The Greensborough patriot [June 25, 1863]

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THE GREENSBOROUGH PATRIOT.
Volume XXV.
Written for i he Patriot.
M A. H. T Y
GEEENSBOEOTJGH, N. Q.,* eJXJ^TE 25# 1863. Number 1,Q55.
Quitting (he endearments of bis parents' horre and ory of OQT Government,
i-i-t.
i i ,,^ -7^ but at the very peep of day, clear and glorious morn A counc, - was
XL L be.orc breakfast could bo cooked, the that*«J-J^*2*"fZlSS£
talked, dozed,
council of war waB > jug sisters,-he at once placed his name in the Hit of . banded, will throw myself into this con- I d
prepare rations and to receive twentyJoun'*°. "**" nodded and soaked! longing for the stm-bearos of a I tearing himself from the fond earesslngs of hij lor. ciation of the issue
and cartridges. « c bestirea ourselves anu nwu« f
aC|nl,
0ul!« a„fu," app^ I administration*o give General Barnside
' rnVilf LTt 8,ngle- 1 ?!- di8lrict for 1,i8 IilVSell into tl-. 1st rnn ,!...,.. .1 ... coimnand. . . >(Trernen-
1: Y II .«. B >< V il ILL.
riml departs!
bas not losi ■ fi ien i ', "
Kirabircnieiit,' wwcn, was »»»«,.», .««„,—• _„, _f »„_, the orders were counterma«n_d,ie-,di. U(inn tthnaaii eevveemniuntg,.
THE GUILFORD DIXIE BOYS.
•
wbicb I propose
to wi young men oi
* . eitbei is the camp,
in I ■ †■††' Id '-i l»tj11 le, it will be
Bteresting to gin ;•.
rj .' its mov in tbe time we
:itil slcknets ;
. nt.
: ultr.jrether new
;i were the re£
". s conducted in
0 I it qnill
inly about
long lime either to
r r. • 1 hards]
hem. Here we 'hilled only
I . >ldie
lay oi ■ • ill Badly taking leave
irting w i: b
earth,—we took up the
.'. whirli was rendi /-
. , I 1 mvillc, VJI. We rt.
Iltb and were r rgularly
On thai
. at time in the
ill (it oui regiment
n ard would
. .
the ion was
u of the White! '-iU
in which
. llic un< nd v
i.i- command. 'lor
o'clock; ire
our rigbi
1 ied our li nta
irn' for the rd
:il :,i afterward
.
• drilled for ten
This w.i- entirely
n 1 be Bultry month ol
: ivas unusually large, hav-tad
1 -tii drilled only
ul il the ball 1 ion ; and our
\ 1 1 01 ders 10 r« port to
I e ter i \] icted to
and wished us to be able
field I battle. The effect of
Wi not, I. ivevcr, on that account,
d .•.,.:- to our health. Moderate dril-ls
ial lo the soldier and breaks
. fe.
J after drilling half the
I 1 . ike ten an !. in an
rching in column through Main
depot Our regiment »."-
Isomely uni-
■. I . consequently, made a
1 urance As the
toldiers
11: iTcd sit wly out of
■ilmis were
■• nd '" rcraada, portico and
. after cheer from the
the rerv welkin ring,
1 I il. lefenoe of
•
rom ]<• 0 . er our men
1 1 n bile the first
1. iver Dam
;: . age train, which
lied .: 1 ckl
. erely
■ idly, n
in' lly
pod a
. 1. n v. instantly
motion,— i he intern-u
ired wen 1 1 1 gines, that
timing, and such
in, 1 hut *• tired
ml ui liltle.
inea were so
'.M.id our
ISut me of the
rations.
ugh unexj><cted by the
inimously
bey had left
I regn ted, that they
bl h:.\ e
id us >!
and v. c
.: .. :
:
. . .
■1 ted I . 11 r<
iricc. A
ipplicd Beat 1 and indil
glj extravagant figures;
. aiout 1 the
fried chicken,
pri sei ting I
Idiers of a
1 eti d h\ their masters to
1 —a 11 ing un-toi
thi at borne
• bi oli - Id ery •• wil I
1 ing d.umted by
ously to whatso-
] eravi d. at i of facing
ten their com-
B tell •!.. m,
ftrepar-
■ wn 1
be sent to such avaricious. iTTib-c
\i re< 1.- S c '• ■ xper or trit!
