Gallipolis journal. [volume] (Gallipolis, Ohio) 1837-1919, 1862-09-18
knows how to obey as we'll as to com.

knows how to obey as well as to com
mand. r.,-
Fellow-citizeDs: We have cause fol
anxiety, none for despair. We have
under-esiimated the strength and re
sources Of our opponents. We have
greatly underestimate our OWL
strength and resources. Rebellion has
we may believe, made its crowning eff.
fort; its bucket has touched bottom.
The water in our well 10 yet deep. We
can main tain million men in the field,
and on the sea FIVE hundred ships ol
war. Enthusiastic cheers,1 With
these, twenty millions of intelligent,
united, devoted people can vindicate
the integrity Of the nation and defy a
world in arms. Yociferous cheering. I
If you would avoid Intervention BY
foreign powers. the only way is to be
prepared for it. Put your million of
men into the field and your FIVE hun
dred ships upon your seas and rivers.
Bear up the old flag. resolved TO live
under it, to conquer with it or die be-
meath its folds. Cheers. In an
hour OF your weakness other nations
may intervene; neverif il you put forth
your real strength, never.
Would you consent to separation, to
give up this glorious Union Of your faith
ers, where will you draw the line +? Are
the Gulf States only to be severed p
Your enemy will not consent to that d.
vision. Will you give up the Dor der
States? The Border States will not go
Let me say in the face Of the men of
Boston that another truer. more pat
riotic set Of men the sun does not shine
upon, than the Union men of the Bor-
der States. feel that / know them.
and I tell you they will not go. Loud
and prolonged cheers, followed BY three
cheers for the Border States. If final
ly driven from you, no man can say how
much of the Great West would go with
them, or where the ultimate line of d.
vison would fall. Mr.. Thomas here en-
larged upon the geographical and COM
mercisl ties which bound the West to /
the South, and said there is no safety
for US but in cliuging to the Union as it |
was and the Constitution as it is.
Cheers. r.rs- . f--
Let us be manly. be just, be tolerant.
1t is the easiest thing in the world to
find fault, but not the wisest thing. In
conducting war upon so vast scale,
and requiring so many and varied agen-
cies, mistakes and blunders will be
made. The race is not always to the
swift, nor the battle TO the strong. We
have great and powerful people, and
at their head an upright, conscientious,
unselfsh, conservative Chief Magis-
trate. Let us work and not grum bic.
Loud cheers for old Abe. Let us
labor and not faint.
1t was the prayer of the great states
man Of New England, that when his
eyes should turn to behold for the last
time the sun in heaven, he might not
see him shining on the broken and dis.
honored fragments of once glorious
Union. Once glorious; with tears
wash out or with fire burn out the word,
and write forever glorious, born out of
tribulation and suffering in another, an
immortal life. When our eyes shall
turn to behold for the last time the sun
in heaven. may we see its rays illumin-
ating and kindling every star and stripe
of that banner which, like the robe of
our divine Master, was wrought with
out seam. LCheers.