The weekly Lancaster gazette. (Lancaster, Ohio) 1860-1863, 1862-08-21

" tHTIo "ho DO UAuse LOT tnat shot. 1t
was the greatest crime The world bss
known since the crbeiG1iop. When ,ha,
shot was fred, the President Of che U Unitsd
States. acting for tile country, called foi
the children Of the county to cotie r6rlh
TO the defense Of their ancieni mother.
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Did they respond to make money! No.
they lost money by going Into the army.
Neither did they respond because there
stood behind them an officer with a spear
to force them into the army. No. Did
they respond because they desired Waii
No, for they knew is was a life Of hardships
aud privations. Of peril and death: hut 10.
lhueDesd by their allegiance to the Consti-
tuition and the Government, they rose as
one man. each saying, to the Government,
II have bot one life, and that / offer to
my country for its salvation"
D. This call, mark you, was made BY the
President, not upon the Republicans, who
had voted for him. 10 Gght for him, or
his popularity, but upon the people to
defend The Constitution Of the Uuited
STATES not to defend something that lasts
but four years, but something which, i,
was hoped, would last as many centuries.
They didn't stop to ask eacl, other who
they Voted Tor, nor did they ask what his
name was. They knew the fact that he
was elected by the people, Who hid a
right to do II. He was put at the head
Of the Government by the voice OF free
people, and it was 10 the nature of things
that he should affiict them with the ca.
lamilies OF civil war. The people knew
this, and they also knew that it was as
much Of a duty to support him as Wash
ington or Jefferson. They said they are
firing upon our flag down lhele, and upon
the Constitution Of my country. They
are part Of my property, handed down to
me by my fathers" .'. ag-
Now, my friends. every one Of you have
property rightiu the Constitution of the
United States; and, what is more, you
have an imFerishable property, which
gives value to all other property you pos
sess. Tear up the Constitution. destroy
the Government, and turn society loose
upon itself. and what would all your pro.
perty be worth in thirty days. 1t is this
imperisbable and invaluable property
which you are called upon to defend.
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As 10 Mr.. Lincoln, whom he had nev.
er seen, and Of whom he expected no fs
vors. desiring noae. lie wanted to say :
word to his Democratic friends, some o.
whom believed the war was going to b.
war Of abolition. He thought all sucl
\ fears truly visionary and absurd. He be
lieved the President had shown a hardi
hood uf determination that entities hir
to place in the history of the country
He considered livery significant that th
President had warned The people that b.
was sorely pressed upon by the extrem'
fanatics, and called upon all other mel
to relieve him, SO that he might 60 fortl
with the banner of the country for tn
maintenance of the Union aud the Con
stituion. He thought every Democra
should say, Here is one, Mr.. Lincoll
who will stand by you" Nor did h
think. II the President intended to max
this war Of abolition, he would have Sc
lected Democrat for Secretary Of War
and Democrat for Commander.in. Chic
! Of all The Armies OF the Republic. If b
designed 10 make il an Abolition war h
would NOT have selected Democrats I
command the grand divisions Of the al
my-Pope, Mcclellan, Burusides, Buel
: Grant, Rosecrans, and. as if afraid som
! Aboli.ionist would get into Fortres
, Monroe, lie put General Dix over that
He appealed to his Democratic friend
e if it was reasonable to clamor agains
b. him for doing that which had any Demo
S cratic President done, he would haV
been denounced all over the land as
u man who, when the country was invo
e we'd in war, was influenced more by b
: party predictions than the salvation {
n his country, He also called aitento
TO the fact that the President had stoO
l. by Democratic generals when there wi
II strong pressure for their removal. ar
= that the Generals he had rebuked we
o Of his own school Of politics. N1h