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HUNTINGDON, PA.
Thursday afternoon, Aug. 22, 1861
Red, White, and Blue
(11, Womble, the gem of the °Min.
The home of the bravo and the (roe,
The rhrine of each patriot's devotion,
A world offers homage to thee.
Thy mandates make heroe, assemble.
When liberty's form Mande In view,
Thy banners make tyranny tremble,
VI hen borne by the red, eshite, end blue.
When binne,by the red, white, end blue,
• When borne by the red, white, rind blue,
Thy banners make tyranny tremble,
When borno by the rest, white, and blue.
Whim war waged its wide desolation.
And threaten'd our lend to derot tu,
The. nek then of freedom'. foundation,
Columbia rode Agfa through the storm.
With her garland of sletory o'er her,
When so proudly she bore her bold cress,
With her flag proodly.float log before her,
The boost of the red, white, end blue.
• The boast of, de.
The wine cup, the nine cup bring hither,
And fill you it up to the brim,
May the wreath they bare won never wither,
Nor the star of their glory grow dim,
May the service united neer saver,
1, And hold to their colors so true,
The army and nary forever,
, Throe alders for the red, white, and blue.
Three ell cern for, .te
DELEGATE ELECTION
AND
COUNTY CONVENTION.
The Democratic voters of the Several
boroughs and. ,townships of Hunting
don county, aro requested to meet at
their usual places of holding delegate
electibis,' on SATURDAY TUN 24m ,A.u-
GUST, 1861, and to- elect two dele
gaes 'frOhi Vaeli represent
. „
the party in a County Convention, to
be held in the Court House in the bor
ough of Huntingdon, on MONDAY VIE
26TH AUGUST, at 2 o'clock, P. M. The
object of the Convention will be to ap
point a Committee of- fifteen Demo
crats " who are favorable to a vigorous
prosecution of the war, and the course
pursued by the 'general government in
its efforts to suppress the present re
bellion instituted by the Disunionists
of the South," to meet a Committee of
like number appointed by the People's
Party, in a Union Conference to be
held at the Court House, on TUESDAY,
Auonsr 27th at 2 o'clock, P. M., for
the purpose of putting in nomination
a Union County Ticket to be voted for
at next General Election.
'Day- The election in the several town
• ships to be opened at 4 o'clock, P. M.,
and continued open two hours, and.in
the boroughs at o'clock and close
at 9.
GEORGE JACKSON - ,
Chairman
Atigiist 19, 1861
Save the Country First
Too many papers we pick up appear
to be' partiCularly interested at this
time in the success of either the Dem
ocratic or Republican party. We have
seen and heard this until we are sick
and tired of it ; and with a Rebellion
staring us in the face, we think it is
time old party line's were obliterated.
If they are not, both parties will soon
find out that before we can success
fully and effectually rid our country
of traitors and end this unholy war on
the Union, they will have to drop par
ty to save the country from the rule
of- military Ityrants. We have been
known in the county as a Democrat
since we have had control of the Globe,
fifteen years last March, but we deny
being a party Democrat at this time.
'We claim to be an unconditional Union
man, and in fhvor of prosecuting this
war with , the Rebels until every one,
both North and South, shall be so ef
fectually c! wiped " from this Heaven
favored land, that - a Secessionist will
ho as great a curiosity as was the
Ruptian mummy when first discov
ered.
A few of the aspiring, ambitious
third class politicians of both parties
M the county, who wOuld sell them
selves Ibr a sixpence, and their chance
of Heaven
. for a county office, still
cling tenacionsly to what' they call
party organizations, and harp about
this and about that which every sem
bible man and patriot cares nothing
about, much less of holding a petty
county office, , We are pleased to know
that the more sensible, intelligent and
patriotic masses of men of all parties
have the preservation of their country
too much at heart to take any interest
in the pettmnarrels of aspiring politi
cians. And.we know that the right
spirit exiitsWith a 'large majority of
the people of the county in reference
to the,nomination of a Union County
Ticket. We have conversed with
many gentlemen from different parts
of the county—gentlemen who have
heretofore adhered tenaciously to par
ty organizations and nominations, but
who are now willing and anxious' to
bury the partisan in the Patriot. 'An
Unexceptional Union Ticket, to be
nominated on Tuesday next, will be
endorsed at the polls by the Union
men
,by,t4 majority which will be an
bonk to, ho county not soon to be
forgotten, ,t
- we, wiitt to stye otp.;cotta47 first,
After that we wift , have time enoh . gh
to'talli fight i~olitio ii fiat
ties, "
The Country's Response
The people of the free and loyal
States have lately , sunk into an extra
ordinary apathy, not seeming to ap
preciate that we were really at war,
and that the capital was in imminent
danger. It became necessary for the
Goverament to do something to arouse
them, and hence the call for more troops,
LO be sent immediatly to Washington,
without even the usual delay of or
ganizing into full regiments, or wait
ing for arms and equipments.
