smithclay/nortonstories huggingface dataset:
Year: 1862

ed at the War Meeting in Milwaukee on
Thursday the 3lst inst:


Resolced, that the men who are enca-
ged IN armed resistance to the government
stand IN the double attitude of rebels and
OF enemies III open war and as rebels are
criminals aud traitors, and Justly subject
to all the penalties and punishment which
follow the crime OF treason under the con
stltutIon and the laws; as enemies in open
war, we may justly pursue, weaken, iisa-
bic and crush their power by all means
which are permitted by the Laws of war
and it should be the unalterahle purpose
OF the government to crush out the rebel
lion utterly and to destroy forever the
power OF the leader to do us harm.


Resotred, That the country is in a cri-
Sis demanding the exercise Of every pre-
rogatIye OF the government and every ex-
ertlon and sacrifice on the part of our
people to maintain its integrity and its
just authority.


Resotred, that in our opinion it il the
duty of the National Administration to
prosecute this war with the utmost vigor ::
and to employ every kind and description
OF persons and property In the country to
accomplish the speedy end of this rebel
lion.


ReSotred, That in onr opinion, the gov
ernment ought to prepare for a war ofin-
definite duration; {. war to be prosecuted
for one year or ten generations, as shall
be necessary to accomplish the end in
view.


ReSolred, that with nations, produgality
Is often the highest economy and we rec
omend that at least one million of men be
drafted at once from the militia of the
North, one half for immediate service, and
the other for instruction to be held as a
reserve


Resolred, that ve entertain the most
unbounded confidence in the President
of the United States; and assure him
that there Is no possibility of his getting
in advance of the wishes and sentiments
Of the people in employing any means
whatever to restore the authority Of the
government.


Resoired, that in our opinion the great
est obstacle that has yet existed to the ac-
complishment of our purpose, has been,
that the administration has underrated
the magnitude Of this rebellion, ana the
unlimited means and forces which the pee
/ pie are able and desirous OF Offering 10
! the government TO be empioyed IN Vlndi-
] catinc the Constitution and Laws OF the
+ United States.


/ Pesolced That we deem it our right
and duty to assure the administration tha'
i there j. no division of sentiment among
/ tho noonle on this subject, All the mon


az and ali the men In the North are al
I the disposal of the government; and we
I beseech the admlstratlon t. entertain NJ
Year: 1862

j.
Wisconsin calls TEN THOUSAND MEN. from city farm


and plain,
And to each village prairie hill the ca,I comes not in
From aiississippis rolling tide to Michigan 's broad
We spring 10 TEN THOUSAND strong the Nation:


Ife to save!
The wheel stopsin the roisy mi-the reapers quit the


grain,
And beat their sickes into spears to NOW the battles


plain;
The pow stands in the soil love- the ledgers tossed


aside
We count goods and gold as dross when Freedoms


life is tried
Our fathers fought Lexington and died at Bunker


VIII,


own sky,
1t never shall dshonor know, while we can fight or


die,
Adown the Coming Time slave shall cank his cursed


chain
And taunt with the cowardce that forged his life


pain;
Our chdrens children neer shall blush to call US by


their name
wemhve as FREEMEN, if at all, or give our death to


fame
Grim Wars Red Sea turns back its food as in the olden


true,
And there be those passage seek who're nameIes in


this rhyme;
Dry shod they enter in with trust and seek ,b
To shout hosannas to the Free as Israes hess
Though traitors plot with freuzied zeal 20 crush fair


Freedoms crown
Or iift their daggers high in air, srnte her Lod


down,
Each Northern breast shall be s,eild to take the ~


d'rous stroke,
And Europe yet shall gaze upon the rebel sceptre


brokei
We swear by all the sacred blood which patriot fathers


shed,
BY all the glorious memories that cluster round the


dead,
That though die thousand deaths the Nation vet


must live
That all we are, or hope to be, to FREEDOM gladly
give!
do brothers Of these States in one, take courage
again,
fe stalwart Minnesota men and We Of far off Maine,
Depend on us in scres need where falls the saber stroke
Or in the battles shock, amid the cannons
smoke
Wisconsin calls TEN THOUSAND MEN from city, farm
and plain
And from each village, prairie h the call comes not
in vain,
From Mssissippis rolling tide to Michigan's broad


wave,
We spring to arms, TEN THOUSAND strong to front
ranks rush the Jrdre!
Year: 1862

will then clearly come within the juris-
dict:on Of our civil courts. In a month


the State. Legislature will assemble and to
them it may be safely left to provide for


the emergency. .."


