Fremont journal. [volume] (Fremont, Sandusky County [Ohio]) 1853-1866, 1863-02-27

Is there nything else that has been left mn
tried, short Of national dishonor and shame p
Nothing Purely physical power has been in
yoked to destroy the Government. and physic
al force must meet it. Conquer the rebelliou
armies the deluded people Of the rebellioui
states, and let no peace no happiness, no pros
perIty dwell IN their land or homes, until the,
rise against their own tyrants until popular
opinion with them overthrows their false Gov.
eminent and dooms their despotic leaders,
Whip them confne them until "Actnon is de.
voured by his dogs
This is all that can be done. and il must bs
done with the determined energy of a united
people. Thus feel and think the soldiers of tn,
grand army ofthe United States. Are you will
us or will you desert u.s. sell your nationa
birthrght for mess Of pottage, and, for success:
in local politics, barter away your country, craw
at theteet and lick the hands ofthe peridious, cru.
ell and deyilish conspiTators, who have organized
this rebellion, and who boast at their success in
destroying your Government, Staying your sons
and wasting your treasure, contemned, derided
and despised by them, while you are humbly
craving their favor Not waiting or even hop.
ing for returning loyalty in then or for terms O
peace to be rendered by them? Can you thus
dishonor yourselves, your soldiers or your Statei
We ask you now TO stay, support and uphold
the hands ofyour soldiers
GIVE some of the wasted sympathy, so lily but
freely bestowed upon the old political hacks and
demagogues, who seek a blessed martyrdom in
Lincoln Bastiles, 10 the suffering and brnvely
enduring soldiers who intthe camp, the field and
the hospitals, bear real hardships uncomplain-
lngly. il treason must run riot in the North
keep 1t there-insult not your soldiers by send
ing to them the vile emanations of the traitors
who are riding into Office, place and power over
the ruins of the Government, and making them
their stepping stones Insult us not hV letters.
speeches and papers, which tell us that we are
engaged as hirelings in an unholy Abolition
war, which make mob idols of the hour of those
whose hypocritical demagoguery takes shape in
cOwardly, covert treasOnz-whose constant voca-
ton is denunciation of their Government and its
armed defenders.
The Army of the West is in terrible earnest
earnest to conquer and destroy armed rebels
earnest to meet force with force--earnest in its
hearty detestaton of cowardly traitors at home
earnest in will and power to overcome all who
desire the nations ruin
Ohio's 100000 soldiers in the field, citizens at
bone, potent in either capacity; ask their faith
ers, brethren and friends, by their firesides and
in their peaceful homes, TO hear and heed this
appeal, and to put an end to covert treason at
home, more dangerous now to our National ex-
istencet than the presence Of the armed hosts of
misguided rebels in the field.
On the hearing and adoption of this address
by the lst Brigade, Sd Division, 18th Army
Corps, Dol. Walker also reported the following
resolution, which was unanimously adopted
Therefore Resolved For ourselves, we are re-
solved to maintain the honor and integrity Of
our Government. from the st. Lawrence to the
Gulf, and between the oceans there shall be but
one supreme political power. We are able 10
defend our birth right, the blood of our sres is
not contaminated in our veins; we are neither to
be insulted, nor robbed with impunity; the gov
eminent we defend was formed for noble pur-
poses; we are the executors of living, dying
testament, written in the blood of our fathers
which we will rewrite in our own; to preserve
our Government, is to us law, as unalternative
in our hearts as the DEGREES of heaven; we stop
not now TO point the finger of scorn at petty
traitors who vainly seekto immortalize them
selves by acts OF treason-too cowardly to sin
with an uplifted hand too distardly to stake
life for life, as more honorable traitors do-let
them bear in mind that there is time coming
when the honest indignation of loyal people
will hurl them headlong into an abyss as bot
tomless as the pit"