M'arthur Democrat. (McArthur, Vinton County, Ohio) 1853-1865, 1862-06-05
Letter from Governor Andrew OF Mas
sachusetts.


EXECUTIVE DEPARTMET, BosToN,
May 10th, 1861.
"Hon., EaUin N. Stanton, Score.
iary Of ITar;
"SIR: | ave this moment received
a telegram these words, viz:
"The Secretary OF War desires to
know how soon you can raise and or.
ganizc three or four more infantry
regiments an pave them ready to be
forwarded here, to be armed and
cquippedl Please answer immedi.
ately, and statNtIle number You can
raiae.
(Signod) IL. Thomas Adj't Gen.
"A call so sudden and unexpected
finds me without materials Tor an in.
'elligent reply. Our young men arv
III prsoccnpicd with other views !;
still, if a real call for three regiments
is made believe we can raise them
in forty days. The arms and equip
ments wou,d need to be furnished
here. Our people nave never marched
without them. They 60 into camp
while forming into regiments, and
are drilled and practieed with arms,
and march as soldiers. To attempt
The OTHER course wonld be to dampen
enthusiasm, and make tic men feer
hat they were not soldiers but a mob.
Again if our people ioel that they are
going into the South to fight rebels
who will XIII and destroy them by all
means known to savages as we'll as
civilized men; who will deceive them
by fraudulent flags of truce and lying
pretences, as they did Massachusetts,
boys at WilIiamsburgh; will use their
negro slaves against them both as la
1orers as well as fighting men, when
they themselves must never fire at the
1nemy's magazine, think they will
feel the draft is heavy on their patri'
otism but if the President will sus
tain General Hunter recognize all
men, even black men, as legally capa-
!le Of loyalty, which the black are
waiting to mahiiest-ald let them
fight with God and human nature on
heir Side-the roads will swarm, il
need bc, with a multitude whom New
England would pour out to obey your
all.
"Always ready to do my utmost,
remain most respectfully
" "Your Obedient servant,
(Signed) JNo' A. ANDREW.
We rejoice that we have at last
drawn the fire Of tho abolitonists !
This announcement Of Governor AN.
DREW Of MaSsachuSe'ts(l) unfolds vol
nmes Of the past, and opens the whole
future. We have, in this refusal Of
Governor ANDREW to furnish any
more soldiers, unless the war is made
one to free the negro, and place the
black on an equal footing with the
white race, the secret to the conduct
Of the Republicans for the last year.
They dared not make this avowal un-
til they got half milIioc OF demo.
cratic young men into the army, and
now when they are called upon for
more troops, knowing that the Demo
Gratis can no longer be humbugged,
and that if new recruits are wanted,
the Republicans must come up to the
mark Of loyalty as we'll as Democrats,
then they show their cloven foot,
which we continually warned the
country they carried, like Lord By
ron did his lame one, under cover.
There is another good will growing
out Of the announcement of Governor
ANDkEw-it is this: President LIN
COLIN must n ow announce his policy
unequivocally. We have been de-
manding this for year, but only an
Editor, and not a Governor, we Of
course, were only denounced as dis
loyal Now we have it from an
original instigator OF this war--one
who is second in position only to Mr..
LINCoLN--oue who stands at the head
of State Sovereignty, and his ac-
tion will check all other proceedings
until this question is settled. God
grant that OhiO's Executive may take
an equally bold stand, and demand,
in behalf of the great State of which
he is the Executive, an explicit an,
nouncement Of what this war is for /;
to what ends it is to be used; fer what
purpose the soldiere are to lay down
their lives. -,
IL this IS a mere negro war, then
let US know it. If our aohite men are
sacrificed by hecatombs, merely for
the negro, aud not for country, It is
time, quite time, it was known. Let
It be proclaimed from the Executives
the Nation aud the States-that no
more lives be sacrificed, no more mon
ey be spent under false prstsnses =
The whole field is now thrown open,
and there is no longer room for dodg.
ing. Let each General read, or have
read, at the head OF his columns, the
great. grand decision OF this nnestion