The Memphis union appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1862-1862, 1862-08-05
Editor and Proprietor

einnati was not a loyal place, / should feel
aggrieved; bat want to warn you that tho
test will soon come, and perhaps sooner than
| you imagine The other day YOU treinble,l in
I your boots when you heard John Morgan wss
away on in Kentucky, and want to ask YOU
enc tn6g. Is not it strange thing that Gin
clnnatl should be so frightfuily scared because
OF John Morgan with about enc Thousand
friends at his heels? / will tell YOU the reason
why you were so scared: you never Thought
the war could be carried right up to your own
city. GU always thought the war was too
far of to affect you in any way. You hoard
of big battles on the banks of the TENNESSEE
but it could not have affected you less had the
war been IN England or France. / am glad
John Morgan came. [ wish he had come
right up 10 the southern pank Of the Ohio, and
shipped few of his butternut scoundrels
across to this city, No, you don't want John
Morgan, and fancy it will sound queer when
1t comes to be written down in history, to have
our children read about the fright Of Cincin-
natl over the Morgan raid into Kentucky; and
also think that when they come to read it
they will say to themselves What cowardly
asses our fathers were!h
Now, the way for you to keep him away is
TO fill up the ranks of the regiments already in
the he+d, and form new ones, and so push on
the work thoroughly. You have heard and
read and thought thousand times that this
glorious country is in danger. 1 wish nv
voice was as the voice of thunder, that might
tell The State of Ohio of the fearful danger by
which our own fair land is menaced. l ask
these gentlemen of the press to speak for me
through the columns of their papers, and show
to all men the eountry's danger, and TO say
that there is only one thing on earth that can
save IL now, ana that one thing is the viii, and
power, and energy of the people Don't think
| not 2npakinp n va IANnfE
am addressing myself to the inhabitants of
Dayton, or Hamilton, or Columbus; no, mean
what L say for you. Lot us suppose for a mo-
ment that our government was lost-God for
bid that we should even suppose it--but even
now this glorious institution is rocking to its
| very foundations. Let not history say that
the government was lost because the people
would not stretch out their hands to save it.
Let not posterity point jeeringly at us and say
that We lacked the viii and capacity to main
tain the freedom that our fathers purchased for
US at the cost of SO much noble blood. What
| Is life, position, weath-what is everything
| else in comparison with ones country2 If l
lose everything else if my country is left, am
| contented. feel as if was insulting you to
stand up and give you reasons why you should
/ fight for your country; but now put it to you
as a sacred daty-a duty to yourselves, to your
| God, to yourcountry and your families. l wish
stand such a cold, pulseless, inanimate being.
! lf you did, you would think it sweet to die
] for your country. That is how l feel, and if
| any man thinks he lacks the courage TO face
the dangers of the battlefield, l tell him that
| it is impossible for any one to be coward
| when in the midst of the battle. The soldiers
| look in each others faces, they notice the
/ brightness of the eager eyes, the firmly set
teeth, and the glorious flag in 'front.' and they
care for nothing, know nothing think Of
nothing, feel nothing but maddeniDg desire
to meet the enemy in front. This is what
| makes us lose so much, as in their eagerness to
get at them they forget all order and dis
cipline. saas ~
If the country is lost, the people alone ara
responsible, and no one else. Don't fail, then
to support the government; it is my last ap-
peal to you, and if you come forward as you
ought, then Uncle Sam will soon get well
again, professional men will be able to return
to their courts, mechanics to their workshops,
preachers to their pulpits, and peace will once
more reign in our glorious land. If ever q
war was fought to obtain peace, it is this one.
1t is not for conquest it is not for aggrand-
izement, but it is for the one sole object of
once more restoring to the land Of olr fathers
: the blessings of an abiding peace; and with
Gods help, it will not be long before we shall
once more find universal peace reigning
throughout our country.
The General then concluded his remarks
and SO. down, but the immense enthusiasm
with which the audience testified their ar
, proval, showed that what he had said had told
we'll on his listeners.