The Greensborough patriot [January 15, 1863]

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VOL. XXIV. GREENSBOROUGH, N. C., JANUARY 15, 1863. SO. JL232.
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SPEECH OF PRESIDENT DAVIS,
TO THE
LEGISLATURE OF MISSISSIPPI.
On the 26lh day of December, Prosidsnt
Davis delivered an address before the Leg-lature
of Mississippi, a skeich of which we
tinti in the Jaokson Missiseippian. We
select the most important portion* :
After a complimentary allusion to Mis-
-.»n,|ipi and her soldiers, tho President
jpokoof his lore for the old Union. He
alluded to it, however, as a matter of re
trret, that the beat affections of his heart
sbould have been bestowed upon an object
ID unworthy—that he should bave loved
*o long a government which was rotten to
its very core.
lie bad predicted from the beginning a
tierce war; though it had assumed more
gigantic proportions than he bad calculated
u|)on. Ho ha1 predicted war not because
our right to secede was not ao undoubted
one and clearly de6ned in the spirit of that
declaration which reats the right to govern
upon tho consent of the governed bat the
wickedness of the North would entail war
upon the country. The present war waged
against tho rigtits of a free people wae un-just
and the fruit of the evil passions of the
Norb. In the progress of tho war those
evil passions have been brought out and
developed; and so far from re-uniting with
such a people—a people whoso ancestor*
1,'iooiwell had gathered from tho bogs and
fens of Irelsnd and Scotland—a people
whoso intolerance produced discord and
tioublo when ever they went—who perse-cuted
Catholics Episcopalians and every
other sect that, did not subscribe to their
bigoted and contracted notions—who burnt
witches and did a thousand other things
calculated to make them forever infamous
The President was emphatic in bid declar-ation
mat under no circumstanco would he
consent to ro union.
lie drew a glowing picture of tho hor-rors
of war, and the ravages of the enemy ;
and while tears flowed for Ihoso who suf
fered, yet all these would be endured,
cheerfully, before our manhood and our
liberties would be surrendered.
The War ujjon Northern Soil.
Ho alluded briefly to bis desire to
transfer the war upon Northern soil, but
the failuro to do this proceeded net from a
want of inclination but of power. We were
not au old established nation, with armies
and navies at our cornn.and. These had to
bo improvised from the scanty materials
to be found within the limits of our own
Confederacy. We were blockaded and
cut. off I.-om Other nations, and everybody
knows that we had been an agricultural
people, and that our facilities for manufac
luring materials of war were extremely
limited. Notwithstanding this fact, patent
lotho most casual observer, we bad now an
army, larger than ever before—our arms
and munitions ol war were increased in
number and improved in quality, and we
are in a better condition to day than we
were twelve months ago.
TboConscription and Exemption laws
were then touched upon, and the neceesity
of the one and the intemion of the other ex-plained.
Ho thought there might properly
bu a revision of the iatter, and trusted there
would be no conflict beiweon Confedorate
and State laws on the subject of the military.
Indigent Families— Reserved Corps.
The President expressed his gratification
at the message <if Governor Peitus, and
cordially endorsed his views in reference
to making provision for indigent turn liws.
and tne enrollment of exempts, who could
bo ready upon an emergency to go forth and
occupy the tren. lies, while the disciplined
and active soldiery could take the field.—
The calls for such service could be for thir-ty,
sixty or ninety days, and when the
emergency had passed they could return
to their pursuits. Haw soldiers, the Presi-dent
contended, could do efficient service
in tho trenches, and the adaption of such a
policy w> u;d strengthen our means of de-leiiHo
quite materially.
in his allusion to the vast numbers of
the North, tho President said that upon any
lair field wo were willing to fight them two
to one; wc have oftow whipped them three
to one; at Auticlam Gen. Leo whipped
them lour to one. But this might not be
ihejeaee always. As the em my progressed
in discipline, they approached nearer to our
own troops in efficiency. ll-nee tho ne-
Ceasity of providing something like a cor-responding
force to that which the enemy
are bringing against us.
Stragglers
The President denounced in terms ol
-'athing bat dignified rebuke the habit of
straggling from tho niray. He invoked
public opinion to Down it down, and called
upon the women to drive the straggler*
back to duly.