* into darkness.
i;i time, upon the six-which
was then begin-
1 portance. As
..- ...
fallen back, that
would m:ike a
Run and that Den.
il \. •■ should ri
marc lung with his
1 him. Exhausted,
' . lusty, we all threw
. in tin 1 , in which \> ■
■† ■† 't and refresh our: Ives tor the toils
. D ob-
> bi re von.
bers with orders to
my
us
with the help ol mean, bracky, branch water, we
made our breakfast. At noon, we received more
bard bread and muddy water, on which we were
making h Yigorons attack with our dentalc, at ten
minute* after 12 o'clock, when the cneay fired the
. which brought on the engagement for that
day
• The shout
Of battle now began, and rushing sound
Of onset."
At once, we were double-quicked ■ half mile into
position on our h ft. The " Dixies ' lined the brow
of a high semi cireolar bluff on Bull Run, immedi-ately
before which was a strip of deep and thick
. .,; the width of one hundred yards, a
covering for the invading toe. At our centre.
Which was not two hundred yards from us, and on
the right, the fight '.vap, by this lime, raging hotly
and Sharply. Volley after volley was fired as fast
as the I'ul-e heats: the ebb of life, and charge after
.. mad, by our heroic soldiers with the
wil.i' m of fiends. St.11 the enemy pressed
his heavy columns upon our centre and right; but
at last, at the fifth charge, the cold and crupl steel of
Mart c< avpslli them to leave the field in a confused
run. [n I • midst of the engagement, and while
c .■ non-balls, gra] e ind canister, wererained down
hail-in our rear,'so jaded and overpowered
. my boy-, that 1 discovered, as I passed along
the linc; Borne of them fast asleep, unconscious for
the time.that they were soldiers and careless of the
danger which threatened. '-The spirit truly was
but the flesh iraa ••
So soon as the enemy were repulsed, the regiments
in the centre and on the right, which had been cn-
I, and ours was ordered to occu-py
the trench !S on either side of the road at Mitch-
Ford. By this time it was dark, and yet we
had received nothing to eat and were likely to get
BO rest. Al a late hour of the night, we were sup-plied
with hard bread and bad bacon : but being im-iately
in front of the enemy, we were not allowed
to build fires, lest these should discover us to the
ny. So those, who eat meat, partook of it raw
and unwashe '.. I he men were ordered to sleep upon
their arm- in the trenches : but the occasional tiring
of the i drizslingofrainprerented
deep, n ft eep.
The next day, we worki I manfully on ourbreaat-rorks;
and, on that nishi so rapid and continual
-i:i- the picket-firing, only a little over a niianer in
our front, "hat i; was imperatively commanded, that
no man sleep upon pain of forfeiting his life. This
kept us awake well-nigh the entire night. Early
the next morning, my company was taken out on
picket-duty by the colonel in sight ofand not a third
mile from the Yankee picket-line, and Was kept
out ui'til 9 o'clock at night when a relief came to
us. Thenoe, wi returned to our fortifications, eat
our suppers, and retired to re-- on the "cold titrf,"
which " was our cheerless bed."
Reveille was unusually early :
"The loud war-trumpet woks the morn.
The quivering drum, the pealing horn,—
From rank to rank the cry is borne,
' Arouse, for death or victory !' "
Our commanders intended to attack ihe enemy be-
Gen. Patterson could have time to join him;
but the enemy took the start ot them, for soon after
sunrise he opened a light cannonade, . i., tuning OUT
' ■ ' up by i/.c t/unc-
4-. "To arms! to arms.'" was the cry which
ran dovrn our lines, uud
•' Freedom beamed in every eye ;
Devoti i breathed in every sigh ;
And steeled each hero's breast."
Miere was no more rest, DO more eating for that
I hiring tti.i! long summer's day, we lay in the
ditches behind our breastworks under a hot July
sun and n terrific and dreadful cannonade. Mean-while,
o:i the'..' • hting, for the whole forenoon
and until late iu the afternoon, was indescribably
awful and murderous, on the plains near the
Mathews' House, on the Iong*slope between Doaan's
and Bull Run, and on ihe. eminence around the
Henry House an 1 near Jim Robinson's, hundreds of
wounded, dead and dying of both armies, lay in all
the ghastlincss mghter at d death.