It is cheering to see with what alac
rity the people respond to this appeal.
In every ono of the Northern States
there has been a fresh rising, and a
determination to move with such en
ergy and force as are demanded by the
emergencies of the country. It has
been ascertained that-Philadelphia can
send six or eight thousand mon within
a few days, and the rest of the State
may scud as many more. New York
city and State can despatch fully fif
teen thousand men before the week is
over. Now Jersey and Delaware have
each already sent on a regiment. New
Hampshire has three regiments ready,
Massachusetts five, and Michigan five.
From other States we have, at this
moment, but little in -formation, but it
is quite certain that within a week
there may be sent to Washington fifty
thousand more troops, if the means of
transportation are sufficient. These
will be chiefly from New England,
New York, New Jersey and Pennsyl
vania. The troops from the Western
States are needed in Missouri, Western
Virginia and elsewhere.
While it is gratifying and encour
aging to find so ready and liberal a
response to the demand of the Gov
ernmetit, we must not let ourselves
again sink into indifference, and fancy
secure because so much has been
done. We have a powerful and vindic
tive enemy, who has been - emboldened
by success to undertake work that he
did not dare to think of a month ago.
We need far more men than we now
have in the field. There should be not
less than one hundred thousand then
on the Virginia side of the Potoinitc,
as many more on this side, about Wash
ington, and at least fifty thousand to
guard the line of the river from Geori b
n
town to Williamsport. "Wimp we have
such a fdrce, placed under the entire
control of Major General McClellan,
then we will be in a proper condition
to contend against the rebels in Vir-
EMI
It is getting to be understood that
the half million of volunteers, authori
zed by Congress, will all be needed to
put down this rebellion and preserve
the nation.' So we Must hot have
merely spasmodic efforts; but must
keen up ofq,aorro,
Imps for many months to come.' We
rejoice-to witness and hear of the busy
activity among the volunteers, since
the receipt of the new call from the
Government. But it must be kept up
continuously, and that by constant ap
peals and constant reiteration of the
great fact, that we are engaged in a
war, and that the country is in dan
ger.—Phila. Bulletin, Aug. 2011 i inst.
SPOTTING ThEASON.—The Union feel
ing of the State has waked - up to the
necessity of pointing out all who sym
pathize with the Rebels of the South.
We had feared at one time that traitors
at home, in the Keystone State, would
be permitted to continue their unholy
work of poisoning the •minds of, the
unsuspecting, without an 'effort on the
part of the people or the Government
to put a check to their proceedings,
but we arc glad to see evidences on
the part of both that all who are not
loyal to the Government will be prop
erly attended to. Disunion sentiments
in the North, no matter by whom ut
tered, should meet with' an indignant
public opinion, and thew who utter
them shOuld receive the..punishment
they deserve. „
TREASONABLE PAPERS SUPPRESSED.—
The type and fixtures of the Easton
Sentinel, and West Oldster Jeffersonian,
both secession papers, Were 'destroyed
On Monday night last. •
Our Army Correspondence.
CAMP CAMPBELL, Aug. 19
DEAR GLOBE :—When I wrote my
last letter from Henderson township,
I had no notion of enlisting; but the
war fever got so strong that I could
not resist it, and hero I am. I joined
the army at Camp Curtin, and was
there about two weeks; I was glad to
get away f . rom•thero. We left Harris
burg in' the evening and arrived at
Washington the next evening. All
along the route we were greeted with
cheers, and waving of handerchiefs
and flags at every howl° and village
that we passed. The enthusiasm rath
er increased than diminished aftei we
crossed the Maryland line. ' As wo
marched through Baltimore, we were
occasionally cheered, though the peo
ple were generally quiet. We bad to
drag our cannon about two miles
through Washington, by hand.
We had about : eight - hundred men
and only thirty-twd guns, all of them
six pounders except two : which were
twelve pounders.
Sinoo we oamo here three companies
have been supplied :with horses ,and
marched to Georgetown heights,anoth,
er comptorget horses to-day, I think
we will get ours t.ci-morrow„ Nothiug,
more now, but I will write again. ,
RANGER,,
Co. G, 15c Art. Rev.
The Latest News.
Proclamation from Gov. Curtin
HARRISBURG, Aug. 20.—Gov. Purtiu
has to-day issued the following procla
mation :
Pennsylvania as., A. G. Curtin, Governor:
In the name and by the authority
of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania,
Andrew G. Curtin, Governor of the
said Commonwealth.
A Proclamation to the Freemen of the
Commonwealth of Pennsylvania:
Washington is again believed.to be
in danger. The President has made
an earnest appeal for all the men that
can be furnished to be sent forward
without delay. If Pennsylvania now
puts forth her strength, the hordes of
hungry rebels may be swept down to
the latitudes where they belong. If
she falters, the seat of tumult, disorder
and rapine may be transferred to her
own soil. Let every man so act that
he will not be ashamed to look at his
mother, his wife or sisters.