Fdl up the Rank:
He urged the necessity of filling np the
thinned ranks of our regiments. The ve-terans
who bad gone through many hard
fought battles looked for their kindred at
home to supply tho places which bad been
made vacant by the death of their com-rades.
A brigade which mustered only
twelve hundrv>d men, would have to blood
as mach as if it had its lull quota of 4,000.
Their ranks must be filled; humanity de-mands
it. It was a time for patriots to
throw off the shackles of private interest,
fly to the rescue of these berOOT whom the
ravages of war had yet spared, and con-
S' crate themselves to the most sacred
cause on earth.
The Real Danger.
Tho President remarked tbat when he
arrived here ho thought the enemy were
pressing down upon us from tbe Northern
borders of our Stale, but when be went to
Grenada he there learned that nothing
could bo seen of tbem, but then- backs.—
They were going back, perhaps with the
intention of reinforcing tho heavy column
that was now being thrown down the Mis-sissippi
river. The real pointsof attack
were at Vicksburg and Port Hudson; and
to all who desired to lend a helping hand
to tbe country in her present exigency he
would say, "Go to Port Hudson and Vicks-burg
without delay!"
Necessity of Harmony—i'ermanent Militarg System.
Ho spoke of the salutary effects ot har-monious
action between the several StateB
and the government at Richmond, and
urged up-m legislators, both Slate and
Confederate, tho necessity of establishing
a permanent military system, l-„r oven
after tbo present war was ended we might
expeot trouble from our enemies unless our
military establishment was of such eharac
tor as to g-ve them a wh losome fear of
precipitating a war upon us. The true theo-ry
was to adopt a military system which
would be permanent and opoiative in
limes of peace.
Tht Question at Ittue.
The issue involved in this war was no
ordinary one. The que-tion is will you be
tree, or will you bo the slaves of the most
depraved and intolerent and tyranical and
hated people «pon earth ? This was the
real question to be decided. Every thing
else was as dust in the balance. A people
who had demonstrated their utter incapac-ity
lor self government, who have destroy-ed
their own liberties in the vain effort to
deprive us of ours, seek to be our masters,
and inflict upon us such galling chains as
have no parallel in tho annals of tyran-ny.
Mississippi is the object ol their
peculiar hatred ; upon her is to bo visited
their refined vengeance. But our cause is
Just and vongeance beiongs to the Lord !
We will resist the power of tho enemy.—
Hit-card all other cons derations but the
public defense,and victory will again be
ours.
Asptrsiont of the Administration.
The President alluded very briefly to
the falsehoods which had been circulated
relative to the Administration, which he
eouid not disprove, because such d sproval
would give the enemy a knowledge ol
things Which the good ol the cause required
to be concealed from him. That he had
committed some errors he did not doubt,
though they wero never the result of im-proper
motives. For a vindication of him-self
from tho aspersions of some of his
fellow-citizens, ho confidently awaited tho
time when the cause would not sutler from
such vindication. He however, explained
the gr<-at necessity of public confidence in
the officers of the government, and pointed
to that great and, good man, Gen. Aihe.it
Sydney Johnson, as a shining example of
tbe ill effects of withholding that deserved
confidence which the public welfare
requires.
Duration of the War
Though tho war had somewhat exceeded
his expectations yet be never doubted our
final success and he considered it now as
absolutely certain. The duration of tbo
war wasaqnestion of lime. He thought
however it was not possible for a war
waged upon such a tremenduous scale to
bo piotracled. Be it long or short how-ever
we could not be the first to cry "hold
enough."
I 'islesburg.
The President paid a deserved tribute to
Vicksburg. That noble little city had
withstood the «hock of the combined fleets
of the enemy after thegieai cities of New
Orleansund Memphis had succumbed to
their supposed invicibility. The heroic
women of Vicksburg had cried out give
tho enemy the soil of it cannot bedelonded
but lei him have nothing else. The Gov-ernor
left his chair aud repaired to the
scene of danger, and refused to listen to
any advice except of defiance to too con-eeiiira'ed
power ol the enemy.