" Even as they fell, in files they luy, ,
Like the mower's grass at the close of day.
When ... work is done on the level plain."
So brave, recklessly daring were our
i forces, that the solid and schooled phalanxes
"i the North, th >ugh they were confident ol success
ml "came like a deluge on the South," could not
brook the unerring aim and red wraih of our mus-kets
and arli .; boastful, and insolent
bedixened, and uproarious as they were with the
:i ! : ; . "■■ • si ren hilled capital of the South,
' by our chivalrous
- ic sol . . I many of them tohumble
of d ath and thousands
nsclyes to ignominious rout.
when the entire heavens were
darkened I ic clouds ol smoke, ascend-
'nS '""" ol Manaasas, the joyous hurrah
of victory ran. like an electric spark, down the long
lin i our army, and our brigade under Uen. Bon-h.
iui and iii.ii .,:' Longstri el were ordered to charge
and take Shei ery, which had been playing
ui on us. ai every has mi. Double-quick, we dashed
ler to avoid the lire of the battery,
our commanders meandered us along the ravines
of tl ■• bil s. a distance of three or
four miles following the various windings, and as we
swept across the I I and debouched from a j
small piece ui woo Is, lenkins' regiment charred the
batter] and discomfited the enemy, capturing two
pieces of their artill try. ffe raised the s!:o:;t ol
victory and pursued 'lie flying fee to within a half
our n-giment was thrown
with sotre ship-biscui,s,-Arfa<, us hard a, . board , our tents and pitched them
,,r„ eam^UOk.-mma out of these, Tire country around Mitchell s Ford which our
regiment was assigned to guard and hold, and along
Bull Bun, Which is a sluggish, muddy, unhealthy
stream, is rather beautiful aud romantic. But there
is no good drinking-water near that place. All the
water is bfackish ; nor could wells be dug with such
instruments as we had : for only a few feet from the
surface was a hard, reddish rock, which could be
penetrated only by blasting. Consequently, we had
to get our Irinking-water from pits, dug to t be depth
of some six feet, in the low-grounds of the Run,
which was wretchedly mean water. Besides, it was
nearly always muddy being stirred up by the oft-repeated
dipping of canteens. Unfortunately for
us, too, the policing of the camps by the soldiers
who had been there before us, was sorely neglected,
and, :n consequence of that, the hiH-tops and pine
forests all around were polluted with human excre-ments,
and the air was disagreeably tainted. Every
rain, too, that fell, and there were several while we
were there, washed this filth and the decaying matter
and vermin fiom the field of battle down into the
botloms and into these pits. On cleaning them out,
the day before we left there, maggots in large quan-tities
were found deposited in them. On this dis-covery,
our officers obtained permission to move the
encampment a few miles nearer Manassas.
