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THE BEGINNING.
ELECTION of WCLELLAN!
PENDLETON, VALLANDIFHAM,
Vice President Secretary of War.
ARMISTICE !
FALL OF WAGES!
NO MARKET FOR PRODUCE!
Pennsylvania a Border State!
MM! CIVIL WAR! ANARCHY!
DESPOTISM ! 1
THE END. '
ON TO VICTORY!
UNION MEN OP PENNSYLVANIA ! but five days
remain to prepare for the great National struggle
with those who pronounee the war a "failu re,"
and demand that our victorious armies should be
arrested to give a "cessation of hostilities" to ex
hausted traitors. Tho time is short, the moments
golden, the issue vital—fraught indeed with the
destiny of the Republic.
With such a cause neutrality is impossible, in
difference criminal. With our gallant armies vic
torious on almost every field ; with treason ex
hausted in its resources, broken in its credit, its
despairing armies decimated by and
field after field, and State after State surrendered
to tho heroic armies of the Union, the great work
of preserving our government now and for all
time is well nigh accomplished. "They have rob
bed the cradle and the grave" says the invincible
Grant, and their last hope is the sueeess of the
Peace candidate at the next election!
Loyal men! ponder well tho significant language
of your great chieftains. You who have given
your sons and brothers to vindicate the integrity
of the government against the murderous assaults
of traitors ; who have given freely of your trots -
urcs, and mourned the bereavement with which
you have been shadowed by a wanton war. turn
not now upon the faithful warriors \ouhavo sent
to the front and cloud their crimsoned fields arid
their wounds with shame, and the graves of their
martyred comrades with dishonor. Thrir sacred
sacrifices are well nigh fulfilled ; their mission a
bout to be completed—not by a humiliating sur
render to our barbarous foes, but by the crowning
triumph of the Union armies and the utter over
throw of treason.
From the Valley we hear the fresh notes of vic
tory, giving us promise of safety to our long dis
tracted and plundered borders, and weaving an
other chaplet. in the wreath of honored and endu
ring Peace. The ever triumphant Sheridan has
again discomfited our vaudal foes, and sent them
"whirling"' back upon the laud they have desola
ted by crime. Shall these triumphs be voted
"failures?" —shall these victories bo wasted by
resting over the graves of our noble sons sacrificed
to preserve our free institutes, and conceding a
"cessation of hostilities ?" Every dictate of pa
triotism, of humanity; of honor, and of safety
forbids it. When traitors yield obedience to the
laws—the same to which we yield willing obedience
—the war will be be ended, and ended with honor
to our living and to our dead, and with honor to
the Republec.
UNION MEN ! Let there he a rally along the
whole line! Pennsylvania has declared for the
Union by over eleven thousand ; but it is due to
the gallant army that lias given us victory and pre
served our government, that loyal men at home
shall protect the rear while they protect us in the
front. The home vote of Pennsylvania can and
WILL declare for Liberty and Law —for Lincoln
and the Union, and let no man falter or hesitate
because the result is certain. The more decisive
is the verdict for the government, the sooner we
shall reach Peace, the more thoroughly will the
laws be vindicated, and the more overwhelming
will bo the discomfiture and despair of traitors in
the field. Their last hope will vanish as the North
with one voice declares that there shall be no de
grading compromise with prejured traitors, to give
~-e.sh life for mad ambition to crimson new fields
n our future history.
Ohio, Indiana and Maryland send us words of
cheer. They have spoken and sent doep and dead,
ly the thrust into the very vitals of our Country's
foes. Let one and all make common cause with
them ; let us join hearts and hands to give Victo
ry to Right—Peace by Union and Freedom to this
fairest of man's inheritance. Forward, Loyal.
Men ! The hour of final triumph seems just at
hand, and let us greet and strengthen every hope
that beats for Union and Law, and drive into ut
er confusion and dishonor, the faithless men who
would bring shame to our brave soldiery, disaster
to our government, and anarchy to thirty millions
of people On to Yictrny!— Franklin Repository.
