Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1862-07-28

try to have this done. They know no politics
in the armv-only work; they want to get in
side of Richmond, and don't care how they do
if What do we care about the constitution:
We want Richmond We care not who helps.
assure YOU if we had had five hundred thous-
and negroes wewouldnot have sentthem away.
| don't ask whether they be white or black
only if they will help us go into Richmond.
Much as like my own regiment, want you
to do that which will help us quickest into
Richmond-join the old regiments. One sol
der there is worth three in new one. Men
learn quickest by seeing other men do, and in
three weeks drill he couldn't tell the new SOL
der from the old one. 1t takes weeks for
new regiment to know how to make itself sys-
tematically comfortable. 1t took our regi-
ment about three months, but they now could
take care of themselves pretty well. In re-
gard TO bounty, the old soldiers, he said, would
not complain so long as it served to give more
effective strength to the regiments in the
field.
Col. w. alluded in words of affection to
the first, sixteenth and ninth regiments with
which he had fought. No regiment stood
higher in the esteem of officers and soldiers
than the ninth. He spoke warmly of its
brave colonel who has lately died, and urged
that the ninth should not be left shorn of eff
fectiveness for the want of 300 men. Almost
every town and community had especial
interest in some one of the old regiments. In
Gods name let that locality give it the life it
needs. Remember that three hundred men
thus are worth one thousand in any other
way. He spoke of the loss in regiments as
! being not so much by disease and by battle as
by the ''wasting" processes. Men in the
first regiments were not examined with Sutfi-
cent care, and have had to be sent home
because of physical disability. Give us the
help we ask and the army of the Potomac
will be better and stronger than ever. AL
most every regiment in the field needs from
two to three hundred more men.
Some have excused themselves from going
because of pecunary or other causes which
they cannot, they say, afford to leave. But
how can any man afford to stay at home. We
are making history; l don't know how many
pages, every day Men have sighed for the
days of old-for the revolutionary times, but
there never was year in all time so
well worth living in as this. What would you
think if you should find an old man who lived
at the time of the Concord fight, and on
questioning him should find that in those
brave days he acted the part of coward and
sneak by hiding away in a barn. In future
days, when this grand historic time has passed
lllu lilSlOIl young llcn HAY COilt 10 NOu-
''You lived in that year-that glorious time in
Massachusetts,; what battle were you in?"
Il did not see a battle" ''Well, how did that
happenl" II wanted to go very much-but
the fact isl staid at home" Now imagine
the feelings with which that whole souled pa
triotic young man would turn from you. How
can you afford to stay at home when the deS-
TIMES of the whole world-freedom against
slavery-is going on before your very eyes.
You cannot afford it. Money and other con-
siderations are nothing. You are living this
| year and next many years in one. Let your
conduct now be such as you will not blush at
in coming times.
Col. Wells eloquent and effective speech
was generously applauded throughout. At
its close the mayor introduced Gov. ANDREW,
as one in whom the people of the common
wealth had confidence, and whose intelligent
patriotism embraced the interests ofthe whole
country. The governor was received with
hearty and repeated cheers, after which he
said =
GOV. ANDREWS SPEECH.
Friends and fellow citizens Il am not
talking but working man, with tired brain
and tired hand, but still hopeful, trying after
my humble capacity to do my part in this
glorious work of this most glorious war of
all time. often feel, as now 1 feel with
ineXpressible emotion, that in the far distant
future, when our children shall read the his
tory of this time, my humble name may be
inscribed on some humber stone as a partner
in this work, although it is not given to me
to join with those who, with unfaltering eye.
hon heart, and eagle gaze, stand under that
starry flag to do battle for the republic. But oh,
men, brethren, fathers and mothers in the
centre of liberty loving Massachusetts am
permitted brief moment to stand as n wit
ness, and before you l feel as if we were
standing before the very gateway of all the
ages-a time when free, educated religions
people do battle for liberty, for all humanity.
Oh sir, for what in the dark ages of olden
time did God preserve us? Why on storied
| page, why in letters and on the heights of
glory, sometimes in battle, sometimes on the
gallows, have our fathers stood almost the
| solitary witnesses for God and man. and
been brought through all the fires and strug-
giles that create the destnies of a people to
assume the destinies of the world hey ond the
sea? Why through the fire and blood of
revolutionary war with steady hand and provi-
dental care have we been held up until now
o, why, unless God looking down the vista
Of years saw there was people possibly in
this our land and time to. whose intelligent
bravery might be intrusted the gift of consti-
tutional enlightened liberty for man? And
now, sirs, looking above and beyond all sug.
gestions of hope or Of fear, see always the
vision of certain triumph of our holy cause
Massachusetts has responded nobly to the
cause-her sons came last year, and there is
no exigency or duty to which she has not
been equal. And now, when fifteen thousand
Bay State men are wanted to uphold the flag
and assist in the restoration of constitutional
liberty, know they will come. Occasionally
some one suggests draft. But tine people of
Massachusetts do not need CONSUMPTION, only
the moral draft upon patriotic hearts. We
fear not the common foe, and feel danger
only from the men who cavil and doubt-who
find fault and hang back. / believe in the
cause, in the principles which underlie the
cause, and l believe in the American people
Whether generals or cabinets do wrong. the
people will set them right and keen Then,
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