Holmes County Republican. [volume] (Millersburg, Holmes County, Ohio) 1856-1865, 1861-08-15
eld. the heart of freedom Nill be Glad.

nelds the heart OF freedom WILL be glad.
Garry with you the complete assurance that
you will ere long have not only the moral but
material support of Kentucky. Not many weeks
can elapse before this Commonwealth will
make an exuliant avowal of her loyalty and
will stand erect before the country, stainless
and true as the truest of her sisters of the Un-
ion. In the scales of the mementous events
now occurring, her weight should be and will
be felt. Already she is impatient, and will
not much longer, under the pressure of any pol
icy, submit to shrink away into the mere d1st
ofthe balances.
Have no fears as te the vigorous and ultimate
ly prosecution of this war; and feel NO alarm
either as to the expenditure it must involve or
as to those startling steps, seemingly smacking
of the exercise of absolute authority, which the
Administration may from time TO time be forced
to take While doubtless all possible economy
win be observed, it is apparent that no consid-
erations of thai kind can be permitted. for
moment, to modify the policy that has been re-
solved upon. When the life of the patient is
confessedly atstake, it would be as unwise as
it would be inhuman to discuss the question of
the physicians fee before summoning him to
] the bedside. --
Besides, all now realize that the system of
arithmetic has yet to be invented which could,
| in dollars, estimate the worth of our institu-
| tions. This terrible emergency, with all its
dangers and duties was unforeseen by the foun-
des Of our Government, and by those who sub
sequently administered it, and it must make
| laws for itself. The Government has been like
astrong swimmer suddenly precipitated into the
sea, and like that swimmer it has unhesitating-
ly and most justifably seized upon any aud ev-
| cry ipstrumently with which it could subdue he
treacherous currents and waves by which it has
found itself surrounded. All that was irregular
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been fully appropriated by Congress. on the
broad and incontestable principle, that laws and
| usages of administration designed to preserve
the existence of the nation should not be suffer-
| ed to become the instruments of its death. So,
for the future, / do not hesitate to say that any
and every measure required to save the repub-
lie from The perils that beset it, not only may,
but ought TO be taken by the Administration,
promptly and fearlessly.
Within so brief q period no such gigantic
power has ever been placed at the disposal of
| any government AZ that which has rallied to
the support of this within the last few months,
through those volunteers who have poured alike
from hill and valley, city and village, through
out the loval State. All classes and all pur-
suits have been animated by the same lofty and
quenchless enthusiasm. While. however.
would make no invidious distinctions, where all
have so nobly done their duty. 1 cannot refrain
from reinarking how conspicuous the hard
handed tillers of the soil of the North and West
have made themselves in swelling the ranks OF
our army. We honor commerce with its busy
marts, and the workshop with its patient toll
and exhaustless ingenuity, but still we would
be unfaithful to the truth of history did we pot
confess, that the most heroic champions of hu-
man freedom and the most illustrious apostles
of Its principles have come from The broad field
of agriculture.
There seems to be something in the scenes of
nature, in her wild and beautiful landscapes, In
her cascades and cataracts and woodlands. and
exhilerating airs of her hills and mountains,
that embraces the letters which man would riv
ct upon the spirit of his fellow man. It was at
the handles Of the plow and amid the breathing
odors of the newly opened burrows that the
character Of Cincinnatus was formed, expanded
and matured. 1t was not in the city full. but
| in the deep gorges and upon the snow -clad
SUBMITS of the Alps, amid the eagles and the
| the ihupders, that William Tell laid the foun-
dations of those altars to human liberty, against
which the surging tides of European despo-
tism have beaten for centuries, but, thank God,
have beaten in vain.- 1t was amid the prime
| val forests and mountains, the lakes and leap
| ing streams of our own land; amid fields and
waving grain, amid the songs of the reaper and
the tinkling of the shepherds bell that were
nurtured those rare virtues which clustered
starlike in the character of Washington, and
| lifted him in moral stature a head and shoul-
ders above even the demigods of ancient story.
There is one most striking and distinguish
| ing feature of your mission that should never
be lost sight of. You are not about 10 invade
the territory of a foreign enemy, nor is your
purpose that Of conquest or spoiiation. Should
and protectors, and your aim will be not to sub
jugate that betrayed and DISTRACTED country,
but to deliver it from the remorseless military
despotism by which it is trodden down. Union
men, who are your brethren, throng on those
States and will listen for the coming footsteps
of your army, as the Scottish maiden of Luck
now listened for the airs ofher native land. 1t
is true, that amid the terrors and darkness
which prevail there, they are silenced and Row
unseen, but be assured that by the light of the
Stars you carry upon your banner you will ind
them all. 1t has been constantly asserted by
the conspirators throughout the South, that
this is war of subjugation on the part of the
Government of the United States. waged for
| the determination of Southern institutions, and
/ by vandals and miscreants, who, in the fury of
heir passions, spare neither age nor sex nor
property. Even one of the Confederate Gener-
ais has 20 far stepped himself in infamy as to
publish. in choice bilingsgate, this base calum-
ny, through an official proclamation. -.
In view of what Congress has recently SO SOL
emnly resolved, and in view of the continuous
and consistent action of the Administration
upon the subject, those who, through the press
or in public speeches, persist in repeating the
wretched slander, are giving utterance to what
everybody, themselves included, knows to be
absolutely and infamously false. 1t will be
the first and the highest duty of the American
army, as it advances South; by its moderation
and humanity, by its exemption from every ex-
cess and irregularity, and by its scrupulous OBJ
" both it and the Government it represents
have been traduced. When, therefore, you en-
ter the South, press lightly upon her gardens
and fields; guard sacredly her homes; protect,
if need be, at the point Of your bayonets, her
institutions and her constitutional rights, for
you will thereby, not only respond fully to the
spirits and objects Of this war, but you will ex-
ert over, alike the oppressed and the infatuated
portion of her people, power to which the
most brilliant of your military successes might
not attain.
I But when you meet in battle array those
atrocious conspirators, who, at the head OF ar
mics, and through woes unutterable; are seek
ing the ruin of our common country, remember
that since the sword famed over the portals OF
4 Paradise until now, it has been drawn in no ho-
lier cause than that in which you are engaged.
Remember too, the millions whose hearts are
breaking under the anguish of this terrible
crime, and then strike with bound and a
shout, well assured that your blows will tall
upon ingrates and traitors and parricides, whose
lust for power would make this bright land one
vast Goloiha, rather than be balked of their
guilty aims. and may the God of your fathers
give you the victory. '
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