St. Cloud Democrat. [volume] (Saint Cloud, Stearns County, Minn.) 1858-1866, 1863-08-06
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his neutrality-suspicious. Of tho Loveof
God. L ss*s@ p
II WAS hi farewell sermon before tripl
to Englandto visit his family where they
are ffedusetion. /
The battle between Meade and Lees
armies which has been daily expected for
l Teeks has not come off yet, and If the pa
rolled prisoners from Vicksburg do not re:
interce Lee 50 that he can attack Meade
it is probable that all will be quiet on the
Potomac until the time Of the three years
men run out and the army Of the Pstom-
&C is disbanded. Poor fellows, how brave.
ly they have fought, and how they have
fallen in thousands; and so far as we can
see, with so little result; while there is q
thousand of them lett they will fight if
the leaders So. decide; but there is. al
ways some jealousy or some treason in high
places which deprivcs them and the ma
ton of the fruits Of their valor Il ~
q There is no longer any fear Of an at.
tack on Washington. The copperheads
did not come up to their engagements.
about aiding Lee in his invasion of the
North and that project has failed. There
is no doubt that the riots in New York
were the result of plan between secession
sympathizers at the north, and jeff Da.
Wis crew and that general rising in re-
sistance to the draft was to be made at the
time which should most aid Lees daring
attempt to isolate and take Washington.
Had he defeated the Potomac army, as
there was every reason to fear he might,
these Northern traitors would have risen
with the pretension Of stopping the war
and kept loyHlmen busy east, while WASH
ington should be taken and the Confede-
racy be proclaimed as the government, of
the country. Lees unlocked for defeat
at Gettysburg spoiled the programme.-
The fearful cost at which that defeat was
secured, Minnesota we'll knows Our slo-
rious First was Inundated, but if ever me
died for a purpose, it was those who fell
on that field. If ever a government was
saved by single battle, it was there and
then. Had Washington fallen, as it wo'd
have done had that army been defeated,
as I expected it to be, and New York an d
Pennsylvania copperheadism taken the
form Of open instruction, as it is now ev-
ident they intended to DO, foreign recog-
milton of the Confederacy was matter of
course aud the destruction of our govern
mont would have been fixed fact to- day.
Let those who mourn their dead who fell
there remember that they died that, HUI
man Liberty might livc-that by their
death mans right to self government has
been vindicated and Republicanism pre-
served as our permanent form Of govern
ment, .',.''.. r." H. ~:
1t Will appear strange to you all that L
have not been with the Minnesota wound.
ed. The great uncertainty as to when
that battle would be fought, brought me
here after waiting in Philadelphia to go
to the field After it was fought the un.
derstanding was that most OF the wound
ed would be brought here. While We
were expecting them hourly I was sum-
moncd to 30 to work in place in the War
Department, for up to, that time T. had
been Warrington them to get rooms ready
and notify me. When we found they
would not be brought here I went to Gen.
Meiges and begged leave of absence to go
to Gettysburg, but he looked at me. kind
~ and quietly told me it was not my du.
ty to go and that he could not give me
the required leave. The question then
was, should I give up my means of living
and 60 in such state of health that I
did not hope to be able to keep on my feet
more t than two weeks longer, ana my
doubts were solved next day by my taking
sick with an, attack closely resembling
cholera. For one day I scarce expected
to recover and from then until now have
been SO that dare not expose myself to
contagion: When I was quito worn and
thin in the hospital waiting on wounded
men, the evacuation Of Falmouth sent up
a great l many old typhoid fever and chron-
ic diarhea cases, and working over. them
l must have. contracted tendency to
disease as I have been strangely affected.
This, with . slight; pParalytic atectiongoe
the feet, brought on By 50 much walking
and standing, makes it that even now when
I feel we'll enough to 60 every day to the