The Burlington weekly hawk-eye. [volume] (Burlington [Iowa]) 1860-1876, 1863-10-10

race, to breathe in new and yet loftier
strains of minstrelsy their deeds in arms
and deeds of noble daring during this re-
belliOn. Let the pale cheek of Erin, as she
watches across the deep, crimson with ex-
ultation at the names OF Corcoran and Mea-
CHER, and the record of your own gallant
regiment, the. armed witness before this,
your generation, to the undying lame OF
Richard Montgomery.
/ will not deny, gentlemen, that when on
reporting to this department, found you
were to be no longer in my command, felt
that sense of loneliness and isolation natu-
raj to one whose old army associations were
broken up, My present command will
pardon me for saying this, / know, for in
my Judgment, no man who forgets his old
friends deserves to make new ones. But
long since I have felt perfectly at home,
and can not let this, the first occasion that
has presented itself, pass by without ex-
pressing to the officers and men of the LIST
Brigade my heartfelt thanks for the warm
and generous welcome they have awarded
to stranger. Gentlemen of the 10th Ohio,
YOU see around you your brethren in arms,
the men of Sheridan's division; men from
the North west, from the clans of the peo-
pie, who pitch their tents on the prairieS of
Illinois and Michigan, and Wisconsin, and
by the shores OF the great lakes, veterans of
Pea Ridge, Perryville and Stone river
and the old 10th stand shoulder to shoulder
and see by whom, in glorious emulation,
our attle-hags into the ranks of the enc
my can be flung the furthest and followed
the closest. Nor will it diminish your in
terest in this brigade to tell you it was once
commanded by the pure and heroic Sill
Sill, whom you knew so well last year,
during your campaign in northern Ala
bama. Than his, the war has developed
no ncbler spirit. The Military Academy
at West Point might point to his name
alone, and stand fast in the affections of the
people. Ohio in no drawer or better blood
has sealed her devotion to the Union.
Him shall no sunshine from the field of azure,
No drum-beat from the wall
No morning gun, from the black forts embras-
Awaken with its CALI
But his name will be embalmed in the
praise of States, and this, his old brigade,
Tennessee, or wherever its proud banners
Haunt the sky, will cherish his memory
and avenge his falls
But gentlemen, know your timeis linn
tied, and that I must not detain you too
long. Rest assured that / shall follow the
military career of each and all of you with
the deepest solitude. The third year of the
war is upon us. How fierce has been the
struggle, our vast national debt and shat
tered ranks bear witness. Whether the
end is near or not, I can not tell. The past
months will be forever memorable for the
splendid triumphs of our arms and to the
eyes of hope the sky is flushed with faint
light and the morning seems near at hand.
But come victory or come defeat, come tri-
umph or come disaster, this 1 know, that
against rebels in the field or traitors at
home, despite the plots of weakened
aid cowardly politicians of the North, and
the Vaccinations of foreign despots and ar
istocrats, the Scared and bronzed veterans
of the warlike West, the men on whose
banners are inscribed Mill Springs and
Donelson, Pea Ridge and Vicksburg, Shi-
lob, Carnifex and Stone River, a0iU make no
terms, accept no truce, Endorse no treaty,
u1etit the military peacer Of the rebellion Is
crushed forever, and the supremacy Of the
national Government acknowledged from
the Potomac to the Rio Grdnde.
Am told that Union restored by force
OF arms is not worth having? Am told
that if the States now in revolt are whipped
in fair tight-beaten and humiliated-they
will be unworthy and degraded members
of the Union? We must have peace first,
says certain school of politicians, and
then, if we can, we will argue the South
into reconstruction. In other arOrds, these
gentlemen ,o0uld haze the Government and
dregs the bitter cup aDhich they Uould dash
from the hands of traitors aud rebels. The
territory you hare occupied is to be 0bdn-
doned, the public property, the dock CARDS
and fOrtreSses you hare recdptured after t,cO
years Of WGr, are to be surrendered, the Uic-
torious armies Of the Mississippi, The Cum
5ertdnd and the Potomac, followed bu the
jeers and SCOTS of the enemy are to sneak
ruth arms reversed and flags trailed in dust
across the Northern border and yOur Co..
ey'nment-the Government of WASHINGTON,
Jefferson and JdckS0n-ls to co,Der, dishon-
Ored aud disgraced, by word and kissing
among the nations. 1.-THE rebel armies, Il
will not say the rebel States, for it is not
against the States, nor their Constitutional
rights, we wage war; if the rebel armies,
and the oligarchies who control them, have
their pride broken, and their prestige
BUNDLED, let them blame themselves.
They haze so,cn the aoi,,d, let then, reap the
,ohirt'Oiad, till the bloody problem, is finally
,Corked out, eye to eye, foot to foot, saoord to
ten gears longer, with iron hearts, and iron
fleets, and iron hail, this generation of loyal
men will, by Gods grace, endure its heavy
cross, and until the broad daylight of
peace and order and victory shall come,
will stand to arms.
And then for you, soldiers-soldiers, but
freemen and armed citizens of the Repub-
ic-it will be for you to remember the Ro-
man saying: Telpace, ret belto. cl1rem fert
ticet, or, as old Milton has paraphrased it,
"Peace has her victories, no less renowned
than war; 1t will be for you to look to il
that those arbitrary war measures, justified
by the awful presence of rebellion, whose
like the world never saw before; justified
by the maxim that "the safety of the Re-
public is the supreme law" die with the
necessities which gave them birth. 1t will
be for you to see that the powers of the
Government are restricted to their lawful
and appropriate channels; that each State
has its full and perfect rights, under the
Constitution, awarded to it and, finally,
through the instrumentality of the ballot
box, 1t will be for you to put the SeaLof eter-
nal political dan,'aation on those subtle and
designing demagogues, ,vhose disa6e and
distoyatty to the country haze already pro-
tonged the War, and today, more than all
other agencies, feed the unholy fires of trea-
son, riot and insurrection. Mark the pre-
diction, that, when the war is over, it will
be TO the men of this human army, more
than to any others, that the people of the
Southern States will look for wise, gene
rous, patriotic conservatism.
They will trust you because of your I'M
tiinchirg and unwavering loyalty to your