The Richmond palladium. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1855-1875, 1864-03-09

distractions upon the track nevertheless
1t has moved on, and it will until it has
overwhelmed the enemies of our country.
While patriots have thought only of saw
ing their country these men have thought
only Of saving their party. While our
soldiers have laid upon their arms to
watch and seize all advantages against
their foe, these men have watched only
for advantages in the next State, county
or township election
I THE DUTY OF THE TINES
The great duty of the hour, displacing
and putting aside all other considerations,
is the suppression of the rebellion. I'm
til this is done all political discussions,
all efforts Demonstration, so called, are
vain. When the armies of the rebellion
are crushed or scattered, and resistance
to the Government has ceased, we may
then take counsel together as to the best
method of adjusting our difficulties and
starting into motion again the wheels of
government in the rebel States. 1t would
be folly, the most criminal, the most pre-
posterous in the world history, were we
TO pause amidst our efforts to discuss the
terms of future settlement, while rebel
armies are still in the field menacing the
life of the nation Let us, then, with
united, hearty and undivided attention
address ourselves to the great task of de-
stroying the military power of the rebel
lion. The ranks of the army must be re
cruited, the Government sustained and
upheld, our soldiers i'm the field looked
after with tenderest care, their families
at home sheltered and provided for out Of
our abundance, and our people, rising to
the level of the great situation, must dis
play that liberality, devotion and spirit Of ,
sacrifice that can be inspired only by the
conviction, that victorious we shall save
country, liberty and honor, and that de 1
feated, all these are forever lost. The
hope of the Republic is in her armies. /
The great question must now be settled by
the arbitrament of the sword. They who .
take the sword shall perish by the sword,
and the rebellion having wickedly and 4
madly appealed to arms in the beginning, +
by arms must it be utterly crushed and I
blotted from the nation. The man who |
would counsel the nation to stay the
march of our victorious armies, and give
the rebellion pause to recover strength
and vigor, under the vain pretext of com
promising with our erring brethren, must
be traitor or a fool Compromise i'm
plies concession on both sides, and what
could we coHcede to them short of indie
pendence of their Confederacy and the
would they ask us to cede? In the very
beginning spurning all negotiations, re
jecting all moral and religious considera-
tons, the rebellion sprang to arms, and
slapping the nation in the face with the
mailed hand, challenged it to combat or
ignominious surrender
OUR STATE TROOPS.
While we rejoice in the bravery dis
rAln al lava fIA of thn Init cd I
States, it is subject ofprofound con- :
graduation that the Indiana troops have 8
behaved with uniform and distin guished 4
CALAMITY in every action in which they
have zen engaged They form a part of
every army in the field, and have been
among the foremost in deeds of daring
while their blood has hallowed every
soil.
Our troops hitherto enga ed in the
peaceful pursuits of trade and agriculture, I
have manifested that lofty courage and \
high toned chivalry of which others have z
talked so much and possessed little,
and which belongs only to the intelligent
patriot, who understands well the sacred
cause in which he draws his sword. d
Indiana has already made large in
vestment of her best blood in the cause G
Of this Union, and will never consent to $,
is ACKNOWLEDGMENT or to 4 dishonorable
peace. The bones of her sons mingle q
with the soil from Virginia and Missouri
20 louisiana and she will not confess is
hat the sacrifice has been made in vain, ell
Or acknowledge that it was an unholy
,ause General Hackleman, Colonies ooff
Brown, Bass, Link, Hathaway, Wheeler;
Won Trebra, King, Carroll, Lieutenant a,
Colonies Hendricks, Bachman, Keith, >
Gerber, kirkpatrick, Crosswait Topping, :
w off, Kempton, Glass, Swain, Shanllin,
Sheets, Leslie, Slough; Majors Tanner, al
Savitt, May, Avon, Albeit, Conklin, Ut
Hill, Lemon, Finley, Mason and Parott; is
many others of lower rank, but with val SC
pr not less distinguished, have yielded he
up their lives upon the field that our tn
country might be preserved. Thousands "a
Of our private soldiers, with equal cou- !"
rage and patriotism, have fallen, the vie
inns of this unnatural rebellion. q,
They were fighting from deep convic- in
ions of duty and the love they bore their ],
Their unlettered graves mark or
, hundred battle fields, and our country 70
IAN never discharge to their memory and
heir posterity the debt of gratitude it re
yves. Our gratitude should be testified an
" the tender care we take of their fam We
lies and dependent ones whom they left be
behind, by the education of their child tic
'en, and by the honor we pay TO their an
Ae
Nor should we forget those who have uF
,erished by disease in camp or hospital.
They were denied the soldiers privilege 50
# dying in battle, but their sacrifice was ..
lone the less To die in the field, amid ~
he clash of contending armies and the 7.
oar of battle, fighting in holy cause, =
$ glorious; but when death comes slowly -
IN, in the loneliness and desolation of :
he hospital, with no mother or sister to
.oothe the passing spirit and minister as
owe only can minister. with none but the
ough hand of a comrade to press the
,lammy brow and perform the last offices
o the dying-it is terrible.
At the election in Nashville, on Satur-
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