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CHARACTER IS AS IMPORTANT TO STATE3 AS IT IS TO INDIVIDUALS, AXD THE GLORY OF THE ONE IS THE COMMON PROPERTY OF THE OTHER.-
CHARLOTTE N. C, TUESDAY, MAY 13, 1862.
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WILLIAM J. YATES,
El)ITOttAXt PBOI'ltlKTOR.
jClje SBtstrrn Urmorrat.
CHARLOTTE, N. C.
1 CONFEDERATE GOVERNMENT.
: Jefferson Davis of Mississippi, President.
Alex II Stephens of Georgia, Vice President.
J. P. Benjamin, of Louisiana, Secretary of State.
(. W. Randolph, of Virginia, Secretary ot. YY ar 1 "
C. G. Mcmminger, of South Carolina, Secretury j The Democrat will be discontinued to all su'.seri.
of the Treasury. j oert the expiration of the lime for which it is paid.
S. U. "Mallnry, of Florida, Secretary of the Navy. Tlttse who isant to continue must renew before or at the ex
Our Danger and our Duty.
the consequences of patty aud faction. We
1Hlt be 1111 i ti-J ff ..iir riiw nr., n..r. I
conquest, any neighboring Slate. The peace of ..at. let as uriR.
Lr .
i Thos. II. Watts, of Alahama, Chief of the Depart- , piration of their time
1 r . . rt l . J
meni oi justice or .-itoriiey uenerui.
' J
II. Reagan, of Texas, Postmaster General,
lished in the -past. Wc can never become a --res-
sive; we may absorb, but we can never invade for I
BY REV. J. II. THORN WELL, P. DT,
Of Cofttmhi'a, S. C.
The ravages of Louis XIV in the beautiful
; leys of the Rhine, about the close of the 17th We are, therefore. fi.htim. no.' for m,o' alone.
I - t. - . t i I. III - . o e . - ,
The dunning business is unpleasant, ,. , , , ' .
1 . Illlrv fl...!.. ...... ... 1 . . 1. . I I. . 1 . , .1 1.
j, uvsotaiion wiiiv.il is iikcijt iu oversprenu me
Confederate States, if the Northern army should
, .1 1 1 , I , NVIIUk'C
, thj world is secured if our arms prevail. We shall j public safety. In the great
i have a Government that acknowledges God, that j Athens yielded to Sparta i
va - ; revemices right, and that make law 'supreme. she could not approve, for tl
$1 IN ADVANCE.
Transient advertisements must lie pid for in
advance.
frf' Vdvrt:snimts not inurked on the manuscript
or niacin- lime, will be iwu-rted until forbid, and
MEMBERS Or THE FIRST PERMANENT
CONFEDERATE CONGRESS.
SENATE.
NORTH CAROLINA,
A STATEMENT
of the- k:ib-'l, tru1.l and cnturci
cml hatlhi an. I e,t!i r tnjaytir iif
j"ir 101.
! ;:iti:it.L sl'CCE.s.k.s.
the
the
H- II : t
- j. ! ' - ; i 5
Dti I Li!tlr. ir!'.Srj
1 80 1 ! -Z 'Z 'Z
J.inr 3 Philli.ii, 7 -'') j
J litir I ltionille. . V, 2" 5.
Julv 1 1 l!i h M 'u ii t in 4 oj
Julv IJ Si. -r. V :.()
Auj .i ll..lK-r.. I'll i 1
O. l 21 Kr'l. ri-ktiwii I I I
Nov 7 P..rt i:..y:il, 12! 4
Drc 3 i'riiiivillo, 4.1 H i H
I ! ; :
Total. I lf.! -'7.-' I -'''
onfkiki:ati-: .vitcks:
c,
T.
Z 5
i-s
U- 1U.
4
4
1
5i
15
lo
lOU
ALAHAMA.
Win L Yancy,
Clement C Clay.
AKKAX.SAS.
Robert W Joint son,
Charloa R Mitchell.
VLORIOA.
A E Maxwell,
J M Raker.
CEORCIA.
Rciijiimin II Hill,
John W Lewis.
LoriSIAXA.
Edward Sparrow,
T J Seinmes.
j MISSISMl'l'I.
; Albert Itrown,
j James Phelan
j VIRUIMA.
I R M T Hunter,
Win R Pre.-tou.
George Davis,
Win T Dortch.
SOL'TII fAUOLIXA.
Robert W Barnwell,
James L Orr.