I appeal theu to tile good sense Of the


people to await patiently and peacefully
the uue course of law. [ entreat them


not to throw away the good name which


Minnesota has hitherto sustained by a


rash act Of lawlcssness which is neither


necessary TO the ends of justice, of person.
al security or even of pri, ate vengeance !;


but which would be subvesive of public


order and perpetual stigma upon the


community.


l entreat them as good citizens having


at heart the public welfare not to add to
the injury which our young State has al


ready sustained at home and abroad from
; its exposure to savage violence the worse
and more permanent injury which 1t would


suffer in the estimation Of the world from
the spectacle Of barbarous violence among
our own citizens


Given under mv hand and the Grand
Seal of tho State, at the city Of
St. Paul, this sixth day Of De-
t.. S. c"n.ber, \. D. 1862.
ALEXANDER RAM M:EY
By the Govcrlor:


II. BLAKELY, ..
>erretary Of State.
Year: 1862

The steady decrease in. the rates at
which gold is sold IN the money markets
of the East, is an evidence that the rcmov-
al Of Mcclellan and the advance of Burn
side arc eminently satisfactory to capital
lists i'll the leading commercial cities, and


that none bnt politicians are disposed to
make either the cause Of complaint. ts;..
Year: 1862

k.Ap


3IH


Ladies and Gentlemen return you
most sincere thanks for the honor you have
done my brave compauiu,s. in this yencr-
Gus display of your hospitality and good
will. Macy of the men are necessarily
absent, being at home in the different
parts of the State; but l am sure they al
so will appreciate aud remember tie com
plimeat you to day pay US.
$.This is nota proper occasion. my friends
to repeat the claims which the enlisted
men of rlc Third Regiment have to the
public approval Nor is there need Of re-
peating them. have found that their
capacity, their services, their valiant spirit
and their zeal to accomplish i eds in the
future, are well known among the people,
1t is enough to say. there are men here
who bear marks OF honorable wounds re-
ceived in the South and at Wood Lake,
aud the sacred memory comes over my
! mind Of noble companions who fell in both
the fights our regiment has been engaged
in. We have encountered disappointment
and misfortune, but we shall not mur,nur
uor kalter on that account. Il was said BY
u model soll;er-one who ruled success
| fully the Storm of war-as he came home
to triumph saddrned by the burial Of
his two only sons, that fortune grants no
great favor without some mixture Of un-
easiucss or tribute Of pain We have
felt the uneasiness and the paiu and now
in the future we confidently look for her
favors. But We know it is not in our
stars but in ourselves that our success
does lie; and We lung to 60 forward TO aid
in striking decisive blow for the coun-
try.


! am glad to he able 10 say that the
health Of the men is remarkably good: 1t
will not te many days before we leave for
the South: aud the regiment will number
five hundred men TT for duty-Gve hun
dred fighting men, who will not he sur
passed for valvr and efficiency. And here
let me Say that feel it an ample reward
for anything l have done or suffered, to
have the affection and confidence of such
noble and heroic hearts as l have fund
in my company and regiment. I au'
proud to claim fel]o "ship with them
Where they go, I will go; where they
die, will die; and there will I be bur-
led. .aa. - .....fa -5.
Again permit NE to thank you for the
dist;n guished courtesy you have to-day
shown US 1t is more priced, coming, as
it does, from a very patriotic community.
We remember your efforts to fill the First
Regiment-the FIRST three years regiment
that reached Washington, and perhaps
the most truly famous regiment in the
whole army. I know the anguish it must
cause to send forth 50 many Of your broth.
ers and sons, in rosy youth, as sacrifice
for the country. If they fall, their exam
pie aud memory will be sweet and prec-
ious companionship. # they live, they
viii return the npholders Of order aud Of
peace, aud dearcr to you Tor .theii heroic
tolls
Year: 1862

