Ashtabula weekly telegraph. [volume] (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1853-1873, 1863-04-11
An Appeal from the Ellsworth zouaves.

The most eloquent appeal yet raised against
dishonorable peace aud the vaccinations Of
traitors at home, is that of the 44th New York,
| or Ellsworth Regiment, to the people of that
| State, which was adopted with startling una
nimi,y, every officer and soldier present in the
regiment subscribing his name to it with en-
thusiastc earnestuess. The words are few but
well chosen VIZ orous and pregnant with truth
Sympathetic traitors should hang their heads
for shame 10 be thus rebuked by atriotic SOL
diers in the field:
We eau no longer keep silent. A sa.
cred devotion 10 our country, an aldent
love for our homes, aud abave all, an
abiding faith in God, bids us speak. For
nearly two years We have suffered ali
things, periIed all things, endured all
| thIngs, for the sake of our common coun
| try. We have left our business our kin
dred, our friends the fresde Of our youth,
the sacred places of prayer, AMI all the
nearest aud dearest relations of life, to
serve our country We have endured
hunger, thirst, cold and heat. BY day
and by night we have borne the weight OF
our knapsacks and the WEAKNESS of the
march We have worked late and carly
in the trenches; We have bivouacked in the
| Swamps; we have suffer ed sickness in the
hospitals; we have not been spared from
"lhe restience that walke;h in darkness"
nor from "the destruction that wastelh at
noon day." We have never shrunk from
duty, but rather have again and again
eneerfully sought death, even at the eau
nous mouth, to save our Union from des.
truction, our homes from disgrace, aud
You and your children from eternal shame.
When We came TO the field we came with
your blessing. You told US TO go-lhat
q cd would be with US, and that your most
felvcnt prayers should follow us. Encour.
aged by your words of patriotism, of hope
of faith, We came 10 the war. After suf
farng thus much in behalfof you aud your
children, and the nalion's honor, dear alike
TO US all, will you withhold from us now
your sympathy and support? Will YOU
Join with these worse than traitors, at uht
North, who cry Peace when they know
there is 10 peace, nor can be none lill this
i, uuholy rebellion is crushed? Will you ally
yourselves with those who, by words Of dis
couragement, are prolouging this war, auG
who are thus becoming, in the sight OF bolt
heaven and earth, the insiduous murderer'
p Of your sons and brothers here in thu
field? Why should you, who suffer non,
of the dangers, none of the privations o
the field or camp, be less patriotic, les
faithful, less hopeful, less confident in GoC
and the holy cause in which We are eDgage(
than we who endure all?
Shall the future historian, in writing tn,
record Of this great struggle. declare will
+ truthfuluess that the people Of the North
having sent their sous to the field, to peri
their lives for the sake of their homes. lhei
property aud the national government; hay
ing poured out at the FIRST blush of thel
I patriotism their treasure aud blood witt
d the freeness of water, at length, lhroug
indifference and apathy, aud the love Q
ease aud luxury which the wer engendered
sought the unstable terms of an ingloriou
peace, aud finally became only subservieu
, 10 those whom they attempted to subdue
That this shall not be the record of III
~. Empire State, with your sympathy au
e hearty cooperation, We, the unedersigne
:. oficers, non commissioned officers aud pr
vales, Of The Forty.fourlh regiment Ne
= York Stale Volunteers, representing ever
county from Lake Erie to The ocean, her
pledge anew our lives aud our sacred homo
n For we ieel assured that Il you seek peae
be now upon any terms less than those of a
: entire submission on the part Of the traito
lin arms 10 the government Of the Unite