Lamoille newsdealer. [volume] (Hyde Park, Vt.) 1860-1877, 1863-08-13

military laurels; wear Uncle Sans bril-
liant uniform, eat his bounteous rations
and put his beautiful greenbacks in your
pocket. Come out and fall into the ranks
with us and get familiar with your fac
iugs and your wheelings and your "shoul-
der arms" and your charge bayonets. :"
If you do your duty manfully we'll make
you corporals-we'll raise you to the dig
nifty Of commissioned ofiicer--yea, you
may yet get to be brigadiers if the rebel
lion be not to hastily crushed. Well
give you, on the whole soldierly well
come, and thank you for filling our thin
ned ranks, and the memory of our brave
brothers who have fallen on many bloody
fields will endear you to us who stand in
their places. you will bring to US the
fragrance of home and friends, the fresh
zeal of northern patriotism and courage !;
and we will lend to you the benefit of our
experience and the steady valor and con-
tideuce acquired and proved on many bat
tie fields You can make US, wearied vet
erans twice as valuable by impa rtins to
US your ardor, and We can make you
twice as valuable by imparting to you our
steadiness and experience. And we'll
soon 60 home together, rejoicing in saved
country, found to be tenfold more prosper
Gus than before, with flag waving over
our heads that henceforth neither home
traitors nor foreign foes shall dare to in
suit. and 4th of July to celebrate, on
which children and chiIdren's children
shall name us with the same honor that
we have been accustomed to name the
glorious fathers of our republic. Yes,
come on, even copperheads, and if there
is the least spark of true patriotism left
in your wretched breasts, we'll kindle it
with the snap of percussion caps into a
healthy fame, and brace up your system
with wholesome tonic of whistling bullets
and bursting shells till we can send you
home recovered and in your right minds !,
with leg or an arm less than now, per
haps, but what there IS left at least loyal
and not nuisance and disgrace to the
community.
ARMY MATTERS.
haven't any special army news for
you. We have now succeeded, in three
weeks hard, incessant labor, such march.
ing and couutermarching as no army du.
ring the war has done before, in loosing
all the advantage in position and other
respects that we had over the enemy on
the 4th of July. We are not rusting
away in inaction, that is some comfort
We arc here, there aud everywhere, put
ting ourselves in the way of being attack
ed by the enemy. If he will only be
fool enough to attack us, as at Gettys-
burg we shall utterly destory him, that
is if he continues to attack us long enough
and ofteu enough. Let us hope he will. |
Great is Meade. But the Napoleon hasn't
risen yet. We make gods Of our generals
or curse them as fools. Gen. Meade is a
good general. The army is satisfied with
him on the whole, thinks that he has un-
doubtedly erred on the side of too much
caution ever since Gettysburg, hut believes
in him as competent, faithful, patriotic
officer, of very fair abilities and good moral
character, which is great deal to expect
of general "a very great deal. Don't
let us be unreasonable. r...,.to.
Yours truly. DUNN BROWNE