Our men were worked very hardly and without
intermission. They were drilled'every day, Sun
days excepted; in the manual of armsbelore break-fast
; and three or four hours, before and after
dinner, either in the school of the battalion, or the
skirmish drill. Nor was uiess-parade ever neglect
ed. This continual exhaustion of the body'in that
malarious atmosphere, with naught to lie on,—not
even "a pallet ol straw,"—was extremely obnoxious
to health'. But though not pleasantly situated and
over-drilled in the hottest hours of the day, our
boys, for the first two weeks, enjoyed themselves lo
overflowing. Notwithstanding the hardships and
privations of camp-life, the exposures to heat and
cold, and the isolation' from society, there is some
thing so extremely and indescribably bewitching and
exciting about it, that the soldier, after becoming
accustomed to the tent and the bivouac, would be
restless and discontented, in a few days, in even the
Elysiums of civil life, aud would long to return to
the "free and easy"' life in the camp. A night
camp-scene in our regiment, during those weeks,
v. as truly fascinating. So soon as the camp fires
were kindled, not our regiment only, but the whole
army became vocal with diversified amusements and
enjoyments. In one part of the wide-spread en-campment,
some of the more patriotic were increas"
ing the depth and intensity of their already strong
love for the South by filling the night air with the
stirring melody of the inimitable Dixie and the
Bonnie Blue Flag; others, 'srait with the love of
sacred song" were reviving pleasing recollections of
tiie prayer-meeting and the sanctuary: hard by,
so.nc glib-tongucd lads were spinning yarns and
cracking jokes for the amusement of their compan-ions;
while in a distant part of the camp the Ethi
opian is personated almost to the very life jn his
merry corn-song; here the distressed hen is squal-ling
for her young chicken, which the savage hawk
has seized and carried off; there the fat porker is
'iqucaling with the naturalness of the veritable hog ;
it quite another place, the cock is crowing lustily
for the coming dawn; at another still, naught is
hear.,' *n*anl the continual and rapid throwing ol
cards in » game.of whist; at still another, is " the
voluptuoi.'* swell'' of the violin, that most perfect
and power. ^' instrument which has been invented,
to which ti vr dancers are "chasing the glowing
hours with fl. *">£ feet:" all through nnd over the
encampment, , 'vcr ami anon, the merry peal, of
laughter is hoard rising upon the circumambient air;
and while all this Babel uproar within is whiling the
dull hours away, t be sentinel is-slowly, silently and
sadly treading his Aonely beat round about the en-campment,
listening, pcrch.ince, to "Home Again,"
"Lula Quickstep," the ««Mocking Bird." or the
"Southern Marseille, "as they are sweetly discoursed
by some excellent ba nd.
But soon a change came o'er the Spirit of our life.
Disease, with pallid c heck, livid lip, and emaciated
form, stalked into our ca/np with deathlnl tread. No
longer wns the cheerful ring of merriment and of
happiness heard: no longer the smiling look-of
health sat upon manl y an d heroic countenances.
With a few exceptions, the young men of my.com-pany
had been raised in the country and had led
regular, systematic, rural lives ; and the irrcguh r
hours, to which they bad bc;n subjected, both in
reiiring and rising, and the otkor exposures, and
the departures from their foitncr met{jodica] living-,
which have been briefly describ «d, m«. kc it not nt all
surprising, that, sickness broke oi.'t among them in a
malignaut and dangerous form. Ay. Death, the pale
angel, that passeth the soldier acros.* Jhc lincs ot
time into tlie grand and vast encampm «* of E-tpr"
nity, now encamped round about us. His I*** lic"
tim in my company was
JOHN 1IENHV COBn.
He was bom, on the loth day of February, i"341,
in the county 0f Guilford. He is the son of Mr.
David Cobb, a farmer and an excellent citizen, w.V>
resides some twelve miles' east of Greensborough.
As he was growing up to manhood, his father scnt
him to the Free Schools where he obtained a good
Knglish and mathematical education. It was the
wish ofhis parents to give him a classical education .
but he declined to receive it, his inclination not be-ing
to books but to the"cultivation of the soil. John
Henry was exceedingly fond of agricultural life
'.nd asked of his father only the "privilege of pursu-ing
it. His was truly a wise and fortunate choice *
for no pursuit, or avocation of life, is so delightful
and usetul a« that of the agriculturalist. Content-ment
is bliss, and, if that can be found anywhere
"in this vale of tears." surely it is on a neat, fertile,
the woods toward the Cub Run turnpjkc to I cultivated farm and fa ,|,e snug cot.a-.home of the
">«ercepl nd capti e Btr gglers from the Yankee husbandman where
pments. I I with t profuse perspiration,
iiir men were soon chili i through and through; for
_•:. -. in that sectii n of Virginia, in July, are [
as ol as they are here in "mellowOctober." Near
midnight, our forces fell back to our lino of battle,
and at 1 o'clock, we supped and
'■n the ground,
The weary to sleep, and the wonnded to die."