TK.XXESSKE.
Iangdii C I lay nes,
Gustavus A Henry.
TEXAS.
Louis T Wigfall,
W S Oldham.
KKXTUCKJ.
II C Rurnett.
William E Simms.
MISSOLUI.
John R Clark,
R S Y Pey ton.
Total number, 2G.
I
HOUSE.
Thomas S. Hocock, Sjicaker.
ALABAMA.
Xti -.'OT1.
D.ttrf
i
I
t W C!.ilt.n.
7 David Clopton,
H James L Pugh,
i E S Dargan.
J unr
Julv
Julv
Julv
Julr
Jnl'y
Jnlv
J uly
Anr
A uS
An?
Au
S.-;.t
S-pt
Srj.t
Srjit
.Sp.t
Oct
Oct
Oct
Oct
Oct
O-t
(id
Xor
Nav
Nr
Nov
Nuv
Nov
Nov
lr-
I,c
Dvc
Krlj l. S:U Alit'.tli,
Mar I 2 Fv rl llruun,
Al I ."5 Frt Sumter,
Atl I Fm i I5H-.,
A;1 20 lnliani.
Mv 1! Seweir Point, 1
.May .11 ,Fairis C. II..
Junr 1 1 A'ii Crrek,
June 5 ' I'ii's Point,
Junr lj'fir-at Ijrlljfl,
June !;' Vieu:i.i,
Juur 17 K iii-.is t'i'y,
J inr l New Cr-k,
Junr Zf, ltoiniicv,
11 l :ilh ins Point
2!l.'ayuf-vi!l.-,
a (T.t I tliUfff,
17 Scarv l.'reck,
1 si j Ltii II 'it in,
2 1 j M:n;i ,
Jj'Mi-sillrt,
2SFrt Siaiiton, j
lw'S;irin;liflil.
15 MaltiM Ptiiut.j
20 Hawks' Nest,
27,CaiI?v,.i X K.ls
27 Cross Lanes,
J HijT 1'iork,
IG.U-iuler,
I LLcwinvilI(,
I IjT.iuey's freek
l'j iJ.-rliour.'villf,
2il I.rxiu;toii,
25' Al.inics...
1 Steani r Kanny
3 .'irt-rnbricr.
-.1.
15l
3-J! .
7uj
:t7s
ti.
12!.
Hii.
il.
5.!
1 1S!
1 511
lOo
iMO
U00
6 10
5 i
150 2T.0
50 100
50 I5u 150
3 7
til 10
07 1 5 5:i
:too 2ooj
50 ion 1
200 300 20
lOOO 2500j 1 000
10 2.V
I Thomas J Foster,
Win R Smith,
:i John P Rail.-.
4 J L M Curry,
0 r rancis h lyon,
ARKANSAS.
1 Felix J Ralson, : Augustus H Garland,
2 GraudiMui 1) Royster, 4 Thos R Ilanly.
KI.OKIIIA.
I James R Hawkins, 2 Hilton.
(iKOItCIA.
I Julian Hartrulge,
2 V. J Mutitierlyu.
.'I Hines Hi.lt,
4 A II Kenan,
5 David W Lewis,
1 Alfred P.ovd.
tl John W Crockett,
.1 II E Rend
4 George W Ewing,
. .1 S ( 'lirismuii,
) T L Rurnett,
Willinm V Clark,
7 Robt P Trippe,
8 IJ Gartrell.
i) Hardv Strickland,
10 A R Wright.
KESTITKV.
7 II W Rruce,
H S S Scott,
I) E M Rruce,
10 J W Moore.
11 1! J Rreckiuridgc, Jr.,
ltl John M Elliott.
2fi.V foO
... i
1.
30
1 000 1200
20;
ll.
50
50
5
20
50
30
50 !
3
250
9
30
..))
300
100
LOllSIANA,
Charles J Villi.-re, 4 Lucien J Dupre,
Charles M (.'..mad, John F Lowis,
Duncan F Kenner, G John Perkins, Jr.
MISSISMITI.
5 II C Chambers,
(! 0 R Singleton,
7 E Rarksdalc.
1 John J McRue,
3 S W Clnpp,
Reuben Davis,
4 Israel Welch.
1
5o
John Il'er,
Casper W Hell,
MISSOriM.
