The daily Evansville journal. (Evansville, Ind.) 1862-1863, 1863-01-29

Gte Aairu auntt,ar.
The California Hundred.

The California Hundred, before leav-
ing San Francisco, were the recipi
ents of many attentions and an abund-
ance of patriotic good wishes On the
morning of Sunday, December It'll, 1862,
they attended the First Unitarian
Church, the pastor of which, Rev. I. S.
King, preached an appropriate discourse
from the text, Be not weary in well do
ing, for in due season we shall reapif we
faint not" Capt Reed has furnished us
for publication the following extracts
from this production, in which his noble
command was specially addressed.-BoS-
ton Transcript
There is another appeal to US in the
church to-day, not to be weary in we'll
doing 1t is the presence of soldiers who
offer. not something of their income, but
their capital-not word merely, or a
vote, speech, subscription, but them
selreS, to their country and to freedom,
for your cause and mine, and for the
good and honor of our children. Each
of them dedicates his whole personality.
"They are not drafted; they ere not
even asked to volunteer. They do not
wait for the pressure of a request They
were moved from within. They hear
from afar the thunder of the captains,
and the war-shout. They see across the
continent the peril of the flag. They
leave all, and follow the reckoning of an
idea.
"God bless you, brother Americans,
for your readiness, which to-day adds
force as well as illustration to the plead
ing of the Gospel with our heartsl You
are not weary of the call and strain of
patriotism. There are those at the East
who are. They wear no wounds nor
scars They have not exposed their
lives. They have not scented the sui
phur of battle. They scent only the war
tax. They ache for more prosperity,
though it be bought with infamy They
fear that the country may be pledged to
an idea, and that freedom, the sound of
whose syllables they hate, may become
continental Once, months ago, they
were swept into nobler mood. But
they now go to the ballot box and vote
that they are weary of well-doing;' vote
peril to their country; vote the entering
wedge of base compromise; vote their
own lasting shame.
"And you, in these same hours, seek
the opportunity of pledging strength, and
skill, and blood and breath, to our coun-
try integrity and honor. Heaven hear
our prayers for you, and cover you with
its benedictionl You are to use the
sabre. May the fash of your blades, if
you are called into battle, be part of the
dawn of better age for your countryl
You will ride into conflict God give
your horses strength, and clothe their
necks with thunderl May the glory of
their nostrils be terriblel May they
mock at fear, and turn not back from the
sword, as they fly to meet the armed
men May they swallow the ground
with ferceness and rage, when they smell
the battle afar off And may they help,
in the crisis of the struggle, when the
hope and future of the country are at
stake, to put to fight the army of the
aliensl
Go, brethren, to your tremendous
duty with dedicated hearts-in the fear
of God, which roots out all other fear; in
allegiance to Christ with the New Tes-
lament very near your hand, and its APP
weary with well-doing, though your march.
sc belorg, and your hope ofspeedy success 9
be denied. In due time you shall reap
1t you faint not, and if those you leave at
home be not towards and traitors both
You shall reap, though you bleed; though
you be maimed though you die; you
shall reap in your countrys redemption
and renewal-in the honor that will in
vest your names in future years-in your
reward in the better world
The following letter, which will ex-
plain itself, shows the kind of men from
the Pacific Coast, those enlisting here in
the Second Cavalry Regiment may have
the pleasure of serving with. Mr.. Kings
description had already been endorsed
by the Colonel and other officers and
friends of the new mounted corps, since
the arrival of the Company from San
Francisco in Massachusetts:
To the Committee Of Arrangements for
the Festival in honor Of the California
rangers:
GENTLEMEN:-I regret to inform you
that duty l cannot postpone will pre-
vent my attendance at the entertainment
this evening, in honor of the Cavalry
Company, until an hour that, probably,
will be too late for speaking.
AS for the soldiers, they speak for
themselves to every American who has
an eye for noble symmetry and strength.
Never was patriotism more worthily EN-
bodied. If the Government desires to
see them fifty mounted for duty, it should
provide for them hundred full-blood
Black Hawks-horses such as Shaks-
peare describes, that "bound from the
earth as if their entrails were hairs" hor-
ses that 'trot the air, horses that snake
the earth sing, when they touch ii" hor-
SEES whose neighing is like the bidding
of monarch"
Wherever these. men. serve their conn
try's cause-whether in Texas or in
Virginia-may heavens blessings attend
y them, and invigorate their hearts and
arms and steel against the enemies OF