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VOLUME 30, NO 31.CADIZ, OHIOFlora* fltr t*««li CMitoBrands Station, Va., \ Nov. 24, 1858* j C. N. Azlin—Dear Sir.—A* we seldom see anything in your paper from our regiment, in which I believe there are more Hairisoa comity boys than in any other, Iha Yethought that a short scribble from us, should you be eo kind as to publish it, might not bo without interest to sorao of your readers, whoso sons, brothers and husbands are in our ranks—not that I ahaU attempt to give a detailed ao-couut ofour ra iy.ymaot* Andfiporations during the put few manths or even weeks — professional correspondents do that iouoh bettor than I can—neither do I wish to bore your readers with minute details of unimportant matters. Suffice it to Bay that we have shared the dangers and hardships of the Army of the Potomac since tha 7 th of July last, when wo joined it at Frelerick, Maryland.—• During this time we have done a great deal of heavy marching, but our regiment has not yet been activoly engaged in any conflict with the enemy, though on sever.tl occasions forming part of the supporting colnmn and in rather uncomfortably close proximity to the bursting, booruing and whizzing of the rebel “eocoanut thunders as boys call them—but as yet wo have had po casualties in battle in our Regiment—though in the various movements of the array during the last five months wc have boon at times in advance of the rear guard an 1 on tha flvnks. So far we have indeed been fortunate, hut our experience and schooling so far, I doubt not, will prove valuable, as our men hare become inured to hardships and accustomed to the noise and storm of battle —so that when called to face the enemy in closer quarters, I doubt not they will prove reliable.The health of tha regiment is quite n* good as usual. Tho nows hero is perhaps; weie.eeived orders last night to bo ready to march by 7 o’clock, A. M. this morning. Pontoon trains, artillery and long linos of ammunition and provision trains were on the move •ill night, but this morning a soaking rain came that lasted till near noon— our orderjwas countermanded, and tho’ a few hours ago everything appeared to be on the move, all is qniot again. I doubt not that the rain (which very eoou mikos impassible the bo ads here) was tho causa. Of course I cannot tall yon any more about what this army will do, when or whore we will or lt;*ught to move, than many of your Patriotic Stiy at-IIome Generals can —but I have a kind of an idea a big thing is in contemplation by our wise and prudent General; and should we be favored wi th a little more fuir weather, I think we will “see it.” We have implicit confidence in the ability —in the elear head and honest hoart of Gen. Moado—shall try to do our duty and trust to an overruling Providence for the result. Should the present rains continue a few days days longor, yon may expect to hear of the Pocomao army being “stuck in the mud, for I teil you this “eacrod soil” ia awful for mud.Though it is true, as I have above intimated, that our regiment has never lost in battle, yet by disease, death, capture, and a few dastardly scamp* desertin', our ranks, like thorn of all oar regiments, have become much decim tte 1 -m l though wa look for an 1 expect e’er long tint the shuttered and pierced hull of the so-called rotten confederacy will cave in (yet wo anticipate a little more hot work jot) —■oat surely it oannot withstand another full summer’s campaign — “iienoa we are very n itarally, as we are ■enduring the hardships and privations of camp life are turning wistful eyes toward our homes, and wondering if our ranks are to bo filled by an oble band of freeman, coming voluntarily to our aid, or whether it will be by con-ecripts forced by tho strong arm of the law to defend thoir own government and their own homes, and bus-tain their own neighbors who have hitherto stood between their homes and ruin; an II presume this is a question that just now somewhat concerns the people at home. And new that the excited political contest is over, aud tho people havo very emphatically daoi led in favor of tha vigorous pros-ooutibu of the war and in favor of sustaining and supporting tur only proparly constituted authority in this work, does it not saom to woll ba-oo ne oil loyal uitizsns to heartily unite in the work? You an 1 I have tlvtyi and ttill differ in politios—bndoes it necessarily follow that cither of us shall prove such base political demagoguos to let our love for party smother our love for country. Sir, I can never bo so ungrateful as to forget the hearty co-operation and liberal aid you as well as many of your lead-| ing political friends gave me while recruiting my company—nor could I believe that you snd these same men will now turn us the “cold shoulder and thnt by none of your means or influence shall a single man be induced, to fiU a piacoin our thinned ranks. But I cbtvfea-* I am somewhat puzslo d by the following paragraph in your paper of last week, when you say amongfight.” They would do aH the fighting. Democrats were rebels and must not fight. The inquiry was made to exhibit to the people the hypocrisy of tho Loyal Leaguers. Although they sang•■WE will iilll iSe broken reikiof oar broiliorag'ino before,Shouting viie beivio cry of freedom. *' Democrats were still called on to volunteer; and you know, Captain, thnt Democrats have end will volunteer.