Year: 1863

congratulate the State, our common


constituents, that the period has arrivel


when you, their immediate neighbor


and representatives, fresh from you


homes, can participate in the-duties snC


responsibilities of providing for and pro


tecting their interests; and it is sourc,


of great relief TO myself to know that


with your presence, shall have abl,


counsellOrs to guide and direct me in tn,


discharge of the many cares and respon


sibilities resting upon the Executive.


DUTY OF TEE PEOPLES REPRESENTATIVES


There never has been a period in the


history of our State when faithful and


yigilant effort at duty, ON the part of the


peoples representatives, was more re


Quired than the present. The question
yet unsettled. The gigantic effort OF


wicked and bad men to overthrow our


beautiful and heavenly form of govern


ment, which existed at the period of your
adjournment, has not yet been quelled.


We were given the reins of our State


government, for the time being, by an


honest and confiding constituency, with
special view to carry out their wishes in
maintaining the government as handed
down to them by their Fathers; we should
look well to it, then, that we do not dis
appoint their expectations. They have
not faltered in this great work; but fully
appreciating tho mighty importance of
preserving our institutions, they have
yielded up everything with degree of
generosity unparalleled in the history of
any people. Everything dear to them
has been given to the cause. Husbands,
fathers. sons and brothers have left their
loved ones, to brave the dangers of the
field Of battle, and the diseases incident
10 camp life, with a cheerfulness never
before manifested The mothers, wives
and sisters also, have fully demonstrated
their claim to the love and affection of
these brave and gallant men. All that
woman can do, has been done to alleviate
the distresses of our soldiers, and thereby
stimulate them to duty.


Such being the character of our constit-
uents, it is impossible to measure the
claim they have upon us, their agents.
Energy, integrity and purity of purpose,
economy and industry, are, at least, due
from US to them.


Aside from the claim that our constit-
uents have upon US for all this, the only
true reward public servant can win for
himself, is to be able to claim, when COM
muning with his Maker, an honest and
vigilant effort at public duty. If we can
not claim this for ourselves, when we
shall surrender up our trust. We Will have
worked to little purpose. rf


THE PEOPLE OF OHIO AND TIE REBELLION.


1t is not necessary to discuss the ques-
ton presented by this rebellion with the
people of Ohio; they have, with great
unanimity, determined that, cost what it
may in time, treasure or life, the Union of
the States, as handed down to US by our
Fathers, shall be preserved unimpaired,
and thus handed down to our children.
They will not for one moment concede
that there can be any cause sufficient to
Justify State, or any number of States,
in withdrawing from the Union. Admit,
if YOU please, that the authorities of the
Federal Government, for the time being,
were to attempt to interfere with the do
mestic institutions of either Ohio or South
Carolina, to the extent even of introdu-
cling slavery into the former or excluding
it from the latter; this would not give
the slightest pretext for the one thus at
tempted to be interfered with, to take up
arms against the government. The Fed
eral Constitution itself expressly protects
the State thus interfered with, from inju-
ry. Long before any such attempt could
be executed, tho people,in whose hands
all power is placed, would, through the
peaoeable, quiet mode pointed out by the
hurl the authors of such at
tempt from power, and thus rescue the
injured State. But no such attempt has
been made or thought of by the Federal
officers now in power, and this the au-
thors and leaders of the rebellion well
know. President Lincoln has, again and
again, in the most solemn manner assur-
ed the people that it was his determine
tion, so far as Lag in his power, 10 pre-
serve inviolate all the rights of the sever
al States. The Federal Congress, the sew
eral State Legislatures of the loyal States,
and the people of said States, in their po-
litical assemblies, have all, again and
again. made the same pledges to the peo-
pie of the South. 1t was not, therefore,
either the fear or the belief that their
State rights were-about to be interfered
with, that induced them to take up arms
against the government. Mad ambition,
and disappointment in not obtaining
place and power. on the part of few
wicked men, was the. sole cause and
all other causes ALLEGED. by these leaders,
are simply, to deceive their blind fol-
lowers


To bring these wicked men to the pun
ishment they deserve, and thereby restore
harmony, law and order throughout our
common country, the people of Ohio de-
sire 10 do their full share of duty, and TO
that end will bear any burden that may
be imposed upon them.


PROMPT RESPONSE OF OHIO VOLUNTEERS.


The period since your adjournmenth has
been one of great excitement. About
the first of June our national capital was
threatened by the rebel army );
and, but for the prompt response to the
Presidents call for more troops, would
have been sacked and plundered. The
gallant young men of our State were
among the first to rush to the rescue
over FIVE thousand promptly assembled at
Camp Chase, and rendered their services.
To their honor. and the honor of the
State it should be known that although
they thus assembled without officers, or
organization of any kind, more
quiet, orderly and well-behaVed body of
men or soldiers never met together.
About three thousand of this number
were promptly organized into regiments
and sent 10 the vicinity of Washington
City, where they remained during the
term for which they were organized, and
it is proper to add, maintained their high
character for courage and gentlemanly
bearing. The remainder were organized
for duty at Camp Chase and other points
within the State. Many of these, since
their discharge have gone into the ser
vice for three years, or during the war.


ATTEMPTED INVASION OF OUR SOUTHERN


BORDER.


The desperation and audacity of the
rebel enemy led them, early in Septem-
Der, to attempt the invasion of our South
ern border. To repel this impudent end
wicked movement, it became necessary
to call upon the loyal citizens of the State
to arm themselves, repair to the border,
and drive back the insolent foe.


Most nobly were these calls responded