Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1863-06-04
A Noble Letter from the Army.
IFrom last weeks ST Clairsville Gazette.l
CAMP REYNOLDS, March 26, '63.

[From last weeks ST Clarsvile Gazete.l
CAMP REYNOLDS, March 26, '63.
SAMUEL DAY, Esq.
Dear ,Sir:-Having 40 recently informed
you of my health, whereabouts &C., Iwoud
now state that there is no change in any Of
these particulars and my only object in ad
dressing you at the present, is to inform
you of the effects of the news from home.
produced on the minds of the Soldiers.
The intelligence which we receive through
private sources, and from the papers, from
our glorious old State which has sent forth
so many brave men to breast the devasta.
ting flood of treason and death, maintain
the country's honor and protect the loved
ones at home from ruin and misrule, and
secure to them, as well as ourselves, the
blessings Of our free government is to the
effect that our friends are divided, and that
in some parts there has been talk Of resist.
ing the draft. But can such resistance be
seriously meditated? Is it possible that any
of the young men with whom used to as.
sociate, and whom regarded as the soul Of
honor and patriotism, can so far forget him
self, as to be willing to sacrifice the country
upon the altar of party, and resolve on n
course that will as certainly invite tho war
into his own midst, and deluge his own
hearthstone with blood, as that resistance
is attempted? Is there one SO deeply fallen
to all that is pure and patriotic that, be-
cause he disapproves Of the Administration
is willing to sacrifice the country in revenge?
hope not. And if, in moment OF excite
laent, such thought has ever been enter.
tained, trust that, when calm reason and
common sense resumed their w0nted rule,
10 was abandoned forever.
We learn that resistance to military au-
thority has been attempted recently, in one
of the counties of the State. And il the
melf who encourage this thing could see
the effect which such news produces on the
mind of the soldier-coild they see the
cenched fist, the compressed lips, the
blauched cheek, and the burning eye-all
indicating deep, stern, bloody resolve-and
could they hear the withering, blasting,
ansthemas called down upon the heads of
traitors, if they had penetration enough to
discern when men are in earnest, they would
cease to encourage treason, and ,oOutd have
a prudent regard to their Oton safety.
Your wives and your daughters are inter-
ested, as all are, in the great issue which is
now before the American people. They
have work to do--an influence to exert, by
:sm and | hope that the women of old
Belmont will consider no socriiice too great
to be made, and discriminating the noble
uatrons of '76--they will regard the calls
of the country in this hour of its peril aud
gloom, paramount to the ties Of friendship,
love, and consanguinity.
For one, l have gone forth to fight 10,
and under the flag of my country. Never
did prize it more highly, or hail it with q
purer or more patriotic devotion. When |
consider that it was baptized in the blood Of
our ancestors, and handed by them to US,
untarnished, as u sacred legacy, in trust, to
be guarded and defended, and its power to
be kept unimpared by the blood Of the ma
tion-when look on it cs the emblem Of
our free and noble institutions, and as the
guaranty of their continuance and enjoy
meut-and when consider the deep laid
and unholy schemes, of still more unholy
men, to cast it in dishonor down, | canno
but feel, should they succeed, that
| "a nation Of freenpn that moment will fall,
| When its stars shall be trailed In the dust "
Having an interest in the country ant
| Government, l have felt for some time pas
l that they must and shall be sustained, q
every possible cost. My own feelings OF
A
j ings of the whole army.
| Were the North to awaken to sense Q
\ the danger which hangs over it, occasione
| by ! vision of its strength running out int
j party and political faction-were the alder
!, and abettors of treason at home, who cry
peace, peace, when there is no peace,
aware that the course they have been plea'
, ed to adopt, will extend the period Of tn
> war, aud lead the rebels to hope that
they can prolong III they can then bring
! q united South against broken and sha
D tered North, and erect their Contederac
g on the ruins of our once noble republic
did they reject that, the longer the war
: continued, the more enormous must beeO't
v the public debt, and the greater must
= the sacrifice Of human life, and that our n
e BILE armies must melt away before the q
y rocco Of disease and death, and that.
9 consequence Of unnatural division, whe
r all should be of one mind, many must leay
their bones in distant State, far fro
! friends and kindred dust, and find their Ia
II repose irf the rude constructed grave. in Il
Laurel groves OF the mountains, or beneal
y the out spreading branches of the live oal
aud moaning Cypress Of tho South-wh
!, might hase lived to cheer the declining yea
Of aged parents, but who alas, nust desceu
i heart broken and childless 70 the grave.
I say, we're III these things duly considefe
ifthese iAen truly loved the country, valu..
The lives Of their friends and relatives VI
el sre ia the ARMY, and really desired the pea
,s fbout which they love 70 pirate, they wou
d pursue . different course, and one calcul
8, ted 70 slsct the object which they. profs
re to have in yiew--.ths restorSfiQnof peat
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