The dying words of the gallant Birney were—
'; Keep your eyes on (lieflag boys /" His last act
was to vote the Union ticket, and his last sentence
was in happy harmony with his heroism on the
field and his fidelity to his cause. Can men who
love their Nationality vote to libel the fame of our
chieftains and their brave soldiers, by endorsing
the treachery of Chicago which declares the war a
"failure ?" Should the grave of a Birney be
blotted with dishonor by humiliating concession
to our vandal foes? If so, vote the Chicago
ticket.
There is not a draft made for men that is not
necessitated by the treachery of the Democratic
party. It has declared the war a "failure" and
strengthened the foes of the government to perse
verance in their murderous work. Their last
hope, says Grant, is the election of the Peace
ticket at the next election! Shall traitors be thus
cheered in their work ot death ?
Who gave us a crushing debt and oppressive
taxes? The Democratic party—the parent of
treason, the author of this wanton war, and now
the last eope of our Country's foes ! Shall it be
restored to power ? A loyal people have declared
in thunder tones that it shall not consummate its
treachery by betraying the government at the feet
of traitors.
BEDFORD, TA.* FRIDAY. NOVEMBER 4. 1864.
PRESIDENT LINCOLN'S SPEECH.
. V vy;> & v .. .VST H®?* i
President Lincoln, in answer to a serenade from
loyal Marylanders on the night of the 18th, spoke
as follows:
"I am notified that this is a compliment paid
me by the loyal Marylanders resident in this dis
trict. I infer that the adoption of the new Con
stitution for the State furnishes the occasion, and
that, in yoijr view, the extirpation of slavery con
stitute the chief merit of the new Constitution.
"Most heartily do I congratulate you and Mary
land, and the nation and the world upon the event.
I regret that it did not occur two years sooner,
which lam sure would have saved to the nation
more money than would have mot all private loss
incident to the measure. But it has come at last,
and I sincerely hope its friends may fully realize
all their anticipations of good from it, and that its
opponents may. by its effects, be agreeably and
profitably disappointed.
"A word upon another subject. Something said
by the Secretary of State, in his recent speech at
Aubnrn, has been construed some into a threat
that, if I shall be beaten at the election, I will, be
tween then and the end of my constitutional term,
do what I may be able to ruin the Government. —
Others regard the fact tliat the Chicago Conven
tion adjourned, not sine die, but to meet again if
called to do so by a particular individual, as the.
intimation of a purpose that, if their nominee shall
he elected, 113 will at once seize the control of the
Government I hope the good people will permit
themselves to suffer no uneasineess on this point.
I am struggling to maintain the Government,
not to overthrow it lam struggling especially to
prevent others from overthrowing it. 1 therefore
say that, if I shall Hve, I shall remain President
until the 4th of next March, and that whoever
shall bo constitutionally elected therefor, in No
vember, shall be duly iustalied as President oil
the 4th of March ; and that in the internal I shall
do my utmost that whoever is to hold the helm
for the next voyage shall start with the best possi
ble chance to save the ship. •-
"This is due to the people, both on principle
and tinder the Constitution. Their will, constitu
tionally expressed, is the nltimatc law for all. If
they should deliberately resolve to have immediate
peace, even at the loss of their country and thei|
liberties, I know n<st the power or the right to re
sist them. It is their own business, and they must
do as they please with their own. I believe, how
ever, they are still resolved to preserve their coun
try and their liberty, and in this office or out I am
resolved to standby them.
I may add that in this purpose to save the coun/-
try and its liberties, no classes of people seem sp
nearly unanimous as the soldiers in the field an#
the seamen afloat. Do they not have the hardest
of it ? Who should quail while they do not ?
God bless the soldiers and seamen, with all their
brave commanders."
SPEEIYI BY HON. ANDREW JOHNSON.
Hon. Andrew Johnson made a speech at Lou
isville on Thursday evening last, in which he said:
I say let the Government go on, and slave iy get
along the best it can. Give me my country,. and,
if need be, let all else go. If slavery gets in th< way,
it must get out and go down. Let'' niggers' go,
if they get in the way of putting down treason Be
fore the rebellion I was for sustaining the G<Jrern
ment without slavery, withot regard to a partbular
institution. Institutions must be subordinate, and
the Government must be supreme.
