The Wyandot pioneer. (Upper Sandusky, Ohio) 1853-1868, 1863-06-26
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tive Service, to the Great 10y
al Armies, Government, and
People of the United States.
Once more o! my Countrymen, do
pray you in behalf Of our long distressed
suffering, bleeding and dying, kindred
ant people beyond the Cumberland Noun
tains Twenty thousand Of us. perhaps,
have run the mortal gauntlet and are now
among you, in these mighty loyal armies,
scattered far and wide among strangers
cut off almost entirely from all communi,
ton with those so sacredly near and des,
to our hearts, whom we have long ago
left helpless in the bloody hands OF the
mobs of a most dark and bloody rebelli-
on.
We represent the noble treemen of the
highlands and mountains Of these reblii-
GUS States. We come. from that great,
lovely, and poetic section Of our great
country-caled in the writings of learn
ed travellers Switzerland OF America"-
the garden spot Of this great continent -
East Tennessee.
Three month had hostile armies OF
traitors been marching, almost daily, over
our great railroad, toward Virginia and
Washington City-striking terror in ev
cry heart in our land--before our traitor
GUS Governor and Legislature called a
second time upon us to vote for or against
the great free Government Of our Faith
ers; and still these loyal people of Eas,
Tennessee clung, witch death grip, to
the glorious Star-spangled Banner which
waved in such glorious triumph over the
bloody battles in the long wars our falh
ers fought for freedom and independence
against despotic and naughty England Of
old. And, not content with merely vo
ting an immense majority for the Union,
We have goodly number OF us, volunta-
rily banished ourselves far away from
our once quiet and comfortable homes and
kindred, escaping the bloodthirsty and
subtle traitors-whose murderous pick
cts were already guarding the narrow de.
files of the mountains-and we have now
long been with you, with musket sabre
and sword, in active service, many thous
ands Of us, for eighteen and twenty
months having left our aged mothers
and fathers, sisters, wives and helpless
children, to be robbed, starved and mur,
dered by fryhying serpents, in human
shape, which this horrible crater of re-
bellion and civil war has been throwing
out upon them, from the Missouri and
Ohio rivers to Baltimore, and from the
Atlantic to the Gulf of Mexico to the
Rio Grande. They have even murdered
mothers and venerable chris
Ian fathers, whose hospitailties have Of
zen been enjoyed by me. The pen need
only touch the names Of the venerable
Pleasant Pierce, of Knox, and Talbot
Stables of Scott, recently murdered by
them, to cause the hearts Of many loyal
soldies from those counties to throb with
indignant horror But we are cut off
from hearing their cries. The daily
trains, freighted with many thousands of
etters, bearing glad tidings and news for
your veteran and noble patriots from the
great free States of the North, come in
solemn and awful silence to us. No mail
or us to-day None yesterday None
asst week !! nor month, nor year Scat
e~ed news and chance letters come by
ome brave son Of Columbia. who has
yain concluded the murderous eye Of the
Willy traitors, whose hands have long
,een dripping with innocent blood
We still cry aloud unto you, oh my
ountrymen Put us all together, and
quipped, backed by you, we will cut our
wn way home to the redemption of our
ong lost homes and kindred. These
months with us drag slowly and heavily
long We know that our people are
asst approaching famine, ruin and starva
ion, if they have not already come upon
hem, unless we make great haste to their
escue and redemption. But We are scat
cred far and wide among you, like wan
ering sheep among strangers in the re-