We are better prepared at Vicksburg
now than then. Our defenses are greatly5
improved and strengthened. Our arma-ments
are much improved. We bave bet-ter
armies, and that gallant Soldier (Gen.
Johnston) is pouring in reinforcements —
He comes to Mississippi to protect and de-leud
her. (Immense applause.(
Jiteognilion—foreign JViSftiwi.
To the quesi ion of recognition and inter-vention
tho President devoted only a few
words. We had a right to expect recogm
lion long since but it had not come and hie
advice was: "Put not your faith in prince*
nor rest your hopes in foreign nations "
It seemed tnat England still retused to take
any steps toward either recognition or me-diation.
Franco had niado a move lha'
looked friendly to UP and when she exten-ded
the hand ol friendship we would bo
ready tj grasp it.
-Vo RttrogradAtion.
Tho President took a brief retrospective
view of the movements of our armies since
the tall ot New Orleans—an event as unex-pected
to him as il was to us,—ai.d show-ed
that wo had not retrograded, but had
gathered largely in strength. Annie* are
not made up in numbers only. Wo bave
now an army thai we tan safely rely on.—
Wo bave wnij.ped gunboats of tbetr terror*.
Wo have improved in ail those thing*
which go to make us invincible. Our pros-pects
are much better than they were
twelve monlhsago.
Two object! of the Enemy.
There are two grand objects of tho ene-j
my: 1st, to get possession of the river, and
' thus cut our Confederacy In two, and sec-
'on dly, to seize the Confederate Capital,
and hold it to foreign nations as an evi-dence
that the Confederacy does not exist.
The Presiden t d welt at some length upon
the vast importance of thwarting the
enemy's designs upon this valley be con-sidered
its defenso a necessity not only to
the people here, but to the Confederacy
itself. Vicksburg and Port Hudson were
points that must be detended, and every
effort must be stiained for this purpose.—
Vicksburg, he said, would stand, and Port
Hudson would stand, if the people wero
true to themselves. This done, the North
west would grow resti.e and cease to
support a war ruinous to them and beno-ficial
only to New England contractors.
From the Northwest he (coked for tbe first
gleams of peace.
Cheered by his Visit.
Although his duties required his pres-ence
elsewhere, y et when be heard of the
Bufferings of his own Slate, and her danger
of subjugation by a vandal foe, bis feelings
dragged him to her soil. He goes back
with a lighter heart. Ho finds none of
that depression which was reported. At
Grenada he found the army sorry that
tne enemy had gone back. At Vicksburg
'.hoy were ready and eager tor the fray.—
Depression existed only among tbat class
ol men who were constitutional grumblers
and tault finders. Ho goes back cheered,
but Btill anxious for bis heart is here—his
attachment to the Slate has risen since the
war began, and he can see dangers though
he believes tbe greatest have passed.
The Trans-Mississippi Department.
On the oiher bide of the river our pros-poets
are brighter than ever before, and
ere long ho hoped that be would be enabled
to proclaim Missouri free. Kentucky, loo,
was an object of solicitude lo him, und ho
spoke of her gallant peopto in the kindest
and most commendable temrs.
Our Cause in the Ascendant.
The President laid particular stress upon I
the encouraging fact that we bad improved
in every respect since tho war began. Oar
armies were superior in number, and im- i
proved in quality and appointments. Our
manufactories bed made rapid pi ogress;
Mississippi alone had clothed and nubsis- '
ted tbe whole army upon her soil. Our I
people bad learned to economise. They
were homespun. llo tell like taking off
his hat to a woman dressed iu homespun.
Ho had an unfaltering belief in the justice
of onr cause, and a profound reverence lor
the decrees of Heaven. He noticed with
evident satisfaction the superior m rality
of our army l> that of the ivader. In God
and the valor of oar troops he trusted.
.-t Speech from Jo. Johnston.
After the cheering hud subsided Gen.
Joseph E. Johnson was vociietously called
for. The soarworn hero looked a little
nervous while the House rang with loud
swelling and prolon^od applause. He arose
and said :
"FELLOW CITIZENS : My only regiot is
that 1 have done so little to merit each 8
greeting! 1 promise you, however, thut
hereafter 1 shall be watchful energetic aod
indefatigable, in your defense."
