Daily Ohio statesman. [volume] (Columbus, Ohio) 1855-1870, 1862-01-04
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BosToH. Jan. 3-Gov. Andrews message q
the Legislature to-day Is Of unusual length. II
gives ageneral history Of the facts and hgures
Showing the part Mass echusetts has thus far
taken against the Southern rebellion. 49,.
The war expenses foot up nearly $33, ,Ss5 ,0O0.
To offset this the State has been reimbursed by
Government SITS 600, and by other sums, max
Ing the aggregate refunded nearly 81 ,OOO,OOO.
The troops sent into the field, both for three
months and three years, with tho exception oil
one battery, have been fully armed and equip
ped by the State.
The Governor recommends that the State
assume the collection Of the direct national
tax of 1924 58l being It's proportion OF the $2O,
600 900 authorized by Congress. flf A+l ~ i
The State has contributed FIVE regiments Of
infantry, one battery Of artillcry,and one bat
tallion Of rifles, Of her militia to the three
months service; and to the three years. service
she has sent as volunteers, twenty.four regi-
ments of infantry, one of cavalry, five batteries
OF artillery, two companies OF sbarpshooters,
and an infantry battalion OF five companies;
ak companies more are attached to two regi-
ments from New York. ral.., r..s, an 5yq..
The Governor urges the repeal Of the consti-
tutional discrimination between citizens Of alien
and those of foreign birth.
The recommendation made by the general
Government with reference to coast defense, is
fully indorsed. A communication from General
Totten upon this subject Will be laid before the
Military education in our common schools ls
recontme ended. "a GS,, 5.is. ..ii,cd I..fal b. III
The whole number Of enrolled militia 10 l57,-
496. The whole number who have gone into
the volunteer service Of the United States, 10
reported BY the Adjutant General at 1929.
About ii 900 more are estimated TO be In the
naval service as sailors and marines, leaving
$4,000 at home, besides those men capable Of
ordinary duties. q 4 ~, s,rsi,f. sry,a .aI
The Governor closes his message as follows:
The great rebellion must be put down and
its promoters ctushed beneath tue ruins Of their
own ambition. a The greatest crimelof history,
must receive doom so swift and sure that
the enemies of popular government shall stand
in awe while they contemplate the elastic eler,
gy and concsntrAtiYe power Of Democratic Ina
stitutionsJ Of free people, The gmonstrous
character OF the crime has never yet been,
adequately conceived, nor is language able TO
describe it, Groundless and acauselets Ia it's
origin, it began and grew up and continues
under the lead and direction Of men who had
received all the fayors and enjoyed all the
blessings of our Government, and who were
bound by official oaths to maintain It. Reck.
less Of consequences and determined to ruin
where they could not rule, they cousplred
against the welfare of near thirty millions OF
people and their countless posterity They
plunged them with inoonceiyable madness into
every danger and suffering and sorrow which
follow. n y.5s q. = .srglI isg.3 81. 4 Issa M
| Y The American citizen can recognize no social
duty intervening between himself and his coun-
try. He may urge reform, but he has no right
to destroy. lntrusted with the precious inher-
itance of liberty, and endowed with the gifs Of
participation in popular government, the Com
stitu,ion makes him at once the beneficiary and
the defender Of interests and institutions which
| he cannot innocently endangerj and when he
becomes traitor TO his country, he commits
equal treason against mankind. l,i.g %, ~; d
Involved 10 this controversy for life, for free
dom and for honor, let Massachusetts, In follow
ing the flag and keeping step TO the music of the
Union, never fail to prove TO all the character
istics of her people, that che 10 to-day, as she
Was of old, when che it was that first uniurled
the flag. Henceforth there will be no one to
consider how to reconstruct the Union, exclud.
ing New England from the sisterhood Of States.
Wherever foe, treReure or blood was the call,
they heard the people of New England respond
by opening the lap of their industry, and by the
march of their braves; and now,i when the
beauty of our Israel has been alain In our high
places, and when her Lee, and Revere, and
lockwood, and Bowman, be in felon's cells, and
hundreds OF her sons wear ont their hearts In
sad captivity, victims Of their valor and devo.
tion to our Union, one irrepressible impulse
moves our people and inspires our soldiers in
the field; one prayer to see the day when an
army of loyal Americans shall hammer at the
doors Of their prison-house, with both hands,
pledged to the solemn task Of war, and with
neither hand averted to uphold the institution
which is the cause of all this woe, and that
they shall not turn back until the grand deliv-
eranee shall be Accomplished. .i-Ff --'|