The Wyandot pioneer. (Upper Sandusky, Ohio) 1853-1868, 1863-03-27

which was this day adopted with startling
unanimity, every officer and soldier pres.
ent in the regiment subscribing his hame
to it with enthusiastic earnestness.
"The words are few but well chosen,
vigorous, and pregnant with truth.
These men have right THUS to speak.
thier battles. their bravery ,thier discipline
and thier honorable scars, entitle them to
a hearing. Let no one fail to read this
stirring appeal in favor Of this war, by
those who are fighting it, and let sympa.
thetic traitors hang their heads for shame
to be thus rebuked by patriots lihe these. !"
THE ELLSWORTH REGIMENT TO ITS FRIENDS.
AN APPEAL TO THE PEOPLE OF THE
STATE OF NEW YORK
We can no longer keep silent. A sac-
red devotion to our country,an ardent love
for our homes, and above all, an abiding
faith in God, Bids us speak. For nearly
two years we have suffered all things, per-
illed all things. endured all things, for
the sake of our common country. We
have left our Business, our kindred, our
frierds, the firesido Of our youth, the sac
red places of prayer, and all the nearest
and dearest relations Of life, to serve our
country. We have endured hunger,
thirst, cold and heal. BY day and by
night we have borne the weight Of our
knapsacks and the weariness ofthe march.
We have worked late and early in the
trenches; we have bivouacked in the
swamps; we have suffered sickness in the
hospitals; we have not been spared from
"the pestilence that walketh in dark
ness," nor from "the destruction that
wasteth at noon day." We have never
shrunh from duty, but rather have again
and again cheeriully sought death, even
at the cannon's mouth, tc. save our Union
from destruction, our homes from dis
grace, and you and your children from
eternal shame.
When we came to the. field we came
with your blessing. Yon told us to go
that God would be with us, and that
your most fervent prayers should follow
us. Encouraged by your words of pa
triotism, of hope, of faith we came to the
war. After suffering thus much in be-
half Of you and your children, and the
nations honor, dear alike to US all, will
you withhold from US now your sympa-
thy and support? Will you join with
those, worse than traitors, at the North,
who cry "Peace," when they know there
is no peace, nor can be none till this un-
holy rebellion is crusded? Will you ally
yourselves with those who, by words OF
Encouragement, are prolonging this war,
and who are thus becoming, in the; sight
of both Heaven and earth, the insidious
murderers of your sons and brothers here
in the field? Why should you, who suf-
fer none Of the dangers, none of the pri.
vatons Of field or camp, be less patriotic,
less faithful, less hopeful, less confident
in God and the holy cause in which we
are engaged, than we who endure all?
Shall the future historian, in writing
the record of this great struggle, declare
with truthfulness that the people Of the
North, having sent their sons to the field,
to peril their lives for the safety Of their
homes, their property and the national
government; having poured out the first
blush of their patriotism their treasure
blood with the freeness of water at
length, through indifference and apathy,
and love of ease and luxury which they
sought the unstable terms OF
an inglorious peace, and finally became
only subservient to those whom they at
tempt to su5due?
That this shall not be the record of the
Empire State, with your sympathy and
hearty cooperation, we, the undersigned
officers, commissioned officers and c
privates, of the Forty-fourth regiment e
New York State Volunteers, REPRESENTING
every county from Lake Erie to the t
ocean, here pledge anew ottr lives and G
our sacred honor. For we feel assured i
that if you seek peace now Upon any
,erms less than those Of an entire submis- 2
sion on the part of traitors in arms to the
government of the United States, thai
hat peace will only be temporary, and
hat sooner or later ycu will be obliged to
'end your younger sons and brothers 10 e
enrich this soil, already fertile with the
lead-younger and fresher blood to re
crimson these streams already red with +
daughter.
headquarters Forty-fourth regiment
New York State Volunteers, Camp neer
Falmouth, Va, March 8, 1868. {