1 In MOD lay, -i col i. heavy and drenching rain set
every duty. He behaved with coolness and valor
on every occasion, which was calculated to try
either. He did not disclose his iUr.es-, until several
days after he first felt the silent encroachments of
disease. So strong was his capacity of endurance,
so patient his disposition in suffering, and so desir-ous
was he always to be at his post, thai he would
not give up until the overpowering effects of disease
prostrate! him. He was taken at Mitchell's Ford
'n-he first da> s of August. On the 6th of that
month, orders were given us to strike tents and
move to a forest nearer Manassas where we pitched
them again. This was called Camp Rhett. So ex-ceedingly
beautiful was the place, that the most
morbid imagination would never have dreamed of
sickness visiting that spot in its spectral paleness
and fat alii y. But the seeds of disease had been
sown in our systems at the other camp, and the
sickening fogs and miasma of Bull Run were still
wafted to us from Us swampy bottoms ; and, as ex-perience
has shown, encampments, are the healthi-est
when made in the open field under a hot sun, for
the shadincts of the forest keeps the ground and
tent cloths almost continualy damp Mr. Cobb, so
far as we could perceive, was not improved by the
moving. His disease was camp-iever, which is the
lowest and 4iiosi fatal type of typhoid. It is neaily,
if not quite as fatal, as typhus. .Ho rapidly sank
into a comatose state, and all that attentive nursing
and medical aid in his -itnation could do, uvailed
nothing. On the 8th of August, between 7 and 8
o'clock, P. 1|., he fell gently asleep in the cold em-braces
of the rejnorseless death-angel. A cloud of
gloom setilcd upon my men: for death had, for the
first time, "trod his skeleton foot" in the street of
my company.
Dressed in his martial suit, he. was placed It a
plain, unvarnished cofiin, the best tliat could be
procured there. 1 tried to get a leave of absence
for one of his cousins for a few days to carry iiis re
mains to his friends iu this State, but this was de-nied,
and had not Cupt. Westmoreland, of Stokes,
who was returning home on account of sickness,
kindly consented to take them under his care, uo
doubt, we should have been compelled t J inter them
there. He was hurried at Frieden's church, most
generally known as Shoemaker's Meeting-house,
where his funeral sermon was preached by the Rev.
John D. Scheck, il minister of the Lutheran denom-ination.
He was only a short time in the service of
his country; but he was a good and faithful soldier
and is richly entitled to the "well done" of his
country-men
Peace Convention at 2Jew York.
it has b-ron read in ;i letter to-night from a
distinguished gentleman lately a candidate
for Governor of Connect'cut—(cheers)—
"you cannot cement two antagonistic elci
men IN by blood." Therefore, 1 am against
this war, in the first place, because, under
the theory of our Guvernment, liters is no
power to coerce delinquent Slates. By
careful reading in the debates in Congress,
during the time of tho formath n of the
Federal Gjvemmtnt, and"of the dubateain
tho general Stato CoDT.eat!OBSf»l believe
there is mo man that d^re contend that the
most distant authorization of the military
war power against the State can bo found
On tho contrary, when an effort was made
to incorporate such a power, il was denied
oy Jefferson, Hamilton., Roger Sherman,
and all tho gre«t minds, including John
Adams, of Massachusetts. They denied
ll\e power, aud they daally declared to the
world, on that occasion, if there was any
coercive power al all in the Constitution it
was legal and not military.
There-tore,"my friends, if there be no mil-itary
war power in ihe Constitution, it in
necessarily an ui:c nsj tutmnal war, and
all the instruments and results of the war.
All these various attacks upon the rights
of tho people, upon the rights of tho press,
upon property, unnn life, are all tho neces-sary
results of llin Amt fatal mistake of
tho assault when there was no power in
tho Federal Government to .perpetrate it.
CChepra.) For 1 cannot, for my life, mi
derstand how those members of tho Demo-cratic
party can consistently assailjlio acts
of this administration pretonded to he
necessary for the prosecution of the war.
Icrnnot for my life understand how these
men, who call themsoivea war Democrats,
can consistently assail tbe administration
in carrying out what the administration
believes to be necessary for the war. The
President of the United States is there
under the ConsuL.t;.:. -according to the
provisions of t!io Constitution j wo cannot
deny that. He is clothed with tho execu-tive
powers controlling the military ; and
if in hi . judgment, responsible to the peo-ple,
it is. necessary in the vigorous prose
the war, to commit those acn of
tainly said more than the.lapguage ottered
b\ our lamented and glorious friend.
