Prescott journal. [volume] (Prescott, Wis.) 1861-1871, 1863-03-11

4N 49, aAS~AS ~ - ~ So AN~LI
Wisconsin Infantry, in committee of the
whole on the state Of the Union, in
camp at Forrest Hill, Tennessee, Feb.
10Th 1863, passed the following pream-
lie and resolutions:
W1erecs, We left the pleasures of
home and the pursuits of business in res
ponso % our Couutry's call 10 MAINTAIN
her nationality, and 10 preserve and per-
aeuate those free institutions upon
which our noble Government is built
and which traitors are basely aiming to
DESTROY: sundering for time, perhaps
prc,er those ties which bind us TO hap
J., homes and friends, to take tho tented
fed. With Ill the hardships and yicissi-
aides Of war, suppressing the rising tear
ath emotions Of sorrow, mingled with a
sem resolve to meet the champions of
.jsunion with un ALTERING courage, cheer
ii as If ours was noble cause, We did
no; thiak that those who babe ia "God
speed" nj our parting, would war against
"a IN cur absence. We believed then "a
4ov, our cause 10 be not only noble but
'Icred, and how manfully we have up
held lie Old Flag, let tho thousands OF
eur comrades graves, and other thou
sands of ruined constitutions and crippl-
e. forms attest.
Whereas, Within the last few months
ws have witnessed the betrayal Of pur-
pYse on the part OF some OF those who
,neered us on, to sacrifice our glorious
Huse and entail ruin and lasting des.ruc-
ton upon that Government which we
have learned to love, rs almost our first
emotion in infancy:
therefore,, ResolVed Ist, That by
he recent acts tf the Copperheads (self
styled conservatives we recognize them
as enemies of the Government, traitors,
;raducing US BY saving that We are divi
ded, disafected, and willing to abandon
the contest to be settled by the caucusing
IF political demagogues, they being gov
sFred only by selfish designs and ends.
Resolred End, That in the secession
SIS Of the South we recognize two class
IS: lst, Those who through selfish aims
and the promptings of Ambition, are
working the rule of a despotism; End,
Those whom the first class have duped
by misrepresenting the real issues of the
war, and, while we meet these men as
worthy our steel, we turn with loathing
from their northern sympathisers, who
anxions. to share in the SPOTS OF treason,
are yet too cowardly TO shoulder the
musket aud take their chances in our
Trout, but like all cowaIds assail us in the
rear, he result of which has been. to
unite us, If possible, more as q unit in
the great purpose in which we are enga-
ged, ann TO more deeply hate that odious
party which would sacrifice the Govern
ment, rather than that an Administra-
ton uncOngenial to them should succeed.
Resolved Sd, That in the Coppsrbeads
we recognize three classes; lst, The cow
ards. desircus ofpeace on any terms, les,
in the need of more soldiers they might
be drafted; End, The peDurous, equally
fearful of draft upon their purses to
meet the expenses of the war; Sd, That
class of political demagogues, whose love
Of country is exceeded by their love OF
1fiee, which can be obtained only oy
Tousing party spirit, and the chilean
''ry of political intrigue.
Resolved 18th, That fully realizing the
dreadful ordeal through which our coun-
try is passing, that this is the great turn
ing point in oar history as nation, and
not odr fate as nation only, but that
our success or defeat in this great strug-
gle between Despotlsm and Freedom,
@'y determn no the progress of civil liber.
anc democratic institutions for ages,
W P'efse ourselves anew. IS rtapd By the