5 W W Cook,
G Thos W Freeman,
7 Thos A Harris.
30',
i2o'::5(i
5 ;('ti icni;icoiuo
SiSitut Kimh,
ll'MU. Pusse,
It", Itolivnr,
2 1 L-pliir,
tl Itt-I uiont,
ti Pikrton,
5 t.iiyaij.'otte,
If t'j.U.n Hill.
IS Fiills Church,
22 IVusaroI.1,
2( N.-ar Yo-nna,
2 ' A nam! i Ic,
l.llAlIt-rli.iuy.
1 7 j Wood.oi viile.
2G Ofioth Irvliolo,
2H Sm-ramt'iito,
20j
...I .
M
i:.
31 !
42
ml.
Si
ll
I!
100 150
20 30
.1 .
1 1;
Total,
2.
4
12
2
0. ...
;ihi
CO
10
20
1
15
500
400
2l!l
40
6
10
10
4
100
30
75
:o
40
800
OOll
I HO
5u
32
17
i2
20O
3
10
j .'1 George W Vest,
j 4 AH Conrew,
j NORTH
1 W N II Smith,
2 Robert R Rridgers,
,3 Owen R Kenan,
4 T D MeDow. ll,
5 Archibald Arlington,
i
1 SOUTH CAROLINA.
j 1 Y W I Joyce. 4 John McQueen,
t 2 V Porcher Mile?, 5 James Farrar.
i 3 ML Ronhum,
CAROLINA.
G Thomas S Ashe,
7 James R McLean,
8 William Lander,
y R S Gaither.
10 A T Davidson.
!:;.'; 218 4.S2:.
2
15
200
45 8
125 100
20 IS
7C14 8777
KiV.r.l
Wo II It ! I'll, ...
Prisoners, ...
Total...
ntc.vriTU.Aviox.
("onfall. looses.
1.120
1,177
1
o
:i
4
5
G
1
;1
J T Heiskell,
W 0 S viiiui,
W II Tebbs,
E L (Jardenshire,
II S Foote,
M P Gentry.
G L M
TENNKSSKK.
7 a w
Ager.
Jones,
8 Thomas Menees,
!) J D C Adkins,
10 Rullock.
1 1 David M Currin.
Fed. losses. 1
4 HI 1
7.S2I
John A Wilcox,
Peter W Gray.
Claiborne C Herbert,
VIKUINIA.
TEXAS.
4 Wm R WriL'ht.
5 Malcolm Graham,
tl R F Sexton.
6. 231
.'.i0
1 M R II Ganu tt,
2 John R Chambliss,
Jl Janu s Lyons,
4 Roger A Pryor,
.1 Thomas S Rocock,
li Jolin Goode, Jr,
7 James P Holcombe,
8 Dan'l C Di jamette,
Total number 107.
! William Smith,
10 Alex R Roteler,
1 1 John R Raldwin,
12 Walter R Staples,
lo Walter Preston,
14 Albert G Jenkins,
15 Robert Johnson,
1G Charles W Russell.
SAMUEL P. SMITH,
Atloriivy and CumiM-Jor ut Lair,
CHARLOTTE, N C,
Wil attend promptly and dtlijently to collecting and i Henhy T. Clauk. Governor ex officio. Salary
GOVERNMENT OF NORTH CAROLINA.
r,iuiuing all claims intrusted to his care.
fjjcil attrution jivtu to the writing of Deeds, C'ou
yacr, Ac.
t'rS" luriu; hours of businrfi. may he found in the
Court UoiMf. Oirc No. 1, adjoining the clerk's office.
Jaiaiarv 10. 1S02
J. A. FOX,
t"t XjXAJV,
CHARLOTTE, N. t
GKSEltAL COLLECTING Ail EXT.
Orttee ov-r the Dru Store, Irwiu's corner.
January 1, ,j-
' and Kt do not tcanl to engage in it again. Those who are m
' arrears, and whose papers have been discontinued, will ob
lige if they will pay y without putting us to further
! troubt about it.
I We hare adopted the cash system not because, we are
' afraid to trust our old patrons,' but because cash is requir
ed fur printing materials and everything else that we. buy.
but, when the struirirlc is rihtlv understood.
for the salvation of this whole continent. It is a
noble cause in which w are
nerve
good. Not hi iil
NOTICE.
The destitute families ot Volunteer for the war
front Mecklenburg county, on bringing nie a certificate
from the Town Marshal that they are null, will be
furnished with clothing at my cxcik- so fur as I am
able. Call on Dr E. Nye Hutchison in my absence.
