. "Our county and its people" : A history of Hampden County, of age, sex, or social condition,joined with an exemplary energy. Before the inauguration of (ioveinor 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 and late in themonth a petition bearing i)rominent names was sent tothe Massachusetts delegation in
. "Our county and its people" : A history of Hampden County, of age, sex, or social condition,joined with an exemplary energy. Before the inauguration of (ioveinor 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 and late in themonth a petition bearing i)rominent names was sent 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 ruins 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 riovernor Andrew spoke for the whole ( 198 ). (I. A. R. Buildiii};. Court Street, Sia-ingHold OCR COLMY AXD ITS PEOPLE state wheu he said. The people will forever stand by the couu-try. And Adjutant-General AVilliam 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. Tlistoi-y tells what the men ofMassachusetts have done, and they will never disgrace that his-tory. These calm utterances of earnest men were typical ofthe invincible purposes of the loyal 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 eveiy disaster and discouragement to finalconsunnnation. During the war period the state of ^Massachusetts furnishedfor all periods of service 159,254 soldiers and sailors—a surplusover all calls of while at leas
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