The Richmond palladium. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1855-1875, 1862-08-22
The Baptism Of the War.

Every error. says the Philadelphia Press.
and every indiscretion that man may
have committed in his former life. is for
gotten and forgiven in this great struggle
for human freedom. We do not remember
Ben amin +. Buffers conduct at the Char
lesion Democratic Convention. rs we read
over the details of his splendid military ad
ministration Of the city of New Orleans,
aud who is DESTROYS OF recalling the dark
hours of Daniel E. Sckles, as he reads the
evidences of his hcroism in battle, and his
eloquence before the people! Gen. Sickles
made great hit at q war meeting at Hobo
ken. on Wednesday evening. which is thus
described in the report of the New York
Tribune:
General Sickles was received with deaf
ening cheers. He paid tribute to the
soldiers from New Jersey in his brigade;
and general, he said. owed far more to his
soldiers than he could claim for himself
After passing an eulogy upon Gen. McClel-
Ian. the speaker said he was glad to hear
that New Jersey meant to be faithful to
the glorious record Of her past history, and
that she meant to furnish her entire quota
now needed for the army. no. as conscripts,
but as volunteers. Cheers.
Looking over the large as sembly. Gen.
Sickles said, Has it occurred to you that it
would be impossible in all the Southern
States to find one scene like that which
now behold? Show me the Southern city
with your population, in which at . brief
notice SO many able bodied men could be
brought together to hear a soldier talk
about war.
"A regiment Of able bodied men. The
hoS thop
of those that L now address have enlisted?
a volce--"I am one."l There is one
Recruiting officer at the desk-"Let him
put his name DOWN. How many are there
here tonight who mean to enlist? IA
voice--"Put the Black Republicans and
Abolitionists down"
Tell my friend that is a very poor ex-
cuse; better tell the truth that you are not
in the humor to fight. Great cheering I
That mar is subject for draft. Cheers
and cries of "Put him OUT That is the
kind of craven hearted fellows that run away
to Canada to escape the draft. Such men
have their utility. ard shall make use of
this occurrence.
l have found many men disposed to
throw politics forward as an excuse for a
failure TO perform duty higher than any
political function resting upon any citizen
at this moment
No one could suspect him. from his past
political course, of any sympathy with the
politics Of those now in power; but from
the time the first gun was fred on the holy
flag of the Union he had ceased to be .
politician. and had been q soldier. General
Sickes then referred to the difficulties the
Administration had had to surmount:
He had a word for those with whom he
had been politically associated. which was
to remember the doom of those men who
opposed the war of 1919 and the Mexican
war. Candor and truth demanded that
he should say Of Abraham Lincoln that he
was brave. an honest, a capable Chief
Magistrate. Cheers
Their first duty was to ELL up the ranks
OF the old and shattered regiments-.hose
who had stood the brunt Of the Gre. II
was mistake to suppose that the new regi-
ments would not be brough, forward to give
the old regiments an opportunity to recu-
perate.
A man in going into an old regiment
gained great deal in being Instructed in
taking care Of bis health, lesson which
it cost every new regiment a hundred lives
to learn. In an old regiment, the new re
cruit inherits at once all the gIories of the
regimental flag under which be enlists.