^ allandigbam, who was struck down for
it. (Cheers for Vailandigbam.) 1 jnay
be the*neat glorious martyr upon the altar
of my country. («U»,») I a„k your at.
tcntiuu and quiet for a moment till 1 relate
to you an anecdote of Gon. Washington.
When a young man, he was, as we all
know, a planter on the Potomac river. He
had a large and fine plantation, atid bad a
neighbor whoeftned an adjoining planta-tion,
with whom be bad a dispute about
tbe bounduiy lino between tho two. His
neighbor was a tyranicul, despotic, resolute
man. (" That's Abo.") He probably con-ceived
that he was the owner of the dispn.
ted boundary, but Washington, honest,
resolute, net desirous ol infringing on tb«
rights of others, finally believed that tho
t.iile to the disputed line was in himself.
t^/ie day ho was walking with his faith-ful
servant by his side, and in those timos,
my friends, it was the practice to go over
these large areas, comprierng thousands of
acres; with an armed servant. Suddenly
ho found himself on the disputed boundary,
and before him his rnotny, the claimant.
The claimant stood beibro him, holding a
rirlo in his hand, and ho says to Washing-ton
: "Sir, go back ; don't you cross thai
line." Says Washington, calmly, "I will
cross il." Tne cj.emy to.^k his riflo and
cocked it. Says he "sir, if you cross that
liuo J. will kill you." Washington coolly
turned to bis servant and said, "John, do
you b»-ar what that man says T John, I
intend to cross that lino. When ho lak< I
aim you take aim, and when ho shoots mo
do you shoot him." (Laughter.) Now,
n.y friends, th* application that I make is
this: When ono of your own fellow-citi-zens,
bo it the humble individual before
you, or any other one, shall bo taken in Lbo
dischargo of his rights and in tho m.ninten-aneeOi
utsown, uC yoa sii.i»o ^~~7. „..."•
tyrant. [Laid applause and cheers.] My
ftiends, l am opposed to this war
becaase i: •'., t failure. (" Thai's HO ")
Even admitting its legality and " constitu-tional
ty, admitting that it is really prose-cutiou
of acts cuted for the purposo ofUnijn, admitting
which some me i complain, 1 say that men j tii»t 'here bas been none of iheso encioach-wbo
favor the war, who are in favor of its men Us upon our rights, admitting that tho
prosecution, that itisdue totbeodminlstra' administration had done nothing but what
lion that they, at leas;, shall not take ex- they were empowered to do, and what it
ception to what the administration deems j *" best for them to do—I Hay it is a foll-lobenecessary
in iwproaeontion.—("That's J «"*, that wo have undertaken what wo
ason..",. | cannot pei form. .\u revolted people thai
Now, gentlemen, I am opposed to the | bM kfP* »° independent"Government for
war, because it never might to have bee'i
commenced. An amicable adjustment
could have been made in thepeaco O nfer
ence, which was voted down and rejected.
I am prepared io say that until recently I
know the fact than .'imici.ble adjustment
securing lbs OonBtittUyOitaJ rights of the
South, was within '.tie power of the Admin-istration.
.^Therefore, I am opposed tp the
war, not only bceaufcO U never should h'dve
been commenced but because J! conid have
been amicably adjusted and deteTiEtoea.
Again, I am opposed to this war because
a twelve month have ever yet been subju-gated,
and no purely agricultural people
in the protections of their domoltie rights'
have ever yet been subjugated since 1.
world was founded.
Even laying history aside, the history
of this two years'war shows that whUst we
are brave and determined, whilst we hav»
thrown our best spirit at d energies, and an
limited amount of treasure ii.t" this oon-lesf,
ri iist our m-jn have fought as men
nover fongbl before, yet we have paly
trained d ■feat, i. imi nr section: I
it has hern diverted ftom its
poses. Instead of a war for tho I'm
pul..,i...J-. destj (Her-iori
it I ests, and annihilating to eve • spi I
SPEECH OF FKRNAM10 WOOD.
