Daily national Republican., 1863-02-20

battc-thinned ranks. II there be honesty and
purity in human motives, Il must be found
among your long enduring soldiers. Hear us,
and for your Country's sake, II not for ours,
stop your Wild, Shameless, political strifes,
unite for the common cause, and never think
or speak of peace and compromise untll the
now empty terms mean The Republic as II
was peacefully II Il may be, but forcibly at all
events Ii is said, wat and force cannot re-
store the Union What can
Is there anything else that has been left un-
tried, short Of national dishOnOr and shamoi
Nothing. Purely physical power has been in
yOlsed to destroy the Government, and physical
| force must meet IL. Conquer tho rebCllious
armies, shut in By bloCkades and victorious
armies the deludod people OF the rebclling
States, and let no peace, no happiness, no
prosperity dwell in their land or homes, until
they rise against their own tyrants, until popu-
lar opinion with them Overthrows their false
Government and dooms their despotic leaders.
Whip them and contine them, until "Act@on is
devoured by his own dogs"
This is all that can be done, and II must be
done with the determined energy of united
people. Thus feel and think the soldiers of the
grand army Of the United States. Are you
with us, or will you now desert us, sell your
national birthright for mess of pottage, and
for success In local politics barter away your
country, crawl at the feet and lick the hands Of
ths periidious, cruel and dGvlish Conspirators
who have organized this rebellion, and who
boast of their success in destroying your Gov
ernment, staying your sons aud wasting your
treasure, Contemned, derided and despised by
them, while you are humbly craving their favori
Not waiting or even hoping for returning loyal
ty in them, or for terms Of peace to be rendered
by theml Can you thus dlshotfor yourselves,
your soldiers and your statel
We ask you now to stay, support and uphold
the hands of your soldiers.
r Al. IL
but freely bestowed upon the old political hacks
aud demagogues, who seek a blessed martyr
dom in Lincoln BastilCs, TO the suffering but
| braycly enduring soldiers who in the camp, the
field and the hospital, bear real hardships
| unCOmplaingly. If treason must run riot in
tue North, keep it there-,insult not your SOL
| deTs by sending to them the vile CmanatiOns
Of the traitors who are riding into office, place
and power, over the ruins Of the Government,
and making them their stepping-stones. In
! suit us not by letters, speeches and papers,
which tell US that we are engaged as hirelings
in an unholy Abolition war, which make mob
idols of the hour Of those whose hypocritiCa
domagoguery takes shape in cOwardly, covert
treason-whose constant vocation is dcnun-
citation of their Government and its armed de-
tenders.
The Army of the West is in terrible earnest
earnest to conquer and destroy armed rebels
| earnest to meet force with lOrCe-Carnest in its
hearty detestation of cowardly traitors at home
earnest in will and power to overcome all
! who desire the nations ruin.
OhiO's 100000 soldiers In the field, citizens
at home, potent in either capacity ask their
! fathers, brethren and friends, by their frcsidcs
and in their peaceful homes, to hear and heed
| this appeal, and to put an end TO covert treason
I at home, more dangerous now to our national
existence than the presence of the armed hosts
of misguided rebels in the field.
On the hearing and adoption of this address
by the First brigade, Third division, Fourteenth
army corps, Col. Walker also reported the fol
| lowing resolution, which was unanimously
adopted. Therefore,
"ReSOlUed, For ourselves we are resolved to
maintain the honor and integrity of our Gov
ernmont; from the St. Lawrence to the Gulf
and between the oceans, there shall be but one
supreme political power. We are able to de-
fend our birthright; the blood of our sires is
not contaminated in our veins; we are neither
| to be insulted nor robbed with impunity; the
Government We defend was formed for noble
! purposes we are the executors of a living, a
dying testament, written in the blood of our
athers, which we will rewrito In our own; to
preserve our Government is to US a law, unal-
terable in our hearts as the Hdecrees of eayen;
We stop not now to point the finger of scorn at
petty traitors who yainly seek to immortalize
themselves by acts Of treasOn-too Cowardly to
sin with an uplifted hand too dastardly to
stake life for life, as more honorable traitors
coming when the honest indignation of a loyal
people will hurl them headlong into an abyss
as bOttOmless as the pit"