April 22, 18G2 4t . J. A. FOX.
conflict with Persia.
nd acquiesced in Diana
pprove, tor the sake ot the publio
could be more dangerous now than
scrambles for office and power, and collwious
among the different departments of the Govern
ment. We must present a united Iront.
It is futher important that every man should be
ready to work. It is no time to play the gentle
man: no tint, fur .liirttifi.l 1 : n
.1 , . I 7 " .. -fra.uvv. IVI3UIC. .,11 caunoK
ITlltl IhnflllllMAf n. 1a 1.. ...IT ... I'M - . M wu'
n V Vf i . ; 7 r -. wsuum" ,u luu' i "ve the held; but aK can do ouicthin to
I cannot fail; it must not fail. Our people must ' help forward the common cause. The young.nd
lift brook ; th , i.niy of Utrajmg their .ublime ,he active, the stout and vigorous, ehould he pre
trust, I his beautiful land we iuut nver suffer j pared at a momenta warning for the ranks The
, w.u- ...u.u. tu,Hii. uur u-tius, our j disposition should be one of eagcrnes. to bo em-
i homes, our firesides and sepulchres, our cities and I rd vid llinru uti..iil.l La
L..f ' a. it. ' r.j-, ....w uu iiuiuiiij: u4Vk. no count-
snort teum e . our wivesand da irhtprs. wi mii.i nrit,f i ...... i .l . . .
I r ' - - - - o ; : ( ... ... .,fc. xuc ujail wnobiunus bacK lroui the
nuvvecu in us scnemcs oi suoiuiration anu ot i erervt nmr n it in r..uu i . ...!..
:i4uider. Plurope was then .outraged by atrocities I the arm of the frConian and thTwitrM. n,1 M,m..t.
limictca uy cnnstiaiis upon ( hnstians, more it may now seem to be under a cloud, it is too bi"
ut'iue anu cruet tnati even Alaiiomctans could
have the heart to perpetrate. Private dwellings
were rnzed to the ground, fields laid waste, cities
burnt, churches demolished, and the fruits of in
dustry wantonly and ruthlessly destroyed. But
three davs of grace were allowed to the wretched
inhabitants to flee their country, and in a
BUSHELS COTTON SEED
i' -w -w wanteu at me nt. L allicrnm's
Mill, for the AYR OIL COMPANY. A fair price will be
jriveu.
April 22, 18G2 4t
COTTON SEKD wanted.
The undersigned will pay the highest cash price for
Cotton Seed, at their Oil Works, five mile south-east
of Charlotte, at Isaac N. Alexiuider's mills.
STEPHENS Si WHkSNANT.
Pee H, 18C1 tf
Cold ! Gold !! Gold !!! "
500 Ounces wanted at J. T. DUT
LKirs Jeivclry More,
( Opjiosite Kerr's Hotel.
The highest CASH PRICE paid fur Gold and Silver.
Jnnuary 21, 1SG2. tf
IN'. C. t U E T T ,
COTTON FACTOR
a x r
GENERA L COMMISSI OX . MEli Oil A X T,
No. 2 Union street, NEW ORLEANS.
JSa" Strict attention given to purchasing.
Jan 7, 1862 lyr pd
MISS V. C. FRAZIER will give iustruction on thv
Piano, Melodeon and Guitar, at her resilience. Also,
lessons in French.
Charlotte, Feb 4. 18H2
Recruits Wanted.
The subscriber wishes 35 more recruits. All persons
wishing to enlist will fi ltd the necessary papers in the
hauiU of Mr G. W. Williamson, recruiting ollicer fur
my company. M. N. HART, Captain.
April 20 1862.
FoiSAllT.
Bbls. N. 0. Molasses.
100 Hhils. N. O. Susar.
100 hales Bagging.
40 casks Rice (new crop.)
Just received and for sale by
Jan 28, 1802 tf ELIAS & COHEN.
innumerable multitude's of men.
15
WHEAT !
The subscriber is prepared to purchase the new
crop of Wheat at the highest market price. Farmers
will find it to their advantage to call at the C1IAR
LwTTE STEAM MILLS before selling.
Jan y 1, 1SG2 tf JNO. WILKES.
DR. 12. II. ANDREWS.
CHARLOTTE, N. C,
Would inform the public generally, and the citizens of
Mecklenburg particularly, that he has resumed the
Practice of DENTISTRY and may be found at his old
stand. He is prepared to set Artificial Teeth on Gold.