Fellow-Citizens: We have falien npon
evil times. We havo lived too long, if we
have outlived our country ; for, disguisc.it
as we may, the American Union! has been
severed, and perhaps forever, and candor
compels the admission that our Once proud
Republic has fallen from its exalted height
Jt i.s now prostrate, decried, insulted, and
without a second-rate position abroad ;
rent asunder by a fearful civil war at home ;
ruined by despotic power on principles of
partisan bate; and upon theories ot Gov.
eminent utterly antagonistic to those upon
which our institutions were founded ; we
stand before the world an object cf wonder,
contempt and ridicule. .These facts arc
not referred to in a spirit of reproach. I
bui anticipate tbe record of history, and
shall leave to others to tix ihe responsibifi-
I ty. I reproach none. It is not difficult to
charge error or wrong doing alter the .a*v
: complishmcnt of results. All "Of 08 can
BOO causes lor mitfortuiics that have oc«
' Currcd better than we can provide a pre-
I ventive. "It is human to err, it is divine
: to forgive;" and, while it is easy to com-j
mit error ourselves; it is difficult to over-
I look it in ethers.
With these sentiments I am disposed to
! alleviate the national woes rather than in-dulge
criticism upon the causes. I wou'd
do something to extricate tho country fiom
! its terrible calamities. The eflbrt, however
feebie^ia ennobling. Even tbe attempt, if
made in pood faith, is worthy the highest
intellect and moat elevated patriotism.
I regret that of the many of this char-acter
of which America has boasted, who j country. The military power has bo. . H false to u. Deinc* ra'i I, andsh
have honored us i:i tbe several departments j troiluci'd.atid I linvo real history in vain be east out fr m amongst us as Dem
ol human progress, none haveansen at this ; if Idotiot know that in every country, and (Slight cheering.)
time lor this blessed mission* Heretofore, I in every age, whore tho military power, —**._.
in every age, great national exigencies j arrant, despotic and tyrannical, has been
havo produced tho man of"the occasion, j permitted to sobjugste i ho civil power and
As tbe Almighty "tempers tho wind to j over-ride tho com is, at every time and at
the shorn lamb," PO has He, heretofore, j every age, that power has not onjj- de-provided
tho instrumeut by which great j stroyed the prhn-ipTo oi the people for a
uatiohal results havo been accomplished time,, but it baa become fixed, and sfter-for
the advantage of humanity. As yet, wasos it has been succeeded by the rule ol
He has not vouchsafed this favor to us. No j inheriting monarchies. Here the military
and domineering.
basest partisan purposes of plunder and po-litical
power. (Cheers i .Ind when the
American people committed themselves to j
it two vcars ago, when iii a state of wild '
frenzied excitement, our men Vaahodintoi
tbe war, tsey little thought they were to
be made instruments of despotic power,'
thM they were to bti iacorporsie
great army to bo used for
uoconstitut'ona
[ Would appeal to in every .-i/fnr of li/o
when we see we cannot succeed, it is pru-dent
and wise, li mesl and ennobling toad-mjj
out I lilute, and that we must back down
from our j witi< n Sow, my friends, I
could go on ("Go on." Somebody in
the audience became objectionable, and
thcra were ciien I ■ "out hint out."
licnl an 1 could detain you beream ther twelvemonth
J 't',;",".■':' bad 1 the physical "and intellectual powi r
purposes,depriveu . ., Itoa'o if. to aive you reasons why wo ttl "uld
rights as citizens deprived of tho cWor. ' *«4a«M for peacd) and therefore let U I
of homo, deprived of tho right to exorehe u. '- tfeia d i ens enterprise, let us save
any political power; ihey 11tile thought to unite .,. ?ve*i v hat i 1.1 oi il beforo
become machines to be
-From VflmcMesfer, fa,
KiciiMosu, June IT.—A dispatch
tbi R tckinghi m 'l< ,,,/.,, dm, i ;.;:!, f0«t.,
addressed to the .•< ;< nt of tho a I
I, OOj I :
<•■<< Kw ill i tho enemy at Win.
and the . <
irougho It Si,n'lav,
is another
population of over thirty mi • ; •>
- eheorfr.l Peace, witli linnet MOf,
iorw—Npi
and"Sou"th—abounding with benevolence,
purity, cultivation, and enlightened Chris
Sanity, none an- found to raise the banner
ot iieace. Among the thousands of lofty
spires wbicb rear their towering turrets lo
n benignant God, but one that I know of
covers a oulpii devoted to tho true princi-ples
Of Christ, and proclaims »'pmu* on
earth.
