The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1863-08-13


it has been broken up and demoralized. This
was true at Vicksburg. This was true at
rort hudson. The men who were parolled
seized every opportunity of deserting, of fly
ing from the ranks, and vowing they would
never return, that they were sick and tired of
the contest, and that they would not again
take up arms in so hopeless strife / have wit
messed it in thousand different ways. / have
seen, myself, and heard them express their SEN
timents /; and you see it in the tones of the
rebel press when they say that those soldiers
which were parolled in the army of Pember-
ton, have crossed into Texas, or gone down
the other way, into Alabama, and a rem
nant have gone into the camp of johnson to
eat out his supplies and then to wander away
from him, never again to fight battle. From
these men, no matter what promises no mat
ter what pathetic appeals Jefferson Davis may
make at Richmond, he will receive no response
They have been hunted out from caves and
hiding places in the woods to fight the battles
OF the rich against the poor. and they have
been kept in these armies by bayonets These
have have been taken away and they will take
good care that they do not get within their
reach again. They will give JEFF Davis no
response to his pathetic appeal.
No. it is not from Southern soil that you
hear response when he calls back the rebel
troops You have got to leave the soil of the
Confederacy and come over here into loyal
and patriotic and honest Maine, And If YOU
put your ears close to the ground and listen.
YOU nav hear coming down from the hills of
Oxford a slight rebel reverberation from the
lips of Virgin Delphini Paris. saying. call hack
your troopsi Chauncey Burr and Virgil
Paris say, call back your troops. Here, here,
on the soil of Maine, a man dares to rise up
and saw. call back the men that are flghting far
the flag and for the Union.
Cali back whom. call back whom. fellow-c
zens? Call back Rosecrans and his gallant
army? fcries of never. mol Leave Bragg to
overrun loyal Kentucky. and give mn 10 the
gibbet and the sword, to the halter. 10 torture
and death. those loyal men. who. in gallant
Kentucky have so long fought the battles of
the Union? Call back Grant, and tell him 10
bring back your men, for they have been fIobt
ing in an nnholy war; tear down that blood
stained banner that YOU have hoisted over
Vicksburg and say that this was an unhoIv
strife in which YOU were engaged that all those
brave and gallant men who poured out their
blood and sacrificed their lives while there in
the trenches of Vicksburg. or planted upon
the impregnable stronghold the fac Of the
Union. have labored and bled and died In vain
Never. no. neyeru Go down to Louisiana
and call back Banks lnever!) and the gallant
little band that Butler took from the shores Of
New England, and carried down and kent for
months and months. waiting for the time IN
come when they could sail up the Mississippi.
waiting on a little sand spit in the Gulf SO
desolate that when he banished implaeable
rebels to the spot upon which he so long
kept his troops, all rebeldom broke out in one
universal wall because of the enormity OF his
cruelty. Yes, call back Banks and give up
Louisiana again. now ready and waiting 10
come back into the Union; give her IN arsin
to the rebellion, and let those loyal men. who.
through fire and sword, have maintained their
integrity to the Union: let them all be sacri-
feed fNever. Cali back the troops and
leave those Union men of Texas now waiting
in other States to go back and plant the banner
of the Union upon the soil Of Texas. as well
as those, who, with their wives and their chill
dren, are in the woods and In the caves, hunted
by dogs. and wis n discovered, hung up TO the
trees, butchered, tortured aud insulted: leave
them to suffer all the horrors Of the Sepoy re-
bellion! take away from them the last hope.
and let the savage beasts of the rebellion
seize uyon the dying, starving women aud
children? Call back the troops from Charles
ton. q should like TO see them do it, Call
back the troops from Charleston. call them
back from the city where this rebellion was in
augurated, where il had its birth place, where
there was but one Union man and he has given
up the ghost. Call them back but when you
do, fellow-citizens, remember this: that when
the Confederate States inangurated this rebel
lion, they did IL upon the hypothesis. that there
was no courage and no manliness in the
North. They admitted that we had three
times the men and three times the means.
but they said we were nation greedy of gold
that we were devoid of the sense of honor.
that we had no courage, no manliness, and
that rather than sacrifice our comfort. or our
means, or our lives, We would readily give up
the contest. Call back the troops and LET this
vaunt of South Carolina be true. and let us
admit that all they said of us was true: and
let us hand down to our children and our chill
dren's children the heritage of n coward's
name, and sleep ourselves in towards grave,
No! fellow-citizens; as have Said before.
this rebellion can be crushed IL ,ciH be crush
ed. All that is necessary i for Won 10 say
and say it with one united voice. with n spirit
Of determination and self-sacrifice. TO saw the
word-it shall be crushed, and the work is
done. tGreat applause.l
But, fellow-citizens. the other question which
l come to is one no less important. Ii is one
which seems to me pregnant with more diff
culties than even the other. II the rebellion
is crushed, il the armed rebels are subdued. or
taken captives, or driven from the soil. still
the work is not all ACCOMPLISHED: for after
that is DONE ii we cannot bring back this terri
tory into obedience to the constitution and
laws of the United States, and maintain the
integrity of this Union, and make the flag of
this Union wave over every inch Of soil over
which it ever waved. throughout the length
and breadth of the land. although not all in
vain, still ii would be partially so, and these
labors, all these sacrifices. all this effiision of
blood all this sacrifice of life, will have been
without what should be and what | believe
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