The Hillsdale standard. [volume] (Hillsdale, Mich.) 1851-1909, 1864-09-20
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CANP l4rH MICHIGAN INFANTRY. !
Near Atlanta. Ga, Aug. 10, 1864, !

| wear Auanth, Ga., aug, ~, lcO4,
Editors Advertiser and Tribune.
| GENTLEMEN-I send you herewith 0
copy of letter from Major Fitzgibbon
to Col. A. p. Sinclair 1t was not orig
inally intended for publication, but is
now sent you as clear exposition OF
the earnest feeling and universal senti
ment of the Army. The people at the
far distant North, in quiet and peace
full security, can form but faint realiza.
ton ofthe magnitude Of the rebellion
and the desperate fury with which it is
conducted. We know full well that
the South is struggling solely for Inde.
pendence, and that no peace will be
consented to-that there will be no ces.
sation of hostilities until the Southern
Confedaracy is recognised and ac-
knowledged, unless the loyal people
respond promptly to swell the Army
of the Potomac and the army of the
Southwest to crush forever the traitors
GUS foe. Every available man and boy
in the South is arrayed against us in
the last desperate hope Of success.
The entire rebel force is concentra-
ted at, Richmond, Petersburg and At
lanta, and now is the honr to strike the
final blow. Swell our armies under
the last call, and the rebellion win be
known only in the history Of the past.
Does any one in the North i'm his
heart believe for a moment that the
South entertained the idea ofpeace
except upon the basis of separation?
1t cannot be. Separation and DISC
olution have been the 'avowed purposes
of the South for the last 20 years, deep
ly plotted by the consummate william
and arch traitor, Floyd. The spirit of
Calhoun was but resNmected and made
manifest at the Charleston Convention,
and yet we have wiseacres at home
who fight and battle upon paper, who
tell us hey only can save the country;
whose press isdaily teemihg with dis
couragement misrepresentation, and
falsehood, exulting in our discontinue
and sad with weeping when we sue
ceed, descaanting upon our successes
and magnifyihg our failures. They do
us no harm, btr make us cling moro
closely to the ship that is to save the
Republic. They have no sympathizers
in the army, as they will learn to their
entire satisfaction at the Ides of No
yember, and when the storm shall have
passed and loyalty ylshall have resumed
its sway, where will be this traitorous
faction known as 'sPeace Democrats"
Scattered, execrated and passing
down to everlasting shame-the patri-
OF mother will tell her offspring of the
past, and teach them to avoid and turn
aside from the traitors and their descen-
denis. All at home who know the 14th
know full well that it has always been
mainly Democratic, but you can find in
its ranks to-day none but "Nyar Demo
drats," We have no PEACE Democrats
at the cost of separation and dissolu-
ton. They feel like affectionate chill
dren towards their bleeding and ago
nized mother, and are ready freely to
suffer all the privation, hardship and
danger Of the campaign, and if needs
be to offer up their lives on the altar of
their country in its struggle for the
Of its integrity.
.aa Very respectfully, your ob't serv't
..us .ft Sol Henry II. MlzyEn,
s.. ,aa .,.s Colonel 18th Michigan Infantry,