In this emergency, it devolves upon
me to call upon all commanders of
companies to report immediately to
the headquarters of the Common
wealth, at Harrisburg, that means may
be provided for their immediate trans
portation, with the men under their
commands.
The three months volunteers, whose
discharge has so weakened the army,
are urged by every consideration of
feeling, duty and patriotism to resume
their arms at the call of their country
and aid the other mon of Pennsylvania
in quelling the traitors.
(liven under my hand and the great
seal of the State, at Harrisburg, the
20th day of August, in the year of our
Lord one thousand eight hundred and
sixty-one, and of the_ Commonwealth
the eighty-sixth. ",
(Signed) Era SLIFER.
Secretary - of the Commonwealth
'INTERESTING FROM CAIRO.
A Midnight Engagement at Charleston,
Missouri
ST. Louis,' Aug.' 20.—The town of
Commerce, Mo., fbrty miles above Cai
ro, which was taken on Sunday, and a
battery planted by the Secessionists,
was retaken last night by 500 'troops
sent down from Cape Girardeau' by
order of Gen. Fremont.
The rebels made no stand, but re
treated with their battery on the ap
proach of our troops. Their force was
about 1.50 infantry and the same num
ber of cavalry.
CAIRO, Aug 20.—An engagement
took place last night at twelve o'clock,
at Charleston, between the Federal
force, 250 strong, and a rebel force of
about 000 or 700 men.
The Federal troops consisted of a
portion of the 22nd Illinois Regiment,
under command of Col. Dougherty,
accompanied by Lieut. Colonel Raw
son; 'Or . the 11th Illinois Regiment.—
The rebels were commanded by Col.
Hunter, of Jeff. Thompson's army.
The Federal force was victorious,
completely routing the rebels, killing
40 and taking 17 prisoners.
WASHINGTON, Aug. 21.—The contin
ued alarms about the designs of the
insurgents against the Capital, are now
believed by gentlemen in high quar
ters, to be the htbrications of Reces
sion •emissaries.• oi)inions, however,
are utvated on uns subject. ‘v natever
may be the truth respecting it, the
Administration wants to reinthrce and
be ready for
. active operations. The
volunteers, while left in the Northern
cities and towns, can do no service;
but they can he organized here and
ready. for service immediately. Hence
the call made on the 19th inst.
WasuisoroN, Aug 21.—An official
despatch from Major General Fremont
has been received by the War Depart
ment, confirming the news of a suc
cessful attack upon the rebel force at
Charleston, Mo., below Bird's Point.
Forty of the rebels were killed and
seventeen were taken prisoners.
limuttsuutui, Aug. 21—Pennsylva
nia true to her ancient glory still leads
the van in the defence of the old Flag.
The order of the Secretary of War.
for the . , immediate transmission of
troops to Washington, was received on
Monday morning, and already- upwards
of three thOusand men have loft this
city and Philadelphia en route for the
seat of war.
Companies aro pouring in from all
sections of the State and the large
number of regiments in process of for
mation in the State are being rapidly
consolidated, field and company offi
cers vicing with each other in the sacri
fice of individual interests and person
al ambition.
The proclamation of Governor Cur
tin will be - nobly responded to.
Of the twelve new regiments con
templated by the State authorities. one
commanded by Colonel' Black, ex-Gov
co•nor of Nebraska, left for Washington
last evening. Two others fully equip
ped will be read}• to march 'in a few
days, and the remainder will be made
up and.despatched• at the rate of about
two a week.
All these regiments will be officered
by experienced men, selected with great
caution ,hy Gov. Curtin, most of whom
have seen active service in the field.
and about two-thirds of the rank and
file are recruited from thejhrce months
volunteers.
Gov. Curtin and his Staff are active
ly engaged, and their untiring labors
are promptly seconded by the people.
In every part of the State the highest
evidences of patriotism are manifeSted,
and the - hearty enthusiasm which pre
vails. furnishes unmistakable testimo
ny of the patriotic devotion of the Old
Keystone to the cause of Constitution
al ,liberty. . , ,
Adviccs from the fifteen regiments
of the Reserve corps
,give gratifying
acconntS'Of their efficiency; and the
wisdom and foresight of the Governor
in having such an army ready, is justly
the subject of general commendation.
The Artillery regiment, comprising
eight perfect batteries, fully manned
and equipped, is reported by the Chief
of Ordnance in Washington, to be one
of the most efficient auxiliaries yet
sent to the field.