Slavery is no longer a local, but an itineranl in
stitution, going around just where it pleases. Sla
very is demoralized, and the slaves are becoming
practically free. It is fast settling itself. Practical
emancipation is the order of the day throughout
Tennessee and Kentucky. As soon as law and or
der is restored, and these states get out of the trans
ition from slavery to freedom, black labor will he
much more profitable to them than ever before. I
pay my former slaves every week, and they work
far better than they used to. Slavery is a slow,
tardy, uiacive, inert, and wasteful system of labor.
Black labor, emancipated in all the soathert
states, will eventually prove more profitable, thai
it ever was while enslaved. These broad acres hav<
been worked long enough by a few lords and great
gangs of slaves.
The talk about " nigger equality" is all humbug,
I have seen more of it in the south than I have
in the north. In my opinion freedom will nol
make negroes any worse, and will result in their ad
vancement.
The pseudo democratic party is the rebel party
of the United States, composed in major part oi
of the rebels and lurking traitors in our midst, who
are as much engaged in the attempted overthrow
of the Government as the traitors Jeff. Da
vis. The point of its leaders and ruling members
is power, and their intention is to give aid and com
fort to Jeff. Davis & Co., and their armies. They
are the allies and friends of Jeff. Davis, giving him
all possible aid ami comfort in keeping up the re
bellion, in resisting the supremacy of the Consiitu
tion and laws over the entire United States. Their
platform looks one way, their tickets head anoth
er, and their tickets tail another.
I know Mr. McClellan well. He falls far below
mediocrity—a very nice little gentleman. When
you try to get hold of and grip him, he is so small
you cant find him. He's so little there's no place
to whip him on. Whatever there is of him is noth
ing but what Mr. Lincoln has made him. If. any
part of the war is a " failure " it is that part which
was conducted by McClellan. Talk about failure
now, when General Sherman has penetrated the
heart of the rebellion, and holds it in his grasp!
Mr. Lincoln has proved himself a patriot above
all party. Whatever he has done has been to defend
and preserve the Constitution and the Government.
If he has in aught violated the Constitution, he has
done it on the principle of self-preservation, to save
the life of the nation and rescue the Constitution it
self from utter destruction. His sole object has
been to save what his country's enemies would
destroy.
Re-elect Mr. Lincoln, and this diabolical, infer
nal, hell-born, hell-bound rebellion is well nigh at
an CDCI. It will carry terror and dismay into the
traitors'conclaves and the traitors camps. Jeff.
Davis will stand more terrified than did Macbeth
before Macduff. Our armies will be encouraged
and inspired, and our nation will be redeemed and
regenerated.
Fight Jeff. Davis and this'rebellion tp death. —
The best way to have peace is to conquer rebel-
lion and to hang traitors. Not half enough
of traitors have been arrested. All arrested
should be tried for treason and if convicted hung.
This government can't live while traitors and trea
son are in the supremacy. Conquer peace, and
Unless the rebels come forward and ackowledge
submission to the Constitution and laws of the
United States, confiscate traitors' property and
hang them for their treason. Make the Constitu
tion and laws supreme, and treason *and traitors
odious.
A VERDICT.
McClellan was appointed at the commencement
of this war, by the Republican Governor of Ohio,
a Major General, to organize the militia of that
State for the purpose of defence. Subsequently
he was appointed by a Republican President a
Major General in tho Regular Army, from the
State of Ohio. His status, in this war, therefore,
is that of a man owing his position to the State of
piuo, Well, lie has aa, .acaftdi
v.ti:c m the Presidency, and at the very first chance
Ohio gets, she turns her back upon him in the
ffiost emphatic and unmistakable manner. Her
recent election is an expression of sublime contempt
for him and his aspirations. To make the rebuke
the more striking, she last year defeated his friend
and adviser, Vallandigham, in the most overwhel
ming style; and this year, his associate on the
ticket, Pendleton, long a member of Congress
from Ohio, and still a resident of Cincinnati, re
ceives the same reward.