This speech was greeted with tremen-dous,
uproarcus and prolonged plaudits.
Evidently Gen. Johnston possesses tho
unbounded confidence and esteem of Mis
sissipians.
Sad Occurrence.
At an early hour on Friday morning the lllh inat
our community was shocked by ibe tlartlir.g
intelligence thai Mrs L. A. Wilson, wife of W. M.
Wilson, of Bush Hill, Randolph County, N. C ,
had committed suicide by culling her throat with
a razor. The facts in the case, as they have come
to light are as follows:
The husband, Mr Wilson, being unwell, and two
children lying, one upou itsdeath-b d aud the other
very low. two young laities of tbe neighborhood had
come in to .- ji.-n-l the night and assist in taking care
of the sick About 4 o'< lock in the mi rning they had
all lain down to sleep except Mrs Wilson, who
remained by tbe bedside of her sick child. In
about an hour Mr. Wilson awoke, and missing his
wile called her several times, and receiving no
answer commenced searching for her and
about li o'clock found her in an out-bouse near
his dwelling weltering in her own blood, with the
instrument of death lying by her side. The parent
had, a few day9 befre. D iried a very interesting buy
about two years old, aud at the time she committed
the deed another lovely liille boy about five years
old was lying at the point of death, and died
in a fe A days alter.
It is supposed that these troubles falling so sud-denly
upon one so tender at heart, caused momen-tary
insanity, under the influence of which the deed
was commit cd.
An inquesi was held over the body of the de-ceased:
and a verdict returned in accordanca with
the tacts above stated.
The deceased was a young woman about thirty
one years ot age, beloved and respected by all her
neighbors and acquaintances, and almost worshipped
by her husband. She was iu the strictest sense of
the word, a loving wife and an affectionate mother-
The deceased, at au early age, embraced the
Christian re'igion and joined the Methodist Church
at Midway, in Davidson county. N. C, .ind was
regular in her attendance as a member of the
church at that place until aiout three years ag,»,
when ibcy removed from thai place :o Bash Hill,
near Springfield Meeting House. ami.ni; the
S-oriety of friends to whom she became very ma ii
attached and took consider ible interest in unending
a ."-abbalh School iu that neighborhood
The community deeply mourns the loss of one
who has alw ys been an example of piety, and of
whom none can speak but in praise of her virtuous
life ana the tender sympathy she had ior her loving
babes, the death of which we hope has transplanted
her from a dark and frowning world, to one where
all is brightness, and where troubles can never come
and where she will ever enjoy the company of those
loved ones who are gone with her to realms above
Mr. Wilson the hu band, is a gentlem-ui highly
esteemed by his acquaintances and noted for his
kindness t<>his family. His mends deeply sjmpa,
thixe with mm in die loss of his paitner and chil-dren,
with w..oiu he lived iu so much love aud
harmony.
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PRESIDENT'S PROCLAMATION.—President Davja
has issued a lengthy proclamation detailing the
atrocities committed by l'ic.iyune 15. tier in New
i Irleaus decfar ug n.m an out aw, and in?ti uc.ing all
Confederate officers, in case ot the capture ol Butler
to hang him lorihwith as a felon. It ever a wretch
deserved such a late, it is Sutler
Ex-Ciov. Morebead's Speech
We regret that we bave net space for the
whole of the speech of Ex GOT. Morebead
ofKentucky, delivered by him in Liverpool
on the 9th of October. It has however
been published where it was more needed
the whole of it appearing in the Liverpool
^'Mercury." The following is its conclud-ing
portion. It will be seen tbat tbe
Chairman of the meeting declared that the
sufferings of the Conlederate States were
amply rcceompensed iu the permanoot
fame with which ..hey have replaced the
slanders to oar discredit with which the
world has been filled.
Speaking of Lincoln's attempt at emanci-pation
Gov. Morehoad continues
He claims this power in one of two
ways—either under the constitution'of the
Lnitcd Slates or as an exercise of the war
power. Well be would hardly claim it un
derthe Constitution of the United States.
