"Our county and its people" : A history of Hampden County, Massachusetts. . ve of age, sex, or social condition,joined Avith an exemplary energy. Before the inauguration of Governor Andrew, January 5,1861, the war cloud grew threatening, and thoughtful men be-gan to despair of averting an appeal to arms. Yet so dreadfulseemed that alternative that, while nerving themselves for thestruggle should it come, the people of the state neglected noopportunity to urge conciliation and concession, and late in themonth a petition bearing 15,000 prominent names was jsent tothe Massachusetts delegation in
"Our county and its people" : A history of Hampden County, Massachusetts. . ve of age, sex, or social condition,joined Avith an exemplary energy. Before the inauguration of Governor Andrew, January 5,1861, the war cloud grew threatening, and thoughtful men be-gan to despair of averting an appeal to arms. Yet so dreadfulseemed that alternative that, while nerving themselves for thestruggle should it come, the people of the state neglected noopportunity to urge conciliation and concession, and late in themonth a petition bearing 15,000 prominent names was jsent tothe Massachusetts delegation in congress, urging conciliatorymeasures. The people were ready to sanction any reasonablesacrifice for the sake of peace, but they were not ready to see thenation, in the building of which their fathers had borne so honor-able a part, fall in Iuins about them. If that were to be thealternative, they would prove that the sons were ready to sacri-fice for the preservation as much as the ancestors for the crea-tion. In his inaugural Governor Andrew spoke for the whole ( 198 ). Gr. A. R. Building, Court Street, Springfield OLE COUMY AXD ITS PEOPLE state when he said. The people will forever stand by the coun-try. And Adjutant-General AYilliani Schouler, in respondingto a toast in honor of Major Anderson, while the latter was be-sieged in Fort Sumter, comprehensively and eloquently said:We have no boasts to make. History tells what the men ofMassachusetts have done, and they will never disgrace that his-tory. These calm utterances of earnest men Avere typical ofthe invincible purposes of the loj-al people of the commonwealth;they put into modest, candid words that patriotic determinationwhich led the soldiers of the old Bay State, hopeful and un-shrinking, through every disaster and discouragement to finalconsummation. During the war period the state of Massachusetts furnishedfor all periods of service 159,254 soldiers and sailors—a surplusover all calls of 13,492, while at least 3,
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