. Young folks' history of the civil war . State in theUnion that he needed soldiers todefend the country against herown children. How do you thinkloyal people treated this cry forhelp ? Do you suppose they askedfor time to think about it? Notthey. They answered the firsttime. All party feeling was wiped out. There were no longerDemocrats and Republicans. Everybody became a Union-ist or a Secessionist. There was no half-way ground. Thosewho were not for the Union were against it, and such peo-ple were not very comfortable at the North. Not only didseventy-five thousand men rush to arms, and hur
. Young folks' history of the civil war . State in theUnion that he needed soldiers todefend the country against herown children. How do you thinkloyal people treated this cry forhelp ? Do you suppose they askedfor time to think about it? Notthey. They answered the firsttime. All party feeling was wiped out. There were no longerDemocrats and Republicans. Everybody became a Union-ist or a Secessionist. There was no half-way ground. Thosewho were not for the Union were against it, and such peo-ple were not very comfortable at the North. Not only didseventy-five thousand men rush to arms, and hurry to therescue ; but in twenty-four hours one hundred and fifty thou-sand were ready and eager to go. Many received the mes-sage at night, and were on the way to the Capital in themorning. We call these soldiers volunteers, because theyoffered their services to the Government, instead of beingordered to go, like regular soldiers. You know that every town or city has one military com-pany, and often several, which are made up of business. GENERAL SCOTT.
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