Raftsman's journal. [volume] (Clearfield, Pa.) 1854-1948, 1862-11-05
VOL. 9.--NO. 10.
GEN. ResEcRAus ON THE CRISIS.

S6GEN. ResECRAus ON THE CRISIS.
The following is an extract from letter
written by Gen. W. S Rosecrans, a. the head
quarters of the army OF the Mississippi, July
Goth, 1852. Gen. Rosecrans is Catholic,
and a devout believer in the testimony of
Gregory XVI, concerning the s.hatefulness
and wickedness of human Slavery Gen. R.
says: Q 15us5b se85ad 10 aei3re1IG s8g
s'For more than year We have been enga-
ged IN this struggle, into which an arrogant
and dictatorial slave oligarchy has driven
free, happy and peaceful people, fighting for
the rights of ali. With true bravery and in
vincible patience our citizen soldiers have
stood on this ground to the present moment,
against yiolators of the laws of war and hu
manity. Remaining true to their principles,
they have said by words and actions 10 their
fellow-citizens in the South, we fight for COM
mon rights. If We win, you win. fthe Gov
ernm ent is maintained, you will dwell under
Its protecting shadow freely as We. And
there we stand, and thus we say to-day.
But If The confederates prevail, farewell
peace and safety to u.s. farewell freedom. for
ever! Their principles and leaders are known
10 u.s. They cheated us. crying out no coer-
cion; holding out false hopes and deceitful
assurances OF friendly regard, while assassin
like, they were preparing to destroy our gov
ernnent. and reduce us to anarchy or seryi-
tude. The past years experience renders it
certain that if they triumph, blood and DESC
lation, fire and sword, or arbitrary subsection
to their will, araits epery phite man Dho has
manhood enough 10 dislike their system of slarery,
foiera6ie only as a cruel necessity, but as prtn-
cipLe hateful TO God and man. 81 zzs ssll
They will omit no means, honest or dishon-
est, to-insure success. Misrepre senting, ,.ca-
Eliminating our motives, ridicuiing our honest
efforts to mitigate the horrors of war, and in
flaming the passions of the populace by low
epithets-are among the milder and more or
dinary means resorted to by this pseudo
.schisairy,'' the meGnesf aristocrocy that euer
stood at The head Of a civilized society,"
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The EFFECT OF THE PRESIDENTS PRocLAMA-
TIoN Ger. Prentiss expresses himself in pri-
vate even more strongly than in public, as
regards the effect of the Proclamation upon
the Union prisoners. Every man, he says,
including the slaveholdng officers of the Mis-
souri, regiments, welcome the Presidents edict
of freedom as the door to victory. Their
criticism upon it was that it rather Jagged
behind than outran the necessities of the times.
They would have had the emancipation gen.
eral, and the decree immediate. The effect
OF the Proclamation upon the South was un-
mistakable. The rebels, in all their conyer-
sations, allude to it in manner indicating
that it was the one thing they dreaded. The
negroes were being driven into the interior for
safety At Petersburg, large numbers were
congregated, thousand in one pen, crowded
together like cattle in the sbambles. The
atmosphere of the streets was charged with
the .odor of this sickening mass of humanity.
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IMPORTANT ARMY ORDER.-The following
order just been issued by the War Department.
First-Enlistments into the regular army un-
der Generalf Order, No. l54, may be made
either in the field or in the several States, but
not more than ten volunteers will be enlisted
from any one company. a.,3--a B- nf
Second-The S25 advance of the SlOO boun-
ty, authorized by Section 9th of the act of
Congress approved July 29th, 1865. and So
premium, authorized by the act approved June
2lst, 1862, will only be paid to volunteers en-
listed into the regular army under this order,
who have not already received it. When re-
cruting officers are furnished with funds, these
amounts, or either of them, will be credited
to the soldier in the first muster roll after his
and paid by the paymaster who
pays him.
IT MUsT BE ONE.-The Louisville Journal
says: 'sThere is no earthly truth more certain,
more indispatable, than that, however desola-
ing and terrible the war may be. there never
IAN be peace in this country until what was
'ne country, shall be again one country. It
nay be republic, it may be despotism,
must be The whole people, N orth and
south, may as we'll make up their minds to
hat at once" t