Cleveland morning leader. [volume] (Cleveland [Ohio]) 1854-1865, 1863-06-11

we will fight on the ground that we have
fought and follow our commander where
ever he may wish TO lead us. s---r-f-
-L Yours. oHAs. McGRAW.
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CAMP OF I01sT o. Y. I, NEAR MURFREEsBoRo',
Tennessee, May p, 1868.
Looking over tbe pages of cur national
history, revieHingevents still fresh in our
minds, previous TO the breaking out of war,
and comparing our national prosperity
with that Of the world, and our standard
of true nobility with the standard of other
nations, we cannot but feel proud that we
are Americans; and now even more than
ever before, our hearts swell with manly
impulses as we stand beneath our coun-
try's proud colors, sworn to defend or die.
Aye, more; pledged to plant that glO-
rious emblem of liberty in every place
from which the ruthless hand of the trail
tor has dragged itdown. Though trampled
in the dust and stained by the foul hand
Of treason, the pure air Of heaven and
genial climate Of freedom will cleanse it
from all polulaFion, and it yet shall iOat
triumphantly among the ensigns of the
world. But to-day war desolates our land
and our banner has been dragged to half
mast by those whom it has protected. Our
brothers, made drunk by the intoxicating
thought of power, have lifted high the in
sulting hand of rebellion, and, with boast
ful shouts, have defed the authority Of
Government until we are engaged in war
"a fierce, earnest, fratricidal war. But
has not Government been competent to the
task Of meeting the heavy shock intended
for her destruction? Has not her force
been employed to beat back the advancing
column Of the foe2 and does not the blood
Of our slain cry from beneath our very
feet for vengeance Shall we not heed
these cries Is any man so base, so low,
SO degraded, and lost to all that is great
and good and ennobling that he can
step quietly aside and gaze with COM
plaeency upon q divided nation? That
he can submit without a death-st trug-
gle to the destruction of the worlds proud
est and noblest Republic? If so, he is our
enemy, and beneath the heel Of lawful
power and authority, let him be crushed.
We do not ask all to subscribe to our politi-
cal creed, for we differ in many minor
points among ourselves; but we do ask
that the men Of Ohio, and especially those
of Crawford county, whom we represent in
the army, shall, like us, unitedly subscribe
to the restoration of the Union at whatever
U. Eo1 Of
national power, and to prove our national
existence, and he who folds his arms and
refuses to lend his aid until Government
shall comply with his notions of proper
war measures is bigot and fool; and
he who now sympathizes with the enemy
simply because a certain political whim
of policy which he favored was not adopted
in the beginning of this unearthly contest
is a traitor to his country, and blind not
only to his own, but to pOsterity's highest
interest We are battling for the right,
confident Of success, for Gods hand is lift
ed up in our behalf; and now, as an hon
est and plain expression Of our sentiments,
and to show where we do truthfully stand
on the great question of the day, we do
hereby unanimously adopt the following
resolutions:
!. ReSolUsd, That We know no other gov
ernment save that under which we have
lived and fourished these many years, and
| which has for its chief cornerstone our
| time-honored Constitution.
q That we fight not for conquest nor
for glory, but in the defense of our Gov
ernment-in its gigantic efforts to restore
| the integrity of the Union, and that the
I - ao-J1,I
forced.
8. That armed rebellion exists in our
land that one Of its objects is the destrUc-
ton Of our Government, and it is therefore
the duty Of every man who boasts of being
an American, whatever may have been the
immediate cause of the war, TO assist in
crushing out the rebellion and thus enforce
the national authority and power.
f. That while armed treason sCrges
along our entire front, and the martialed
hosts of the enemy brighten their bay o.
nets for the contest there is and can be
no peace.
5. That the o7ertures of peace by means
Of compromise have been insolently flung
back into our faces, and the profered
olive branch before Sumter's guns reused
our nation to arms was spurned with dis
dain, therefore the cry for peace in this
hour is but the cry of the craven and the
coward.
6. That we look upon those political
demagogues Of the North who refuse to
raise a hand in their country's defense,
because they do not endorse certain war
measures, who, rather than waive their
party politics for the time being, will quiz
etly submit to the destruction Of our ma
ton, as the most despicable and unenvia-
BILE class that have an existence on the
earth.
Z. That we desire peace, permanently,
and lasting, based upon a proper restora-
ton Of the whole Union, and the uncondi-
tional surrender Of our enemy.
8. That we cheerfully, and of our own
free will, subscribe to the above resolu-
tions-fully endorsing the sentiments
therein expressed.
8. That copies of the above resolutions
be forwarded for publication in the Cleve-
land LEADER and the Crawford county pa
pers.
Here follows a list Of all the members
eff Company E, certified TO by Lieutenant
Charles McGraw commanding company,
and all but six Of Company C, certified to
by Lieutenant james N. Roberts.
Colonel MOntgOmery's Expedition.
The following is from the correspond
enee of the New York Tribune:
HILTON HEAD, SoUTH CAROLINA, !
June 4, 1868. 7
One Of the most brilliant raids since the
Danartment of the Snnth uas creatad hns