Silver. Vulcanite, or on the ChcoplaMic process, as
patients may desire, and fill 'Teeth with Gold, Tin,
Amalgam or Os Artificial.
He is also prepared to perform any operation belong
ing to Dentistry, and need not say that he will be pleas
ed to wait npan any of his old friends or new friends
you may take that for granted.
February 5. I8G1
Wil.. Charlotte 6c Ruth. Railroad
WESTERN DIVISION.
On and after Monday the 15th instant, the Passenger
and Mail Train will be rua on this Road daily (Sunday
excepted) as follows :
GOING WEST.
."S'MHHI per annum.
i Pulaski Cowper, Secretary to the Governor. Sul
! ary, exclusive of fees, ;iH).
i Rnfus H. Rage, Secretary of State. Salary $t)0.
i Daniel V. Courts, Treasurer. Salary $2.1K)U.
V. R. Richnrd.-on, chief clerk to tho Treai-urer.
Salary 81.200.
; C. II. Rrogdeii, Comptroller. Salary 1,000,
, Oliver II l'errj-. Librarian.
The Council of State is composed of the following
geiitlewieu: Council Wooteii of Lenoir) President,
John YV Cunningham of Person, David Murphy i
of Cumberland, Win A Ferguson of Rertie, J F i
Graves of Surry, J J Long of Northampton. W i
L Ilillurd of Runcombe. i
Governor's Aids Hon Danl M Rarringer, Spier j
Whitaker. " !
Literary Roarh Henry T Clark, President ex !
officio; Arch'd Henderson of Rowan, Jas R Gor- '
don of Wilkes. Win J Yates of Mcckleuburg. J
Internal Improvement Roard Ilenrv T Clark '
President ex officio; Jafnes Fulton of New Han
over, N M Long of Halifax,
The General Assembly commences its session ou
the third Monday of November every alternate year.
The next election fer members, and for Governor,
will be held on the first Thursday of August, ISG2.
North Carolina
MUTUAL LIFE IXSUUANfE COMPANY.
This Company, the oldest ani! most reliable in the
State, insaies white persons for a term of years or
during continuance of life, on moderate terms. Slaves
flf . - ,. . , , ... . , , j ....-uivu, mr one or nve vears, tor two-tuiras oi ineir
oi cverv descriittion. Ki'iiairpd nnil nurrunliil fnp l i . -
tiu.nths "'"ffi value, tor insurance apply to
Oct if. i. t . THOS. W. DEWEY, Agt.,
I0' 1 . r Jaa 14, 1802 3l, at Branch Bank N. C.
Leave. Aruive.
7 oo A. M. Charlotte,
7 45 Tucknsegee, 1 4i A. M.
8 15 14 Brevard,. 8 10 '
8 40 " Sharon, 8 .'7 "
Lincolnton, 9.00 "
GOING iJAST.
Leate. Auiiivk.
1 1 00 A. M. Lincolnton,
II 23 Sharon, 11 20 A. M.
11 50 " Brevard, 1 1 45 "
12 17 P. M. Tuckasegee, 12 15 P. M.
Charlotte, 1 00
By order, V. A. McBEE.
Acting Muster ot Transportation.
Lincolnton, April 4, 101
A CAR D '
OUr JClOXDLCa-S.
children nying froiu their homes
cold and hunger; but euough survived to fill the
streets of all the cities ot Europe with lean and
and squalid beggars, who had once been thriving
farmers and shopkeepers." And what have we
to expect if our enemies prevail? Our homes, too.
are to be pillaged, our cities sacked and demolished,
our property confiscated, our true men hanged, and
those who escape the gibbet, to be driven as vaga
bonds and wandercis in foreign climes. This
beautiful country is to pass out ot'our hands. The
boundaries which mark our States are, in some
instances, to be effaced, and the States that re
maiu are to be converted into subject provinces,
governed by Northern rulers and by Northern
laws. Our property is to be ruthlessly seized and
turned over to mercenary strargeis, in order to
pay the enormous debt which out subjugation has
cost. Oui wives and daughters are to become the
prey of biutal lust. The slave, too, will slowly
pass away, as 'the. red man did before him, under
the protection of Northern philanthropy; and the
whole country, now like the garden of Eden in
beauty and fertility, will first be a blackened and
smoking desert, and then the minister of Northern
cupidity and avarice. Our history will be worse
than that of Poland and Hungary. There is not
a single redeeming feature in the picture of ruin
which stares us in the lace, If we permit our
selves to be conquered. It is a night of thick
darkness that will settle ujmii us. Even sympa
thy, the last solace of the afflicted, will be denied
to us. The civilized world will look coldly upon
us, or even jeer us with the taunt that we have
deservedly lost our own freedom in seeking to
ppipetuate the slavery of others. We shall perish
under a cloud of reproach and of unjust suspicions,
sedulously propagated by our enemies, which will
be harder to bear than the loss of home and of
goods. Such a fate never overtook any people
before.
