Daily Nashville patriot. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1860-1862, 1861-11-28

COchrane's speech. made to his soldiers
last evening on the occasion of the pre-
sentation of a flag
SuLDIEEs Or TIE FIRST UNITED STATES
CHAssEURs bravo CoIOnel.) l have a
word TO say to you to-day. You have
engaged in an arduous struggle. You
have prosecuted il; you intend to prose-
cute it; you have stood unninchingly be-
fore The enemy; you have proved your
selves patriotic, able and tried soldiers,
and You are entitled to the need of praise.
], your commander, this day feel that it
IS a proud duty to extend to you the
hand of appreciation, and to declare that
you are worthy of your country.
Soldiers, you have undergone labor;
you have faced the enemy; you have
stood without reireating before their fire;
you have borne the inclemencies of the
season, and you are ready to advance
with that grand army of which you are
a part. Your country opens its arms,
receives you to its bosom. 1t will al
ways praise and applaud you. Its COM
mandcrS stand at the head of the column
and with you behind them, are not to be
deferred. But the command is forthcom-
ing-fOrward, march! toward the enemy.
Take his possessions, for they are
yours; they are yours to occupy; they are
yours TO enjoy; you are no mauraders,
you are no plunderers of property not
your own, but you are the avengers of the
law: YOU are the right arm of the Consti-
tuition; under your flag march patriotism
and order, and republican institutions; in
yonr train follow peace. prosperity and
liberty; you are the servants OF these
high potentates and the arm through
which they strike is the arm of the worthy
public servant who stands behind me on
this occasion, the Secretary of War. Sol
diers. YOU have been called TO the field,
not as marauders and mercenaries, but as
the defenders of our high faith, defenders
of our glorious reputation, defenders of
our honor and renown, around which
cluster the memories Of the past. and
whose feats and performances will yet
distinguish the future You are led .Or-
ward by commander under whom to
serve it is pride for the highest among
Us. He enjoys the confidence Of the
people, and his reputation already rem
ders powerless the arms of your enemies.
By him we have won victories in the
South, and by these victories we have as
suranccs OF triumphs yet to come. Beau
fort is ours-Charleston may be ours-the
whole country now disintegrated may
be shortly united by the force OF those
arms of which Won are a part, and the
Union once more signify TO the world the
intent of that glorious motto, Z Pisrtbus
UHuD.. Then no longer shall be heard
that fell doctrine of secession, which
would tear It's asunder, and distract,
part from part, this glorious Union; but
We shall all be as we have been, one and
Inseparable, under the flag Of our glorious
nationality, won by our fathers and pre-
served by you. Applause. Here is as
sembled upon the banks of the Potomac
an army the like OF which the world has
never seen.
The motive which has gathered that ar
MY together. never was before presented 10
tie eye of history. Ii was congregated by
po despotic order: it was the voluntary
wish The motive power Of every man COM
posing 1.-THE power of men rushing as
with one purpose, to reinstaie the flag of
cur Union and save the Republic That,
soldiers. is your mission: and you have a
commander who, with lightning speed, will
lead you to conquest, ami with equal speed
will transmit the glory of your lsbors to
the remotest corners of our country And
now, permit me, though the shades of night
are falling upon Us, 20 indulge in a few
words, as 10 the cause OF the war, and the
means by which it is to be brought to sue
cessful terIninstion. The material aid I
have ALREADY adverted to: the motive power
remains TO be commented upon. On the
one -ids vou have the Confederate army;
on the other side you have the GRIND Union
the Fe ierai army ROW, the difference
betWeea these two words. in their common
acceptstion. is the cause for which these
two armies are fighting. 1t is Secession
against Observation-Disclosures against Sc
cessiou- Nationality against Disunion; con-
fusion sgainst order; anarchy against a
good, tree anu liberal Government; a Gov
eminent made equally by the Fathers of the
South AMI the Fatuers of the North We
are in revolutionary period The South
CONTENDS for the right of revolution. We
admit the right. but while we admit it, we
invoke the sole umpire which may be in
voked on such occasions-the umpire of the
sword the umpire of force, the ultimat ra-
ito, that last effort TO which men appeal.
when they have differences otherwise ire
concilable.
They-the South-have resorted to
arms, and they have compelled us to the
same resort, and if they claim that. it is
war of self-preservation on their part, it
is equally war of self-preservation on
ours, and if we are in controversy for very
existence, then | contend that all the re-
sources, all the means within ourselves.
individually, collectively, and nationally.
must be resorted to and adopted. ZAP
planse- But some friend-a doubfer-
exclaims: Would you disrupt and tear
aSuudpr the Constitution IyI,o,o :;