Lamoille newsdealer. [volume] (Hyde Park, Vt.) 1860-1877, 1863-10-07
FROM THE WEST.
CAMP NEAR BLACK RIVER,
Miss, Sept. 18th, 1868.

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the NEwsDEALER, that the nine months
Volunteers from the State of Vermont,
had returned to their homes. No doubt
but that many a mothers aching heart
was gladdened at the sight of her son, who
had returned from the battlefield to greet
fond parent once more; to say nothing
of the loving wives, sisters, aud daughters
who we're anxiously awaiting to receive
with open arms, Vermonts noble sons,
who, for the love of their country, left
their families, friends and all the CON-
forts of home, and went forth to the tent
ed field, there to use their efforts in sus-
tanning the Government, that traitors
were trying to pull down.
But the end is not yet! War, war,
and not peace, is our true situation !!
War, with all its necessities, with all its
response abilities, with all its solemn du-
duties, is upon us! We cannot withdraw
from them, if we would. AS yet it has
been war against traitors alone,-though
bloody and terrible. 1t has been thus
far civil war only. but all who look be-
yond, may see looming up in the distant
horizon, the dark clouds of foreign war,
gigantic in it's proportions; war on sea
and land. which, unless averted, will
bring in its train, the upheaving of the
world War then, is the issue, the fear
full, dominant issue of the hour.
The war in which we are engaged, is
a war for national life; war for nation
al unity; war for republican ,institu-
tins; war for constitutional republican
government, without which there can be
no political liberty for man in truth we
are fighting the great battles of our Revo-
luton over again; the war we wage is a
war for the rights of man---a war for ma
tional independence, threatened and i'm
periled too by reason of the Intervention
from abroad, and nothing can solve that
issue. but the sword All our present du-
ty is comprised in these few words, " ill
up the ranks, push on the columns if
we would save our national life, we must
fight on; if we would preserve the ma
tional Union. we must fight until the re-
belion yields. If we would maintain
our national independence, we must fight
on, until victorious. If we would main
tain republican institutions on this conti-
nent, in spite of domestic treason and
European intervention, we must fight and
conquer all our foes. We stand in the
vanguard of nations and civilization.
based upon the equal rights of man. We
must fight on, and fight the battle to the
end, if we would maintain for ourselves
and our children the blessings of liberty
We must fight and sustain the Constitu.
tion of our fathers, for liberty is the cor
ner-stone If we would give slavery its
death blow, we must fight until we over
throw that regcllion which makes slavery
its chief cornerstone. We must crush
it, grind it to powder. and bury that cor
ner-stone forever under its ruins. If, by
sseverally preserving our own, we would be
an example of constitutional liberty for
all mankind, we must fight on. aud fight
it through. If we would maintain our
national credit. at home and abroad, if we
would command the money of the world,
we must fight until we gain victory upon
victory. s' ruf a'r.
From the midst of this struggle which
ever way we may look, it is all the same.
Upon all sides the same aspect greets us.
All voices speak the same language to us.
If we look into ourselves, to our own we'll
being, the only word whispered by the
still small voice from the depths Of our
hearts, is, fight ont If we look beyond
ou selves to the good Of our fellow-men.
the only answer coming to us. from all
who love liberty throughout the world, is,