Dayton daily empire. [volume] (Dayton [Ohio]) 1850-1865, 1863-03-28
SATURDAY EVENING, MARCH 7th, 1853
(CoNCLUDED).


Now, sir, repeat it--andI INSTRUMENTATION
--that not soldier enlisted out of the first
nine huudred thousand, for any other purpose
than the restoration of the Union and the
rpaintenance Of the Constitution There was
not one single officer, so far as his public
declarations were concerned, whatever NAV
hive been the secret purposes of his heart,
that did not openly declare that the moment
this object was changed to the abolition Of
slavery, he would throw up his commission
and resign Yes, the very men who, for the
last four or FIVE weeks in the army--the oiIi-
cers--I do not mean your private soldiers, the
men who do picket duty, the men who. stand
in the front ranks, the men who brave the
iron hail and leaden rain of the stormy battle
| ield, the men who sacrifice their lives Tor the
paltry sum of thirteen dollars a month, the
noble, brave men, who, if they were at home,
would give us their votes as their sympathes
are with us, ! only speak Of your officers
| your majors, your lieutenant-colonels, colo.
nes, brgadiers, and ma jor.generas, each
one of them seeking some higher promotion,
| drawing his salary of two, three, four, FIVE,
six and seven thousand dollars year and
whose interest it ia to have the war made
| eternal ("That is it'') They are the men
| who have been holding these meetings Of repi-
ments 80 called, concocting resolutions, or
| rather adopting resolutions coneocted in India
papolis, Columbus, Springfield, or Washing.
| ton city, and sent down to be clothed with the
| form Of an expression of the opinion Of regi
ments but the expression of the opinion OF
the officers alone These are the men who
have solemnly declared at home and in the
army, the moment this became au Abolition
| war they would resign and coms back TO us,
aud they are now sending out these missiles
to us their peers-sending out their threaten.
ing messages that they mean to come back
and whip the Democratic traitors and seces
sionists Of the North. Now | tell these
shouder-strapped gentlemen, who are look.
ing to the White House instead of at the
enemy, that when they have succeeded in the
mission for which We sent them there, or the
party in power sent them there, when upon
the battlefield they have put down those who
are now in arms against us, it will be time
enough to talk about coming back. And wher
they do come all | ask of them is to bring
the soldiers with them. (Lsughter.) But il
they imagine for one moment that any mar
here is to be deferred by their insolent mes
sages, obey do not know the spirit of the free
men that remain at home. (Applause We
have three OF eve TO their one even il they
had what they have not, the soldiers of the
army with them And SHALL officers aud mer
sent down South the battlefield 10 6RhtRgans
an enemy in arms, turn their backs upog thai
enemy and their faces upon the men who feed
them, who cothe them, and who have given
TO them all the liberties they ever had, ald
who, Ia spite Of them, mean to maintain those
liberties (Applause) Now, sir, | care moi
whether they sEs major-generas, brigaders
colonies, or what not--they cannot irighten
any man who is 6t to be freeman Do We
not understand this Do we not know where
these resolutions we're wrtten2 Is not thail
paternity sufficiently stamped upon their very
vissage2 (Laughter) The precious Cover
nor of Ohio, forsooth, and Of Indiana and
Illinois, and others in power in Washington
prepared all this, and sent it down, as have
already stated, for the purpose Of being
brought back with the idea that somebody
was not going to be hurt but somebody scar
ed ! avail myself of this first occasion Il
give notice. so far as anything may say shal
lever reach them, that thereis no one frighten
ed by any of these menaces, and that when
they retNrR home after this war shall have
been ended, to take their places as citizens
among us, there is not single household in
THE Democratic party, there j. not man in