Fremont journal. [volume] (Fremont, Sandusky County [Ohio]) 1853-1866, 1864-05-13
ADDRESS OF GOVERNOR BROUGH TO
THE NATIONAL GUARD OF OHIO.
Executive DEPARTMENT, ONO,
COLUMBUS, May 3, 1864.

ExEcuTIvE DEPARTMENT, ONO,
COLUMBUS, May 3, 1864.
To the Ndtiol,al Guard Of Ohio;
The Commander in Chief cordially and earn
estly thanks you for your noble response on
yesterday to the call made for the relief of our
army, and the salvation of the country. This
manifestation of loyalty and patriotism is alike
honorable to yourselves, and yonr noble State
In the history of this great struggle it will con-
stitute page that You and yovr descendants
may hereafter contemplate with perfect salts
faction.
The duty to which you will be assigned, tho
comparatively minor one, will be none the less
beneficial TO the country. While you hold for
titieations and lines of army communications,
you will release veteran soldiers and allow them
to strengthen the great army which is marshall
ling for the mghtiest contest of the war. In
this you will contribute your full measure to the
final result we all so confidently anticipate and
so much desire, the end of the rebellion, and the
restoration of peace and unity in the land.
There is no present eminent danger that calls
you from your peaceful avocations. But it is
necessary that enter upon the spring cam
| paign with force that will enable us to strike
rapid and effective blows when the conflict
| opens Though we have met with a few
verses this spring, the general military situation
is everywhere hopeful, and those in command
OF your armies were never more confident But
we cannot permit this war in its present proper
| tiOns, to linger through another year. tits lay
| ing burthen upon us, which, by vigorous and
united eXertion, we must arrest. 1t is true
economy, as well as the dictate of humanity, to
call to the termination of this contest a force
| that will be sufficient for the purpose. Time
treasure and blood will alike be saved in aug
menting our forces, and making the contest short
and decisive. The hope of the rebel leaders is
in the prOcrastination of the war. In this pO-
litical party i'll the North sympathizes with them
/ and is labOrlng by the same means to secure
| political triumph at the expense of the unity
and future prosperity of the nation. The first
we must subdue with our arms within the hun
dred days, and then we can turn upon the other,
and win over It a more peaceful, but not less
glorious victory
| am not ignorant of the sacrices this call inn
! poses upon you, nor of the unequal manner in
which it imposes the buthens of the war. You
must reflect however, that hitherto we have ex-
perienced comparatively little of the incOHven-
! fences and depression consequent upon a state
of war. lfa part of these come home to US now,
We can we'll afford TO meet, for so short time,
the tax imposed upon us, especially when the
| tax gives promise of materially Fastening the
close of the contest. The burthen must neces-
sarily be uneqal for the Union men of this coun-
try must work out its salvation. The dislOyal
element is not be relied on, either 10 encourage
our armies or to aid in crushing of the rebellion.
You are in this particular not unlike your an
cestors who achieved the independence of your
country against foreign enemy ON the
one hand and the Tories of the Revolution on
the other Remember then that like unto those
who wrought out your nationality through ad-
versity that you have not yet experienced the
greater the sacrifice, the higher the honor to
those who called to preserve it.
Fully cornprehending the effects of this call
upon the industrial interests of the State,
would not have made it had | not been fully i'm
pressed with the necessity of an increase of our
forces as the most effectual means of Fastening
the close of the contest and the advent of peace.
l have done what | conscientiously believed to
be my duty in the present position of affairs, and
you have responded in manner that challenges
my admiration, and will command the gratitude
| of the country.
Go forth then, Soldiers of the National Guard,
to the fulfilment of the duty assigned to yOul
l have entire confidence that you will meet all
its requirements with fidelity and honor. The
prayers of the people of the State will follow
yOu,-and may your return be as glorious as
your going forth has been noble and patriotic.
JNO. BROUGH.