The Tiffin weekly tribune. (Tiffin, Ohio) 1859-1868, 1862-02-21
DAt 9rmg Correspondence
LETTER FROM DIR. WEEKS
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| SIEI-Wo arc still in the land amongst the
living, but expect, ere another week has
passed, TO be on "the other side of Jordan
! (Grecn Riyer,) and in the land of Dixie !
hope il may be so. for AM tired OF the sys.
ten Of warfare, known aud characterized ns
mastery iractvity."
| don't believe in tie doctrine, aud il is
not my mode OF doirg business have read
somew here. the text, thai, "Whatever thy
hand findoh to do, do it with all thy might"
and IL appears to me to be applicable, to us,
AT this time, and, il mistake not, its teach.
iugs, ere long, will be heeded-when you will
hear one continuous roar of CT mon frrm the
Rocky Mountains TO the Atlantic Ocean.
| like the motto Of Gen. Stark at the bat
tie Of Bennington: Before to. morrow's sun
shall set, their bones shall lie bleaching on
yonder plain, or Molly Stark is a widow -
We are anKipusly waiting the word "forward
ON to Bowling Green. and are now ready
to move.
And, when that order Gomez, il will find
the Gath at its post, and anxious for the fray.
We have fine rcgi mert, and they are now
in good fighting trim. know them and
have seen them on the field, where shot and
shell Iel thick and fast, and not n limb qua.
vered nor a check turned pale, but shoulder
to shoulder they presented an unhroken front
TO the enemy and drove them from the field
We shall have some hard work ahead Of us,
but our column is equal TO the labor assigned
u.s. We ara only waiting for the bugle's
blast sounding the advance, and 1t will be
done, in double quick time.
Bat, when glance along our entire line.
reaching from Missouri to the Potomac, and
see six hundred thousand men, clad in wars |
dark livery, crouching, like tiger, ere it
springs upon its prey. and hear that death
like stiffness that portends the coming storm,
and while / contemplate the con..quences
that must ccrtAinly follow, my pulse ceases to
beat and my heart stands still feel like er.
claiming, +" il it is possible let this cop pass
from us" Bnt, if rivers Of blood and the
lives Of the brave are to be the price oc free.
dom, and wi restore ihe Union MS IL was,
and as our fathers madeit. ] vii not muir
mur.
With shame have to confess that, H. these
lays Of our country's greatest peril. We have
those that would sell thoir Lord aud Mas.
ter for few pieOes Of silver" and give the
cold shoulder to that country thst has ever
fostcred them, that has cared Tor them in
their infancy and protected them in old ago
has defended their fresides. their property
and their iHtercst by that constitution that has
proclaimed equal aud exact Justice unto all
men, which now they trample IN the dust
cronkers at home, hut secess ssionists in dis
guise. who have not the maLhood so own il,
watching for something that they can find
fault with, or erilicislng somebody's action,
or waiting to see which siae of political inter-
eat is at stake. They will wait until ,heir
country ia lost or ruined. Wei now, think
thai is what they want. They ere towards
at heart.
hare loathinG for such beings. Twill
not call them men-they are unworthy the
name OF an American, they arc traitors at
heart and they have not the courage to say
it, Look ont for them, they are wolves in
sleeps clothing"-they love politics better
than they do their country. feel like re-
turning to my hoHae and my friends, when our
once peaceful and hnppy country is ngcip
the roar Of cannon and the
clash Of arms are no longer heard. protected
by the broad folds Of that "star spapgled
Banner" that vas gi iren us as talisman,
through siI ages, and purch astd by the blood
Dfour fathers % many bard fought field,
nr not at slls for Nhat % MN without coun-
try in whish to live, end a soustitution to
protect HE Lfe. bis liberty aud his home In,
worthy indeed. is he to be called sn American
citizen, vino can calmly view the Distraction
Of ofthstpiilsr ef lssdoFn, the cons,itu.ion Of
Ameraa.
lem epl believe that the time haS eeme.