Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1863-02-26

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| Western Army has suffered. You know not
soldiers in their chill tents, their shslterless
bivouacs, their long, weary marches, and
their battle-thinued ranks If there be
honesty aud purity in human motives, it
must be found among your long enduring
soldiers. Hear US, and for your country
sake, IL not for ours, stop your Wild, shame.
less, political strifes, unite for the common
cause, and never think OF speak of peace
and compromise until the now empty terms
mean The Hepublic as it was, peacefully
il it may be, but forcibly at all events. 1t
is said, war and force cannot restore the
Union What can
! Is there anything else that has been left
untried, short of national dishonor and
shame? Nothing Purely physical power
has been invoked to destroy the Govern
ment, and physical force must neot it. Con
quer the rebelious armies, shut in BY block.
ades and victorious armies the deluded peo.
pie Of the rebelling States, and let no peace,
no happiness, no prosperity dwell in their
land or homes, until they rise against their
own tyrants until popular opinion with
them overthrows their false Government
and dooms their despotc leaders. Whip
them and confne them, until "Act@on is
devoured by his own dogs.
This is all that can done, and il must be
done with the determined energy of united
people. Thus feel and think the soldiers
Of the grand army of the United States. -
Are you with u.s. or will you now desert us,
sell your national birthright for mess of
pottage, and for success in local politics,
barter away your country crawl at the feet
and lick the hands of the perfdious, cruel
and devilish conspirators, who have organic
ed this rebellion, and who boast of their
success in destroying your Government,
Staying your sons aud wasting your treasure,
contemned, deridod and despised by them,
while you are humbly craving their favor
Not waiting or even hoping for returning
loyalty in them, or for terms of peace TO
be rendered by them? Can you thus dis
honor yourselves, your soldiers and your
State?
We ask you now to stay, support and up.
hold the hands of your soldiers
! Give some of the wasted sympathy, so
lily but freely bestowed upon the old poit-
ioal hacks and demagogues. who SEEK
blessed inartyrdon in Lincoln Bastiles, to-
the suffering but bravely enduring soldiers
who in the camp, the field and the hospital,
bear real hardships uncomblainingly. If
treason must run riot in the North, Keep il
there-insult not your soldiers by sending
to them the vile emanations Of the traitors
who are riding into Office, place and power,
over the ruins ofthe Governments, and max
ing 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 hypo.
critical demagoguery takes shape in COW
ardly covert treason-whose constant vo.
cation is denunciation of their Government
and its armed defenders. '''r' wv
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 s. .a.., ........-. I.
Ohio 8 100000 soldies in tie field citi.
Gems at home, potent in either capacity, ask
their fathers brethren and friends, by their
tiresides and in their peaceful homes, to
hear and heed this appeal, and TO put an
end to covert treason at home, more dan
gerous now.to our National existence than
the presence Of the armed hosts of mis-.
guided rebels in the field. u
On the hearing and adoption Of this Ad.
u'ooo " tho iEt DIIkduc, DIVISIVH Iftn
Army Corps, Col. Walker also reported the
following resolution, which was unanimous
ly adopted: ..s1.I 'sIsl.I
wherefore, Rcsolred, For ourselves, VIC
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 supreme
political power. We are able to defend
our birthright, the blood of our sres is not
contaminated in our veins; we are neither
to be insutod, nor robbed with immunity;
tho Government we defend was formed for
noble purposes, We are the executors of
living dying testament, written in the |
blood OF our fathers, which We will re, write
in our own: to preserve our Government, is
to us law, unalterable in our hearts as the
DEGREES Of Heaven; we stop not now to
point the finger Of scorn at petty traitors
who vainly seek to immortalize themselves
BY acts oh treAson--too cowardly to sin with
an uplfted hand, too dsstardly to stake
life for life; as more honorable traitors do
lot them bear In mind that there is q time
coming, when the honest indignation of a
loyal people will hurl them headlong int
an abyss as bottomless as the pit. "
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