The Lansing state Republican. [volume] (Lansing, Mich.) 1855-1874, 1865-08-23

mately raised.
Detroit and is vicinity, which have been
go largely represented in the war by brave
men and able officers, are also moving II
the same direction. Their monument. how
ever. Is in honor Of the living as well as the
deal. Several preliminary meetings Of
committees having been held, on the 9Th OF
August i committee brought In report
recommending that q monument be erected
in the city Of Detroit, 10 the gallant soldiers
Of the Peninsula State, who periled their
lives in the war Of the great rebellion; that
az least $50 900 be raised for that purpose:
all persons contributing 10 be members, and
State officers 10 be e.c-o6fciO members: 4
very large Board Of Directors was appointed
or which any ten are 10 be q quorum; that
General Morrow be general agent 10 solicit
funds: aud that q grand public meeting be
held 10 sicnalize the beginning OF the enter
prise. The report was adopted and the
following gentlemen declared officers or the
association:
Presentation. b. F Witherell.
Wee President-Gen. II. \. Morrow.
Treasurer-J. ". Tillman.
Auditor-Hon. John Owen.
Secretary-T ". Palmer, Esq.
ASSOCIATE Secretory-J. NJ. R0meyn, Esq.
Ececutire Commuee-Hon. &. {. Trow-
bridge. Hon. John Owen, Hon II. 2. Bald
win. II. y. Walker, Esq, J. f. Conover,
ESQ, c. l. Walker, Esq, ". A. Butler,
Eco Detroit. ev-GnvernOr Blair, Jackson
Hon. T.. II. Thompson, tnnt; ion. = d.
Cutche0n, Ypsilanti; with the President,
Treasurer and Secretary, cc-cgic'o.
The action Of these and other similar To-
calities, while they exhibit the patriotic feel
ings Of the people in these directions, yet
leaves unsatshed feeling which, perhaps,
may be imperiectly developed and inactive,
but which will Yet prove Itself To be botl
strong and general. The people OF Michigan
however diverse their origin, are OnepeOple.
They have common boundaries. q common
government, a common code Of laws, com
mon financial interests common state
pride, and a common destiny. And this
oneness and community OF feeling is felt
much more deeply in war than in peace.
As the State pOurs forth its successive
thousands towards the battle fields no reg
iment represents any particular locality
We do not have a Lenawee regiment, or q
Van Buren, OF jackson regiment: they are
not so named, nor Is there any local feeling
of the kind. The vicinity Of Lansing has
prODaDlv Inrnlsned recruits lot must Ul Jnt
Michigan regiments. yet when the boy:
come back and recount the heroic deeds D
the living OF Of the dead they have 10 pride
ual virtues of a farmer from Berrien, a boy
from the Pine woods or a miner from Lake
Superior The soldiers were scattered in the
army without any reference TO local origin.
and the common bond of brotherhood be-
tween them-that which rises above oil 9th
er sources of personal attachment, is the
feeling that they were Michigan soldiers to-
gether. Thirty and forty years will sooI
pass away. and when two aged veterans
shall then grasp each others hands. the
fact that both served together as Michigan
boys, will make them seem 10 each other
as brothers. The feeling that the Mich
igan troops have every where done hon
or 10 their State, aud achieved d high
and honorable fame on every battle field
where they have been placed, is very often
developed in the conversations OF the vet
Grams, and will grow and strengthen with
their advancing years. Nor is this all
Long after this generation shall have pass
ed away, and the population Of the State
shall be numbered by millions, and The
great grandchildren will refer TO tie record
oftheir ancestors in the time of the Great
Rebellion, their pride viii be, not that their
ancestor belonged to particular regiment,
or hailed from any one locality but that he
was a Michigan soldier, and stood 10y the
side Of every other soldier in the State, and
shared in the glory of their common achieve
ments. When this citizen travels abroad
and finds, (as he will find at the capital OF
every State he visits. noble monument
erected 10y the whole State. TO the memory
of all its heroes of the war Of the Rebellion,
his heart will turn with pride 10 the memo
~ of his own hOnored ancestor, and he Will
be gratitied in thinking that when the cti-
zens Of that State shall return his visit 10
Michigan, they will behold at its capital. a
monument which will reflect to all future
ages the honor and glory OF his own native
State: but if he be conscious that no such
monument exists in the capital Of his State.
he Will return 10 help build one which shall
represent every soldier that has died in the
service.
Ii IS therefore certain, 10 our mind, that,
sooner or later, the feeling Of common broth
hood among the soldiers, and that State
pride, which always grows with the growth
of a State. and is nourished and brought
ont by the competition Of other States, will
secure the erection OF monument AZ the
seat OF Government for all the soldiers Of
the State-one 10 which all can look, and
claim it as theirs. and that they have a
common interest in it. Nor need we look
10 the future for . public opinion which
shall require this. If the hundred thousand
bereaved friends Of the honored dead Of this
State were to declare to-day their prefer
ence, nineteen tweuueths would say al once
that while il was well 10 build as many To-
cal monuments rs the people might please.
the one which should stand as the repre-
sentatives OF the whole State should be
built where the public archives. and the
trophies Of victory ani heroic valor shall be
Kept in costly and magnificent Capitol
building, worthy OF the whole people, where
The highest judicial tribunals will meet
where the Senators and Representatives
rom the remotest parts Of the State will as
semble, where the Chief Magistrate will de-
liver bis official message, where the laws
will be enacted and the business Of the
State be transacted through all future time
A New Orleans letter to the Mobile Ne,rs
says Il am very correctly informed that
Sne''oan' although at the commencement
Of