The weekly pioneer and Democrat. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. Territory) 1855-1865, 1862-01-10
Message Of Gov. Andrew of
Massachusetts.

Massachusetts.
THE STATE HAS 1920 MEN IN THE AR.
MY-ll,00O IN THE Maryland HAS
EXPENDED 50 1856, 900.
B0sToN, Jan. 3.-Gov. Andrews mes
sage to the Legislature was of unusual
length; it gives general history of facts
and figures, showing the part Massachusetts
has thus far taken against the Southern re-
bellion.
The war expenses foot up nearly So 1885,.
600, to Offset this the State has been reim-
bursed by Government $4,000 and by
other sums making the aggregate refund
ed $1,OO0,OOO.
The troops sent into the field, both for
three months and three years, with the ex-
ception of one battery, have been fully
armed end equipped by the State.
The Governor recommends that the State
assume the collection of the direct National
tax OF 1924 ,58l, being its proportion of
$2O,OOO,O00 authorized by Congress.
The State has contributed five reg
iments OF infantry, one battery of artillery
and one battalion OF rifles of her militia to
three months service; and to three years.
service, she has sent as volunteers twenty
four regiments OF infantry, one OF cavalry,
five batteries artillery, two companies
sharp shooters, and a infantry battalion
of five companies, and six companies more
are attached to two regiments from New
York.
The Governor urges repeal of the con.
stitutional discrimination between citizens
OF alien and those of foreign birth.
The recommendation made by the general
Government with reference to coast defence,
is fully endorsed. A communication from
Gen. Totten upon the subject will be laid
before the Legislature.
Military education in all common schools
is recommended.
The whole number of enrolled militia is
l57 ,496 whole number who have gone
into volunteer service of the United States,
is reported by the Adjutant General at
27,279; about 1000 are estimated to be
in naval service as sailors, leaving 2l7 1000
at home besides those men capable of ordi-
nary duties.
The Governor closes his message as fols
lows 1.-THE great rebellion must be put
down and Its promoters crushed beneath
the ruins of their own ambition. The great
est crime of history must receive doom SO
swift and sure that the enemies of the pop.
ular government shall stand in awe while
they contemplate the monstrous character
OF their crime that has never yet been ade.
quately considered, nor is language able to
describe it.
Groundless and causeless in its origin, it
began and grew up and continues under
the aid and direction of men who had re-
ceived all the favors and enjoyed all the
blessings of our Government, and who were
bound by official oath to maintain it. Reck-
less OF consequences, and determined to ru-
in where they could not rule, they conspired
rgainst the welfare of thirty millions of PEG.
pie and their countless posterity; they
plunged them with inconceivable madness
into every danger and suffering and sorrow,
which follow. Entrusted with the precious
Inheritance of liberty, and endowed with
the gift of participation in popular gov
eminent, the constitution makes him at
once the beneficiary and the defender of the
interests and institutions which he cannot
innocently endanger, and when be becomes
a traitor to his country, be commits equal
treason against mankind.
Involved in this controversy for life, for
freedom, and for honor, let Massachusetts,
in following the flag and " keeping step to
the music of the Union" never fail to prove
to all the characteristics of her people, that
she is today, as she was of old, when she it
was that first unfurled the flag.
Henceforth there will be no one to con-
slider how to reconstruct the Union, ex-
Guiding New England from the sisterhood
of States. Wherever q foe, treasure or
blood, was the call, they heard the people
of New England respond by opening the
lap of industry, and by the march of their
braves, and now when the beauty of our
Israel has been slain in our high places,
and when her Lees, Revere, and her Rock.
wood and Bowman be in felons cells, and
hundreds of her sons wear out their hearts
in sad captivity, victims of their valor and
devotions to our Union, one irrepressible
impulse moves our people and inspires our
soldiers in the field. One prayer to see the
day when an army of loyal Americans
shall hammer at the door of their prison
house with both hands pledged to the SOL
emn task of war and with neither hand
averted, to uphold the institution which is
the cause of all this woe, and that they
should not turn back, and their swords re
turn not empty until the grand deliverance
shall be accomplished.