Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1864-02-17
Address of the President to the Army.
The following is an address of the Presi.
dent to the army:
Soldiers of the armies of the

AuOI6SS VI Gu0 II0o3oSuO W Cuo A4lAy
The following is an address of the Presi:
dent to the army:
Soldiers of the Armies Of the
Confederate States:
In the long and bloedy war in which
your country is engaged, you have achieved
many noble triumphs. You have won glo.
rious victories over vastly more numerous
hosts; you have cheerfully borne privations
and toll to which you were unused; you
have readily submitted to restraints upon
your individual will, that the citizens might
better perform his duty to the State as a
soldier. To all these youhave lately added
another triumph, the noblest of human con-
quests victory over yourselves.
AS the time drew nearwhen you first en-
tered the service might we'll have been ex-
pected to claim relief from your arduous
labors and restoration to the endearments
of home, you have beeded only the call of
your suffering country. Again you come
to tender your service for the public de.
fence-a free Offering which only such pa
triotism as yours could make-a triumph
worthy of you and of the cause to which
you are devoted.
would in vain attempt adequately to
express the emotions with which I received
the testimonials of confidence and regard
which you have recently addressed to me.
To some of those first received, separate
acknowledgements were returned. But it
is now apparent that like generous enthu-
siasm pervades the whole army, and that
the only exception to such maguanimous
tender will be of those who, having origi-
nally entered for the war, cannot display
anew their zeal in the public service. 1t
is, therefore deemed appropriate, and 1t is
hoped will be equally acceptable, to make
a general acknowledgment, instead Of sue.
cessive special. responses. Would that it
we're possible to render my thanks to you
in person, and in the name of our common
country, as we'll as in my own, while pres
sing the hand of each war worn veteran, to
recognize his title to our love, gratitude and
admiration.
Sodiers! by your will (for you and tho
people are but one) I have been placed in
a position which debars me from sharing
your dangers, your sufferings and your pri-
vations in the field. With pride and affec-
tion my heart has accompanied you in every
march; with solicitude it has sought to
minister to your every want; with exulta-
tion it has marked your every heroic achieve
ment. Yet, never in the toilsome march,
nor in the weary watch, nor in the desper.
ate assault, have you rendered service so
decisive in results aa in this last display of
the highest qualities of devotion and self.
sacrifice which can adorn The character of
the warrior patriot.
Already the pulse of the whole people
beats in unison with yours. Already they
compare your spontaneous and unanimous
offer of your lives, for the defence of your
country, with the haltiug and reluctant SER
vice of the merceraries who are purchased
by the enemy at the price of higher boun.
ties than HIl6 hitherto been known in war.
Animated by this contrast, they exhibit
cheerful confidence and more resolute bear
ing. Even the murmurs of the weak" and
timid, who SHRINK from the trials which
make stronger and frmer your noble ma.
lures, are shamed into silence by the spec.
tacle which you present. Your brave bat.
tle.cry will ring loud.and clear through the
land of the eDemy, as we'll as our own will
silence the vain-glorious boastiugs of their
corrupt partizans and their pensioned press;
and will do justice to the calumny by which
they seek to persuade deluded people that
you are ready to purchase dishonorable
safety by degrading submission.
Soldiers The coming spring campaign
will open under auspices we'll calculated to
sustain your hopes. Your resolution need.
ed nothing to fortify it. With ranks re.
plenished under the influence of your ex-
ample, and by the aid of your representa-
tives, who give earnest of their purpose to
add, by legislation, largely to your strength,
you may welcome the invader with conf
dence justified by the memory of past vic
tories. On the other hand, debt, taxation,
repetition of heavy drafts, dissensions, oc.
casioned by the strife for power, by the
pursuit of the spoils of Office, by the thirst
for the plunder of the public treasury; and,
above all, the consciousness of bad cause,
must tell with fearful force upon the over
strained energies of the enemy. His cam
paign, in 1864, must from the exhaustion
of his resources both in men and money,
be far less formidable than those Of the last
two years, when unimpaired means were
used with boundless prodigality, and with
results which are suggested by the mention
of the glorious names of Shiloh and Pesrys.
vile, and Murfreesboro, and Chickamauga,
and the Chicklhominy, and Manassas, and
Fredericksburg, and Charlottesville.
Soldiers Assured success awaits US in
our holy struggle for liberty and independ-
enoe, and for the preservation of all that
renders life desirable to honorable men,
When that success shall be reached, to you,
your countr7's hope and pride, under Di-
vine Providence, will it be due. The fruits
of that success will not be reaped by you
alone but your children, and your chill
dren's children in long generations to come,
will enjoy blessings derived from you that
will preserve your memory ever living in
their hearts.
Citizen defenders of the homes. the lib.