Paymaster General - Maxwell has
just - returned - from Washington and
Battiniore. Re reports the State Re
serve Corps as being nearly all paid off
up .to' the time 'the regiments compris
ing it were sworn in the service of the
United States,
•
Adviees ifhe Ga'vernor from' his
agent now in Washington, also state
that all- these regiments are well pro
'iddcid With •the imeeisary elothivand
accoutrements of _ii;ar, including-new
arms in lieu of the oldllmuskets first
furnished by the War Department,
Speech of Hon. Joseph Holt
To the Kentucky Troops, at Camp
" Joe Holt." Ind. •
Iron. Joseph Tlolt recently visited
the camp of the Kentucky troops, and
made the followingspirit stirring speech
to the soldiers:
FELLOW-CrnzENS AND SOLDIERS:--I
say citizens, since you are still such ;
and it is only because you have re
solved that no earthly power shall rob
you of this proud title, or in any man
ner curtail the privileges and blessings
associated with it, that you have be
come soldiers. Your soldiership is but
the stately armor you have donned for
the purpose of doing battle in defence
of that citizenship, which is at once
the most intense and the most truth
ful expression of your political life.
No poor words of mine could ade
quately convey to you the- grateful
emotions inspired by the kindness and
warmth of this welcome. I should
have been rejoiced to meet you any
where. How full, therefore: the meas
ure of my happiness must be to meet
you here in such 'a presence andsmid
the thrilling associations inseparable
from the scene, you can well under
stand. I should have felt proud to
have my name connected with the
humblest trapping of your encamp
ment, but to have linked it with the
encampment itself, and thus inscribed
as it were upon one of the mile stones
that mark your progress toward those
fields of danger and of fame that await
you, is at once an honor and a token
of your confidence and good will for
which I cannot be tooprotbundly thank
ful.
It is not my purpose to occupy you
with any political discussion. The
gleaming banner, the glistening bayo
nets, and the martial music, and in
deed, all that meets the eye or the ear
Upon 'this tented field, admonish me
that with you at least the argument
is exhausted, and that you have no
longer doubts to serve or hesitating
convictions to confirm. Your resolu
tion is taken, and you openly proclaim
that, let others do as they will, as for
yourselves, utichilled by the Arctic
airs of neutrality, you are determined
to love your country, and, unawed by
traitors, to fight its battles, and, if need
be, to lay down your lives for its pre
servation. It is indeed transporting
to the patriot's heart to look upon the
faces of men that aro thus sublimely
resolved, and there is for me a positive
enchantment in the very atmosphere
whose pulsations have been stirred by
the breathings of their heroic spirits.
Now that the booming of the cannon
of treason and the cry of men stricken
unto death for fidelity to our flag are
borne to us on almost every breeze, it
is hunt:Swing to the soul to be dragged
into companionship with those who
still vacillate, who are still timidly
balancing chances and coldly Calcula
ting losses and gains—who still per
sist in treating this agonized struggle
for national existence as a petty ques
tion of commerce, and deliberately
take out their scales and weigh in our
presence the beggarly- jewels of trade
against the lith of our country.
Soldiers, next to the worsliip of the
Father of us all, the deepest and grand
est of human emotions is the love of
one tuna that gavt:, tb,-- It - -Li 1111
enlargement and exaltation of all the
tenderest and strongest sympathies of
kindred and of home. In all countries
and climes it has lived, and defied
chains and dungeons and racks to crush
it. It has strewed the earth with its
monuments, and has shed undying lus
tre on a thousand fields on which it
has battled. Through the night of
ages, Thermopylae glows like some
mountain peak on which the morning
sun has risen, because,
twenty-three
hundred years ago, the hallowing pas
sion touched its mural precipices and
frowning crags. It is easy, however,
to be patriotic in piping times of peace,
and in the sunny hour of prosperity.—
It is national sorrow, it is war, with
its attendant perils and horrors, that
tests this passion, and winnows from
the masses those who, with all their
love - cf life, still love :their country
more - While your preSent position is
it'most vivid and impressive illustra
tion of patriotism, it.haS a glory peCtt-
Hal: and altogether its own. The mer
cenary ,tirmies Nhich have
_swept, vic
toriously over the world; 'and . haVe
gathered so many of the laurels that
history luta embalmed,'Were'but ma
chines, drafted into the service of am
bitious spirits, whom they obeyed, and
little understood or appreciated the
problems their blood was pottred .out
to solve.
'l3ut while you have all the dauntless
physical courage which thy displaYyd,
ycht add to it- a therthigh knowledge
of the argument on whiell this mighty
movement proceeds; and a moral hero
ism. which, breaking away from the
entanglements of kindred and friends
and State policy, enables you to follow
your convictions of duty, even though
they should lead you up 'to the can
non's mouth. It must, ever, be added,
that with this elevation of position,
come corresponding responsibilities.