Thus Ohio clears her skirts of all complicity
with this copperhead ticket. Cincinnati never
jpive so signal a majority as she has just clone against
Pendleton. She is determined, as Ohio is, that
no responsibility shall attach to her for this aborn
inable Chicago contrivance to humble the standard
of the republic in the dust. And while this is
the case with regard to Ohio, McClelian suffers e
qually in his birth-place, Philadelphia. Last year
she closed her ears against his letter appealing on
Jjehalf of his friend, Judge Woodward, and gave
a memorable majority against him and his associ
ates, This year she increases her majority. lior
recreant son is no source of pride to the old cradle
of liberty. In the year 1776 a nobler child than
MeClellan was home here. It was christened the
United States of America. Liberty stood god
mother to it, and Washington godfather. Pliih
delphia ha< too much love for that priceless off
spring to feel any regard for such an infinitely re
duced specimen of human greatness as McClelian,
and .she has repudiufed him forever. Thus reject
ed by hi birth place and by the state to which he
owes his position, he appropriately seeks refuge in
Gotham.— Phi la. North America u.
HE WAS NOT THERE.
We take the following article from the Philadel
phia North American :
The battle of Rich Mountain w r as fought in
Western Virginia by General Ilosacrans. and re
sulted in a glorious victory. MpuleHan was the
commander of that department, and was to have
arrested the Blight of the discouifitted foe, but —
la icas not there. *
The battle of Rail's Bluff was fought by Colo
nel Baker, under orders from General Stone, by
direction of General McClelian, who planned all
the manoeuvres of Stone and McCaU; it might
have been successful had the General-in-Chief ex
amined the ground and made adequate prepara
tions, but — he was not there.
The blockade of the Potomac by the rebels occa
sioned great annoyance to the government, and
added inaterialy to the national debt by enhan
cing the prices of .subsistence. It might have
been raised, and preparations were concerted for
that purpose several times between the array aim
navy, and the fleet was ready, as also were the
troops, except McClelian — he was not there.
The city of Norfolk, with all its immense naval
facilities, was a desirable point for us, and sever
al efforts were made to got McClelian to take it
although in vain. At length President Lincoln in
person got up an expedition and headed it, by which
Norfolk was captured without the knowledge of
McClelian for — he was not there.
The battle of Williamsburg was fought by our
army, under disastrous circumstances, in conse
quence of our ignorance of the ground and the
rebel Works, and having no commander-in-chief.
Each division fought on its own hook, and there
was no plan of battle. McClellan should have
been in command, but — he was not there.
So it was, too, at Seven Pines, Fair Oaks,
Gaines' Mills, Savage Station, White Oak Swamp,
Malvern Hill, and the reason was that as McClel
lan was occupied with political intrigues when he
should have been busy with military duties—Ac
was not there.
A NEW DEVELOPMENT OF PEACE PRIN
CIPLES.
The notorious Vallandigham addressed a meet
ing of his sworn vassals at Sydnes, Ohio, on the
24th ult., in which he urged them to support Mc-
Clellan, and gave them this cogent, and to them
convincing inducement. Speaking of the Presi
dent., he .says, "his hoad, and the heads of those
around him, would come to the block.'
We have here an undisguised declaration that
in the event of McClellan's election the work of
butchery is to begin. The President and his im
imediate advisers are to bo the first victims, but
.every man who has been prominent in his devotion
to the Union may expect to find his name in the
list of those doomed to the block. This is the lan
guage of men who talk of peace, and who denoun
ces as tyrannical an administration tliat offers no
hindrance to the proclamation of an era of murder,
in case the prospective butcher can succeed in the
Presidential election. t
The Chicago platform pronounces the war bn
; 'four year's of failure" and demands "an imme
diate cessation of hostilities." Mr. Stephens,
the rebel Vico President, greets the platform in
phe following poetic strain of exstatio joy— u I fail
bolt/ light, offspring of Ifcavcn !" Naturally
tnough for a rebel chief thus to go wild with de
light over the work of Clement C. Vallandigham.
Will a loyal people thus hail the work of a traitor
thus endorsed by one of the chief conspirators,
Vho have wantonly plunged us into war to destroy
ihc best government of the earth ?
A SOUTHERN PEACE!
DEHOCRATS !
