Cleveland morning leader. [volume] (Cleveland [Ohio]) 1854-1865, 1862-04-15

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their discipline and arms they having
French guns which throw HOO yards, j
For the benefit and graliaoation Of the
Ohio soldiers In tae 9th battery and 18th
Regiment ] will add their health Is return
ing-Rons being deemed dangerously eick.
The weather Is good; the water subsidingi
the roads improving; end We are looking
with hope for forward movements. It
now possible for mothers, wives, or sisters,
if the case required, to get here, butnot un-
ill now for months.
Imay write again, and In the meantime
remain, Yours Truly,
W. D. WETM0RE.
We cannot commend our readers to any
better reading than his from the N. z.
Times, Of Saturday last; ,a a. 3
A Year Of the War.
The President, in issuing his noble pr0c.
lsmatien setting apart tomorrow 30 a day
Of National Thanksgiving, bss doubtless
been mindful Of the signiAcsnee Of the date,
and has ftly chosen that the anniversary
Of the blaokest day Of our National annals
shall be signaliEed by devout recognition
and grateful remembrance Of all the Prov
idsntisl experiences that fll the intsrFen-
/ ing twelve months. It is year ago To-
day, an hour before sunrise, that the frat
( gun vas fed on Fort Sumter; 9 year sgo
to-morToW, that It's little band Of heroic
defenders surrendered 70 armed traitors
This, then, is the first snHiyersary Of the
war for the Union We shall have enough
Of them in days 10 come-snniversaries Of
triumph-sOme few Of defeat Of Hilton
Head and Henry, and Donelson, and Roam
oke Island, and Nsgberl, snd Pea Ridge,
and Pittsburgh Lending, 5f Lyon'B death
and the surrender Of Lexington, and Of
Bull Run, and Of glorious victories yet 10
be won. But none Of ell them will come
to Us, Rb this first one COMES, the 8nniver-
sary Of the attack upon Fort Sumter, Of the
first felon blow struck in the bad cause
Of secession and rebellion.
How Vividly We recall the troubled days
which preceded il; the slowly gathering
clouds which bstokeRed the approaching
storm, but whose warnings We refused to
acoeptstil hoping against hope, still conf
dentthRk madness could not have so far
carried sway onr Southern brethren, and
that they would ygtrefFain from firing the /
train which they had laidl. How We re-
call the anxiety with which We Walohed |
for daily tidingE from Major Anderson and
his little band Of heroes who seemed To Be |
going down into an ever deepening gloom |
Of privstion and danger, deserted by sll |
bat Heaven, and then the spriug of hope as |
We say Che Government ct last bestirFing |
Itself 10 shake OF the paralysis into which /
imbeciity and Wickedness had brought it, |
and taking some means which showed some |
prospect Of relief 70 that brave company.
And then, one year ago to-day, there |
went over the land those magnetic pulss-
tions which proclaimed that the die was /
cast, that rebellion had crossed the Rubi- /
con, that the hands Of traitors had aimed |
hostile ahots ct that glorious banner which
their and our fathers had fought for, and !
which had been to them and to us the SYM /
Dol Of all thst was truest ard best AMI |
most hopeful for humanity. /
Who can forget the thrill with which he
heard that dreadful announ cement, and /
how the land started under i'll Who Of
rs can forget how men vent through the 1
streets with faces pale with rage and teeth
set with determination, and how al the
land was filed with the cry Of patriotic
fsFVoT With which We gathered round the
old flag How We hHng il to the breeze
from every oeFneF Of the streets, how our
eyes flied With tears ss we gaIed upon its
glorious foldsl We had never loved it half |
enough before, had never hslf-appreciated
all its significant beauty, and now how that
beauty bursts forth like the morning from
every hilltop, and eyeryWhere throughout
the broad North al traitors and towards /
skunk away before it amazed, sbashed, dis
heartened discomftsd BY the outbuEsting
patriotism Of q people whom they had /
thought 70 boBunk too deep in materislism /
and selfshnesH to be capable Of sueha sem.
timent .l.s-.yi Il 5-..15 + 5fl yrb-5 !
All this comes over Us fresh as IL it we're /
yesterday. And yet, when We think Of all /
We have lived through since that day, il !
seems like life Of centuries. r We, who /
had gone our daily rounds of bnslasss ana
Of pleasure, who he'd married and given in /
marriage, who had bonshf and sold, built |
houses and lived in them, built ships aud /
sailed them, busying ourselves about this |
material prosperity Of ours, which, splen.
did though it is, has yet little Of the heroic |
in it, We 10 be thusTsuddenly plunged into
such EhirlWind d eFehts, Whi6A not even |
history can make dull, Of sensations run
ming through the whole range from defeat |
and disgrace to victory and success com. 4
ing in upon us like q food HcW could /
such q year fail to occupy more space in |
our lives than our whole lives beside2
How much has been crowded into It'll We |
cheered eur patriot hosts as they rushed |
from all quarters Of TIE land 70 the defence |
Of their Government, 80 csuselessly assail- |
Cd; We heard, with cleaning eye and close. |
pressed lip, the dying shout Of that Msssa- |
chusstts boy in Baltimore, our first martyr, |
'All hail 70 the Stars and Stripes We Ia |
bored and We waited alike; We vent down |
through the valley Of the shadow Of death |
after Che fatal fsldof Bull Run, and nerVsd !
ourselves Only with AFmer determination |
10 carry on the conflict to the bitter end;
We have followed, with increasing Joy, /
the movements Of our armies, as they SLOW. l
" gathered around the stroHgholds Of re-
bsllion, sweeping them down one after
another, aud enguldhg them GsBurely as
the rolling tides Of the Bay Of Fundy en-
gulf the beach. tE ~ -.
And now Weistand 70 look bssk over TIE
past year and thank God for it Is The
richest most bounieous yearin our history.
A yesr Of Privations, but Of pri7ations mo-
by borne, a year Of vgTiefs sUsttered
broadcast through our peaceful homes, blt
Of gTiefs Fhioh we're counted aslnolhinR
for the sake Of the cause. A year of hero
isms springing up among the people, com
mon as Fayside aoFeFsi A,yssr Of growth
IA ffmntsb and endurance, in courage and
strsngtk In ell those manly lualitlss that
make ahation truly great A year Of pro-
lFrsss such as, in our shortsigh tednsss We
had thonght that only long years would
bring. "A ygar mighty IN events, but
uiEhtiSf YET IN promises. A year not free
from stain, not WIiSlly pure, net wholly
worthy of ths great cause WhIeh e has
IboFne fOrEara 6uI 31I - elias shoss ar
dens and whose honoEs We can never be
TOO proud that We we're permitted 70 share.
Far better one such year athan 8 syole OF
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