Soldiers, as you are, by conviction, the
country looks not to your officers', chi
valric and skillful as they may bp, but
to you and each of you, for the safety
of those vast national interests com
mitted to the fortunes of this war.—
Your ,camp life will .expose ,you to
many temptations; you' should resit
them as you would resist the advanc
ing squadrons of the enemy. In. every
hour of peril, or of incitement to - ex
cess, you will say to yourselves, ",Our
country sees us," and so act as to stand
forth soldiers, ,not , only without Aar,
but also, without reproach; each mo
ment, not absorbed' by the toils and
duties of your military life, should, as
far as practicable, be devoted' to that
mental and moral training, without
which the noblest of volunteers must
sink to a level with an army of mer
cenaries.
Alike in the inaction of the camp,
_amid the fatigues of the march, and
the charge and shouts of battle, you
will remember that you have in yotir
keeping, not only your own personal
reputation, but the honor of our native
State, and, what is; infinitely. more in
spiring, the honor of_that blood-bought
and beneficent Republic whose chil
dren you are. Any irregularity, on
your part would sadden the land that
loves you; anyililtoring in the Aires:
once Of the foeswould cover it with
immeasurable' humiliation. You will
soon mingle in the ranks with the gal
lant volunteers from the North and
West, and with arm you: will admire
their moderation, their admirable dis:
ciplino, and that deep determination,
whose, earnestness with them has no
language of menace Or bluster or pas
sion. When .the men from, Bunker
11111 and the men from the " dark and
bloody ground," u n es tra nged from each
other by the low arts of politicians,
shall stand side by side on the same
battle-field, the heart of freedom will
be glad.
Carry with you the complete assur
ance that ere long you will have not
only the moral but the material sup
port of Kentucky. Not many weeks
can elapse before this powerful Com
monwealth will make an exultant
avowal of her loyalty, and will stand
erect before the country, stainless and
true, as the truest of her sisters of' the
- In the scales of the Momen
tous events now occurring, her weight
should be and will be felt. Already
she is impatient, and will not much
longer, under the pressure of any pol
icy, submit . to shrink away into the
mere dust of the balances.
ITave no fears as to the vigorous and
ultimately successful prosecution of
this war; and feel no alarm as to the
expenditure it must involVp Or : us to
those startling steps, seemingly smack
ing of the exorcise of absolute authori
ty, which the Administration may be
forced from time to time to take.—
While doubtless all possible economy
will be observed, it is apparent that no
considerations of that kind can be per
mitted, for a moment,- to modify the
policy which has been resolved upon.
When the life of the patient is confess
edly at stake, it would be as unwise as
it would be inhuman to discuss the
question of the physician's fee before
summoning him to the bedside.
Besides, all now realize that the sys
tem of arithmetic is yet to be invented
which could estimate in dollars end
cents the worth of our institutions.
This terrible emergency, with all its
dangers and duties, was unforeseen by
the founders of our Government, and
by those who subsequently adminis
tered it, and it must make laws for it
self. The Government has been like
a strong swimmer suddenly precipita
ted into the sea, and like that swim
mer it has unhesitatingly and most
justifiably seized upon any and every
instrumentality with which it could
subdue the treacherous currents and
waves by which it has found itself Sur
rounded. All that was irregular or
illegal in the action of the President
has been fullv-approbatcd by the coun
try,. and will, no doubt, be aPprobatcd
by Congress, on the broad and incon
testable principle that laws and usaT,es
of administration designed to preserve
the existence of the nation, should not
be suffered to become the instruments
of its death. So, for the future, I do
not hesitate to say that any and every
measure required to save the republic
from the perils that beset. it, not only
may, but ought to be taken by the Ad
ministration, promptly and fearlessly.
Within so brief a period no such gi
gantic power has ever been placed at
the disposal of any Government as that
which rallied to the support of' this
- within the last fcw months, through
those volunteers who have poured alike
from hill and valley, city and village,
throughout the loyal States. All classes
ainl all pursuits Lave been animated
by the same lofty and quenchlessen
thtightsm. While, however, 1-would
make no invidious distinctions, where
all have so nobly done their duty, I
cannot refrain from remarking how
conspianous tho hard-handed' tillers of
the soil of the North and West have
Haile themselves in swelling the ranks
of bur army. We honor_ cominerce
with its busy marts, and the workshop
with its patient toil and exhaustless
ingenuity:but still we Would be un
faithful to the truth of history did we
not confess that the most heroic cham
pions of human freedom and the most
illustrious apostles of its principles have
come from the broad field of agricul
ture.