The case is as desperate with our enemies as
with ourselves. They must succeed or perish.
They must conquer tis or be destroyed themselves.
If they fail, national bankruptcy stares them in
the face; divisions in their own ranks are inevita
ble, and their Government will fall to pieces un
der the weight of its own corruption. They
know that they are a doomed people if they are
defeated. Hence their madness. They must
have our property to save them from insolvency.
They must show that the Union cannot be dis
solved, to save them from future secessions. The
parties, therefore, in this conflict can make no
compromises. It is a matter of life and death
... i i ... ...
with both a struggle in wiucn their all is in
volved. Jut the consequences of success on our part
will be very different from the consequences of
success ou the part of the North. If they pre
vail, the whole character of the Government will
be changed, and instead of a federal republic, the
common agent of sovereign and independent
States, we shall have a central despotism, with
the notion of States forever abolished, deriving its
powers frojn the will, and shaping its policy ac
cording to the wishes, of a numerical majority of
the people; we shall have, in other words, a su
preme, irresponsible democracy. The will of the
North will stan for law. The Government dots
not now recognize itself as an ordinance of God,
and when all the checks and balances of the Con
stitution are gone, we may easily figure to our
selves the career and the destiny of (his godless
monster of democratic absolutism. The progress
of regulated liberty on this continent : will be
arrested, anarchy will succeed, and the end will
be a military despotism, which preserves order by
the sacrifice of the last vestige of, liberty. We
are fully persuaded that theftriumph of tle North
in the present conflict will be as disastrous to the
hopes of niAnkiud as to our own fortunes. Jhey
nine, n.v "uiuiidii ih u, -uie ruaus anu ueios, a Vprv hazard. The s oi;a i iihrr bh irl.;..l. :.. .i :i , . . .
loves his ease more thun liberty, his luxuries more
than his honor, that man is a dead fly in our pre
cious ointment. Iu seasons of great calamity the
ancient pagans were accustomed to appease the
anger of their gods by human sacriflccs; and if they
had gone upon the principle of selecting thoao
whose moral iusignifieance rendered them alike
offensive to heaven and useless to earth, they would
always have selected these droues, and loafera
and exquisites. A Christian natiou cannot
offer theun in sacrifice, but publid contempt should
whip them from their lurking holes, and compel
them to share the common danger. The com-,
munity that will cherish such men without rebuke,
brings down wrath upon it. They must be forced
t be useful, to avert the judgments of God from
the patrons of cowardice and meanness.
Public spirit will not have reached the height
which the exigency demands, until wo shall have
relinquished all fastidious uotions of military eti
quette, and have come to tho point" of expcllm
the enemy by any and every means that God has
put in our power. Wo arc nut fighting for railU
tary glery; we are fighting for a home, and for a
national existence. We are not aiming to display
our skill in tactics and generalship we ate aiming
to show ourselves a free people, worthy to posses
and able to defend the institutions of our fathers.
hat signtlies it to us how the foo is vanquished.
women and with which they died, and which buoved their
Many died of: spirits in the last conflict, of making their couutry
a blessing to the world, wc must uot permit to be
unrealized. We must seize the torch from their
hands, and transmit it with increasing brightness
to distatit generations. The word failure must uot
be pronounced among us. It is not a thing to be
dreamed of. We must settle it that we must suc
ceed. We must not sit down to count chances
There is too much at stake to think of discussing
probabilities we must make success a certainty,
and tht, by the blessing of God, we can do. Il
we are prepar.d to do our duty, and our whole
duty, we have nothing to fear. Rut what is our
duty? This is a question which we must gravely
consider. Wc shall briefly attempt to answer it.
