Fremont journal. [volume] (Fremont, Sandusky County [Ohio]) 1853-1866, 1863-04-03
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An Appeal from n Loyal Southerner e
the North.
An eminent citizen of the Southwest, living
near the lines Of General Grant, has lust address.
ed Qhrough Secretary Seward) stirring appeal
to the people OF the North in reference to the
duty OF directing every energy to the Immediate
suppression Of the rebellion. Living in the
very heart Of this monstrous conspiracy against
civilization and law, understanding perfectly its
spirit and intent, and agohizing withal over our
dissentions, he implores the North to rise up as
one man, and never, under any temptation OF
dscourageme to withdraw FOR one moment
from the work 10 which we have put our hands.
ii have watched this rebellion, he says, afrom
the ecommencement and i know its success SC
far has been due solely to the singleness of pur.
pose of those who have conducted it regardless
of all else. Why not, yourselves, rising super
ior to every other thought and discarding every
other interest, think and act only for the safety
OF your country, your liberties and your free
dom" The North, he insists, animated by
such spirit, could end the rebellion in a month.
The rebels he adds, have now no hope but in
the dissensions among the northern people
Deprive them of that and they are lost. Upon
this point he says: ,.as.s
"The enemy, in truth are beating up recruits
with double vigor, and they are taking unwilling
and decrepit old men of fifty and sixty years; all
VI WHICH, however, VIII amount to nothing be-
fore united and determined North To day
we have a heavy gale from the north, attended
with snow storm, the first that has fallen since
the fall Of Fort Donelson, and which adinonishes
me that my friends are coming. How glad /
would be TO welcome them. My prayer for
them is as it always has been, that they will
not belong in coming; but long or short, come
and make your boundary as it was before, the
Gulf of Mexico-determined in your united
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to your posterity nor fight it twice yourselves;
but make final end of it while you are at it,
The cost in blood and treasure, though great
will never be less; and in truth, if we prove our.
selves unequal to the task now, what guaranty
have we for the future? Who can see the end
unless with the examples of other nations be.
fore us, We picture state of things at which ev.
cry loyal heart will llshuddcrf" g,...sa
- The utter hopelessness of permanent peace
under any armistice that may be patched up, is
clearly exhibited by this loyal-hearted south.
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of"Think, my comtrymen, what would be the
consequence of so fatal step. In the first place
to gain short and inglorious peace, you will
have placed on your whole southern border, run.
ming through many degrees of longitude, anC
separated from you by no natural boundary, a
people who deliberately wentt work in times
OF the profoundest peace and greatest prosperity
to prepare TO dip their hands in their brothers
blood, against the remonstrances aud prayers OF
all the good men of the country, and thus at.
tempted the destruction of the grandest political
fabric that was ever created by the hands Of
mana people who cared nothing for the sacred
bonds of the constitutions nor will if they sue
ceed in their Infamous design, hesitate to vio-
late the most solemn and binding treaty when
it suits either their convenience or interest,
holding constantly as rod over your heads the
mouth of the Mississippi river, mighty stream
that runs through and has its birth in your ter
ritories A people, whose seself-constituted presi-
dent, ignoring the fact that we are all of the same
origin, took occasion to describe you, only few
days since, before the assembled multitude and
the legislature of his state, as people whose
descendants Cromwell had gathered from the
bogs and fens of England and Ireland; besides
much other low and despicable abuse; and who
ostentatiously and unblushingly parades before
the world the faults of those he is pleased to call
our enemies, ouly that they may engross public
attention, and thereby the better hide his own
vile deeds-sins for which, if he and his satelli.
tbs had thousands oflves they could ne YER atone
Notwithstanding his scrupulous anxiety 10
cnshroud all Of his orks in the robes Of holi.
ness Docs, then, the peace party of the North
II there is any, think they see in this spirit any
means of an honorable or lasting peace? No
my friends, Il you lay down your arms for one
day without first accomplishing the object fol
which you took them up, then you are certainly
lost, and our country gone to pieces. You are
casting pearls before swine to waste your time il
peace meetings, for they willavail naught"
To such an appeal from southern man, speak
ing for thousands of loyal citizens waiting ,anC
longing for the appearance Of tho old flag. wha
response can any Peace-mOnger, having nature