There seems to be something in the
scenes of nature, in her wild and beau
tiful landscapes, in her cascades, and
cataracts, and woodlands, and exhila
rating airs of her hills and mountains,
that imbraces the fetters which man
would rivet upon the spirit of his fel
low man. It was at the handles of the
plow and 'amid the breathing; odors of
the newly opened •furrows, that the
character of Cincinnatus was formed,
expanded and matured. It was not in
the city full, but in the deep gorges
and upon the snow-clad summits ofthe
Alps, amid the eagles and the thun
ders, that William Tell laid the founda
tions of those altars to human liberty,
against which the surging titles of
European despotism have beaten for
centuries, but, thank God, have beaten
in vain. It was amid the primeval for
ests and mountains, the lakes and leap
ing streanis of our own land amid
fields and waving grain ; amid the
songs of the reaper and the tinklings
of the shepherd's bell, that were nur
tured those rare virtues which cluster
ed, star-like, in the character of Wash
ington, and lifted him, in moral stature,
a head 'and shoulders aboVe even the
demigods of ancient story.
There is one most striking and dis
tinguishingfeature ofyour mission that
should never ho lost si • yht of. You are
not about to invade the territory of a
foreign enemy, nor is your purpose
that of conquest or spoliation. Should
you occupy the South, you do so
as friends and protectors, and your
aim'will not be to' subjugate that be
trayed and distracted country, but to
deliver it from the reniorseless military
despotism by which it is trodden down.
Union men. who are your• - brethren,
throng in those States sad
for the coining footsteps ofyour army,
as the Scottish maiden of Lncknow
listened for the airs of her native land.
It is true, that amid the terrors and
darkness which prevail there, they arc
silenced and are, now unseen, hut be
assured that by the light of the stars
you carry upon' your banner you will
find them all. It has been constantly
asserted by the conspirators through
out the South, that this is a war of
subjugation on the part of the Govern
ment of the United States, waged for
the extermination of Southern Institu
tions, and by vandals and miscreants,
who, in the fury of their passions, spare
neither age nor sex norinopel'ty.• _Vven
one of the Confederate Generals has
so thy steeped himself in Infamy as to
publish - hi choice billingsgate, this base
calumny, throu,gli,an officutlpwolatua-.. !
titan.
•
In view of 300, Congress
, has re,
Gently so solemnly resolved,- and in
view of-the-continuous- and consistent
action Of the 'Adminhitration upon, the
Rubj cet, those who, thrqgglisthe Tress
or in public speeches, persist in repeat
ing the wretched slander, are giving
utterance to what everybody, them
selves included, knows to be solute
ly and infamously false. It will be the
first and thb highest duty of the Amer
ican army, as it advances South, by its
moderation and humanity, by its ex
emption from every excess and irregu
larity, and by its scrupulous observance
of the rights of all, to show how foully
both it and the Government it repre
sents have been traduced. When,
there
fore, you enter the South press lightly
her gardens and fields ; guard sacredly
her homes; protect,- if need be, at the
point of your bayonets, her institutions
and her constitutional rights, for you
will thereby not only fully respond to
the spirit and objects of this war, but
you will exert over, alike the oppress
ed and infatuated portion of her people,
a power to which the most brilliant of
your military successes might not at
tain.
But when you meet in battle array,
those atrocious conspirators, who, at
the head of armies, and through woes
unutterable, arc seeking the ruin of our
common country, remember that since
the sword flamed 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
millions whose hearts are breaking un
der the anguish of this terrible crime,
and then strike in the power of truth
and duty, strike with a bound and a
shout, well assured that your blows
will fall upon ingrates and traitors and
parricides, whose lust for power would
make this bright land one vast Gol
gotha, rather than be balked of their
guilty aims, and may the God of your
fathers give you the .victory.
I should have rejoiced to meet you
within the limits of yonderyroud Com
monwealth, from whence you came,
and whose name you bear, but wise
and patriotic men, whose motives I re
spect while dissenting from' their con
clusions, have willed it should be other
wise. Here, however, you are in the
midst of friends, and have doubtless
received a brother's welcome, on the
soil of a State Which is not only loyal,
but proud ()flier loyalty-4i State which,
by the marching of her volunteers, an
nounces every hour what a portion of
her people have recently proclaimed
by formal resolution, that "the sup
pression of this rebellion is worth more
to the'world than all our lives and all
our money," and' that she "cares noth
ing for life or worldly goods, when
they can only be enjoyed amid the
ruins of our country." No Spartan
hero under the grandest inspirations
of patriotism ever uttered nobler sen
timents 'than these. Indiana and Ken
tucky, it is true, are separated by a
broad river, but in their history it has
only proved a thread of light and beau
ty ; across which their hands and their
hearts have ever been clasped in friend
ship and in faith.
