Western Reserve chronicle. [volume] (Warren, Ohio) 1855-1921, 1863-11-11
The Soldiers of the Cumberland on
the Election.
The following is from the Cincinnati

The following is from the Cincinnati
Gazstts:
NASHVILLE. Oct. Is.
telegraphed you last evening that We
, had just closed an enthusiastic glorlficn-
! ton meeting over the good news brought
us by mail and electricity from Ohio,
Pennsy lvunia, and Iowa.
The Representatives Hall IN the Capl-
| tol was well filled at an early hour. Brig.
Gen. Granger was called to the chair
Cuptsins MUssey, Stout and Mills. Ser
geant Fisher and Mr.. A. w. Paul were
appointed committee to draw up reso-
! lutions for the meeting. After brief alb
sence, Instead, of resolutions. Captain
Mussey read the following address:
TO the Loyal Men and Homss Of tie North
Greeting: We, soldiers OF the Army of
the Cumberland, and citizens attached
thereto, thank you, that, again forgetting
party and remembering only country, you
have Joined hands and hearts To CRUST
treason at home; and have, IN so doing,
injured the armed treason We encounter
in the field. We thank you THAI you have
so emphatically declared that YOU. the
citizens of the United States. and we, the
army OF the United States, are one-one
in purposes and in effort, one in hope,
and seen, by the blessing of Cod, we trust,
one in victory.
I'VE thank you for the lnajorities so
unprecedented and overwhelming with
which you have rebuked the men who
never voted u dollar, nor a word of
cheer.
We rhank you, that the only question
you asked the candidates, was: Are you
in favor of vigorous prosecution OF the
war?"-and according as their answer was
yea or nay rewarded them with your
favor, or spurned them with your con-
tempt.
We thank you for the confidence in
US you manifested. We will endeavor to
merit its continuance.
United thus, in our love 10 our nation,
and in our labors to purge it from tfe,son,
We shall continue to conquer-you at hpI.ie
we in the tield-till peace again smiles
on our united republic, secure against in
ternal foes; impregnaLle TO foreign as
sault."
Captain Mussey followed the reading of
this address by neat, appropriate speech.
lie spread before US the oneness of the
nation, in Its typography, and contrasted
it with Vallandigham's proposal Of four
and showed the impossi-
bility of drawing lines between them
The man who was first TO make the pro-
posal, is now the worst beaten man that
has been nominated for office
He alluded to the fact that nations rep
resent ideas. Those that represent valua-
ble ones must pass through storms and
tempests. Hot-house plants can bear no
exposure, while nothing less than the
hghtnings OF heaven can rive the giant
oak. We represent the grand idea of self |
government, and we need the trial through |
which We were passing. Although made |
up of different nationalities, this war is |
fusing US into one. At its commence
ment, in a little Northern town, there |
were two Liberty poles, representing the |
two political parties. When the rebels |
fired on Fort Sumter the parties met, and |
taking down both poles, spliced them in
to one, and again raised it, as the repre-
sentative of the Union party-the party
Tor the whole nation. |
Maury, and many other prominent reb-
ELS, have expressed great confidence of
aid anticipated from dissentions in the
North. New York riots cheered them for
a time, and so have many electioneering
documents; but Vallandigham's election
vas to inaugurate civil war in Ohio, and
place the Army of the Cumberland be-
.ween the two hostile forces. Those in
he rear have been thoroughly whipped
md now the work of the army is plainly
md obviously before it.
The meeting received ,he address by
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