The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1862-01-14

path 10 which your country has called you,
and TO the position with which it's authori
ties have honorcd you. We appreciated
your leadership; we profted by your in
structions; We priced your fellowship; but
| We had no claims on you superior TO those
of your country. We fegret our separa-
ton, but our regret is lost in our pride at
your promotion, in the general voice of
appreciation with which il has been re-
| ceived, and in our recognition and appre-
citation of the high motives which lead
you from the pursuits of peace and the So
cicty Of your friends, to the hardships Of
this campaign and the dangers of the bat
| tlefeld. You leave our ranks, as others
have done before you, to join the armies
Of the naiien, to maintain the authority,
dcfend the dominion and avenge the honor
of the government bequeathed by our
fathers; to put down rebellion and treason
to the most benignant sway thatSever was
established beneath the sun; to save tire
! Union, with all the benefits and liberties
which it secures to US, and all the hopes
and blessings which il promises to our
pqsterity and the world. And we wish
this sword to signify, not only our high
admiration and regard for you, but also
our earnest conviction that the cause in
which it is to be used, is just and holy.
| This war is waged under an memorable
necessity, from which there is no escape
but in infamy, and in evils thousandfold
greater than any which the war itself can
inflict upon as 1t is stern duty which
is required ut our hands, but it appeals to
| the purest instincts and the highest mo-
tivcs that govern men We wage this
war, simply, that in the supremacy of her
Constitution and her laws, our country
may again find peace and 20 forward to
the accomplishment of the high mission
which we still trust has been given her
of God. No country ever had such high
! claims upon its citizens as ours. The
time has come for us to show That none
ever commanded deeper devotion. The
/ government which has made US all that
We are, as u nation, is in peril. Its author
ity is attacked at home and its indepen-
dence threatened from abroad, assailed by
hcrJown ungrateful children, who never
felt her power save in the protection with
which il shielded them, and who never
knew her sway except by the benefits,
blessings, prosperity and peace which it
afforded; and threatened, too, BY an ALI
anee of foreign powers that hate her free
and liberal institutions, envy her growing
greatness and fear her example and her
power. Our country turns, in this day
Of her calamity and sufferings, to her own
loyal sons, and invokes them by the glory
and example of their fathers, and by all
that she has been, or promises to be to
them, to save her from treason and from
death, her fields from desolation and her
: Capital from capture, her peaceful citizens
from oppression and their homes from
: spoliation; her laws from violation and her
Constitution from being overthrow; her
flag from insult and her name from dis
honor And you and your brethren in
arms, and the six hundred thousand sol
:. diers whom you 20 to join upon the field
afford the proof that her appeal has not
been unheedcd, and will also afford heI
, the means-if she can not command the
sympathy OF the world-at least to com.
pei its respect.
; The men of Europe blame American
! citizens because they prefer civil war te
the extinguishment of the Union-as i
: it were the first time in the history of thu
. world that men we're willing to fight, ant
die, and sacrifice all for their country
!. They can not judge for US. They never
: enjoyed the blessings of the Union. They
: never found peace and prosperity ant
q happiness beneath the protection of ii
= mighty shadow. They have no share o
pride in the glory Of its history. The,
never missed the glowing dream Of free
.. dom and dominion and empire which j
!. inspires. But American citizens know
II that to it they owe their security at HON,
= and their consideration abroad. It is /,
: US the only pledge Of all that makes a ma
). tion free and great and glorious. w
know the evils and horrors of civil war
but we know that disunion would onl
perpetuate them. Weknow the value 3
II such lives as those of Lyon and Baker
y but we also know that the country fc
which they died is worthy OF the price
less sacrifice.
r 1t may be that American citizens hav
= been somewhat too boaslful of their Of
troiism, and it may be, too---if we are |
re receive the threats Of foreign Journals .
IN indicative of the designs Of foreign pow
or ers--that this patriotism is soon to |
OF subjected to fearful test. / believe
&c will stand the ordeal. Loyal America
e citizens will sacrifice everything, soont
P, than the Union Of their fathers. To ii
er last they will fight to restore it as it b.
n existed for more than seventy years, az
r. if tie folly and frenzy Of its enemies shs
10 sweep away its ancient foundations. vii
~ out its historic memories, and finally d,
ne stroy, beyond hope of restoration. Ii
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