The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1863-02-23
Another Warning from the Army.

course pursued Dy the so-caiied democratic
party in the free States. We have published
the protest of the Illinois soldiers, aud also
that of the officers and soldiers from Indiana,
now in the armies of the southwest Below
we make few extracts from an Address TO
the People of New Hampshire" signed by
nearly all the field and line officers of the 14th
regiment from that State, now on the Rapa-
hammock. The address mentions several of the
officers who were absent, and says If they had
been present they would no doubt have Joined
their brother officers of the 14th, in rebuking
the reasonable opponents Of the government
in New Hampshire. After speaking of the
peril to which our cherished institutions" are
exposed, and the demands made by the ext
gencies of the times upon every good citizen,
whether at home or in the field, to use his ut
most endeavor to uphold the dignity and pre-
serve the integrity of the country, and once
more to re-assert the National authority
Throughout the length and breadth of the
land" the address says:
The terrible realities Of the hour demand unan-
unity of sentiment and of effort, and whatsoever
tends to divide opinion diminish zeal, must dis
hearten our arm es and encourage our foes
There is solemn warning in the illumination of
Southern cities and the dull thunder of the 200
guns that encircle Charleston harbor after the re-
ceipt of news of the fail elections in the North
ern and Western States. To rebel authorities
those elections indicated a revusion of feeling in
the North.
ITO save our country continues the ad-
dress, there is need that every power in the
"whole range Of moral and physical influences
"be laid under contribution and made to work
'for common end" The following extracts
are clipped from the address, emitting con-
Meeting paragraphs of the least interest to the
general readers:
Whites and blacks, fire and sword. cannon
and devasting food, censorships aud dungeons,
must all be used, if need be, TO defeat the de-
signs OF an INSCRIPTIONS, a desperate and
powerful foe.
1t is no time to make issue upon the method
of suppressing the rebellion. Discussion here
Is dangerous. Wien ship is sinking her only
safety is implicit aud unquestioning obed-
ence 10 the commands OF her captain. To
cavil then consigns both officers and crew TO
awatery grave. Those who profess themselves
fastidious about the means OF defeating the reb-
els, justly create suspicion oil their honesty in
wishing them defeated at all. The primal OBJ
ject Is the preservation OF the Union. To ac-
colnplish this, let accept the chosen plans
OF the COMMANDMENTS Chief of the army and
navy; and when the Union shall have become
an accomplished TACT, we can call our rulers to
account for any misuse OF power
The memories OF our many battlefelds,
drenched with the blood of our noble slain the
sufferings and hardships OF those who still sur
viye, ready in defense of our beloved country
to obey the soldiers summons TO the deadly
strife, plead trumpe:-tongued against the deep
daInnation OF these Northern traitors. Our ar
my has claim upon the moral support of
every man who remains at home, and that
support will be most vigorously exacted.
lfnot giren Uiuingiy nou, tre tif icarn-
ing roice against The dreadful retribution
that dardits all recreants tchea our triumph
ant hosts shall return TO their homes. Whose
sotceth 10 the Tind shall reap the tchirlrind
The South by the act OF rebellion put them
selves outside the pale OF law and invited war;
aRd while we would hail with rapture the re-
turn of an honorable peace, we can see 10
path TO 1t save through most persistent and
vigorous prosecution of the war. To this end
we would uphold the Administration In all the
measures IL has adopted for suppressing the
rebellion.
Better, far that the unbridled license of the
press be held in. check; better that individual
liberty be abridged; better that all the prop
erty Of rebels be contiscated; better that the
shackles be stricken IRON every slave, and the
freed man be arrayed against his oppressor;
better that the whole Southern domain be
made bowling wilderness, than that this in
famous conspiracy against the rights of man
succeed, and our once noble country be made
the reproach of the nations.
Yielding a cordial support to these war
measures OF the President, then, We would
give renewed expression to our adherence
and utter execraton OF those detestable char
acters who, arrogating to themselves the ju-
dicial functions of the Supreme Court, pre-
judge the constitutionality OF these measures.
and make their adverse judgments the basis Of
bitter and vindictive opposition. Avowing
patriotic devotion to the Union and the Con-
stitution, their speeches, their platforms, their
votes, disheaIten the army, perplex and Grip
pie the Government and give unboundedjo
and confidence to the enemy. They borrow
the livery OF heaven TO serve the devil in.
The whole vocabulary of scorn and con-
tempt Is inpotent to shadow forth the fantest
conception of the meanness of that crnging,
sycophantic spirit of Cancellation that cries
for peace even at the price of national dishon-
or.
Let factous spirits cease criminal waste of
time and energy in useless criticism of the
acts of the Administration. Let every note
of opposition be Indignantly rebuked into si-
lence, and all oui powers be concentrated for
final and successful crusade against upright
eous rebellion. The dominant, imperative
need of the hour is greater harmony Of sent-
ment and OF action, greater devotion to the
cause, and greater energy. We need TO be
more terribly in earnest. Thus, by earning
success, shall victory be ours. The cause of
progress and justice, of social order. of good
government and of human rights, will gain q
merited triumph and the blessings of peace be
again experienced without the compromise of
national honor. Sons of New Hampshire,
heed our warning, ponder our appeal aud act
on the side OF God, of humanity aud the right.
These whitening rebukes of treason are not
sent back to their homes by radicals and dis
organizers, or by "abotionistsn only, as the
modern democrats are accustomed to STYLE all
who support the government in this hour of
its trial, but they are signed by men of demo-
cratic as well as of republican antecedents.
and we notice in the list the name of one well
known in this city, where his father and
friends reside, all of whom-like himself
have heretofore given willing support to the
Democratic cause
The lesson afforded by this and kindred pro-
tests to which we have before alluded, is a
most impressive one, and we hope IL NAV not
be unheeded by those for whose benefit IL is
intended. There was time, but short ne
riod past, when ominous hints were thrown
out that the army might take the work of gov
eminent into its own hands, and dictate terms
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