The Portland daily press., 1863-11-10
LEGAL e OFFICIAL.
STATE OF MAINE.

GNEIIOW CITIZENS:
Il The President has called for 100000 additional
volunteers, TO meet the present and prospective eNi
gencies of the war.
OF this additional force Maine is expected TO fur.
nish her quota. and she will not disappon that ex-
pectation. Now. as heretofore, her patriotic men
will respond TO the call. and promptly furnish er
full share of the force necessary to vindicate ii ill.,
tegfity of Government and maintain the su-
premacy OF the laws of the Union.
Our people. with almost entire unanimfy have
determined that the present rebellion shall be sup
pressed, and that the Union which II was designed
to destroy. shall be maintained For this pu pose
they entered upon the contest and to this end they
will pcrscyere until the object be accomplished. and
until the world shall be satisfied that flee men can
endure more and perseyere longer for the preserra
tiun of free government than eau the most desper-
ate and determined traitors for its destruction.
The length of the conflict is not 10 be measured by
years, but by events Treason IS fooe PIT dora and
10 that end should all the measures of the Gotern-
ment be subserient Great progress has already
been made. Two years ago rebellion was bold, deli
ant and apparently successful in half the teri itory
of the Union and our National Capital was literally
bescged by armed traitors. Since that time, by the
vaor of arms, they have been expelled from the
greater part of this territory and the banners of the
Union now hoa, in triumph over more than baif the
States which were then claimed as component parts
of their boasied Confederacy.
They now find themselves on the point OF strangu
lation by the clOseness with which the arms Of the
Union are pressed upon them. Thousands OF loyal
men in the South. who have been awed into submis-
sion by their despotism, are now Hooking TO our
standards.
A little more pressure, few more vigorous bows,
and the work of suppression will be accompli shed,
and Union will stand forth in all its former glo
nv not reconstructed, because not destroyed, but
stronger for the assault which has been made upon
il. These are encouraging omcns.
But the work accomplished has cost immente Ia
Dor, and has required immense resources in both
and money.
TO sustain our armies who have struggled so hero
ically ard successfully to ill their ranks which have
been reduced by the return of those whose tel OF
serY has expired, and tnned by the casualties OF
the field and to enable them to hold the vast terri
tory which has been conquered by their yaor and TO
bring the TO successful and speedy termination
moro men wanted. Will those men be iorth-
coming? Who that knows any thing of the past, or
the patriotism of people can doubt ON this point!
cannot. Our people will not wait for any coerclVe
power to call them 10 duty: all they desire TO know
is how much additional aid is d sired OF them and
! feel full assurance that such aid will be rendered.
therefore. with great confidence call upon the cit
izens OF this State as with one mind they have re-
solved to suppress the rebellion, with united Lears
to provide the means necessary to accomplish inns
object. ~
The proyision for the soldier is most ample With
liberal wages, and Bounty OF hundreds OF dollars,
he can go forth with the assurance that those de-
pendent upon him viii receive all needed support IN
his absence and with the consciousness that his cf-
forts will contribute TO the perpctnity of our free
institutions, the glory of our country and the honor
OF her brave defenders. ! summon, therefore, the
loyal men of this State to aid in the speedy accom-
pIi.hmcnt of this work. | call upon the representa-
lives of every class 10 contribute of their numbers
and their means. Personal efforts and personal sac
rihces are unworthy considerations, in comparison
with the immense issues at stake. Let not these be
imperiIled throu gh our inactivity. believe that
proper appreciation of the necessities of the Govern
ment on the part Of the people of this State, would
render but few days necessary TO answer the call
of the President upon us. | am too well acqua ned
with the results of determined effort ~ the past to
doubt this. ABNER Cobt I'm,
Governor and Commander-in-Cbief.
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