Western Reserve chronicle. [volume] (Warren, Ohio) 1855-1921, 1864-10-12

Look at your maps, and see what will
be left north and west of that line.
This Southern Confederacy will have
more than two thirds of our sea coast
and all our gulf coast. They will have
the mouth of the Chesapeake, our Ma
tional CAPITAL, and the control OF the
Mississippi. Citizens of Newport, consider
where that line will leave you. Loyal
men of this Kentucky city, who love the
old flag, this line will take away your
country and carry you under a new
fag-with new allegiance-into the
holy keping of the Southern Confeder-
acy. As for myselfI am too old for such
transplanting. They may take my
pleasant home. on my Kentucky hill
where L had hoped to pass what remains
Of life They may take my fields, but
myself never. Kentucky did not invest
me with my allegiance. and she shall not
take IL away. am not one of those
who look upon my State as my country
Three times in the course Of my life ]
have removed from State to State but
have never been sensible of a change OF
allegiance, but only of neighbrhood;
always in the same old Union, and always
under the same old flag.
Stand fast, then, loyal men, and do
your duty. Are you tired ofwar? Are
you so smitten with the desire of peace
that you are willing to purchase it at such
price? Go TO our gallant soldiers, and take
lesson from them. Ask your brave boys
who have left their pleasant homes to
fight this great battle Of liberty, if this
is time to give up. Ask them If all
their comrades who have fallen in the
struggle, have died in vain; if all theil
labors; if all their battles; if all their
hard earned victories shall end only in
loss and dishonor. Ask them if these
| rebels, whom they have driven from
field to field, are, at last to reap all the
fruits of victory; whether the grest
reward earned with so much blood, now
almost within their grasp is to be surren-
deIed. Ask them, finally whether that
beloved country that has been saved by
their valor. that could not be destroyed
by rebels in arms, is at last to be ruined
by traitors at home. You who live at
home at ease, and yet complain of th'
war, go to that pestilential inclosure in
Georgia, where $4,000 loyal soldiers are
held in captiyity-where to pass out, il
instant destruction. and to stay in i
worse-where triumphant Death, in al
his terrible forms of famine, pestilenc
and despair, reigns supreme-ask thos
devoted men S.whether we shall max
peace and save them, or fight on an
save the nation-and the answer woul,
be, eight"
This great struggle has cost us thou
ands of men and millions of treasure, an
may cost us more-5ut what price is to
great for the preservation of Our country
We call this long war, and many ar
discouraged. There was time, lon
past, when too felt despondent, but no
1 am hopeful and confident. The yer
continuance of the war, with all its su
ferings, has yet its precioususes. 1t is tn
last rebellion this generation will witness
: and not this only but many that are
, come after Us Nomy friends, if tho'
, why rushed into secession could have see
, thus far into the future-if those VIII
!, gave the fatal order to open the bombarC
ment of Sumter could have seen the aV
E full consequence-if some angel ha
n shown them, from some high mountain
as in a vision, the blood and desolotio
that were to come, not gun would ha'
e been fired.
t Yes, my friends, | am hopeul. Il
= fierceness of the storm has passed. ~
skies begin to clear. Yet little Will
:, and a voice will be heard as of shi
Fl wrecked mariner-"A sail-a sail-v
:, are saved"