A TELEGRAPHIc ExPERINENT-It is a
matter of curiosity as to how quick commu.
nication may be made by means of the tclc-
graph. Experience has shown that it is an
instantaneous process. A short time since,
an experiment was tried to illustrate the
point. 1t was agreed that telegrapher at
New York city, in communication with
Chicago, Illinois, should write the letter
S-which is done by making three dots
and that Chicago telegrapher should in
stantly, on hearing the dots, respond by
making the same signs. The plan was car
ried out successfully, and the paper o. the
register at New York showed that the dots
made by both operators stood so nearly to-
gether that it was impossible to write a
single dot between the characters represent
ing the two S S. The response from Chi
cago was recorded as quickly after the sig
nal from New York, as it was possible for
the Chicago telegrapher to make it.
Year: 1862

ONE OF THE PLANKs.-One-perhap the
only one-of the planks in the new platform
to be put forward by nascent Congressman
and sucking Senators, for the support of the
Democracy, on which the two wings" can
unite, is the number of daring frauds perpe.
trated by certain Republican officials during
the pendency of this war; This we infer from
the tone of certain professed Union Demo
cratic journals, who did John Conness the
discredit of supporting him last year, and the
whole secession pack, who join in the chorus
to the same strain. That very many most
outrageous frauds have been perpetrated it
would be folly to doubt. That Republicans
are as bad as anybody else, is perhaps equal
ly clear; but though no friend of the Re.
publican party, and no apologist for its sins
or mistakes, we do protest against those who
have stood the thefts and perjuries Of Floyd
without word of condemnation, now talk
ing about what Cameron, his successor, has
done. We have strong suspicion that there
is good ground of complaint against this
official, and if he is guilty, the Administra-
tion has done deep wrong in sustaining
him. Yet, as one who helped to put Floyd in
power, we don't think that, for the objects
sought to be accomplished by ambitious as
pirants to Office in this State, we have any
stones to shy At any rate, those who are
more guiltless than we are must have the
first throw.
Year: 1862

TIME Tax Payers of the County informed
u that it is my intention, either in person by
deputy. to accompany the Assessor in his official
tour through the county, the law directs for the
purpose of collecting all taxes assessed upon
Year: 1862

duced slavery, must, though now free Of the
s'ain, bear our share in the consequences oI
that great crime. There is misery in store for
the South and for The North for the man
stealers and those who have legalized the theft
f,r the tolling millions of Lancashire, and for
those who supply the object of their labor
But among those miseries the greatest of all,
the degenerac, Of branch of the Anglo-Saxun
racc-of the only people who, amidst many
errors and many crimes, are still consciously
tong on toa higher future will asSuredly
not be found
Year: 1862

A lady who has reached Philadelphia from Alabama says there is plenty of salt in Alabama. large quantities having been laid in previous to the war. A poor quality of coffee such as was. formerly given to the slaves, is plenty as are the staple provisions. but medicine is exceedingly scarce. and much suffering is experienced in consequence. The rebel Government is putting up cotton mills all over the South and is working cotton into cloths and clothing for the soldiers Business is lively and money plenty at Rich nl0nd, but all articles are enormously high.
Year: 1862

glorious decisive victory for the goo1 eansa he
would surely have achieved within but thirty or
forty>miles Of the point at wh;ca he had arrived
when ordered to retire personally from the
field
Year: 1862

I'll TELL Pa WHEN HE CONES HcME.-A
friend Of ours, who had taken pride for several
years in cultivating full crop of hair on his
face, was called away from home on business
some time since. While absent, an inexperi.
enced barber spoiled his wbiskers in trimming
them, which so chsgrined him that he directed
the barber to make clean job of it by shsving
whiskers and mustsche both off The barber
obeyed, and our friends face was as smooth
and as delicate as when in his teens. He re-.
turned home in the night. Next morning his
little girl did not recognize him on waking up.
Looking over her mother, and seeing as she
supposed stranger In the bed, she remarked
in her childish simplicity, "Mister, get out Of
here; ri tell my Pa sohen he comes home"
Year: 1862