In the first place, we must shake off all apathy,
aud become fully alive to the magnitude of the
crisis. We must look the danger iu the face, aiJ
comprehend the real grandeur of the issue. We
shall not exert ourselves until we are sensible ot
the need of effort. As long as wc cherish a vague
hope that help may come from abroad, or that
there is something in our past history, or the
iroimia iit'.iiir l iit 1 1 il t li tiw til nr(ilrrt nci trmti m'..r.
c ... v.. I - .'-' '
throw, we are hugging a fatal delusion to our b s-
ouis. This apathy was the. ruin of Greece at the
time of the Macedonian invasion. This was the
spell which Demosthenes labored so earnestly to
break. The Athenian was as devoted as ever to
his native city aud the free institutions he inheri
ted from his fathers; but somehow or other he
could not believe that hia country could be con
quered, lie read its saiety in its ancient glory.
He felt that it had a preset iptive right to live.
The great orator saw and lamented the error; he
poured forth his eloquence to dissolve the charm;
but the fatal hour had come, and tl
Greece could not be roused.
real patriotism at the time of the second Persian
invasion than iu the age of Philip; but then there
was no apathy, every man appreciated the danger;
provided it is done? Hecauso
we have not
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There was no more
he saw the crash that was coming, aud prepared
himself to resist the blow. Ue knew that there
was no. safety except iu courage, aud in desperate
effort. Every man, too, felt identified with the
State; a part i its weight rested on his shoulders
It .was this sense of personal interest and
personal responsibility the profound conviction
that every one had something to do, aud th it
Greece expected him to do it this was the public
spirit which turned back the countless hordes of
Xerxes, and saved Greece to liberty aud man.
This is the spirit which wc must have, if we,
too, would succeed. We must be brought to see
that all, under God, depends ou ourselves; and,
looking away from all foreign alliances, wj must
ni ike up our minds to fight desperately and tight
iong, if we would save the couutry from ruin, and
ourselves from bondage. Every man should feel
that ho has uu interest in the State, and that the
State iu a measure leans upon him; and he should
rouse himself to efforts as bold aud heroic as if all
depended on his single right arm. Our courage
should rise higher than the danger, aud whatever
may be the odds against us, we must solemnly re
solve, by God's blessing, that we will not be con
quered. When, with a full knowledge of the
danger, we are brought to this point, we are iu
the way of deliverance, but until this point is
reached, it is idle to count on success.
It is implied in the spirit which the times de
mand, that all private interests are sacrificed to
the public good. The State becomes everything,
and the individual nothing. It is no time to be
easting about lor expedients to enrich ourselves.
The man who is uuw intent upon money, who
turns public necessity aud danger into means of
speculation, would, if very shame did not rebuke
him, ami he were allowed to follow the natural
bcut of his heart, go upon the field of battle after
an engagement and strip ibe lifeless bodies of his I
brave countrymen ot the few spoils they carried
weapons of the most approved workmanship, aro
we to sit still and .see our soil overrun, and our
driven Jroni iheir hemes.
in our hands other weapons that
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n,.R fi.tinrr tli-li.tllo of nVt,tUm The V 1 UtO tllC DU U fcUCjl IUCI1, UllUl JOT any I lilllg geu-
havc put their Constitution under their feet; they ! erous or noble theuiselvtfs, like the hyena can ou
h:,ve annulled its most sacred provisions; and in 1 ly uck the blood'of the lion. It ought lo be a re
j r ..r t : i.roaeh to anv man. that he is growing rich while
ueuiiiice Ul lis piiii.-i.iu uumuii, j "" i - j . . i '
engaged, in the halls of Congress, in discussing I his country is bleeding at every pore. It we had j
and maturing bills which make Northern notions a 1 hemistoc.es among us, he would not scruple to
of necessity the paramount laws of the land. .1 charge the miser and extortioner with stealing the j
The avowed end of the present war is, to make ! Gorgon's head; he would search their stuff, and if !
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while we have
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can -equally do the work ol death? Are wo to
perish it we cannot conquer by the technical
rules 'of scientific warfare? Are we to sacrifice
our country to military punctilio? . The thought
is monstrous. 'e must be prepared to extern
powzs expedients. We must coase to be chary,
either about our weapons or the means of ueiug
them. The end is to drive back our foes. If we
cannot procure the best rifles, let us put up with
the common guns of the country; if they cannot
be had, with pikes, and axes, and tomahawks;
anything that will do the work of death is aa
effective instrument in a brave man's hand. We
should be ready for the regular battle or the par
tisan skirmish. If wc are too weak to stand an.
engagement in the open field, we can waylay the
foe, and harass aud annoy him. Wo must pre
pare ourselves for a guerrilla war. The enemy
must be conquered; any method by which we
can honorably do it must be resorted to. This is.
the kind of spirit which we want to sue aroused
among our people. With this spirit, they will
never be subdued. If driven from the plaint,
they will retreat to the mountains; if beaten iu
the field, "they will hide in swamps and marshes,
aud when their enemies are "least expecting it, '
they' will pounce down upou them in tho dashing
exploits of a Sumter, a .Marion, and a Davie. It
is only wheii we have reached this point that pub
lic spirit is commensurate with the dauger.
