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" "feXCOURAGINQ. . ,. '
- Tbe an he led whfcb we cop j from j
cue A4fByi Lkmuuuiwnainu ta a
trathful tateinnt of facia and they
ought to eocouraga tbe deapondent
xr battle for wall anticipate
, bappjr '"reautta: '.' t
We bave anflvnvd noUn'iif yet
ooiuparjNl wiib what our father auf
ferva in the tint war fur indepen
dence, lueo w liau tlieaavMce In
Wiaaahieoii.
on tlie daj gf the t-attla, at u,m nNti.
day tun eame thruagk - the thick
cliotfered leave, that tro men -met
in a deadly con ffict near th rtaf
which n'e likeaome primeval world,
at least a thouaand et abova t!ui
4j9k-wtft tlh 'WbMiahicoji.-
. The Van' wtb' ditkjHirowii" lice,
and darker prat eye, daahiiiir with
deadly light, and a muacuiar forio.
clad in a blue frock of the Revolu
tion, ia a CuiitineuUl named War
ren. .
The other man, with longjblack
hair drooping aton, hia cadaverous
face it vfa4 in Uie hlf military
cotum6 of a tory refugee. This is
a murderer of Paoli tiauied Dehan
Tliey met by accMent, find now
dian at our backs, rhe torie otrer they (outfht, not with sword nD(J
our own Iteartb-atones and a fair and t rifle, but with ncnmtdea.ilt bum
open eueuiy in our front. Augusta, I ng knife they stroked, twining and
davaunab, Ul.arleeWu, Uamdeu and ; rwianng ou uie gren swarq.
"NiiHjtv Sia.n weta all t(cu Lrni.h At lat the tory is down down
nowta, and Gwtreia and South Car-' the torn, with the knee of the()on
jiua were occupied almost entirely i tinentul in hia bre stthe upraised
for Jhre Ion dreary icara. Yet. a knile fla-heddeHtlnii lw face
heroir an,ceatry rose fruiu onr valley! Quufter! 1 yieldl" gapped the
and doac-ended frfin our hills, trunt-1 t"ry, as the knee was preesed on bis
ing in Uodand resolved to perish ; breast. 2pare me I yield I
rather than aurvire aa alavea. and I uMy broiiier,7' said the patriot, in
they drove our, conqaerore from the ! a tone of deadly bate, "my brother
toil ; ana o we can do, even should i cnei lor quaner on me nig a u
our land be overran by vaodala. If d event he clung to your
wa am not a'bastard race our free- knees yon atruck that knifo in bit
-dotn it our own, even if every male i heart. 0, I( will give you the qnar
haa to aleeo on his bright a word, and ! ter of Paoli."
very female wear at her side a Andaa hia hand was raised for
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gleaming It la a great una-1 'e uiow, ana ma teem were ciencneu
Uke to aopuuve that tbia war it to j pitu deadly bate, be paused for a
nv aetuaMi- oy tnf rao caonoo trjaumcui, bum m' pun'wou ujo iurjr
heavy aheli. Even if our fortifiea- j arms, and with a rapid stride dragg
tiona fall aad our towns are taken, ! ed him to the vere of the rock, and
we will come at last tocioaequar-Tneld nun quivering over Uie abyss.
ter, with the battle axe and bowie "Mercy I gapped the tory, turn
knife, and .tight under tlie black flair iU hy pale by turns, as that aw
in every ulen and swamp. Tlie ' ful gulf yawned below. "Mercy I I
watch word then shall be war to the have a wife and child at home
toifo aud the knife Ut the hilt." ! spare me T
; I Hie Continental, with a muscular
Mr. Averat Jioluliorx.W a i strength gathered for the effort,
pnUuU lUreoluti-wfeich niade ,'k murderer once over the
a atir in the House f Cuuiiuona on
abyss, and then hissed his bitter
i stiopr iu hia fact
iliorsday last, li.ey a.ert a enea . ujj. brother had a wife and two
of unquestioned generalities and j children. The morning after the
recommend negotiations, by the pro g't of Paoli that wife waa a wid
per autho.Uu. for peace and sei-ar :. 5 , cdren orphans 1 Ask
ation. Te difficulty wld be, io;Mr,CJ Uom V . r ,.