RE NOT DECEIVED WITH THE IDEA
THAT THE REBEL LEADERS WILL WIL
LINGLY CONSENT TO A RESTORATION
OR THE UNION.
In the Rebel Official Report of the interview
between JEFFERSON DAVIS and MESSES. JA
QUES and GILLMORE, DAVIS dismissed them
with the declaration—
"THAT THE SEPARATION OF THE
STATES was an accomplished fact; that he had
no authority to receive proposals for negotiation
except by virtue of his office as President of an
Independent Confederacy; and ON THIS BA
SIS ALONE must proposals be made to him.''
In his last message to the Rebel Congress, JEF
FERSON" DAVIS, in speaking of peace, describes
"THE ONLY PEACE POSSIBLE BK-
T\\ BEN US—a peace which, recognizing the
impassable gulfwliich now divides us, may leave
two people (separately to recover from the injuries
ImiietM on both by the causeless war new waged
gainst us."
In a Speech to the Legislature of Mississippi,
Dec. 26, 1862, JEFFERSON DAVIS said—
"AFTER WHAT HAS HAPPENED the
last two years, my only wonder is, that we con
sented to live so long a time in association with
such miscreants. Were it ever proposed to enter
again into a Uinion with such a people, I could
no more consent to do it than to trust myself in a
den of thieves.''
DEMOCRATS! Are you prepared to legalize
Secession, to recognize the Independent Sover
eignty of the States, ane thus to perpetuate Rev
olution and Civil Strife? If not, Vote for LIN
COLN and JOHNSON, and thus secure the
only sure Peace. ~
SOUTHERN DEMOCRACY!
The object of the Southern Rebellion and of its
Northern allies, is to render Slavery universal.—
Under the name of Democracy, they seek to de
prive labor of all its right.
READ WHAT THE LEADERS SAY; •. I s
"The theory of free labor is a delusion. Slavery
is the natural snd normal condition of the labor
ing man, WHITE OR BLACK."—De Bow's
Sovthsm Revieio. • I
"The enslavement of the laborer is right in it
seif. and does not depend upon difference of com
plexion. -—Richmond Enquirer.
flavery.-BLACKor WHITE, is right and nec
essary. — FitzhugEs Sociology for the Smth.
'"Policy and humanity alike fofbid the exten
sion the of evils of free labor to new peoples and
coming generations.'— Richmond Enquirer.
'"Make the laboring man a slave, and he would
be far benter of.' Fitzhvghs Sociology,
"The hand that is familiar with the plough
handle should never be permitted to touch a bal
lot."—John C. Calhoun.
"Providence has so ordered our internal rela
tions as to make Negro Slavery an incalcuable bles
sing to us. — George W. Woodward.
"Even hero, in our happy land of universal suf
frage, how does it appear that .'ALL MEN ARE
BORN EQUAL?' The proposition is a sheer
absnr lity. All men are born UNEQUAL. And
their freedom is as unreal as their equality."—
Fi Jiqp Hopkins, Democratic Edition.
Thus the "Democrats," North and South, pro
nounce free society a failure, and free labor a curse.
Slavery is a blessing to be extended over all men
who labor, whether black or white.
As in the Past.
"Resolved, That in the future, as in the past,
we will adhere with unswerving fidelity to the
Union." —Democratic Platform. .
The Union came to an end during a "Democrat
ic" Administration "in the past."
The conspiracy against the Union culminated in
t "Democratic" Cabinet "in the past"
The President, through whose vacillation and
imbecility, not to say treachery and connivance,
the South opened their war against the Union,
was a "Democrat" of "the past." His name is
James Buchanan.
En-President John Tyler was an open and a
vowed rebel against the Uuion, and was a "Demo
crat of "the past."
En-President Pierce, who remains on excellent
terms with his old ("Democrat") Secretary of
War, Jefferson Davis, and has not lifted a finger
or a word in aid of the National Government, is a
"Democrat" of "tire past"
Ex-Vice President Breckinridge is aMajor-Gen
eral in the rebel army, and a "Democrat" of "the
past."
Vice President Aaron Burr was a traitor and a
"Democrat" in "the past.
Vice President John C. Calhoun, the father of
secession,"was a "Democrat" "in the past."
