Cleveland morning leader. [volume] (Cleveland [Ohio]) 1854-1865, 1862-10-03
SHIRMISHING IN KENTUCKY.
ORDER FROM GOVERNOR TOD,
ADDREss no THE PRESIDENT.

ADDRESS TO THE PRESIDENT.
WASHINGTON, Oct. 2.
Address to the President of the United
States, adopted at a meeting of Cover
nors Of the loyal States, to take meas
ures for the more active support of the
Government, held at Altoona, Pa, Sept.
24th, 1862:
After nearly one year and n half spent
in contest with an armed and gigantic re-
bellion against the National Government
of the United States, the duty and purpose
of the loyal States people continue, and
must always remain as they were at its
origin; namely, to restore and perpetuate
the authority of this Government and the
life Of the nation, no matter what conse-
quenees are involved in our fidelity.
= Nevertheless this work of restoring the
Republic preserving the institutions of
democratic liberty, and justifying the
hopes and tolls of our fathers, shall not
fail to be performed; and we pledge, with
out hesitation, to the President Of the
United States, the most loyal and cordial
support hereafter, as heretofore, in the
exercise of the functions of his great
office.
We recognize in him the Chief GsExecu-
tive Magistrate of the nation, the Com
mander-in-C Chief of the army and navy of
the United States, their responsible and
Constitutional head, whose rightful au-
thority and power, as well as the Consti-
tutional power of Congress, must be Wig
Orously and religiously guarded and pre-
| served as the condition on which alone our
form of Government, and the Constitu-
| tional rights and liberties Of the people
| themselves, can be saved from the wreck Of
anarchy, or from the gulf of despotism, in
| submission to the laws which may have
been or which may be duly enacted, and
to the lawful orders of the President, CO.
operating always in our own spheres in
| the National Government We mean to
continue in the most vigorous exercise Of
all our lawful and proper powers, con-
tending against invasion, rebellion and
| the public enemies, and whether in public
life or in the private station, supporting
/ the arms of the Union until its
cause shall conquer, until final victory
shall perch upon its standard, or the rebel
foe shall yield a dutiful, rightful and un-
conditional submission. And impressed
with the conviction that an army of re-
serve ought, until the war shall end, to
be constantly kept on foot, to be raised,
armed and equipped, and trained at home,
and to be ready for any emergencies,
we respectfully ask the President to call
for such force of volunteers for one year s
service of not less than 100000 in the ag-
/ gregate the quota of each State to be raised
after it shall have filled its quotas of the
requisitions already made for volunteers
and for militia.
We believe this to be a measure of mill
tary prudence, while it would greatly pro-
mote to the military education of the peo-
pie.
We hail with heartfelt gratitude and
encouraged hope the proclamation of the
President, issued on the 22d of September,
declaring emancipation from their bond
age all persons held to service or labor as
slaves in the rebel States, whose rebellion
shall last until the lst day of January.