The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1862-09-06

anu we are the people most interested IN
preserving it to the Union. These Kansas
volunteers will be upon the border, able
to return to their homes if they or their
families fall i'll. The Government offers to
pay and support US for going into the war
to protect our homes, and in reach of our
homes. Never has it elsewhere offered
such inducements as it now offers to US to
60 into the service for Kansas and the Tn
ion. There is no probability of these forces
being needed longer than nine months or
year; for, with the overwhelming numbers
called out, the war can and will be made
short, terrible, and decisive. While our
homes and property are in imminent dan
ger, how can patriotic man say, 81 will
not go, except in regiment of cavalry?
This is often the excuse of men who do not
want to go at all. Let all think well before
they refuse to serve as infantry; or determine
to stay at home. assuming they are protecting
their wives and children, when the only eff
fective mode of protecting them is to enter
the service and form breastwork along the
border.
More and greater sacrifices have been freely
made by the rebels, women and men, than by
the patriots of the country. We must be
ready, if we would succeed, to make sacrifices
as freely as they. haze been told in Bal
| timore, that a large part of the youth Of that
city who went into the rebel army were
dashed from their homes by the tongues of
their rebel sweethearts and sisters. Let
the women of the North show passion in
the good cause of the Union equal to that
of Southern women in their bad cause; and
like the noble women of the Revolution, let
them, sacrificing comfort and feeling, urge
the men forth rather than hold them back
from the war.
To the young men who might go but do
not, say. when the old men who now stay
at home with you are dead, you will feel
yourselves marked as exceptions living
among men who have almost all borne q
part in the war for the Union. And, when
the smoke and dust of the conflict shall have
cleared away, and the country shall rise
purer, freer, stronger and more glorious
from the struggle, those who have helped
save the Government will enjoy honor
among men, and will bequeath their services
and sacr ifices as rich legacy to their chill
dren; while those who ueedlessly stay at
home would then freely give the stock and
farms for which they stayed, for the proud
satisfaction of having aided their country.
when it most needed the help of their
strong arms.
Wherever 90, see the fires of patriot
ism burning bright In Jackson county,
lO3 men enrolled in less than a week. In
the little town of Holton, 53 men enlisted at
a meeting Of less than SO. Every county
officer but one shut up his Office and enlist
ed; and two ministers, two merchants, and
to the honor of the bar, every lawyer In
the town went into the service as privates:
The determination that Kansas shall not
be overrun, moves the people as they were
never moved before. The best men go, and
and leave their farms;-they and their sons,
often leaving only the women to take care
of the stock. In Holton, every man, old or
young, sick or well, crippled or nimble, en-
listed, except nine--and the women pro-
posed to raise Home Guard to protect
the men that were left! In this township
(Emporia), almost every man who can, has
enlisted; but in the other townships the
numbers do not correspond. Now send up
this company by the middle of next week
and let it be Company A" in the Eleventh
Regiment. Let it be full, for the honor Of
Lyon county. know that you will 90 who
can, for you understand the principles at
the foundation of this war, as be understood
them, who almost alone of all our generals
of the regular army, approaching the true
causes and character of the Rebellion;
marched to attack it with the stern spirit
of the Puritan; who at Camp Jackson tore
off the mask of State rights and neutrality,
and showed the hideous front of Treason TO
an aroused and astounded nation: who
throughout his brief but serviceable career,
displayed valor, generalship and heroic
patriotism. which has made his name inn
mortal know that you will send COM
pany to the field worthy the peerless name
and memory of LYON.
The North is four times as determined as
it was year ago. 1t is determined that the
Government shall not lack white men, and
shall have black men whenever, wherever,
and for whatsoever it needs them. II would
be of little consequence to the country at
large, except in name, if the everglades of
Florida, the sand hills, pine forests and rice
swamps of the Carolinas, and the savan-
nahs of Georgia and Alabama, were 10 be
lost to the Union. Ours would still be
great everything and o3ershadoHing power
which could control or conquer the Govern
ment and people of those States at pleasure.
But we cannot surrender the States along
the lower waters of the Mississippi to for
eign dominion, without suffering the States
of its upper waters to become crippled and
and tributary. And no matter what may be
the mistakes of generals or RoIes: admins
trations, no matter what foreign fleets may
invest our harbors or foreign bayonets
CLEAN upon our shores--the people inhab-
ting the valleys of the Ohio, the Illinois,
the upper Mississippi and Missouri, will
never lay down their arms uatil their COM
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