You knew by the light In my deep dark eye,


When heard the beatOf the mastering drum,
That never would fold my arms and sigh


Der the evils that were to come
You knew that the blood Of a patriot sire
oonrsed through my veins like stream OF Ore,
DO you took my hand and bade me 70,


Sat never dreamed that It grieVed you 90,
Two hir'halred children left with you,


VINO lisp nv name at even,ide-
The very hour when upon my knee


used to fondle my pet and pride;
Alas they may never be blessed
BY q fathers care In the old home nest;
ana never again may hsar the tones,


Or kiss the lips Of my little ones.
know have answered my oountry's call,


That my breast 10 barred at high command;
But your heart will break, know, II I fall
In the battles front by traitors hand
Yet murmur not, though my tear wet eyes
Attest the worth Of the sacrifice;


IT'S ahusband's free glft-two lives In one
In the name Of God and Of Washington.
Perhaps when the maple leaves are red,


And golden gloreS Of harvest come,
You shall wake some morning to hear my tread,
And give me warm hearts welcome home,
To kneel with me in fervsnt prayer,
Thanking our God for his watohful care.


Who upheld the flag Of our cherished land,
And shielded my heart from the rebels brand.
Year: 1862




The most dlshearteninR of all the bad news
We have recently received ia not the CAPTURE
OF our stores, the loss of important positions,
or even defeats upon the field, but the eyi.
dence OF decentralization and want of pluck or
discipline on the part Of somo of our troops,
shown by the repeated surFenders of whole
battallons and regiments to the enemy with
but little 1t any fighting. Napoleon, in his
sixty ninth maxim Of war, laid down this
rule:


"There is but one honorable mode of be.
coming prisoners Of war. That il by being
taken separately; by which Is meant by being
cut of entirely, and when we can no longer
make use of our arms. In this case there can
be no conditions, for honor can impose none,
We yield TO an Irresistible necessity"


Judged by this rule, how unmilitary and
shameful are the surrenders of Murfreesboro'
ClarkSburg, and some twenty other places in
Tennessee and Kentucky, during the Iast two
months. Nor 10 the western army alone to
blame. The surrender on the Rappahannock
OF half New Jersey regiment to the enemy
shows that Generalization and want of dis.
oiptne are working their way at the East as
we'll as the West. Now this thi1g must stop.
Our national life depends upon 1t. Hereafter
let that company or regiment that eurrendeTs
without deadly fight take Ito place upon the
roll Of infamy in the State whence it comes
Let press, pulpit and platform fame out the
hot indignation Of the country at the bastard.
ly commands that throw down their arms in
the presence OF any enemy, no matter how
superior in numbers.


We have no faith In prOclamations or policies,
stern or otherwise, to put an end to this war, 90
long az their object Ia the effect upon the enemy;
but we do believe the most profoundly in
pisilsssly stern policy toward our own generals
and troops. Failure, surrender, want of man
agement or pluck must not be tolerated under
any circumstances. The six hundred thousand
men now rushing to arms had better stay at
home, If they do not propose to do any better
than these surrendering, white-livered heroes,
whose feats We are daily recording.
Year: 1862

The Emperor Of the French IS not at
all disposed to back down from his attempt
to subdue the Mexicans. Of course, 50
long as he is sure ne can ultimately beat
the Mexicans, he responds to the reports
of French defeat by sending out immense
reinforcements. IIehas therefore determ-
ined on sending cat an army of $4,000
men to carry out his designs against Mexi-
co beyond all possibility OF failure. The
follow nc, from the Paris correspondence
of the New ! ork Times, throws some light
on this step


