Year: 1863

wants as possible. The war feeling among
all earnest men never was higher and there
was never a time since the war commenced.
that the people had 30 good cause to enter.
tain strong hopes of q satisfactory issue.
All the money, all the men that may be
needed, will be readily granted, and such
additional legislation az may be necessary to
facilitate the progress Of our arms and CON-
plete the entire subjugstion OF the rebel
slaveholding aristocracy, will be adopted.
But Congress and the Government will
be powerless without the cordial and earn
est cooperation of all loyal people. Tho
feeling Of hostility to the Government which
has been so long sullen and silent is daily
becoming boider and more defiant, and rebel
sympathizers all over the North are devel-
oping systematic opposition TO vigorous
prosecution of the war that is truly alarm
ing. Were it not for the justice of our
cause and the loyalty Of the people. the day
OF our downfall would be at hand. How de-
plorable are the scenes which the nation il
compelled TO witness almost every day in
the American Congress. The speech of Mr..
Nallandigham and others this week, in the
House and Senate, ought to arouse and
unite every patriot in the land. How re-
pulsive the cold words and beartless acts
OF such men when contrasted with the brave
deeds and heroic acts of the loyal people of
the nation. The lone widow has surrendered
up her only son, the wife her husband and
children their fathers to go rth aud peril
and, il need be, sacrifice their lives in or
der that the Republic may live. How like
the words of u sworn enemy of the country
are the utterances of all Northern rebel sym
pathizers when read in the light of the he
roic deeds and patriotic words Of the dying
soldier when yielding up his life on the
teld OF battle. On the disastrous field of
Fredericksburg soldier lay dying. He
knew that his hour had come. A clergy
man Of this city, whom know we'll asked
him If he had any word to send to wife and
children and friends. Z" Tell them," said he,
"hop died, they kno,e hop Ihpedl" An
other, brave aud beautiful young boy, had
only strength to draw locket from his
breast and say "gice this to my mother, and
died without speaking her name At Mum
fordsville KY. a brother thus gives express
ion to his grief ut finding the dead body of
his brother after the battle:


Here, then, lay my brother, without any Doubt
a terrible sensation passed over me. sat by him
for some time in great agony Of mind We had
gone into the company together TO share each
others joys and sorrows; now he was gone forever.
Finally, looking around me upon the scattered
slain, said to myself this is not the place for man
TO weep. Take Thou, U, God of battles, the sscri-
flee make. Here are ~ Of the l05th Oho slain in
defending the right. All these surrender up to
Thee. clipped a lock of my brothers hair as a
parting token Then with my own hand, helped
to dig his grave wrapped him in his blanket carved
his name upon an OAK board, and holding it up as
tombstone, saw him buried with the host Of the
dead.


Colonel Brodhead, of Michigan, who was
killed in battle when General Pope was de-
feated near Washington, thus wrote from
tho battlefield:


My DEAREST WIPE: write 10 you mortally
wounded, from the battle field. We are again de-
tested, and ere this reaches you our children will
be fatherless.


Before die, let me impors that, in some way, il
may be stated that General - has been outwit-
ted, and that ---is a trater. Had they done their
duty as did mine, and had led as did, the dear
GS 9s SsSs Ras ans il TSahsn my ana d.
reotly through the lungs. ! suffer but little now,
but at first the pain was acute. have won the
soldiers name, and am ready to meet now, as
must, the soldiers fate. ! hope that from Heaven
| may see the glorious old flag wave again over
the undivided Union have loved SO well.


These are but few of the grand and heroic
utterances of thousands of the brave and
good who have fallen victims TO the slave
holding conspirators' terrible crime.


Thy words, o brave brothers! shall reach
and move the heart and nerve the arm of the
nation, and hundreds shall again march forth
to fill tho vacant places and strike down
the traitorous foe and avenge thy death.
The land and the nation that is not worth
dying for is not worth living for. The Gov
ernment of Washington and the Union
which ho created, is worth dying to main
tain. And our dead shall not have died in
vain for we will never surrender. Mark the
prediction; no matter what traitors may say
or do, we will never surrender, for God has
written his decree against the oppressor in
the United Statos. The threats of all North
ern traitors shall be silenced by the shout
of our advancing and victorious army. Let
no patriot be cast down or discouraged, for
in Freedoms sign we shall conquer.
90 rally round the banner, boys, now FREEDOMS


chosen sign


See where amid the clouds Of war its new born
The despot's doom, the slaves dear hope, we bear


il on the foe


Gods voice rings down the Frightening path say,


brothers, will you gos


Then rally round the banner, boys Its triumph


draweth nigh!


See where above the clouds of war its seamless


gories fyl


Peace, towering DER the bristing van, waves palm


and laurel fair,


And VICTORY binds the rescued stars In Freedoms


golden har!"


J. N. A.