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Raising of Troops

Colonel Ruehle, on being requested to say a few words, remarked that he had just returned from the war. He found the impression prevailing that the Army of the Potomac had been all cut to pieces and badly whipped. This was not so. [Applause.] Any private in that army, if told that McClellan had been defeated, would feel insulted and indignantly deny the assertion. He had a son and two nephews in the Army of the Union, and he had been in. He was willing to go again. [Applause.] We wanted men, we mud have them. Even when the rebels were conquered it would require a large army to keep them in subjection. The Government must be preserved in its integrity, all party ties and party feeling must be forgotten, and all men rally as one, until the glorious old flag floats triumphant from every hill-top and in every valley. The meeting then adjourned amid the heartiest enthusiasm, though announcements were made before the crowd dispersed that D. M. Richardson and J. E. King, of the Ninth Ward, would each contribute $5 to every man enlisting in Colonel Morrow's regiment from that ward, and that J. W. Frisbie, Jr., would give $5 to each man enlisting in the same regiment from the Fifth Ward, which announcements were received with cheers. The bounties offered at the meeting would sum up to each man as follows: First Ward, §30; Second Ward, $10; Third Ward, $20; Fourth Ward, $10; Fifth Ward, $15; Sixth Ward, $10; Seventh Ward, $20; Eighth Ward,$ 25; Ninth Ward, $20; Tenth Ward, $10.

 
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