Will you allow me—it is a v.ry short ex-tract—
to read what Mr. Webster said on
that subject. He was making a speech at
Richmond, Virginia, and he said—'•! hold
that Congress is absolutely precluded from
interfering in any manner, direct or indi-rect,
with tins as witb any other of the
institutions of the States." (Cheering,
and a voiee from tbo crowd exclaimed—
wo wish ibis could be heaid from Mary-land
to Lousiana, and we desire that the
sentiment just exprc-sed may be repeated
—"Repeat, repeat.') "Well, I repeat it;
proclaim if on the wings of all (ho winds,
tell It to all your friends—(cries ol 'we will
we will')—tell it, I say, that standing here
in the capitol of Virginia, beneath an
October tun, in the midst of this assem-blage,
before tbe entire country, aud upon
all the responsibility which belongs to me,
I say that there is no power, direct or
indirect, in Congress or the General Gov-ernment,
to interfere in tho slightest de-gree
with the institutions of tho South.—
Tbat is the Government uuder which we
lived ; tbat is the Government that I wan
ted lo perpetuate, that I desired to see
continued, united, upon that basis, accor-ding
to the true meaning of the Constitu-tion,
which was the bond of Union
between us. Well, under tho Constitu'ion
then, be has no power. Then, let us look
at it as a war power. You will remember
that iu 1S12 there was, unlortunately, a
war between Great Britain and th-.- United
Stales. That war continued for nearly
three years. At the close of tho war a
treaty was made at Ghent. Mr. John
Huirev Adams, father of tho present ac-complished
minister )rom the United
Stales to tho court of this country, was
one of tho negotiators on the part of the
United States, with Mr. Heury Clay, Mr.
Boyard and others—five of them. By that
treaty Great !»riltait. stipulated to deliver
up whatever private property had been
taken. The question then came up wheth-er
the slaves that had been taken by Great
Brittain should be delivered up under
that treaty. It was resisted. There was
a difference of opinion between Lord Cas-llereagb
and Mr. Adams, the minister then
tit the Court of St. James, and thoy agreed
to refer it to the Emperor of Russia 1
am not now arguing whether it its right
or wrong, but I want to show what has
been the settled policy ol the United States.
Mr. Adams writes that he had an inter-view
with Lord Liverpool in which be pre-sented
to him tbo argument that slaves
were private property and not subject to be
taken, and thai Lord Liverpool did not ob-ject
to the argument. When it was relcrrcd
to tho Emperor of Russia, he writes to Mr.
MiddiulOii, who was our minister at Rus-sia,
to the effect thai private property was
not subject to capture and coald not law-fully
be aken with tho place. "With tbe
exception" he says, "of maiitime captures,
privalo properly in captured places is, by
tho laws ot nations, always re-pected.—
None can lawfully be taken." I will not
read tho whole of it, but just mention the
principle in the conclusion of his letter.—
"The principle is, ih-tt tbe emancipation
of an enemy's siaves is not amonir, tho acts
of legitimate war. As relates to the owners,
it is a destruction ol private proporty no-where
warranted by the usuuges ol war."
That is the dcciri-ie of the United States.
That doctrine was sanctioned by the Em-peror
ol Russia, who decided tho contest in
favor of the United States upon the princi-ple
so broadly laid down by Mr. Adams.—
So thai I show you Mr. Webster, and I
could show you five hundred other North-ern
mon who rave admitted tho same thing,
that there is no power under the Constitu-tion,
and no war power, and that the act of
Mr. Lincoln is in violation ol tho law of
war, as expounded by tbe civilized world.
Maryland is a part of tbe United Stales;
Delaware is a part; Kentucky has never
yet seceded; Missouri is a part. All these
States have slaves, and Mr. Lincoln, in his
proclamation, proposes that if they will
send members of Congress to the Nation-al
Legislature slavery shall remain there—
that tie will nol abolish it there. It is not,
therefore, because he is opposed to slavery
that he would abolish it; it is as a punish-ment
to individuals. Well, so far as re-gards
that there is another great principle
recognized by all courts of justice—tbat
wherever a country is taken possession of
by and enemy, the allegiance of tho com-mon
people i f that country is absolved for
the time being wherevcre protection is not
extended. Tne United States has decided
it in six different cases. Castine was taken
in 16(12 We bad laws against tho impor-tation
of foreign goods, aud especially from
Greal Britain, but tho citizens of that
place after it was taken traded with ibis
country, and introduced a largo amount of
g,n,ds, and at the close of the war they
were brought before the courts of the Uni-ted
Stales lor ?iolating the non-intercourse
laws.