In those stirring conflicts for princi
ple which have arisen in the past, they
haVe stood together and on more than
one bloody field, shoulder to shoulder
they have borne onward, through the
thickest of the fight, that glorious ban
ner, whose stars, I trust, will never
grow dim ; and now, your presence
here to day is a gladdening; assurance
0-a-, in the - mom:onto:l7f CUTILeNti - 011
whose threshold we stand,thoseStatos,
so lontc allied, will not-be divided. For
myself, I must be pardoned for saying
that, next to our own beloved Ken
tucky, my bosom most overflows to
ward the noble State under whose hos
pitable shelter we have met to-day, It
was my fortune to pass my childhood
and youth on my father's farm upon
the banks of yonder river, and in the
light of the morning and of the'eVen
ing sun, my eyes rested Upon the free
homes and forests of Indiana. I played
upon her hills and fished in her streams,
and mingled with her people, when I
was too yoting to know,! what I trust
I never shall be old enough to learn,
that this great country of' ourf has
either North or South, East or West,
in the affections and faith of true and
Iciyal. citizens. , ! „; '
Soldiers—when Napoleon was about
to 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-off horizon,
he exclaimed,'" From Pinder pyramids
twenty centuries behold your actions."
The thought was sublime and electric;
but you have more than this. When
you shall confront these: infuriated
hosts, whose battle-cry is, " Down with
the Government of the United States,"
let your answering shout be—" The
Government as'out fathers mute it ;"
and when you strike. remember that
not only do the good and the great of
the past look down upon you from
heights infinitely above those of Egyp
tian pyramids, but that uncounted gen
erations yet to come are looking up to
you, and claiming at your hands the
unimpaired transmission to them, of
that priceless heritage which has been
committed to our keeping..
,Say its
unimpaired transmission—in all the
amplitude of its outlines; n all the sym
metry of its matchless proportions, in
all the palpitating fullness of its bles
sing; not a miserably shrivelled and
shattered thing, charred by the fires
and torn by the tempests of revolution,
and all over polluted and scarred by
the bloody poignards of traitors.
Soldiers, you have come up to your
present exalted positions over many
obstacles and through many chilling
diseouragements. You now proclaim
to the world that the
,battles which, are
about' to be %tight in defence of' our
common country, its institutions and
homes, are your battles, and that you
are determined / to share with your-fel
low-citizens of other States, alike their
dangers:and their laurels ; and sure I
111 that this determinatiin has been in
nothimg shaken by the recent sad re
verse of arms whose shadow is still
resting; upon our spirits. The country
has indeed lost a battle, but it has not
lost its honor, nor its courage, nor its
hopes, nor its resolution to conquer.—
One of those chances to which the
fortunes of war ate ever subject, and '
against which the' most eimsummate
generalship cannot at all thnesproVide,
has giVen them a momentary avtin
tage to the forces of' the rebellion.—
Grouchy did not pursue the column of
Bulow,' and thus Waterloo was- won
for Wellington tai 00; very moment
that victory, with her laurelled wreath,
seemed stooping over the head of Na
poleon. So Patterson did not pursue
Johnson, and the ,overwhelming con
centration of rebel troops :that in con-.
sequence ensued, was probably the
true cause why the hinny of the TlTnited,
States was :driven back; excellent as
was its discipline and self-sacrificing as
has been its feats of valor. •
Panics, front slight and seemingly
insignificant causes have Occurred in
the best drilled and bravest of armies,
and they prove neither the want of
discipline nor of courage on the part
of the soldierg. 'This cheek has taught
us invaluable lessons,.which we could
not have learned from victory, while
the dauntless daring displayed by our
volunteers is full of promise for the fu
ture. Not to mention the intrepid
bearing of other regiments, who can
doubt our future when ho recalls the
brilliant charges of the New York
Sixty-ninth and the Minnesota First,
and of the Fire Zouaves ? Leonidas
himself, while surveying the Persian
host that., like a troubled sea, swept
onward to the pass where he stood,
would have been proud of the leader
ship of such men. We shall rapidly
recover froth this diseomfitureovhich,
after all, will serve only to nerve to
yet more extraordinary exertions the
nineteen millions of people who have
I sworn that this Republic shall not per
ish; and perish it will not, -periSh it
cannot, while this oath remains. •
When we look away to that scene
`of carnage, all strewed with the bpdies
of patriotic, men who courted death
for themselves, that their country
might live, and then look_ upon the
homes which their fall has rendered
desolate forever, We' ioalizp—what=l
think the popular heart in its forbear
ance has never completely.comprehen
ded— gin unspeakable and hellish atro
city of this rebellion.' It is a perfect
saturnalia of demoniac, passion._ From
the reddened waters of Tull - Thin, and
f'rom the. gory field of Manassas, there
is now going up an appeal to God 'and
to millions of'exasperated men'against
those fiends in human shape, who,
drunken with the Orgie4 of an infernal
ambition, are tilling to its brim the cup
of a nation's sorrows. 1170, .wo,I say,
to these traitors When this' appeal shall
be answered l ,
I must offer you my sincere congrat
ulations on the leadership of that true
patriot and soldier, around whose stan
dard you have gathered. When oth
ers hesitated he was decided; when oth
-0114 faltered, he was bold. The Govern
ment laid its band - a:Mils loyal Seth
and found it burning with the inex
tinguishable fires of patriotism at, ,a
time when - so many others, froth We
best motives iii the world, were care
fully packing themselves away to keep
in the ices of neutrality. I honor him,
Ken t tacky-wiff:honor-, ai thn nation
will honor him.