without oven a dees I recognition
proclamation of martial iaw
>gmtion oi ine u ib rumort.d |icllilrt beencaptured
ithaa within , ,„. Ak.(,Ui endeaTOTin* w re;nfl„,
iwcntydbarbourss,ipp:esscdanobie l'-m- HUroy with 2(W0 men, was • d by
ocratic paper, the Chicago, Tuna, ard Gen. Edward John n. Sunday evening,
throughout the West t.>-day the popple Doar Berryville,
It is that of Mr. Pratt, a preacher
of State
voice,
iani:I. (Cheers tor Pratt.) (A
| of his twenty first year, was fair-complcxioned,
day and the ensuing slender, of thf stature of five feet eleven inches, and
Chants Ihe lowly dells amon,
Ai tne time that the Proclamation of Abraham
Lif.coh. was published, calling upon the State Exe- the^mOSt damna"ble or. bis-cutives
to furnish each his quota of 70,000 men to
suppress rlie rebellion, as he termed it, iu the Cotton
States, Mr. Cobb tacked nearly a year ot having
reached his majority. He was in the rosy ripeness
nigh:. We WHO 1.1 tless, and without even arbors,
or <■'■ : ice application was mr.de to our
is even walk t M in; ssas and
y our tent ;•. i|K' roads wore over-shoe-
'" ' ■'"■:' in :: • stick • i mod; bui the request
was denied. To He down aud sleep iu ihat situation.
full of gentlv ten and amiability. He was the only
son thai b.ae\ been spared to h!s parents, and was
the brother of three ii!oli7iug sisters. His State soon
wen: out ol' the Federal Union, aud immediately a
call was made lor volunteers to defend his section
agair.si the wicked coercive policy uftlic North.
Van Dyke, of Brooklyn.") As if
,ai damnable crimes on record of his-torv.
ancient and modem, constitute reli.
"ion, forgetting that war is the child of
Satan, and that peace is of bod, the ema-nation
of the Divine Spirit.
That man .who has tho intelleclual power
and ability to stay this current has not had
the nervo to make the effort, and when
tho man having the nerve has attempted,
be has lacked the power and influence to
accomplish it, In my person, without
pretending to bold any power of influence,
alter studying and contemplating the the-tand
Humbling upon the precipice, hesita-ting
whether to rise '■'' masw an'' cap'tll
these military * il raps, :• quietly submit to
tho grave of desj otism which is being dug
for them, titid this nighl 'hecity of Chicago
may be in flame- i'hc i e has been assembled
there to-nielt one of the largest and nest
resolute gatbori: - • !' tli« people bvef in
Chicago, in iroot of tbe Times ofliee. pro-testing
against this military usurpation,
against the rights i I ■ free press. (Cheer
°lf 1 know ibecbarac'er of the Wi ' "'
people—if I understand the character of
the men at Chicago, they possess thi
of the men of !few Vrk, Mond ehpers.)
„Tr.'Ii 1i du.iirree aani.duud.of.-v. thne. administraftuionneratol «u«rita5tetaMb.pwrhaaainn|t hl«i •■?
- 1 to the r:ty of New York their (ronerat ^
Barnside, (hisses) and I here in the name
of this assembly, thousand- and lens of
: ryi
Confirmation iillhe Taklnc ..IHIn-clsester—
Bscsipa oi.iniioj, *,«-.
RICH MONO, Jun«« J7—P | the
Central traiii from the Va ley< nia,
confirm the new- received by telegraph
from rlarrisonbargtbia morning. Also report
that Milroy • i up d. He made his
vviti news
Weather extremely wa. iii, sad no lain vet.
taT HAVIM; ADDED CO.S- IKKU.SI.I.V TO
our f*cllities for j b printiafT. Bad I set
office on.'y espertaaeed ■ ro-yrran
exe-i-
i a . ■• irr I
kper, nu'l
other stock- "" aill guarantss a»goad wort tasai
be dose ia the Soathem Coafedcsa . is
thousands, inside and out side, request tbe accordance with ibe times.
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