The judges unanimously decided that as
| the goods were imported at the timo that
the Uuited States laws could not be ehfor
cod thero tbo places being in poesension
; of the British Government and the British
, troops allegiance and protection were c«.r.
| relative terms and that these individuals
I who bad importod goods during that period
! were in no manner liable for a violation ol
the States. The same thing has boon de
dared here by statute 11 Henry VII. Al-ter
the long wars of the Roses they felt it
necessary to embody what was acommo,
law princciplo in a statute which provides
that you may obey the ruling monarch
whether he is rightful monarch or not and
in so doing you are not liable for a violation
of the laws of the realm stall. Yet the
Federals attempt to confiscate the whole
of the private property not slaves only
but all the private property of those eitixen*
who are bound tooboy tho law ol the Con-federacy
under which tbey live receiving
no protection from the United Stales.
They confiscate thei- property, and de-clare
their slaves free. Such an act of des
potism is not to be found on the record >.i
any civilized nation or the world. (Hear,
hear.) There are many other thin^-,, m>
fnonds, tbat I might say to you, but I deem
it unnecessary. I have already talked
more than perhaps I ought—(cries of "No.
no")—but my heart is deeply enlisted in
this thing. I have in my own person felt
tho despotism t,f this Northern Govern-ment.
It is a matter of very little moment
to the world, or to you, or oven to tho
community in which I livo, how a single
i idividual may suffer from despotism, but
the infringement of the rights of one indi-vidual
is but tho sanction for a like alrociu
to be perpetrated upon every human bein"
tbat comes under ibe influence ot raefa a
Government as that. I was seized at tw«
o'clock in the night in my own bed, dra^
ged from it and from my lamily, without t-moment's
warning aud carried across the
Ohio river in defiance of the writ of habtas
corpus. The soldiers took mo and ran me
by night, by special train, to Indianapolis
One of the judges of tho supreme court sent
a marshal with a habeas corpus to bring me
back, but 1 was carried by a special train
to Columbus, Ohio. Th ire 1 was kept
awhile, and afterwards I wa> carried on la
Now York, and hurried to the prison o;
Lafayette. And here I desire to s&y tl.::'
1 cannot well conceive of any horror mon
dreadlul than that which was experienced
in that prison It has a small court no
much larger than this room fof exercise.—
Thirty-eight of us were placed in one room,
five 32-pounder cannons occupying out
portion of the room, which was a:xty-six
leet in length and twenty-two feet in depth
The floor was a brick floor, so damp tbat
your boots would bo covered with green
mould every morning. They gave mi
141b of sir:; w to sleep on, carefully weigh
about hall rotten. IL was placed in a \
coarse tick. I am, without my shoes, G leei
in height, and the bed measured four feel
seven inches—actually meusured by a
member from Maryland, Mr. Sangs'on.—
We had one very dirty tin cup to drink
out of, and the water we drank was filled
not with animaculm, but with millions ol
'.adpoles. We had to hold our noses whei.
we drank, and strain every drop of it.—
We were locked up at six o'clock at night,
and kept till six next morning without any
natural convenience whatever, suffering
the agonies of death. 1 remember, if you
will allow ms to tell it—1 dislike to follow
Mr. Lincoln, hut there was an old man
brougtit from Kentucky Qpwards of70 years
of age. His head was as while as snow.
I never saw him before, but I was ama-zed
lo see him. and Seeing that he wat-from
Kentucky I wont up and addressed
him. A Inond had sent me some liquois
and lacked h m if ho would not liko to
bsve a little whiskey or brandy, and In
said yes, it was the only time in his life
that bo felt tnat a good dram would be < I
service to him. So, as is very commonly
the case there, he took tho bottle aud
poured out a very heavy drink. [Laugh-ter.]