- -
,
When you move,.as soon you may,
to the seat of war, Kentucky, despite
the whispered Caution of ,politicians.,
will cheer you on, and will hang with
prayerful "solicitude - over: yrin, alike
upon your march; and amid the heavy
currents of battle. Loyal men every
where_ arc exclaiming, "God speed
you," and "all hail to your courage
and patriotism." Glory beckons you
onward and upward, and could the il
lustrious dead hear in the graves where
'4,licy sleep; your, every_ footfall,- as you
advance to your country's battle-fields,
it wonld'be music to their ears.
I atn. g,rateful' to you all, but espe
chilly to our fair countrywomen,. fbr
distinguished reception. It 01111
never Lo_felivsocc..--I=hat if-WnS'froin a-
Sparton mother that came those words
of heroic patriotism which have never
bccn'equalled 4 by tiny that have Tanen
from the lips of, man. For more than
twenty centuries the deepening shall
ows have fallen upon the river and the
seas f upon the'mouutainsand the-plains
of the past; and yet, front the midst of
all this gloom, these words still gleam
out upon ns like lightning from a sum
mer's cloud. For more than two thous
and years the earth has been convulsed
and shaken to its- morallottitdatiens ,
nations and generations have risen and
perished by slow 'decay or amid the
shock of battle ; and the wail of our
stricken -race has• gone- up over the
sepulchres alike ortnen mill of empires.
Yet above all those words-have floated
down to us, and still float abroad upon
the airs of the world like some kind
ling strain of musie, ever- caught, up
and ever repeated with flashing eyes
and heard with wildly pulsating
hearts. Such is the power of ,patriot
ism, and such the spell its truthful ex
pression exerts over the great spirit 6'
humanity. , To - ,Wdrrittn, - ever:timid in
the sunshine, but,
our;
in the
storm, &e 'offer our,' thtinki. 'for this,
and we feel that we. must shut our ears
to the voices of -lien love, and veil our
souls from the ,illutninationa of, her
presence, before we can cense :to be
Willing to live and, to die in defelice,of
those institutions, which, more than
all others that have existed, have given
to her that position of, dignity and
meal poneC r ly impresS.
she-bears front her Creator's hand 4
fully entitles her to occupy.
A PROCLAMATION,
By the President, of2the , llntted States:,
Whereas. A Joint committee of both 1/011919 Of Congress
has waited on the President of the United States. and
unaided hunt to recommend a duty of public humiliation,
prayer, and lasting, to be observed , by the people of the
United States will, religious solemnities, and the offering
of fen eat supplications to Modality tint 'for the. /111111ty
stint wellitro of these Stat e s, his blessing on their an.,
and it speedy restoi adult to peace • -und whereas, it is fit.
and becoming hi all pod*, at allAitnei ticktidwlellge
and revere the supreme government eU God—to bow in
Mould° snlintitedon to Ills chastisement.i—to confess and
deplore their elite and aggressions, in the full conviction.
that the fear of the I.rd is the beginning of wiedom.and
to pray with all fervency and contrition for the pardon of
their paid offences, and fore blessing upon their present
and inovective notions; and whereas, whoa our helot ed
1101111 try, 011 m, by the biessiug of God, nutted. ffosperou,s
and happy, is now afflicted with factions and civil War,i.it,
is peculiarly fit for ms to recognive the hand of (ol s nnp
this Visitation, aruil in sorrowful ronicutbrdnee of our ow it,
faults mid clines as a nation and all JlllllOllllll 4 , tOlllllll,
lilt 01115,11 TH before thin and to pray for Ills mercy ;
that we may be spared furtlerr punishment though mi.;
justly deserved ; that our arms may ho blessed and outdo
effectual for reuistablisliment of low, order, and peace
througlant our country, and that the ineatituahl4 boon of
civil and religious liberty. earned under Ills guidance and
blessing by the tabors and sulLeringa of our fathers, tiny
bo restored in ail its original excellency; Therefore, 1,
Abroli in. Lincoln. Pi oddest of the United States, do ap
point the last Tionsda; to September next in a day of
limidliation, prayer, and fasting for all tine people of ilia
nation, and I do earnestly recommend to the people, and
chit chilly to all ministate mid teachers of religion, of all
ilenoinhiations, to all , litsithi Of families to observe amt
keep tint day, according to their sovemi creeds 111111 niodrs
of wotehip, in all hominy, and with nil religious soletn
, to the end tint the united prayer of the nation inlay
swell(' to the Throne of Grace and bring down plentiful
blessings epic our country
In testimony whereol; &c., - " ' '
ABRAHAM LINCOLN
By the President.
II ILLIAU 11. SEW. RD, Secretary Of State
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