— Shouting the '-battle-cry of freedom” will not accomplish much, unless the “sweet siinger*' curries a musket.— It don't “scare the rebels near so much as the whiz of a “ininie,” wheth-! er by Democrat or Loyal Leaguer.other things, “It is yet to be demon- j Your own company had a Democratic strated whether there are two hundred ; majority when it left the eounty. We lt;iand thirteen war men in the county, What, has Harrison county, that has sent about twelve or thirteen hundred of her sons to help defend this government from overthrow by armed rebels and to perpetuate tho government of their fathers to your and their posterity-—to stand between their and their neighbor's homes and destruction-many of whose noble forms now moulder in the soil of a half dozen States, not 213 war men left?—rather lot me ask are there 213 anti-war men in Ilarrison county—are there 13 men in Harrison county who are opposed to the overthrow by force of arms of the wicked conspirator* against our nation’s life—who are opposed to our government vindicating the supremacy of its law and constitution over every rood of American soil—opposed to our government striking down if ueed be a Divine institution if it stand in the way of its salvation.Permit me candidly to enquire of you if by such ami similar expressions as the one I havo quoted, you mean to convey the idea that it is the province alone of those who voted a certain ticket and tlteir duty alone, to volunteer. Do you mean to say that no one who voted the other ticket should or ought to enter tho service of hisdo not discourage volunteering. We Fleave ihat to tho Rxtrbme loyalists, [who discourage volunteering for mer-, Pjcenary motives. There should be no I pdraft in Harrison couuty. Wc had jincharge of tho Sentinel that week.— *Associate Editor.! «4 _ ' lt;Mr. Viill'iiKl'ifliain't Add lo ul.llie Mturieiii* ol Ibc Michigan ”,University.Governor Medary in tha Oriais of Now. 25 i ° thus alludes lo 'In* able mid dignified address ol Clement L. Vallandigham to tha studtnts i of the Michigan University, which appeared j in iha Sentinel. Uovi Medarysavs: 1 ,Wo are rure that every friend of Mr V»l . landigham will bo pleased— ye* more—gral I ^ died to read his very philosophical and most I ^ pairiotic address to the students ol the Mich j . igan University. As he was unable, with L, out violating the-infamous oider ol Mr. bin | . coin, to appear at the University ol Michigan ‘ lo address the students, us is usual in such . . cases, therelore some one hundred and Buy |u of them crossed tho river at Detroit and in | “ irodueed ihemstdvts to him, to which he i j* responded. Had they any souls, brains or • ^ consciences at Washington, they might loam ' . Irora this address thnt they are piling up 11. wrath in an outraged community ol Iree.oen, | instead of subserving anv good ends by ; J ihrir persecution ol line scholar, sutosmio j (gand puli int.Some year nr more ngo Lord Palmerston, | j. on being elected to the highest post ol learn , Ing In England delivered an address lo the | ^ students at Kninburgh. which was sent io I ^ us by soma friend in K island, and which wo read with more that u-mal imeres ; hut from its length wo wore unable to publish it — | Though very able, ii ddi not anything like , equal this in eloseuuss of style, purity ol language and in evidence of thorough read - ! fucountry, because, forsooth, he did not lng jjr. Vallandigham was on early suhol vote for those who happened to be in | ar—at eleven years nt age, under the cars of |authority. Surely you cannot mean to insult the loyal members of the minority party in Ohio by such an insinuation. Has not tho day come when loyal men of every name and party should cease party and personal bickerings, and unite heart und hand in this great struggle for our national existence. Let those most loud in their professions of devotion to country and Iter soldiery not bo found wanting when called to prove their faith by their works—let those who have been charged with a want of sympathy for our government and the great cause in which we battle stamp the falsehood on such imputations by rallying to the rescue, und saying by their acts that my love for country, and thcperpctui ty ot her free institutions shall only cease when America!) blood shall cease to flow through my veins and my artr shall he impotent to strike against traitors and rebels against the best government God ever gave to man— and in Harrison county there will he no draft, and your soldiers now in the field will feel that their dead comradeshis father, who was a clergyman, ha was I well read in the classics; at sixteen ha was i8 pronounced at school the first ol Greek L| scholars. At twenty-five, when ho first came j A to iha Legisla'ure Iroiu the county of Ool- 0{ umbiana, lie was conceded to be tho most j accomplished scholar thnt had appealed in 11„ our legiilanve halls lor years. In