J , t The prttpoaal made by the Gmti-
get Lincoln to coiiaeiil to tucli ne- j in IQOCkery and bitter hate
gotiationa. If that difficulty could jwas taken in serious earnest by the
be overcouia, we do not see wha? , terror stricken try. II a begged to
would e i lie um of t umiK ; o taaen vo ino wioow ana ner ciiu
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peace lynveiition, nor how it
could make a treat, nor bow "the
people could ratify one. Uuf be
aides these, the strongest olectiona
that occur to na are thnee urged
dred, and to have the privilege ot
begging h' life, After a moment
ot serious thought the patriot soldier
consented. He bound the tory's
arms still tighter, placed him on hit
leet, aud Jed him through the woods.
A
aoate tiiur ago by the Standard, -at ' A rquiei. cuiiage euibossea 'among.
e " . . 'tlie trees broken on their eyes.
follows: - iTt..; ........I -....- '1....
beide the desolate hearthstone, sat
a widow and her children.
She sat there, a matronly woman
of about 28 years, with a face faded
"pie Sooth cannot make over
ture, for she is lighting for existence,
and any offer on her part to treat
would bo considered a sign of weak
lies and fear. Ail she aks is to be
let alone. She is not let aJono as
long aSglhe foot of an enemy ia on
nierwrf, j tnu i Monpira-Tffg
wrapped in d'eepltlionght then in
a faint voice he siffiified hit consent.
Raising "bel'di rk eyet to' heaven.
the 'mother'? 'praj ed , to ': the . Great
Father-to-; direct the finger- of her
ton She e!oeed t a Uok -slie hand
ed it to the bor , twjioae cheek red
dened with bisubnjg'aa he gazed np
ort hit fatlnjr'a, murderer. He took
the Bible, and opened its holy pages
at random, and plactd hit finger up
on a verse. -, .. . '
t-.. There wat a tilenee. -The Conti
nental aoldier, who bai sworn to
avenge his brother V death, stood I
wiim uiiaun eye sdo jinea iipa.
The culprit, kneeling nprVi the floor,
with hit face like discolored clay.
felt his heart leap to hittbTOatr"'
- Then in a dear,- bold voice,- the
widow read this line front the. Old
Testament. It wat thork yet ter
rible :
-Tbat man shall surely die."
Look! Tlie brother springs for
ward tQ plunge the knife into the
nrurdererV heart ; but the tory, pin
ioned at he is, clinga to the widow's
kneet. He begs that one more Trial
may be made bv the little girl, that
child of five years old, with golden
hair and laughing eyes.- ' - -
The widow consents. There ia an
awful pause. With a timle in her
eye, and witbout.knowiog what the
wat doing, tbe little girl opened the
Bible as it lay oo mottterVknee ; cbe
turned her face, away and placed her
finder upon a line.
lhe awfol silence grows deeper.
Tbe deep drawn breath of the broth
er, and the broken gasp of the mur
derer, alone ttistirrbed tlie stillness.
Tlie" widow and dark-haired Jjot.
were breathless. Tlie tittle-gTrf.
as slie caught a feeling of awe from
The Herald tayt Uiat the tnbiect
hat. long wounded tho prlde of eve
ry citizen oT the republic',' despair
of Secretary tWellet doing abyt));rirf
and trusu to uotigress - i" pk
ra:ea.
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The following fetter of 'CM.' Stand
Wat ie to the Governor of tlie Choc
taw and Chickasaw nationa hat been
banded ua for publication. It shows
a spirit of determined' retistance to
our enemies w bieli we com mend to
ourx taint-nartea pairwia niieo
it it known that the hornet of our
faithful ahiet in the country of the
Cherokeet have been laid waste with
with fire and tword, and that fferal
of Yankee gold and Yankee protec
tion have been - spurned by them
over and ovei again, we. mutt ad
mit their constancy ia deserving of
the highest praise. Cnl. Stand W atie
is well kuowb in the Vett as a brave
ofilcer and ioflinc
is the only survivor of the signers of
the treaty of 1835, by which the
Cherokee ceded all their lauda east
of the Mississippi river, and remov
ed to the coautry they are now fight
ing for. :.4 . ,1'.. " ""
"Exkcutiti Orrci Cbkrokxs Katiox, ) -August
9, 1863. J
2b Bit ExceUucy, Governor of thi Chodav
and Chiekatatp Nation :
" Sir : I wish through you to' pre-
rent, to the people of your country a
few thoughts, which tbe present coo
ditiou antL prvepect of tbe Indians
has brough-t to my mind. 1 have
the Clierokee Nation it abandoned
by ut; the CVeekf conntry falla the
next victim, and fn speedy tarn yoof
owrf' feoontry' will' share the'eafne
fate '" ' r ie- n .1 - .).
j'lJ I tball,be gladf to Ijear .Trorh'jroa
anj rvceiyany tiiggestionii 'aa to
the course poott proper poftne To
the preaent discpuragtpg tUte ?af-
faira.:-,;--.i,-. , ., .?Jl...X'v..V'j
"1 have written aXnll t( oth '
condition of Indian mattera here. to
the Commissioner of lodian Afiaira
and to Lieatenant General: E L.