Jeff. Davis himself, his Cabinet officers and his
Generals, and nearly every conspieious, influential
or active leader in the rebel army, are ' 'Demo
crats" "of the past."
We greatly over-estimate the virtue, patriotism
and inteligence of our people if they give the
"Democratic party" an opportunity to "adhere to
the Union in the future as in the past," at this
particular jnncture.
Who gave us secession and with it war ? Thir
teen Democratic Governors and legislatures produ
ced the secessisn of the thirteen States, and a
bravo Union army has rescued half them back to
the Old flag. Have they not given us enough of
desolation and death ? ;
• Coffroth voted against providing means to pay
the soldiers, and maintained his consistency by tvo
ting against extending the right of suffrage to
them. We now have the sequel in the soldiers
maintaining their consistency and casting three
fourths of their vote against Colroth, and elect
ing Gen. Koontz to Congress. 1. ad for Coffroth,
but good for the soldiers !
Would you vote to restore the government to
the Democratic party, under whose fostering care
Treason became mighty, and under whose admin
istration it culminated in wicked war, and has
loaded us with debt and staggered us with taxes ?
Democracy gave us treason—it gave birth to it,
nursed it, and cherished it until it made a Nation
mourn. Can the perfidious author of this war
gives us honorable and enduring Peace ?
Vo! 437: No. 40
ANOTHER SPEECH FRO3J GEN. HOOKER.
Gen. Hooker spoke as follows on Wednesday
week, to an assembly In Indianapolis :
"FELLOW CITIZEES— I do not come here to par
ticipate in bnt to witness merely the ceremonies of
I dedication. I thank von sincerely for yonr expres
sion of kind feeling and esteem for me, but I do
not deserve such manifestations. They belong of
right to the brave men who have been with me and
| shared with me the danger and glory of battle,
your sons aud brothers. The honors are theirs
more than mine, and when the oistory of this war
is writen its true heroes will be found in the ranks.
Generals- some times-fail; the men never fail. —
Their loyalty and devotion to the flag are as earn
ed to-day as when they left their homes. There
is no faltering there. If, by any change, there
should be a dishonorable peace patched up', * the
soldiers of the army will not They in
tend to see the War out, and witness the'death'and
burial of the rebellion.
knotVn to the conspirators. Tney know they can
110t whip gur turnvy. JM another Jtope.
There is somefßin|T)bbT&r "Tifeytope thaitheir
friends at the North will defeat us at the ballot box.
Can they do it ? (Loud cries of 'Never !' 'Nev- j
er !') The.only hope of success on the part of
the rebels is to undermine ue in the rear. I have
had some grave doubts of Indiana, but since I
have been among you I have none."
General McCleßan gets about eight thousand
dollars a year from the United States treasury for
doing nothing : yet Copperheads cry out against
high taxes. Why don't the Peace General re
sign ?
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Sword Presentation, Speeches, •'
■y.; —— ' 07. - ; '..>>•
CAJIPS6T KBGT. P. V:,CAI>>TA\-'S PA**, Va. }
.r/ i; October 2fi /
MB, EBITOIU—
You insert in yourctritxama the fol
lowing. remarks which w.ero oiad# 011 the' oeoasion
:of presenting a swowl, sash sn+L to 2tl Lieut.
Hezekiah Hammer, of Co, K, ->3th P. V. The lan
guage breathed forth in these addresses needs no
comment. They are forcible so far aa pa
triotism ana.^pvotionto 'country are concerned—
Lieut. Hammer, it will ho remembered, has fully
shared thoj dangers 'as, trials of his comrades
throughout tliis arduous 'campaign, andtence they
were well prepared to form an opinion as regards his
worth, patriotism arid courage." The sword, asb
and belt were purchased from a fund raised/by vol
untary subscription among the members of CQ. IS K,
55th P. V, The -presentation was made by Corp.
