Delaware gazette. [volume] (Delaware, Ohio) 1855-1886, 1863-03-06

Men of Ohio! You know not what this
Western army mas suffered. You know not
now, the hardships and sufferings of your sold
iers in their chilly tents, their shelterless bi-
vouacs, their long, weary marches and their
battle-thinned ranks. If there be honesty and
purity in human motives, it must be found
amid your long enduring soldiers. Hear us.
and for your countrys sake, if not for ours,
stop your wild, shameless, political strifes,
unite for the common cause, and never think or
speak of peace and compromise until the now
empty terms mean: The Republic as it was,
peacefully if it may be, but forcibly at all
events It is said war and force cannot re-
store the Union What can2
Is there anything else that has been left un-
tried, short of national dshonor and shame?
Nothing. Purely physical power has been in
voked to destroy the Government, and physi-
cal force must meet if. Conquer the rebel
lious armies shit in by blockades and victo-
rious armies the deluded people of the rebel
lious States, and let no peace, no happiness,
no prosperity dwell in their land or homes, until
popular opinion with them overthrows their
false Government and dOoms their despotic
leaders. Whip them aud coafne them until
" Actaeon is devoured by his own dogs
This is all that can be done, and it must be
done with the determined energy of a united
people. Thus feel aud think the soldiers of
the grand army of the United States. Are
you with us? or will yoa now desert US, sell
your national birthright for mess of porrage,
and for success in locel politics, barter away
your country, crawl at the feet and lick the
hands of the perfdious, cruel and devilish con-
spiTators, who have organized this rebellion,
and who boast at their success in destroying
your government, Staying your sons, and vast
ing your treasure, condemned, derided, and de-
spised 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
dishonor yourselves, your soldiers, or 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 political
hacks and demagogues, who SEEK blessed
nlartyrdom in Lincoln Bastiles,'' to the suf
fering and bravely enduring soldiers who in
the camp, the field and hospitals, bear real
hardships uncomplainingly If treason must
run riot in the North, keep it there-iusult
not your soldiers by sending TO them the vile
emanationS Of the traitors who are riding into
ofice, 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 or those whose
hypocrilical dcmagoguery takes shape 10 cow
ardly, covert treason-whose constant vo-
cation is denunciation Of their Government
and their armed defenders.
The Army of the West is in terrible earn
est-earncst to conquer and destroy armed
rebels-earnest to meet force with force
earnest in its hearty detestation of cowardly
traitors at home-carncst in will and power to
overcome all who desire the nations ruin.
Ohio's loo, GOO soldiers iu the field, citizens
at home, potent in either capacity, ask their
fathers, brethren, friends, by their fresides and
in their peaceful homes, to hear and heed this
appeal, and 10 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 il the field
On the hearing and adop tion of this address
by the 1st Brigade, 2d Division, 14th Army
Corps, Col. Walker also reported the follow
ing resolution which was unanimously adopted:
"1hrefore, Resoired, 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 political power. We are able to de-
fend cur birth-right; the blood of our sires is
not contaminated in our veins; we are neither
to be insulted nor robbed with impunity; the
Government we defend was formed for noble
purposes; we are the executors of living and
dying testament, written ia the blood of our
fathers, which we shall re-write in our own;
to preserve our Government, is to US law as
unalterable as the DEGREES of heaven; we stop
not now to point the finger of scorn at petty
traitors who vainly seek to immortalize them
selves by acts of treason--too eowardly 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 indignation of loyal people
will hurl them headlong into an abyss as bot
tomless as the pitt