The Hancock Jeffersonian. [volume] (Findlay, Ohio) 1857-1870, 1861-08-23
Welcome TO the Volunteers of the 2fst
ReGiment III. q. MI.

TWENTY FIRST hE0fMFNr;- Ghe thunder 0f
artillery proclsims your welcome home.--
The military escort which conducts you
hack TO these familiar scenes, is in honor of
your patriotic public services. We parade
before you on this day no ceremonious
mockery Of feeling. 7 1bese tokens Of honor
are the spontaneous offerings Of gratitude,
love and pride. But there is a higher and
holier feeling swelling up from the inward
fountains Of every heart. II is gratitude to
the great Creator and Preserver, that through
the dangers and vicissitudes, perls and
calamities OF camp and field, your lives are
preserved TO us and to your country. But
there is a note OF sadness in our jubilee:
Allen, Pomeroy, Reed, Hemery. and eleven
others, no longer rally beneath youi resi-
mental bannef. Their names are inscribed
upon the roll Of the departed hosts. We
shall see them no more until they and we
shall be awakened by the reville Of eterni,y's
morn. when we shall be mustered to the
last grand inspection. The brave Captain
Allen fell with his face 10 the foe, dying as
became Soldier, on the "feld OF his fsme.''
Beneath a tail sycamore, on the banks Of the
Ksnawha, brother in arms and in the mys-
tic bond Of Masonry, carved upon the rind
Of that sentinel of the forest the name Of
Allen, and the emblems of his order. But
the dust Of that brave man was not TO be
trampled on by towards or desecrated by
rebel footsteps. II now rests in a new made
grave dug East and West. There let breth-
ren, friends aud patriots repair and moi,ten
with their tears :he grave of hero.
| The gallant Pomeroy met his death war
can't upon the battlefield, but when the
death summons was spoken in his ear, and
he had paid the debt he owed his country,
tn, it was that nature, love and duty spoke:
"Bear me, living OF dead, back to the arms
OF loved ones''-and il was done. Oh, the
sad meeting! 1t is no longer the brave. the
buoyant, the witty and intelligent Guy
Pomeroy; 'tis his lifeless clay that a be-
reaved widow and orphans - heatt-broken
parents and friends, receive for burial
Funeral honots are his; tue farewell shots
over his grave proclaim that all that was
mortal Of Lieut.. Guy Pomeroy, is no more
Poor Hemery was drowned while bathing
in the Ohio river. Young, virtuous, and
intelligent, his country's cause had calleI
him forth. His death, again betokens that
"in the midst OF life we are in death"
Another whose face was still more faml
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social throng Of earth, nor sits laughing in
our midst The grim messenger has called
him forth. Peace, peace 10 his asheS
ofal the deal Of your regiment. may tn,
Goddess Of Liberty stand sentinel over thei
graves. Wills, angels companion their spirit:
in the aims OF the Llest.
While we weep for the lost ones who's,
places are made vacant by death, our hearts
are filled with gladneSs at your safe returr
to home anh friends. BY the mercy Of
kind Providence Others OF your number, wb'
have felt the whistling lead AMI biting siee
Of the enemy, ore permitted to return t.
their homes ant enter again the bosoins o
their families. The wounds they bear ar,
|, badges more precious 10 them ani to thel
, country than the star or The garter; but the
ATE sad remindinss TO us oil! that war Is n
1 harmless sport nor child's play. II IS tha
E which necessarily involves the destruction
Of human life.
). The war IN which you, ny brave country
= men. have been engaged, is uae the dangers
n crue ties and barbnritieS OF which make eve
y brave men quake ana trembe. II is a wa
4 in which M man should engage who love
/. bel ween Turk and Saracen-betNeen Chris
:, ian and Trfdril Is there an Alcric, Ma
hammed, an Alexander, or a NerxeS in IN
IS (eld' There may be Pompey. Cesar, a
" Antony, or an OctaviuS. Let not his:oI
: deny the fact, lei no man deny the startiu
# point; let no truth be omitted, nor falls,
e hood stated; this is n Servile war, wased |
y the viper brood Of revo u'ionary tories.
! overthrow the ~ISeSt aud best governme,
= ever wrought By human wisdom-to tramp
" under foot human Liberty, and wipe fro
&c the records Of time every vestige OF free D.
4 mocIatic government. Recrenm alike
party obligations and national fralty, IN,
struck down the high souled, true. heart
5 Douglas. They would now murder IN {
- national capitol the patriotic Lincoln +.
is r ey have desecrated the grave of Jackso
Ia They would rend from the bosom OF l
a country the sleeping dust Of WaShingto
~ Their thug Lnd vandal hosts now mcna
he the capital of our nation with Ere and swou
IL Is the day OF our desola,ion at hand7
:, the history of this proud Republic come tc
A., closet Is this last bloody drama to be
I'M closing chapterl No. There ar. h,
nd eighteen millions Of Christians. ready, il 7
" cessary, to leap into the gulf Who amo
he us is not a Horatius Cox! You. my bra
conntrymen, are our Arnold Winkelriet
We have erected no triumphal arches
signal your return, for the reason that "
be country has not yet passed the ordeal of
c., calamity. She has not yet established
ut supremacy of her laws, nor demonstra
re. to the world, as she will do, that our gr
as. Temple of Liberty rests upon an ndes,ru
cry ioie foundation; that the planets shall so
er be torn asunder from their orbits in
IN. heavens, than that this great Democra
Ter, Union Of states should be dissolved.
In. ,,ese of vouy march. with love and prile
IN. Wherever you have been permitted to mt
mad you have conquered the enemy. But
Ilso country has been less fortunate in the
vices of others. Thousands brnvely fouI
y" hundreds bravely died. but thousands IL
miniously fed the field of Manassas.