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The Daily Dispatch: November 12, 1861., [Electronic resource], Kanawha salt. (search)
o that all the whites may go to the war unless they are too old, and then they take them for counsel. This explains the strange fact that they, with eight millions, have been able to bring superior forces into the field to ours — though we are twenty millions. That will not do. We must overpower them by numbers. The first thing, to that end, is to secure a union of all men who love the Republic. We owe much to the Republic. I certainly do. Beginning as poor as the poorest boy in Oneida county. I have grown to a man who at least holds a high office. It is this freedom for all that is the glory of our institutions, that makes us a great nation. We have a great deal to fight for. When the wisest man that ever lived in the tide of time was arraigned by the people of Athens, and condemned to an ignominious death, his friends surrounded him on the night before he was to drink the fatal hemlock, and said:"Socrates, the way is open to you to escape, and to find a home in some isla