Thomas Leach in the following address'r n
LIEUT. TTAWMER • In'behalf ofmy fellow comrades
and myself, member? of Co. it, we unite in present
ing you this sword, sash, Ac., in token. of 60 r es
teem for you and oar appreciation Of-die efforts you
have put forth to sustain the glorious cause in which
we have in common an equal interest at stake. In
transferring sword, Lieutenant, to your custody we
feel assured that you will never employ it but in the
cause cf justice and in defence of your country. We
feel that we can always rely upon the fidelity, cour
age and unswerving patriotism that you have been
wont to exhibit during the past. If wag the lot of
many of ns to be associated with you in the trials
and conflicts of the past, and we take this occasion
to bear testimony to your entire willingness to do
your duty faithfully, in the most trying situations.! —
Wc have shared the dangers and hardships, the
privations and sufferings of this campaign, together
and we feel in conferring this tribute of our respect
that we are bestowing it upon one who is -frell worthy
of it and has merited the reward. And it is our sfn -
cere wish that God may bless you with health and
that yon may return to your home, with the return
of peace to our country, to cheer and gladden the
hearts of all your relations and friends around you.
Lieut. Hammer's reply: JCIL -UIV
FELLOW COMRADES: YOU hare my thanksfor THE
respeot you entertain towards me, in presenting *te
with this sword. I thank you for the confidence you
repose in me in thus out,rusting*to my care and keep
ing this beautiful gift. 1 can only say that I have
done no more than my duty through the campaign
which is now tending to a close. 1 came out with
you as a private, determined to do my duty as far as
possible, and now, as it seems to be the desire of
you all that I should assume the rank I now hold, I
shall to the best of my ability discharge my duties
toward you and to my country. I shall try to use
this sword in the defence of my country, to vindi
cate her honor and sustain her in this her hour of
trial, and I never will, so long as I have remaining
vigor to wield it, surrender it basely to the foe. It
shall be my earnest endeavor to employ it, as I did
my musket, in the maintenance of the best and most
beneficent government ever instituted by man, or
the sun ever shone upon. I shall.never ask you to
go where I would not go, or face any danger which
lam not willing to brave myself. Comrades, in ac
cepting this gift I feel that I have assumed anew
responsibility, and I promise you that I shall alwttys
prize it as the most valuable Of all my treasures.* It
shall serve to remind me, should Ibe so fortunate
as to survive thif struggle, of your kindness and gen
erous confidence in me in future years and I assure
you I shall feel happy at all times to reciprocate
your friendship. - D. W. R.
List of Casualties
In Co. "E," TGthßegt. P. V., pinee the opening
of the campaign of Im>4, in Virginia,
AT CHESTER HEIGHTS, May 7. —Wounded. —Corp.
Levi Agnew, fore aria, severe; Chas. Caldwell, foot,
severe; David Johnson, arm, severe, since dead; John
Leader, shoulder, severe; Preston Miller, leg, flesh;
Jacob Petejrman, lqg; John E. Lemon, missing.
AT DREBI'S BLUETS, May 14 —Killed.— WM. Dem
mings; Chas. McCoy; Gabriel Vastbinder. Wounded
—Alex. Bollinger, hand: John Charleston, foot; Jas.
Leary, breast, severe; Jos. Bong, hand; Uriah Mills,
hand; M. B. Srbith, breast, severe; Samuel Stott,
hand; Andrew Miller, May 16, hand.
AT COLD HARBOR, June I— 'Wounded.—Corp. J. F.
Cypher, leg, severe; Corp. W. F. Fahnestock, foot;
Color Corp. Theodore KJabre, face, severe; John
Fetter, hand; Wilber Ljroh, leg, severe.
NEAR PETERSBURG, July s—Wounded.—Wm. M.
Lynn, hip, severe; John T. Eckles, July 25, face; 8.
Warner, July 27, face, severe; Ist Segt. R. P. Pilkiug
ton, July 30, arm; Sergt. A. C. Bennett, July SO,
hand; Chas. B. Lindsey, July JO, chin.
AT DEEP BOTTOM— Wounded. —lst Segt, R. P.
Pilkington, Aug. 14, arm, severe; 2d Segt. L, Smith,
Aug. 16, contusion, severe; H, H. Nulton, Aug. 16,
shoulder; JohnT. Ecklo, Aug. 16, missing; Beiy. F
Molin, Aug. 16, missing.
W. P. B.