rymen will ever gaze, as they do
now, with grateful pride.
Our little army of regulars, as they we'll
deserved, to do, had already plucked the first
fruits of the war. On the victorious fields
of Palo Alto and Resaca de la Palma they
sustained their own high character, and
nobly illustrated American skill and valor.
They scourged the enemy from the Rio
Grande; and then, reinforced by the volun-
teers, who nocked to their country's stan
dard, their great captain medilated the con-
quest of the stronghold of NJ onterey. There.
like an eagle on his eyrie, stood the noun
tain king. Thither the eyes of the nation
turned in eager expectation. All hearts
pal plated for the result. Now was our ma
tional proves to be tested-now we were
to ascertain whether we could cast back in
tc the teeth of European generals and Eu-
ropean dlplomatlsts the taunts which they
had heaped upon our citizen soldiers. They
had told US that our Republic was weak
Notwithstanding its great population and I'M
bounded resources. They said we had no
military strength; that our army and navy
though skilful and brave, were but a cypher
compared with the mighty ornaments Of
the Old World !; and that our unpracticeC
citizens could never make efficient soldiers
Soon came the ever-glorious storming OIL
the mountain fastness, and the problem was
solved. The nations heart beat free and
Joy for the present, confidence in ,hefuure
pervaded the land. Indeed, it was a grea
and glorious achievement, and in its mora
effect, both at home and abroad, perhaps the
most important of the war. 1t gave the
country complete confidence in the volun
teers-the volunteers full reliance upor
themselves. From that day forth they be-
came veterans. Time will not permit me
TO recite the vivid and heart-stirring Incl
dents Of that memorable and wonderful con
fict. On one side of the city the regulars
fought, as they always do, with skill, with
bravery and success; they did all that was
expected of them-their previous reputation
rendered it impossible to do more. On the
other side the volunteers drew their nader
swords. Never before had they experience
ed grasp stronger than that of friendship
now they stretched forth their hands anC
grappled with death. On, on pressed these
unf1edged warrors-these men of civil life
these citizen soldiers their bright blades
flashed before them like tongues of flame
Up the hill side, through the streets sweep
by the raklng canaons, over barricade anC
battery, their advancing banners, streaming
like thunder-clouds against the wind, rustle6
in the battle quarry. All know the glori
Gus result The enemy, though he Tough
bravely for his fireside and his affairs, ant
in the midst of his supposed impregnablt
defences, shrunk from such fiery valor.-
The day was ours, and the Republic &C