Delaware State journal and statesman., 1862-10-24

to the standard of your country. | was onct
a politician, but so help me God I will nevel
sheath my sword for courtly halls or civi
honors until my country is saved from thu
bloody tornado that is desolating the fairesi
land on earth-never until the old flae
floats in triumph from every hilltop on
Columbia's soil. These ARE MY POLITICS,
and all there is in the army at Jackson.
Indeed, | am surprised to hear men talking
of anything else.
Your country calls for aid and it needs
it now. 1t will accept voluntary assistance
if it can get it If not, men will be forced
into the ranks. There are many reasons
why men do not go to war, and very few
why some men should not 90. Frivolous
reasons are often given for not volunteer
ing, but the most powerful reason is, they
do not want to go! When + hear n man
say he will only go with certain man, Or
in certain company or regiment, or that
he will not go without an office, feel sure
there is something wrong about that mans
heart. He don't love his country as he
should. Your country needs you now worse
than at any other time, and if you want to
go into the service you can find no better
or more honorable place than in an old
regiment. Why object to filling the places
of the brave boys who fell at Belmont,
Donelson and Shiloh, whose bodies sleep in
soil contaminated by the footsteps of rebels?
In sickness or in health, in camp or on the
battlefield, the best place for young sol
dier is by the side of the veteran.
But there are some who say " can't go
this is war to FREE THE NIGGERs p
This charge is not worth attention but al
though no such object is contemplated in
the prosecution of this war, yet the negroes
are getting free pretty fast. 1t is not done
by the army, but they are freeing them
selves, and if this war continues five years
not slave will be left in the whole south
Now, let me say word to those who are
anxious about the interests of slavery; if
you wish slavery to continue, Join the army
and help us to whip out the rebels quick,
and there will probably be a few old stumps
left if not, then slavery must go. Now
my principles on this question are, if the
master is engaged in the attempt to over
throw the government, take the lives of
our people and desolate our homes, and the
slave gets free, it's none of my business.
1t is a family quarrel in which / shall not
interfere. If the question was presented
as to which should live, the Union or sla-
uery, | would say the Union, with my last
breath. The Union is worth everything.
Ii the sacrifice of million of men was
necessary to the salvation of this govern
ment, and nothing else would save it, and
| was the arbiter of its destinies, would
eonsign the million to death-and die with
them
am for vigorous prosecution Of this
war; to do this we must have men, and
of them. If necessary | would
call out every able bodied man in the loyal
States-turn the government over to our
mothers, wives and daughters. | would
give those who wanted to go an opportu-
nifty, and those who did not want to go
would make an opportunity for them.
would make them fight for the government.
l would stretch the army from the Allan
tic to the Rocky Mountains, and with fixed
bayonets and in solid phalanx, | would give
the order Forward march, to the Gulf
Of Mexico. Every man met | would
place musket in his hands, and let him
fall into the ranks, and to every man who
did not, would give the order, "Double
quick time, march," would drive every
one of them before me, and those who
would not submit, when we reached the
southern boundary line, would pitch head
and heels into the Gulf