The daily Green Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1861-1865, 1863-03-13
A Noble Appeal to the People.

The Peoples Regiment, Che New York 44th)
has spoken, rank and file, upon the great question
of the war to the end The following Address
was signed this morning by every member of the
regiment:
10 The People QfMc State Of NflO York:
We can no longer keep silent. A sacred devo-
alon to our counry-an ardent love for our homes
and, above all, an abiding faith in God bid Us
speak. For nearly two years we have suffered all
things, perlled all things, endured all things, for
the sake OF cur comm n country. We have left
our business, our kindred, our friends, the fire.
sides OF our youth, the sacred places of prayer,
and all the nearest and dearest relations Of lie TO
serve our country We have endured hunger.
thirst, cold and heat. By day and by night we
have borne the weight of our knaps4cks and the
WEAKNESS Of the march. We have worked late
ant early 10 the trenches; we have bivouached in
the swamp ; we have suffered sickness ia the hos
piaI we have not been spared from L" the pe4ti-
fence that walketh in darkness nor from "the
destruction that waSteth at MONDAY" We have
never shrank from duty; but rather have agala
and again cheertully sought death, even at the
lannon's mouth, to save our Union from destruc-
ton, our homes from disgrace, aud you and your
children from eternal shame. When we came to
as to 60; that God would be with US, and that
your most fervent prayers should follow US. En-
couraged by your words Of patriotism, of hope, OF
faith we came to the war.
After suffering thus much in behalf Of YOU, and |
your children, and the nations honor, dear alike
40 as ALL will YOU withhold from US new your
sympathy and supp1rg? WA you jim with ;hos-
moye than tg4ltors At the North. VINO cry Peace
when they know there is no peace, nor can be
none till this unhoy reb Iii N IS crushed? VIVA
you ally yourselves with those who, by words OF
encouragement, are prolougng the war, and who
are thus becoming, in the Sgnt of both heaven
and earth the insldious murderers Of your sons
and brothers in the fed? Why should You v no
suffer noae of the dangers, none Of The pryetio
OF field or camp, be less patriotic less faithful, less
hop iul, 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 truthlulness,
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--hivns poured out, at he first
blush of their p.trolsn The If treasure and blood
with the freeness of water, at length, through in
difference and apathy, and the love Of ease and
luxury which the war engenc cred, sought the I'M
stable terms of an nglorlous peace, and finally be-
came only sub,ervent to those whom they at
tempted to subdue q? |..fsf .
That this shall not be the record of the Empire
State, with your sympathy and Hearty co-opera-
aon, we, the undersigned officers, non. commis-
stoned officers and prvAtes of the 18th Regiment
Ct New York State Volunteers, representing every
county from Lake Erie to The ocean, here pledge
anew our lives and sacr d honor. For we
feel assured that if you seek peace now, upon any
terms less than those of entire submission of raj.
tors in arms to the Government of the United
States, that that peace will only be temporary,
and that, sooner or later you will be obliged 10
send your young sons and brothers to encch
this soil-aready fertile with the dead-youngsr
and fresher bloc! to recfimsoa these streams, al.
eldy red with slaughter.