The Nashville daily union. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1862-1866, 1864-01-16

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Az ELOQUENT TRIBUTE TO TIE SACRIFICES
AND GLORY OF TIE WAR.


Az ELOQUENT TRIBUTE TO TIE SACRIFICES
AND GLORY OF THE WAR.
Governor Andrews message has the
following admirable conclusion;
Gentlemen Of the Senate and Of the House Of
Representatives,
Several tOpics-amoug others, the mi
htis-omitted from this address, already
long, can be better matured hereafter,
should occasion demand their discussion.
I must not omit to bear public testimony
again TO the efficient manner in which
the recruitment of volunteers is conduct
ed through the municipal gO7ernments.
The work is brought directly home TO
the people. Led by their own local mag
istrstes, it is periodically done. Time,
an element not usually understood, will
enable them to ill our contingent. / can
never express my sense Of the sublime
devotion TO public duty have witnessed
in this people from my watch tower of
observation, nor the gratitude | owe for
their iDdulgent consideration.
But the heart swells with unWonted
emotion when we remember our sons
and brothers, whose constant ValOr has
sustained on the field, during nearly
three years Of war, the cause Of our
country, of civilization, aud liberty. Oar
volunteers have represented Massachu-
setts, during the year just ended, on al
most every field and in every depart
meDt of the army where our flag has
been unfurled. At Chancellorsville, Get
tysburg, Yicksburg, Port Hudson, aud
Fort Wagner, at Chickamauga, Knox
vile, and Chattanooga; under Hooker,
and Meade, and Banks, and Gilmore,
aud ROsecrans, Burnside, and Grant;
in every scene Of danger and of duty,
along the Atlantic, and the Gulf, On the
Tennessee, the Cumberland, the Missis-
sippi, and the Rio Grande; under Du-
pont and Dshlgren, and FOOte, and Far
ragut, and Porter, the sens Of Massachu-
sets have borne their part, and paid the
debt Of patriotism and valor. Ubiqui-
tous as the stock they descended from,
national in their opinions, and universal
in their sympathies, they have fought
shoulder to shoulder, with men Of all
sections and of every extraction. o.
the ocean, on the rivers, on the land, on
the heights where they Numbered down
from the clouds of Lookout Mountain
the defiance of the skies, they have
craven with their swords q record i'm
perishable.
The muse herself demands the lapse
of silent years to soften, by the inau-
enoes of time, her too keen aud poignant
realization of the scenes of war the
pathOs, the heroism, the fierce Joy, the
grief of battle-but during the ages TO
come she will brood over their memory.
Into the hearts of her cOnsecrated
priests will breathe the inspirations Of
lofty and undying Beauty, Sublimity
and Truth, in all the glowing forms Of
speech, Of literature, and plastic art
By the homely traditions Of the Preside
by the headstOnes in the churchVard,
cOnsecrated to those whose forms repose
far of in rude graves by the RIPARIAN
mock, or sleep beneath the sea, embalm-
ed in the memories of succeeding genera
tiOns Of parents and children, tho hero
ic dead will live on in immortal youth.
By their names, their character, their
service, their fate, their glory, they can
not fail: