The Wyandot pioneer. (Upper Sandusky, Ohio) 1853-1868, 1863-06-26

people nau nedru notnlny AZ all lToii
me. tn ough they had tried long ant
hard 10 do SO. This may be said, nj
doubt, Of thousands Of others Of us scat
tered wide among you, and when we die
she chance is that no tidings Of our deatl
will ever reach our dear relatives.
Ihave received the high econium Of my
commanders. Of having taken active par
in the great battles near Perryvile, Ky.
land Murtreesboro, Tern;ot being through
the arduous campaigns under Maj. Gems
Rousseau, Buell. and Rosecrans in Ken
lucky and Tennessee. From the solemn,
marches through the streets Of Louisville
in September, 1851, wading the swift
waters OF Salt River, near Muldro's Hill,
where | beheld the flames Of the frs
barning Railroad bridge in Kentucky by
the enemy; thence to the rains Of the
noble bridge across Green River, which
they had destroyed; to Grayson, Bow.
ling Green, Nashvill,. Savannah and Shi
| loh to Columbia, franklin, Shelbyville,
Murfreesboro andMcMinnville to Rock
Island, ast Summer thence through that
dreadmlly terrific sirioon of war, which
swept from Chattanooga to Louisville.
and Pcrryville, Ky, under Buell., and his
Generals parallel, and clsshing with the
armies oil the enemy under Bragg and
Kirby Smith and again to the great bat
tie OF Stones River, near Murfressboro
Tennessee, under the great and noble
Rosecrans.
But my poor service are very insignif-
cant beside the mighty blows which you,
noble freemsn. have struck this horrible
ogre Of treasou--this despotic enemy to
the peace and happiness of all mankind,
which aims at nothing less than to rule
with iron rod over Us, this great free peo-
pie, after having ruined the glorious free
Government Of our fathers. Mark you
Thirty-fve long years by them have been
spent iu sublly plotting out this problem
of treason, before they plunged our great
and happy country into this most horri-
BILE civil war. The sons Of tories of old,
in the Revolution, published in their trea
sonable papers in 1861, the letters Of the
English emissary, Russell, which openly
announced that "all through the South.
the cry Was II we only had one of the
royal sons ofEsgland to reign over us,
we would be content"
That's it And you have ii here in
book form. published by Russell himself
in England, and now for sale in Nashville
| have seen it. ] saw in the Richmond
Dispatch in June 1861, while at the
Union Convention in Greenyille, Tenn,
and much more OF the same sort
Awake, oh, Freemen of Columbia !! and
with your cleaning scimeters, show them
your might and power to NOW them down
like snakes in the tender grass, if they do
not submit.
From ocean to ocean and from lake to
gulf this "Master Race" of traitors most
subtle, have long been thoroughly organ
lied, and actively at work. Behold a
mighty nation of freemen, bathed in the
blood Of her own sons Turn the key
Let Slavery loose--the great strength and
pretext of this rebellion; and we are not
not only safe, but will save many thous-
ands OF precious lives of noble patriots.
Put the proud and bloody despots to
work, or to starve for something to eat,
and freeze for something to wear, and they
will soon forget to go about exciting,
bloody war against the innocent.
What have the great and enlightened
nations of the earth long said to us p
What says the noble and amiable Queen
If Great Britain to us about it ? You
,oast loudly of liberty and freedom, yet
'ou will put up and sell at auction fifty
men, women aud children at q time.--
Bloody deceit, to be sure, and now is the
me, if ever, to remedy it. Did not the
'arning voices of Washington, Adams,
4 Nadison, Monroe, Webster and Clay,
ONE down to us, that Slavery would
ertainly bring these bloody scenes upon
s, if it was permitted to go on? Yes
n thunder tones, reverberating down to
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