Year: 1864

EXECUTIVE DEPARTMENT Ono.


COLUMBUS, May 3, 1864. :
To TuB NATIONAL GUARD or ONO.


Tho Commandcr.n. Chief cordially and
earnestly thanks you for your noble re.
sponsc on yesterday to tho call made 70,
tho relief of our army, and tho salvation o.
tho country. This manifestation Of loyalt,
and patriotism is aliko honorable to your
solves and your noblo State. Iu tho lis
tory of this great struggle it will constitute
a page that you and your descendants ma,
hereafter contemplate With pcrfec. salts
faction.


The duty to which you will bo assigned
though comparatively q minor one, will bt
none the lose beneficial to the cause of the
country. Whilo you hold Notifications and
limos of army communications, you will re.
lease veteran soldiers, and allow them to
strengthen tho great army that is marshal.
ing for the mightiest contest of the war
In this you will contribute your full meas.
uro to the final result we all so confidently
anticipate and 30 much desire tho end OF
the rebellion, and tho restoration of peace
and unity in tho land.


Thcre is no present imminent danger
that calls you from your peaceful avoca.
tons. But it is necessary that we entor
upon the Spring campaign with force tha,
will enable us to strike rapid and effective
blows when tho conflict opens. Though VIC
have mot with a few roversos this Spring
the general military situation is everywhere
hopeful, and those in command of your ar
mics were mover moro confident. But VIC
cannot permit this war, in its present pro.
portions, to iinger through another year.
IL is laying burthen upon US which, by
vigorous and united oxertion, we must ar.
rest 1t is truo economy, as we'll as the
dictate OF humanity, to call to the termi.
nation of this contest force that will be
sufficient for the purpose. limo, treasure
and blood will alike be saved in augmenting
our forces, and making tho contest short
and decisive. The hope of the rebel lead
ors is in the procrastination of the war. In
this political party in tho North sympa.
tbizes with them, and is laborirg BY the
samo means to secure a political triumph
OF the expense of the unity and future pros.
perity of the nation. The first we must
subdue with our arms within tho hundred
days, and then we can turn upon the other,
and win over it moro peaceful, but not
less glorious victory. ....


am not ignorant of tho sacrifice this call
imposes upon you, nor Of tho unequal man
Eer in which it imposes the burthons of the
war. You must reflect, however, that hith.
erto we have experienced comparatively
little OF the inconveniences and depression
consequent upon a state of war. Ifs part
of these come homo to us now, wo can we'll
afford 10 meet for SO short o time, the tax
imposed upon US, especially when the sac
rihce gives promise of materially fastening
tho close of the contest. The bur,hen
must necessarily bo unequal, for tho Union
men of this country must work out it's sal
yation. The disloyal element is not 10 be
relied upon, either to encourage our ar.
mics, or to aid in the crushing of the rebell-
ion. You are, In this particular, not unlike
your ancestors who achieved the indepeud-
ence of your country against foreign emo.
my on the one hand, and tho Tories of the
Revolution on the other. Remember, then.
that, like unto those who wrought out your
nationality through adversely tha. you have
not yet experienced, the greater the sacri-
fec the higher tho honor to those who are
called to preserve it.


Fully comprebendng tho effects of this
call upon the industrial interests of the !
State, would not have made il, had not
been fully impressed with the necessity of
an increase of our forces as the m ost effect
i've means of Fastening the close of the con.
test, and the advent of poace have done
what conscentously believe to be my
duty, in the present position of affairs, and
you have responded in manner that chal.
longos my admiration, and will command
the gratitude of tho country.


Go forth then, Soldiers of the National
Guard, to the fulfllment of the duty as.
signed to you have entire confidence
that you will meet all its requirements with
fidelity and honor. The prayers OF the peo.
pie of tho State will follow you,-and may
your roturn be as glorious as your going
forth is noble aud patriotic.


JNo BROUGH.