Worcester daily spy., 1862-07-26
To the Soldiers from Northboro'.

prepared by Mr.. j. T. Loring =
'''To BE OR NOT TO BE, THAT Is THE oUEs-
TIoN.-This is no figure of speech to us; it is
a reality which imperatively requires practi-
cal answer at the hands of the people of the
loyal states. Whether we shall be great
and powerful commercial, manufacturing, and
agricultural nation, indomitable in perSeyer-
ance and energy, enterprising in commerce,
industrious in the arts and educated in the
sciences, possessing boundless and ineXhaus-
tible resources of everything in the material
world with geographical limits imposed only
by nature, feared by the despots of the world
and respected only because feared; or wheth-
er we shall supiney suffer division of this
republic, thus committing suicide and linking
our names forever in history with those homi-
cides who are seeking the life of this nation
over such hecatomb of victims as would
clog the appetite of the king of Dahomey.
Such is the momentous issue before us. Shall
we rise to the height of the occasion!
"--our cause is ripe.
The enemy increaseth every day.
We at the height ready to decline.
There is tide in the affairs OF men
Which taken at the food leads on to fortune;
Omitted. all the voyage of theiI life
Is bound in Swallows and in miseries.
On such full sea are ahoat
And we must take the current when it serves,
Or lose our ventureS--"
There is no ground for despair. Massa-
chusetts will have her quota in the field in
month Thirty thousand men are now en-
listed, Vermont and Illinois are already in
the field, and it is safe to say that the call of
the president in six weeks hence will have
met its full response.
anil, toJ J,,ri4h fo1 #
New Orleans; the control of the Mississippi
makes southern contederaey impossible.
England and France and the rebels combined
cannot possibly wrest it from us. The con-
troll Of the Tennessee enables us to penetrate
into the very heart Of the rebellion. Key
West is to the Gulf of Mexico what Gibraltar
is to the Mediterranean. Charleston will be
at our mercy when our irOn-clad Monitors are
completed, and we can then-indced, we can
now-laugh at threats of Intervention. There
is navesSel in the British or French navies
tba 20 able to stand fifteen minutes
i. new Monitors with their fifteen
LIo.., "a i, and their wooden vessels would be
destroyed like chatf. SO sure as foreign ma
vie are sent to our shores with hostile in
ende, e so soon will cotemporary history record
be other Salamis. No! there is no ground
iie Despair. On the contrary, there is abun-
.nt Z cause for rejoicing over the past, and for
~ lulging high hopes Of the future. Adversi-
y has its uses. The apparent reverse before
Richmond is a special providence of God, as
was Bull run.
''Instead of the expected victory and occu-
patton of Richmond, the cup of joy was dash
ed from our lips. Not yet,' was the divine
mandate. We are called upon for new sacri-
fees and for renewed exertions; the priceless
bnOO Of frnn gnvaruD1pOt costs money and
costs blood. Easily acquired treasures are
priced too lightly. We need no proclamation
of emancipation from the president; it is al
ready proclaimed. The irresistible logic of
events tends directly to that end.
''As political power slavery is already as
dead as Julius Cesar, and the Eest of its poor
life is not worth the taking.
sour government will emerge from the war
with a heavy debt of money, it may be, to in
dividuals, and heavier debt to its citizen sol
diers and sailors, who, under God were the
means of rescuing it from an ignominious
death at the hands of Cataline the Second
and his bloody crew. But it will emerge with
strength and an imposing grandeur it never
had before. 1t will have passed through con-
vulsions that would have destroyed any other
government OIL the earth; it will have shaken
off its bondage to the abominable curse of
slavery, Wnlcl-t0 use the words OF Earl HuS-
sell in the house of commons-has 'clung
about us like poisoned garment and our
good, sturdy old ship of state will begin anew
her career of glory.
1.-THE sea being smooth,
How many shallow bauble boats dare sail
Upon her patient breast, making their way
With those of nObler bulk?
But let the rufian BOreas once enrage
The gentle Thetis, and, anon, behold
The strong ribbed bark through liquid mountains
cut,
Bounding between the two moist elements,
Like Perseus hOrse Where's then the saucy boat,
Whose weak unmbercd sides but even now
Co-rival'd greatness? either to harbor fled
| Or made toast for Neptune.n
'Go forth then young men of Northboro
Your country calls you; opportunity waits on
you. Living you will become honored
among men, dying your names will become
household words to be lisped by infant
tongues. Living or dying you have already
achieved historic fame, and it only remains for
you to illustrate it on the field of battle.
Soldiers, from the summit of yonder pyra-
mids forty centuries look down upon YOU,
said Napoleon Bonaparte to his troops in
Egypt He referred to the past. We say to
you, Soldiers, the immeasurable future looks
up to you from the verge of Chaos !"
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