IL the report which come to me from the
newspaper Offices be true, the Mexican
question is assuming a gravity which re-
quircs all the attention Of the Governments
Of the United States. The Mexican army
is to be carried to $4,000 men instead of
10000 and this army, for which the pro-
vision contracts have already been made,
is to remain in that country. The engi-
neer who has been sent out with an etat-
major, and material, Is not going to locate
a road from Vera Cruz to the capital till
after he has located a road across the 18TH
mus from the ulf Of Mexico to the Pacific
"a road intea led to counte~act the Pa
cifc railroad OF the Americans. The gray
ity OF these facts, If they prove to be true
Will not escape Une 1nlllI OF any one.
am told that until the last meeting Of the
cabinet not more than fifty thousand men
were deemed necessary to carry out these
projects, but that at that meeting further
number Of at least 10000 men were
decided upon. The papers indeed, have
Just been, Inadvertently no doubt. publish
ing q notice OF the immense amount Of
provisions which have been bought for the
Mexican expedition and among other items
noticed was one of 100 900 kilogrammes
Of biscuit, whic h tells story Of itself
All this grand scheme of conquest and oc-
cupation in the New World, | am told, is
based on the idea of Offering q barrier to
the extension Of the Angio-Saxon race to
the South and over the region which now
belongs to the Latin races 1t seems IN
possible thata man OF Napoleon political
turn Of mind could nurse such q utopia in


his breast, and actually attempt to carry
it out in the face of certainty of war
with the United States; but ! am assured
nevertheless Of its truth, and am obliged
to admit that all the evidence corroborates
to truthiulness.
Year: 1862

We have long ago expressed the con
viction that slavery IN this country Is
doomed; and the advent of this proclama-
ton we can scarcely consider under the
circumstances, as Fastening its fate Per
iectly mad as the cotton States were in
challenging a conflict for its extension, the
ferocious spirit they have shown in the
fight has, little by little, lost them the sym
pathies Of the world at large; and until
left alone as its especial champions, and
inadequate to sustain a much lonce
struggle, it would have perished, ultimate
ly, whether the executive had moved in
the matter in the way he has seen ft TO do
or not


And as to its effects upon the institution
in the border States. it Is not at all prob
lematical IF Virginia or North Carolina
become free States by the terms Of the
proclamation, the exemption resulting in
to Maryland is OF no pratical value what
ever. With free States on both sides Of
her, who would care to own negroes here2
and what possible ADVANTAGE would we
have over those obnoxious TO the terms ol
the presidents manifesto in other States =?
As the matter stands even at present, ne
gro property here has become so uncer-
tain in Its tenure that in many portions OF
our commonwealth they are as good as free
already.


In conclusion we do not think
anything whatever IS to answer in putting
down the rebellion except the utmost Wig
or in our military and naval movements
An advance of seventy or eighty miles
from Cumberland Gap upon the salt works
near Abingdon, Virginia, the only place in
the whole South that furnishes salt IN any
quantity, would do more than any paper
manifesto in Bringing them to terms
Charleston taken, and the supply OF En-
gli3h war material brought by British
steamers stopped, would be another severe
blow, and we must confess that we had
rather hear Of such movements to pu
down the rebellion than to speculate doubt
fully upon the effects Of the proclamation
IN question
Year: 1862

hat sound IS that? ''Tis summers farewell
In the breath of the night wind signing;
The chill breeze comes like a s0rrowful Girge
That walls DER the dead and dying
The sapless leaves are eddying round
On the path which they lately shaded,
The oak of the forest is losing its robe
The flowers have fallen and faded.
All that look on but sadaens my heart,
To think that the lovely SO soon should depart
Yet why should i sigh, other Summers will come,
Joys like the past bringing;


gain wIil The vine bear It's bIushi.lg fruit,
gaia viii The birds be singing;
The forest will put on its honoIs again.
The rose bc as sweet in its breathing,
The woodbine viii twiae round the lattice pane,
As wild and as rich in its wreatliag


The hives viii hare honey, the bees viii hum
Other flowers viii spring, other summers will come
They win, they viii, but ha who can tell
Whether may live on till their ceming.
This spirit may sleep too soundly then,
To wake the warblng and humming;
This cheek, now pale, would be paler far,
When the summer sun next is glowing;
The cherishing ray may gid the light,
The grass on my grave turf growing.
The earth may be glad, but the worms and gloom
Nay dwell with me in the silent tomb