Speech of Governor Brough
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Excerpt from Speech of Governor Brough: Delivered at Circleville, Ohio, Sept, 3 The citizens of Pickaway county, wishing to manifest their satisfaction at the return of their brothers and sons from the hundred days´ service, and to improve the occasion by having the fires of patriotism kindled anew in their own hearts, and perhaps extended into the cold and cheerless hearts of their unbelieving neighbors, invited the people generally to meet together in picnic style at Circleville. Invitations were also sent to Governor Brough and to Hon. Job Stevenson, candidate for Congress in that District, to address the assemblage, which they did in a very acceptable manner. The following is a full report of Governor Brough´s remarks. E. L. Ohio´s Hundred Day Men. I come before you to-day, from the labors which, during the last two weeks, in arranging the credits and the military affairs of the State, have left me no time for reflection upon what I should say to you. I have stolen away from business in order to be present with you on this occasion of welcome to the gallant men who, in the hundred days´ service, responded to the call of the State, and went forth to perform the most important duty that could be devolved upon them. I feel as though I too would like to greet these noble men here to-day, for not only does not the history of this war, but the history of this country afford no parallel to the noble manner in which the National Guards of Ohio responded to the call that was made upon them by the State and by the nation. Remember the fact, and speak it to their credit everywhere, that from the second day of May, 1864, to the 18th of the same month, 35,000 men, the very cream of the population, the bone and sinew of the State, responded to the call made by telegraph, and within those sixteen days were armed, equipped and mustered into the service of the State, and were put into the field where their services were required to defend you and your Government from the aggressions of the rebel foe. I am aware of the great responsibility which, as Governor of the State, I exercised in making that call upon the people of the State; but I knew to some extent then, what I know positively now, that but for the response of those National Guards upon that occasion, the cause of the Union in all human probability would have been lost. I did not dare to hesitate under circumstances of that kind, and I was not deceived in the noble manner in which the able-bodied men of the State responded. And I will say to you now, what I could not have said then, that the National Guards were drilled, thrown into the field - 32,000 of them out of the State, and the remainder reserved on the borders, thrown into Virginia, the Kanawha Valley, around Baltimore and Washington, thus relieving for active service with Gen. Grant 54,000 veterans, who went forward, and now stand before the walls of Richmond; an army that enabled him to repulse Gen. Lee in the battle of the Wilderness, and drive his army to their fortifications, where to-day he holds them by the throat. I know the privations and perils through which these men have gone, but there are hours in every nation´s lifetime when no man may shrink from the duties imposed upon him. I hope these men have returned among you to-day with no more than the ordinary casualties of life. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com
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