Western Reserve chronicle. [volume] (Warren, Ohio) 1855-1921, 1863-02-25

fI doOms their despOtic leaders. Whip theI
and confine them, until "Actaeon is dt
voured by.his own dogs"
This is all that can be done, and
must be done with the determined enel
gy of a united people. Thus feel an
think the soldiers of the grand army o
the United States. Are you with us, o
will you now desert us, sell your birth
right for a mess of pottage, and for success
IN local politics, barter away your coun
try, crawl at the feet and lick the hand
of the perfidions, cruel and deveIish con
spirators, who have organized this REBEL
ion, and who boast of their success in de
stroying your Government, staying youi
sons and wasting your treasure, contemn
ed, derided and despised by them, while
you are humbly craving their favor? Not
waiting or even hoping for returning 10y
atty in them, or for terms of peace to be
rendered by them? Can you thus dishon
er yourselves, your soldiers and youl
State?
We ask you now to stay, support and
uphold the hands Of your soldiers.
Give some of the wasted sympathy, 50
lily but freely bestowed upon the old
political hacks and demagogues, who SEEK
| a blessed martyrdom in Lincoln Bastiles,
to the suffering but bravely enduring
soldiers who in the camp, field and the
hospital, bear real hardships uneomplain
ingly. If treason must run riot in the
North, keep it there-insult not your
soldiers by sending to them the evil en-
anations of the traitors who are riding into
Office, place and power, over the ruins of
the Government, and making them their
stepping stones. Insult us not by letters,
speeches and papers, which tell US that
we are engaged as hirelings in an unholy
Abolition war, which make mob idols Of
the hour of those whose hypocritical dem
agoguery takes shape in cowardly, covert
treason-whoSe constant vocation is de-
nunciation of their Government and its
armed defenders.
The Army of the West is in terrible
earnest-earnest to conquer and destroy
armed rebels-earnest to meet force with
force-earnest in its hearty detestation of
cowardly traitors at home-earnest in will
and power to overcome all who desire the
nations ruin.
0hio's 100000 soldiers in the field, citi-
zens at home, potent in their capacity,
ask their fathers, brethren and friends, by
their firesides and in their peaceful homes,
W near anu nccA tLlS a ppCtt4f e-iiN " put
an end to covert treason at home, more
dangerous now to our National existence
than the presence of the armed hosts Of
misguided rebels in the field.
On the hearing and adoption of this
Address by the lst Brigade, Sd Division,
18th Army Corps, Col. Walker also report
ell the following resolution, which was
adopted:
''IHerefore, ResOLUsd, For ourselves, we
are resolved to maintain the honor and
integrity of our Government; from the
St. Lawrence to the Gulf, and between
the oceans, there shall be but one su-
preme political power. We are able to
defend our birthright; the blood of our |
sires is not contaminated in our veins; we |
are neither to be insulted, nor robbed |
with impunity; the Government we de- |
fend was formed for noble purposes; we
are the exeeutioners of living dying |
testament written in The blood of our IA
theirs, which we will re-write in our own;
to preserve our Government, is to US
law, unalterable in our hearts az the de-
crees of Heaven; we stop not now to point |
the 1nger or scorn AT petty traitors who !
Vainly seek to immortalize themselves by |
acts of treason-too cowardly to sin with |
an uplifted hand, too dastardly to stake |
life for life, as more honorable traitors !
do-let them bear in mind that there is |
a time coming, when the honest indigna- |
ton of loyal people will hurl them
headlong into an abyss as bOttomless as
the pit"