nddiiiou to j g| this Mr. Vallandigham is a close student and ! rt( seldom spends an hour in idleness. Strictly g, louiperato in all his bahim, never wasiing 0J bis time in idle dissipation of any kind, lit-1 |u has been able to resist all the temptations to ) ej acquire popu'arity or public lavois by a lax-ai'fjUirc nrny ur puuim ... -itv of principle in yielding to tho temptations | and the niray of plunderers who bang round £,i all legislative bodies to bny vuioi by oilers of bn lies direct, or the proffer of political support lor dereliction ol duly as a rrpresen tsulve of the people. This class of Lauor* on I, foiled in all their bliuidi-hmenta and efforts io corrupt him. have always been busy in representing him os nffenrnvt/y un popular. and a very useless if nut a dangerous man. To them be was both, but there it stopped. Wi h other-, us the Hue cause bo came known, he rapidly into lavor. To bad and oorrnpt men ho became dangerous and they exiled him. The more greedy and uiaLgptrni demanded his blood, but tho tho'ities had nut got that lar course.We now ack Mr. Vallandighara'S assail ame, those Who are not ashamed of thamtheirhave not gone down in vain, and that “elves, to read carefully, candidly, - -- • 'dress in our paper, anil compare ittfcls ad ith anythey are defending a people worthythe sacrifice they nre making. Hint ] ling lrom ,„y uf hiH ,iS„uni». Compare such may be the cheering result is the them and judge for yourselves It contains sincere prayer of one who feels some tho law and gospel of a free people—as pure little pride in th. p.trIotbm of hi, Jf ».natujj^jiiinty. ^ ^ ^ rxrnwre jgogue, but the undying tni bs fresh from theR. M. LYONS, Co. C, 126th Reg. 0. V. I.[\7e aro very much pleased to hear from Co. C, 126th Ohio. It is a noble company—one tlmt will do its wholo duty in any position in which it may be placed. And Captain Lyons, unlike some other ofliears from Ilarrisonheart of patriotism and affictipn for a coun try from winch bo has been diivon by Ibe hand ol unblushing Tyranny—and under a military ordor which Prenident Lincoln him ee|i subsequently recmded in the Chnago 'limes' case- an order which was likely to give tho Adminisira'ion mote trouble thao luO«e f.ir whom it was intended. When ihai oider wa- abandoned by tho President ho should have shone magnanimity enough to how rescinded all acts ol tyranny upon ndividuale, who lias suffered by it. liCounty, does not attempt to play the |that paw-Ju-tio.. not mercy, .e all which J 1 ' any uno demands.As the lteoublican papers dare not polish this address for their readers to sec, lot everytyrant iu dictating to his men fo whom they should vote—we aro glnd, too, to hear from him. Tho Captain labors under a misunderstanding as to the ‘gist’ of the article in the Sentinel, written by the Associate Editor, wherein isatid “It ia yet to be demonstrated whether there are 213 war men in H trriaon county. Last summer and fall an institution was in full blast in this county known as the “Loyal League, who made claim to extreme loyalty. They denounced all who favored tho perpetuation of free government and their own liberty in voting for the exiled patriot, Vallan-dighara, as in sympathy with rebels in arms against their givoranmt and as TAitors. They would not lot them speak of their devotion to country, but appeared anxious to oonvince all that a large minority of tho citizens of H ir-rison county waro traitors—that they loved tho ensign of robellion better than th» old Strips and Stars. They claimed t$ bo the exolusivo friends of the soldier—if a Democrat talked of entering the army, they would snow-•ngly inquire “on whioh aide th(y woulDeuiocrstin paper i-piuud it lar tnil wide over the land as ihe heel antidote lo iha puison nflictsd upon the public uiiud by men whu can never raise lo the appreciation of the truths il contains1 liri'e (iuoil I Hugh. „Three things to love—courage, gentlenees 11 end aff.ctian. Throe th ngs to admire—In- U lellecmal power, dignity and gracefulness — b Three things lo ha.e—cruelty, arrogance and u itigraiitude. Three things to delight in—jo beauty, frai.knc** and freedom. Three g things Io wish for—health, friends and cheerful spiiit. Three things to pray for—-»iih, poace ami purity ol heart. Three things to like—cordiality, good humor.and inirihfulnrss. Three tilings to pr..oure— good books, good frieods and the Cadit Sen line!.QirTho 8utes of Ohio. Indiana, Illinois and Michigan aro detached from Ihe Department of the Ohio, and are now under tho control of the Troves’. Marshal General, oi Washington.(KrThi* leolenoo from the Uelinnel Intelligencer, may be adopted by etory good Democrat: We protovs no political loyal ty rave that inspired by love (or the Onion, the Con* ituUun. and by ro.pect tor lbs law*. Who prolesse* more havo uoac.(KrWe have so objections, on the contra-ry would be much pleased, if our friends throughout the county would each of them seed an additional subscriber to the Cerft'a Bent*s*b
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The Cadiz Democratic Sentinel
Cadiz, Ohio, US
Wed, Dec 09, 1863
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