Daily Ohio statesman. [volume] (Columbus, Ohio) 1855-1870, 1861-06-18
COLUMBUS OHIO TUESDAY MORNING. JUNE 49, 1861

L tuhnh Ooub Iully separated from tnem, 20 De
come the theatre Of great central camp, from
which will pour forth thousands of brave
hearts to roll back the tide of this despotism.
Apart from that qualification we may well
feel at being separated from such Q connection
is the pride that upon you devolves the task Of
maintaining and defending our new Government
believe that we shall be able to achieve this
noble work, and that the institutions of oul
fathers will 60 to our children as sacred as they
have descended to US. (Applause.) In these
Confederate States we observe those relations
which have been POLITICALLY described to the
United States, but which there never had the
same reality-States 90 distinct that each exist
ed as q sovereign, yet 60 united that each was
wound with the other to constitute whole; or,
as more beautifully expressed, "Distinct as the
billows, yet one as the sea-" (Applause.) Upon
every hill which now overlooks Richmond, you
have had, and will continue to have, camps
containing soldiers from every State in the
Confederacy; and to its remotest limits every
proud heart beats high with Indignation at the
thought that the foot Of the invader has been
set on the soil of old Virginia. (Great cheer
Ing There is not one true son Of the South who
IL not ready te shoulder his musket, to bleed, to
die, or to conquer in the cause Of liberty here.
(Cheers
Beginning under many embarrassments, the
result of 10 years of taxation being In the
hands OF our enemies, we must at first move
cautiously. II may be that we shall have to
encounter sacrifices; but, my friends, under the
smiles of the God of the just, and filled with
the same spirit that animated our fathers, sue
cess shall perch on our banners. am sure you
do not expect me to 20 into any argument upon
those questions, which, for twenty-five years,
have agitated the country. We have now reach.
ed the point where arguments being exhausted,
1t only remains for US to stand by our weapons.
(Cheers and cries of 1--WE will!")
When the time and occasion shall serve, we
shall smite the smiter with manly arms, as did
our fathers before Us, and as become their sons.
To the enemy we leave the base acts Of the as.
sassin and incendiary, to them we leave it to
insult helpless women; to US belongs vengeance
upon man. Tremendous APPLAUSE
Now, my friends, thank you again for this
gratifying manifestation "a voice-"Tell US
something about Buens Vista.")
Well, my friends, can only say that we will
make the battle fields of Virginia another Bue
ma Vista, and drench them with blood more pre-
cious than that which flowed there. We will
make history for ourselves. We do not ask
that the past shall shed our lustre upon us,
bright az our past has been, for We can achieve
our own destiny. We may point to many a
field, over which has foated the Gag of our
country when we were of the United States
upon which Southern soldiers and Southern off.
GERS reflected their brave spirits in their deeds
OF daring; and, without intending to cast q
shadow upon the courage of any portion of the
United States, let me call 1t to your remem-
brance, that no man who went from these Con
federate States, has ever yet, as general Off
IN
plause.)
Pardon me if do not 90 into matters of
history, and permit me, again, to thank you for
this kind manifestation of your regard, to ex-
press to you my hearty wishes for the individual
prosperity of you all, with the hope that youlwil
all pray to God to crown our cause and our coun.
try with success.
The crowd now called for Robert Toombs,
John P Benjamin, Colonel Wigfall, and ex-
Governor Wise. Wise and Wigfall responded.
SPEECH OF HENRY A. WEE. .t.
Myfriends-You all know that am civil sol.
dier only, and shat in that capacity was near.
ly worn down In the seige of the Virginia Con.
vention. Thank God, however, that with q
little rest, some help, and some damage from
the doctors, have been enabled to recruit my
exhausted energies
The time of deliberation has given place to
the time Of action, and have taken up my bed
as an individual, in common with others, to
march to Richmond, to meet the President Of
our now separate and independent Republic. l
am ready to obey his orders, not only with
pride, pleasure, and devotion to the cause and
respect to the office he fills, but with respect to
the man himself, as one who has our fullest con.
hdence. You have to meet foe with whom
you could not live in peace. Your political
power and rights, which were enthroned in that
capital when you were united with them under
the Old constitutional bond of the Confederaoy,
have been annihilated. They have undertaken
to annul laws within your own limita that would
render your property unsafe within those limits.
They have abolitionized your border, as the dis.
graced Northwest will show. They have in
vaded your moral strongholds, and the rights of
your religion, and have undertaken to teach you
what should be the moral duties of men.
They have invaded the sanctity of your homes
and fresides, and endeavored 70 play master,
father and husband for you in your households;
in word, they have set themselves up as q
petty Providence, by which you are in ali things
to be guided and controlled. But you have al
ready declared that you would not be subject to
this invasion Of your rights. Though war was
demanded, 1t was not for you to declare war.
But now that the armies of the invader are
lowering around the tomb of Washington,
where is the Virginian heart that does not beat
with quicker pulsation at this last and boldest
dissertation of his beloved State7 Their hordes
are already approaching our metropolis, and
extending their folds around our State as does
the anaconda around his victim. The call is
for action. rejoice In this war. Who is
there that now dares to put on sanctity to depre.
cate war, or the "horrid glories of war7"
None. Why7 Because II Is war of purifi.a.
tion. You want war. FIRE. blood, to purify you;
and the Lord Of Hosts has demanded that you
should walk through fire and bleod. You are
called to the fiery baptism, and call upon YOU
to come up to the altar. Though your path
way be through FIRE, or through river Of Blood,
turn not aside. Be in no haste-no hurry and
furry.
Collect yourselves, summon yourselves ele-
vate yourselves to the high and sacred duty of
patriotism. The man who dares to pray, the
man who dares to wait until some magic arm is
put into his hand; the man who will not 20 nm.
less he have MIME, or percussion musket, who
will not be content with flint and steel, or even
Q gun without lock-is worse than coward
he Is renegade. II he can do no better,
30 to Q blacksmith, take Q gun along as q
sample, and get him to make you one like
1t. Get spear-a lance. Take q lesson
from John Brown. Manufacture your blades
from old iron, even though 1t be the tires of
your cart wheels. Get bit Of carriage spring,
and grind and burnish IL In the shape Of Bowie
knife, and put to IL any sort of handle, 30 that
1t be strong-ash, hickory, oak. But, If poesi.
sible, get q double barreled gun and q dozen
rounds Of buckshot, and 70 upon the field with
these. If the enemy's guns reach further than
yours, reduce the distance; meet them, foot to
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