In the second place, wc must guard sacredly
ugainst cherishing a temper of presumptuous con
fidence. The cause is not ours, but God's; and if
we measure its importance only by its accidental
relation to ourselves, we in ly be suffered to perish
for our pride. No nation ever yet achieved any
thing great that did 'not regard itself as the in
strument of lolty patriotism ana1 exulted courage
in the inspiration of religion. The Greeks and .
Romans never ventured upou any cutcrprUe with
out consulting their gods. They felt that they
were safe only as they were persuaded that their
were in alliance with heaven. ..Man, though limi
ted in space, and limited in knowledge, is truly
great when he is linked to the Infinite as the
mean oi accomplishing lasting ends. To be God a
servant, that is his highest destiny, his sublitnest
calling. Nations are under the pupilage of Provi
dence; they arc in training themselves, that they
J may be the instruments of furthering, the pro
gress ot ihe human race.
Polbius, the historian, traces the ecret of '
Roman greatness to the profound sense of religiou
which comditutcd a striking feature of the national
character. He -calls it, expressly, th firmest
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day of January, 182, to WILLIAMS &" 0ATES, who he Government a government of force. - It is to . he cou.d not hnU t hat, -J0"1 prosperity, those of his own ooutemporam
will continue the business at the old stand of the sub- ! setlle the principle, that whatever may be its cor- wei i ma country s nteua umcu wore eueciuauy. , wU ht to undermine the sacredncss of
scribers. We earnestly request our customers to come ' ruptions and abuses; however unjust and tyrannic- : '1 his spirit must be rebuked; every man must tor- jiese cuiviction-. Even Napoleon sustained
forward and setile their indebtedness, as biuiiuss can- J aj jts legislation, there is no redress, except in vain ; get himself, aud thiuk ouly of the public good. T a;t;MJr ambitiou by a mysterious coo-;-
not be carried on without "y- : pct:tionr empty remonstrance. It was as a pro- j The spirit of faction is even more to be dreaded i IMrctiou wit i the invisible World. He was a man
1 he rtadv zeal wnh which both partners have vol-! I . . , , , .1 l ' . . -. t - i t i i. . . . i i i i 7 ,T-
unteered to serve their country is r claim upon you t S against th'S principle, wh eh sweepsaway the lat ; fhan the spirit of avarice and plunder. It l Gf destiny. It is the relation to God. and JJi
which should not be overlooked. n..r sl,....u von hv I security for licrtv. that Virginia, Norfh Carolina, eiuallv selfish, aud is, besides, distracting and ii r .videiitial tiainiug of the race, that impart trua
withholding their just due, cause n total sacrifice of ! Tennessee and Mi-souri s ceded, i;d if the Grv- ' divisive. The man who now labors to weaken the : dignity to our struggle; aud wc must rccof'uiz
' ernment should be reestablished, if must be rc-cs- hands of the Government, that he may seize the ourselves as Gods servants, working out Hia
; t ib i hed with thi-feature of remorseless despotism reins of authority, or cavils at public measure ari'i j gh,rious ends, or we shall infallibly be left to
I firmly and indelibly fixed. The future fortunes policy, that he may rise to" distinction and office, : stumble upon the dark mountains of error. Oar
! uf our children, and of this continent, would then ! ,as all the selfishness of a miser, and all the base- tru9t in Him must be the real spring of our heroie
i be determined by a tyranny which has no parallel ! neys 0f a traitor. Our rulers are uot infallible 1 resolution to Conquer or to die. A sentiment of
in history. - j but their errors are to be reviewed with candor: honor, a momentary enthusiasm, way prompt aud
On tl.P nthpr hand, we are strugrrl'ng for con- 1 and their authority sustained with unanimity, sustain spasmodic exertions of an extradordinarr
; stitutional freedom. Wa aie upholding the great Whatever has a tendency to destroy public con- character, but a steady valor, a self-deny iuir
1 t i 1 ' f I ' 1. ' al I t fiw . aZ a .1 ? . ' .
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