The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1900-06-15

many Of them gave their lives and
poured out their blood for the right,
and freedom = cause.
In the same year, 1920, that the
Mayflower landed these pious Chris
tians on Plymouth Rock negro
slavery was introduced into the En-
glish coloniesin Virginia, and Queen
Elizabeth, of England, had part IN
the unholy traffic.
For over two hundred years God
bore with the people, until his
wrath was 50 kindled by the suffer
in1s and prayers going up to the
throne from the plantation huts that
lie could not bear it longer, and He
called Abraham Lincoln to the lead
ership of the nation, and by the
guidance Of God, and the assistance
and sacrifice Of the soldiers and ma
ton, he broke the shack Is OF ~
600, 600 slaves.
But as we have already said no
righteous cause ever came 10 the
supremacy over wrong without the
shedding Of innocent human blood,
so in these struggles our fathers,
{ brothers. companions, sons and
daughters and lovers laid down
their lives, and poured out their
blood. To save the nation and anght-
eous cause from going down at the
diciation OF wrong and oppre sion.
At a moment OF supreme peril the
! nation called upon the people OF
, TWENTY-FIVE states TO meet around
{ their altars and defend her life, and
t the spirit OF right pervaded the
hearts Of the people. Were in
{ Ohio. or Illinois, or some ether state
/ / would contine myself to the sacri-
! flee that state made. but a. we are
: here, | Will confine myself to the
t part and sacrifice that the people o'
E Indiana made, not forgetting that
other states made equally as great
/ When Indiana was called upon by
I President Lincoln the demand wa
! small. He issued a proclamation
q in April. 1861, for 5000 men To-
three months. Indiana WAS r.
o quested to furnish six regiments Q
\ SO men each. When Governo
0 Morton issued Bis proclamation 10
volunteers, an enemy in our caml
i said: Governor Morton can no
: get six regiments for any such pur
pose as that. But there wer'
h thousands who said, II am ready.
v Bef ,re the war was over we ha'
Z mustered into the service OF tin
United States in tie state OF lndi
4 ana 2OS .376 men, and more coulC
have been had If they had beef
!. asked for.
OF those who went to the field 81.
! commissioned officers were killed j
i battle. or died from disease while II
e the army. There we've 25,.6l non
. commissioned officers and private
z? who were killed upon the fields Q
, battle, or died from wounds AM
d disease, making "A, ,il6. Then ther
! were missing men. who Were neve
q accounted for, whose fate could no
If be ascertained, l3,119. 1t was e.
n timated by the adjutant general
lr whose means Of information wer
,f best, that Of this number 6.OJO wer
killed on the field Of battle, or die
n in remote hospitals, or by the way
a side. making 3O,il6 that fell in tn
II field from Indiana. But that wa
r not all. Many thousands Of me
: were discharged fiom the service o
a account OF wounds or disease cor
N tracted in service, and they cam
II home to die. They fell in war lu'
# as much as if they had died uro
, the fed OF battle. 1t is estimate
,r OF those who were discharged fror
a wounds and disease l5,OcU died
II This added to the Others will max
n 45. .ll6 as the sacrifice Of Indiana
4 But that i not all. They told u i
. 1865 that the war was ended, and i
n one respect it was, and in another
"a was not. Men have been fallin
from day to day, going into prema
q ture graves because Of disease
of wounds and hardships incurred dur
i ing the war. Men who served thei
n time out and were honorably dis
. charged at the end Of the contest
l. so the sacrifice is not confined 7
o. 4j.i16 men but to 1000 Or 100,
n 600. But that il not all. Whe
r we consider the broken hearts an
l. live, Of mothers. wives, sisters an
a lovers who were brought to prema
n ture graves because OF the hardship
!. through which they had to pass. be
ir cause their loved ones had to 20 {
the front, we cannot comprehend tn
O. magnitude of what sacrifice eve
d the people Of Indiana made that ou
N country might live. But i wa. nc
u confined to blood alone. Ther
I. ~. Il =.