Year: 1861

cial proclamation.


In view of what Congress has recently so
solemny resolved. and in view of the continuous
and consistent action of the Administration
upon the subject, those who, through the press
or in public speeches, persist in repeating the
wretched SANDER, are giving utierance to what
everybody, themselves Included, knows to be
absolutely and infamonsly false 1t viii be
the first and the highest duty of the American
army, as 1t advances South. by its moderation
and humanity, by its exemption from every
excess and irregularity and by its scrupulous
observance of the right Of all, to show how
foully both it and the Government it repre-
sents have been traduced When therefore,
you enter the South, press lightly upon her
gardens and fields guard sacredly her homes
protect if need be, at the point of your bayo-
nets her Institutions and her constitutional
rights, for y~a will thereby not only respond
fully to the spirit and objects of this war, but
you win exert over alike The oppressed and the
infatuated portion OF her people, a power 10
which the most brilliant Of your military sue
cess might not attain.


But when you meet in battle array those
atrocious conspirators, who. at the head of
armies, and through woes unutterable, are
seeking the ruin of our common country, re-
member that since the sword famed over the
portals of Paradise until now it has been
drawn in no holier cause than that in which
You are engaged. Remember, too, the mil
lions whose hearts are breaking under the an
guish of this terrible crime, and then strike
boldly, strike in the power of truth and duty,
strike with bound and shout well assured
that your blows will fall upon ingrates, aud
traitors, and parricides, whose lust for power
would make this bright land one vast Golgatha
rather than be baked Of their guilty aims, and
may the God of your fathers give you the vic
tory.


l should have rejoced to meet you within
the limits of yonder proud Commonwealth,
from whence you came. and whose name you
bear, but wise and patriotic men, whose mo-
tives l respect while dissenting from their con-
clusions, have willed it should be Otherwise
Here, however you are in the midst of friends,
and have, doubtless, received a brothers well
come. on the soil of State which is not only
loyal, but proud of her loyalty-a State which
by the MAJ ching of her volunteers, announces
every hour what portion Of her people have
recently proclaimed by formal resolutions, that
the suppression of this rebellion is worth
more to the world than all our lives and all
our money" and that she cares nothing for
life or worldly goods when they can only be
enjoyed amid the ruins Of our country" No
i Spartan hero, under the grandest inspirations
of patriotism, ever uttered nobler sentiments
than these Indiana and Kentucky, il Is true,
are separated by a broad river, but in their
history it has proved only thread of light
and beauty, across which their hands and their
hearts have ever been clasped in friendship
and in faith


In those stirring conflict for principle which
have arisen in the past, they have stood to-
gether, and on more than one bloody field,
shoulder to shoulder, they have borne onward
through the thickest of the fight that glorious
banner whose stars, | trust, will never grow
dim and now, your presence here TO day is a
| gIaddening assurance that in the momertous
contest on whose threshold we stand, these
States so long allied will not be divided For
myself | must be pardoned for saying that
next to our own beloved Kentucky, my bosom
most overHows toward the noble State under
whose hosptable shelter we have met to day.
1t was my fortune to pass my childhood and
youth on ry fathers farm on the banks of
yonder river, and in the light of the free homes
and forests Of Indiana. played upon her bills
and ished in her streams, and mingled with her
people, when | was too young TO know-what
l trust shall never be old enough to learn
that this great country Of ours has neither
North or South, East or West, in the aflec-
tions and faith of true and loyal citizens.


Soldiers, when Napoleon about 10 spur
on his legions TO combat, on the sands of an
African desert pointing them to the Egyptian
/ Pyramids that loomed up against the far-of
horizon, he exclimed, From yonder Pyra-
mids twenty centuries behold your actions"
/ The thought was sublime and electric; but
you have even more than this When you
shall confront these iufuriated hosts, whose
battle-cry is :" Down with the Government Of
the United States, let your answering shout
be, " The Government as our fathers made it y
aud when you strike, remember that not only
do the good and the great Of the past look
down upon you from nights infinitely above
those of Egyptian Pyramids, but that uncoun-
ted generations yet to come are looking up to
you. and claiming at your hands the unimpared
Transmission to them of that priceless heritage
/ which has been committed to our Keeping. |
say it is unimpared trapsmission-in all the
| amplitude of its outlines. in all the symmetry
! of its matchess proportions, in all the palpita-
ting fullness of its blessings; not miserably
shriveled and shattered thing, charred by the
/ fires and torn by the tempests of revolution,
and all over polluted and SCARED by the
bloody poniards of traitors.