8mrt h. - l expect to bear from tbem
botb in few-weekt;-1
I. am, very retpectfnlly,'i
' Yonr obidient tervant,'
STAND WATIE '
Principal Chief the Cberokeelf
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those around her, stood breathless, - fljr tU -nt tiut Oi
lier face turned aside, and her tiny
fingers resting on the Hoe of life and
death." J
At length, gathering courage, the
idow bent her eyes upop the page.
and read. It was a line from the
New Teatameut :
by care ; a deep, dark eye, aud long
black hair, hanging in a disheveled
Slate about her shoulders. On ono
Love your onemies!"
Oh 1 book of terrible majesty, and
chitd-likelove, of sublimity that
crushes, the heart with rapture, it
never shone more strongly than
there, in that lonely hut of Wis
sachicon, when it saved the murder
er heart.
Now look haw wonderful are the
ways of Heaven. That very night
as the widow tat by her fireside i
sat there with a crushed heart and
ot eyelids, thinking of her husband,
who now lay on the drenched soil
of Paoli there was a tap at the
door.. She opened it, and that hot
band, livihgv though covored with
wonnds, was in her arms.
He had fallen at Paoli, but not in
eath., He was alive, and his wife
panting on his bosom. .
That night there was prayer and
praise in the wood-embowered cot
tage of Witsahicen.
ahe flgbw This is as little aa the : wne yt?Hr younger, With light blue
u ua. ii na wera it .uuur ea toe-. .jiibie an ola ana ven
TkaTtrribU ConftderaU 3ray.
Tlie merchauttof New 'York are
bar vneniW, or atliupi' to do le,
ahu Would bo unworthy of the spirit
aydLuiauiioHl of her jeopl. '
Mr. A vera is mistaken aa to the
large majority at ballot box, but be
migtit have aaia witu trutti mat eve-
fy boJjf in North Carolina desires
that alt honorable tueaus should be
used to atop tbe strife.' &e., provid
we aea tW M-atiorxywUicb:
" Over lovsd Mafcies ara saMoea loeg
livtd sasveia. Tb wsy to Iu, h ta in
dalga taaca. Make a Ood of than, aad
yet aastiey tbaas. .r..,. A ',
erahle volu me lay oen; upn;t he
mother a knee. And the pale faced
lory dung hiinttelf upon hit knees,
ana coufast&l that he had butchered
her husband ohjthe night of Paoli,
and begged hia Hlaat her bands.
"Sparo mo, tor thb sake ot my
wife-child I"
He bad expected this pitiful moan
would touch the widow's heart, but
t nojt aa relenting gleam softened her
face. - "
tTBe-lymJ balffjndgrrbetweew
oa,T ahe said, in a cold, icy tone,
that froze- tbe raorderer'a heart
Look, the Bible U in toy Up, I
Will -atota.the .Toleme, and let nay
- . a .
nary energy anu activity wouic taice
the place tif alu
iu the military movements in this
country, and that a proper, use of
the meant iu our portion of our ter
ritory whicb, baa beeiL overrun by
our enemies. ' Belief and protection
ao often cheeringly promised, has
pot been afforded ns; our forces,
instead of being concentrated aud
operating with vigour-against our
! enemies, have been scattered over
the country, and their strength frit
tered away without accomplishing
any good.
Experience has taoght'na that the
Indiana true to the South should
place little 'confidence or reliance
upon too promises oi assistance irom
abroad tliey have in (very iuttatice
proved valueless. 1 am willing to
cast behind us all expeetion of effi
cient aid from; the Confederate Gov.
eminent, and test our unsupported
courageauu ability to defeud onr
homes.
feud them against the mongrel bands
of negroes, hostile Indiana aud Kan
sas Jay hawkers, who have been Buf
fered to ravage our country with
impunity for the last five months.
