The Lancaster gazette. [volume] (Lancaster, Ohio) 1863-1886, 1864-01-28
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40 tne organ OF tne loyal people OF
Fairfield county, We welcome you to
Jour homes and friends. When the
rebellion that now 80 unbappily and
50 terribly affects the country broke
out, you with your comrades now fal.
len, forgetting your own comfort, will
ling to endure the hardships of war,
ready to forego the pleasures Of homo,
loving your country and forgetting all
save its perils, with your lives upon
your sleeves went bravely forth to
meet and strike down the traitorous
foe, brothers though they were, who
dared in the light Of God and face of
man conspire against your liberties
and nationality. In this you did well,
and for this you have had the thanks,
the gratitude and prayers of every
loyal heart in Fairfield county. BUT
we'll you did.in enlisting, nobly as
you have done your duty, faithfully as
you have discharged the high trust
submitted to your keeping, bravely as
you have met, and gloriously as you
have yanquished the foe, you deserve
still higher praise and receive still
greater thanks for your now high and
patriotic resolve never to sheath the
sword, never to unbucSle tho armor
until the blow now aimed at the No.
tons heart shall be parricd, until van.
quished and broken, the minions OF
treason shall lay down their arms and
sue for such peace as will be honorable
to the nation, as will preserve and per-
pctrate one and lndivisible the Union
oftho States forever.
Two years and half Of service at
the front have brought you to know
better than we, the true character and
great magnitude and deep wickedncss
Of tho rebellion. You know tho un.
hallowed purpose and shameless de-
pravity Of its leaders You know that
theirs Is causeess and unjustifable
conspiracy against tho best and frcest
Government that everrose to animate
the hopes of mon, prompted by a
wicked ambition and stimulated by
the devilish purpose to build upon the
ruins ofrepublican institutions, gov
ernment whose foundation shall be
slavery, whose suporstructure shall be
the ignorance and misery of the mass
es, wherein the few shall opprcss the
many and crush out freedom, crush out
pence, crush out prosperity and grind
the face Of honest toll into the very
dust Of the earth.
You felt, when you obeycd tho ma
tion's summons to arms, that you were
going forth to do battle for the civil
and religious liberties Of mankind
You felt that upon the issue Of this
struggle depended the hopes of all
peoples and the destinies Of the repub
lie.
Grandly pd gloriously havo you
: and your comrades in arms march
cd forward to the fulfllment ol
your high mission, conquering Ken
tucky, conqucring Missouri, conquer
ing Tennessee, ,sopcning the MisSissip
pi, sundcring the Confederacy, over,
running Arkansas, Louisiana, and
Texas-forward and onward in youi
proud career, pushing the rebellion back
until now with the grip Of thrice ten
thousand handsupon its vitals, you, war
scared and invlneible, stand upon thu
borders of Georgia, ready at tho com,
mand forward, to finish the work.
God be praised for your deeds Of hero
ic valor, God bless particularly, the
army Of the Cumberland. May q
grcatful country ever applaud its won,
derfnl achievements. "
ofyour achievements as q regiment
we need hardly speak It'll enough for
you to have fought in the immortal
Corps Of the immortal Thomas at Chi
camauga. Whether from this OF other
counties wc have looked upon you one
and all as ofus,a ours Wehave mark
cd with pride and qualification your ca,
reer Of glory md renown; among the
first to obey the country's summons ia
arms; you have ever been found faith
ful to the country, foremost and firm.
est in the hour Of battle, braving dan,
ger, Drawing dcath-victors on many
immortal Hclds-detedted on none.
Soldiers, We are proud Of YOU and
now, as in after years, it is and will
be our pride and pleasure to honor and
respect you. And when the war i,
over, when the rebellion Is crushed
when treason is ovcrthrown, when The
supremacy Of the nation is asserted