All is not lost because officers in
control have refused ' to strike a
blow In oar behalf J we have suffer-
Tks Conilitution ihe United
State a Dead letter .Vtiu war baa
fnruithtd abundant evidence of the
utter disregard of tbe U. S. Consti
tution by the Lincoln Congress and
Exeedtivebnt the Judiciary -"has
sometimes remembered 'that obso
lete instrument. In, the Eastern Dis
trict of Virginia' bowever (that is,
we tuppose, at1 Norfolk,) the U. S.
District Coart- hat decided that a
law of the present abolition Congress
is of higher anthority tthan the" Con
etitntion. ' The latter expressly pro
vides that ;:TjM i Congrega shall feave
power to declare tbe pnnish men t of
treason,, but no attainder of treason
shall work corruption of blood, or
forfeiture except daring the life' of
the person attahi4d.rH The Gonrt
has, in defiance of this, decided m
the case of Hngh Latham, that tbe
sale or rebel estates under the con
fiscation act If not limited To the lermT
of the traitor's life, and ordered a
tale and the execution of a deed in
fee by the sheriff to the purchaser.
Every man in the Confederate
State will thus be able to 'see what
he wonld incur by tubjugation, for
every ma who bat in any way
whatever aided or abetted tbe revo
lution is, according to the yankee
confiscation law, a traitor, and be
and hit posterity wonld be stripped
of every Jhiug they possess should
they be such dastards as to allow the
ynnkees to conquer them. Both lec
tions are thus fighting for the proc
perty "of the people of the Confeder
ate Siatea. Fay. Observer. -
Northern 3rirtc.The M Copper
hends'' have carried the day in the
late election in Hartford, CL, the
home if the gallant and brave Gov.
Thomas U. Seymour. , :j-
New York papers of the 27th No
vember have reached Richmond,
where Yankee prisoners and Yan'
kee papers are always received and
treated with distinguished attentions
1 am confident we can de-Tliey contain further dispatches from
Thomas and Hirant, which cooQrm
their victory at Lookout Mountain.
They claim forty pieces of cannon
but still mention onlytwo thousand
prisoners. Press dispatches apeak
of aix thousand prisoners ; they also
aay that the Government at Wash
ington heart of three thousand ; bat
Secretary of the Navy, begging hiyj 1
to pot down the rebel privateers.
Tliey coHiplainr most' bitterly . Of the
havoc done by theur on the Yankee
shipping. The Yankee juerciiinta
say that apart from the hW, it is
hmnilrating to our pride as citizens
or the nrst naval power oiftiie earth
that a couple of iudiffeienily equip
ped rebel cruisers con Id lot to long
a periol threaten ourcouiuterce with
annihilation. ' The letter again saya
it ia "buiniaating that their com
merce on the high teaa alioold have
been left so unprotected aa to induce
rebel insolence tq attack , our flag
almost at 'the entrance of-our har
bor, and to actually blockade out
merchantmen at the Cape of Good
Hope recently." The" Yankee See
auflVtr wore by reason of jhetf want
of energy but if we areiH tt be
the victims of incapableirdsloth-
ful leaders, aud our wholo c'outitry
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la to oo uevtaaiMieu oy our ioes, we
have ono consolation in knowing
that even then, by a united and un-
vieldinu ODiMNtitioii of Indian forces
alone, we can make our fair country
an unpleasant, if not aa untenable,
home tor ar-eoeirtiea. ' "
' "Tlie glhnt Seminoba hays)
shown what folly It it to try tosub
jugate and destroy a people deter
mined to uefend theij right. Tbe
bravery of theX3ioctaw7 and Chick
asaw troops has 'hot been excelled
by any other soldiers in the service,
and by a propei" nnderttanding
among oartel vet oar country may
and-; ,, The J Washixigton cocretpon-,.
dentt declare. that tbt) Government
hat ' lsiiedYinptOTy orders- to
Grant to 44 ptrrsue Bragg and crutb
bun, or coin pel t sn rrender.
According to the PUladelpbia pa
per, recruiting in that city it 'rath
er tlow." Another draft it spoken .
of., In. New York they are paying
$750 bounty ucouey. In New Jer
ser from $$00 to $1,000. j .
If wa gaw. ovujadepaodeooe aod redeeuu
the curreocy ia goU, aa w hope we sb.'
ascnsMQ win nay boom
IndiflfenMrtly we W kare hrt e
them reaEard sas 4Jrjhra a rUoa for a V
Urrel of appla brandy, oa yeaarday
eourae'ba baa eoofiderxe ta tha tarreoej I
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