He drank it off without mixing it
witb water—we had purchased glasses at
thallimo to drink afior and he saw the tad
poles. He set it down again shaking bis
head, and said be could not etand it, and
walked away; but the brandy bun ed him
so raui h thai became back and took it
up, and held it between the light of the
sun and himself, and soliloquizing, said
"Well tadpoles, if you can stand it I can,"
and drank it off. [Laughter.] He made
a compromise with the tadpoles. We
wrote a letter to Mr. Lincoln signed by
every individual who was in the tort, tell-ing
him ot the horrors of this prison, sla-ting
that wo did not pretend to discuss the
rightfulness of our imprisonment, but thai
wo supposed we were entitled to the com
mon rights of human beings. The result of
that was, that in about a month we were
taken to Fort Warren. Tbey pul us on
a vessel to bo taken thero by tea. Tbe
Captain told me himself that tbo vessel
was calculated lo take about 250 persons,
and ihey took 1,100. We were60 hour
in making the voyage, and ail that was
given us to eat during that nine was n
piece ol raw fai barrel pork, perfectly r&
about the size of my hand, and 1 saw th
poor soldiers eating that raw meat. We
had furnished ourselves with sc inetli n ■
better, but could not teed them all with th
little wo bad.
We were placed afterwards in Fort War
ren upon the naked floor without bed or
blanket or anything—r.ot a wisp of straw
even ; and there in that condition wo h tl
to remain until wo supplied ourselves with
such things as we needed, buy iuj . .
bod-steads, and h. iiig allowed by a vei
ki' d excel enl a;.d liuioaiic nil er. Col
Hymick—who I believe is a Iboro igb gen
tleimn and wh.» did all be could to ;il evi
ate our condition—beitig allowed by bim i<
employ a cook and to buy prov:-ioui wi
lived very comfortably mere. Tnis
tleruen is my experience. I trust that thi
time is nol lar distant when these thing
are to cease. [Hear, hear.] I think thai
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the S-mth has shown that she intend* nr
! r ill c ir. titnstnn'es and if every contin-te
mamtain her independence. fL....d
cheers.] L
L is nr-tfrr me. It is not for an Ameriean.
it is not for a citizen of the Confrd-rnts
Slates to ask Englishmen to roeoenise as;
butn seems to me that there is coining up
« solemn appeal to the bosom of homauity
us well o« ofjustice, that the time has oome
whesj we ought to be recognised among the
nations of toe earth. I do not ask for such
recognition. I have no official position : i
am a mere wanderer and ao exile. It is
■or every nation to determine for herself.
li is fjr the people of England to decide—
a is for tbe Government ol England to de-eide,
without any interference whatever en
our part. We perhaps ar* not good judges
We feel that we are not; but we think
tbst enough has been shown to the world
10 convince them that we intend, that we
can, and that we will be independent.—
[Cheers] The Governor concluded by
thanking the gentlemen present for the
attention with which tbey bad listened to
him, and returned to h(s teat amidst lond
cheering. Rising, again, he said be was
reminded by a gentleman tbat an order
came to Fort Warren whilst thoy were there
lorb-dding t.tem lo emply ouusel, it being
stated by Secretary Soward himself tt at
the mere fact of employing counsel would
he a sufficient cause lor continuing them in
prison.
A vote of thanks to Mr. Governor More-head
having been moved and seconded,
The Chairman said—It has been moved
md seconded, and I am sure willpueet with
a unanimous response on the part of all of
you, that the thanks ol this mooting should
be tendered to Governor Morebead for the
instructive and deeply interesting address
which he has just delivered to us- It needs
nothing to be»aid by me to rivet in your
minds tho striking facts he baa just put be-fore
us. As to tbe question of the war pow-er
which has been alluded to and discuss-ed,
there is no such thing known in isodern
warfare
Amongst brave and honorable nations
•here is no such thing known as the right
d assassination, or of inciting assassinat'on
All powers when at war with each other
t inclined to take any unusual step arc
at any rate bound to consider what it
nay bo and no man tor one momsot SSB
■■tfl ct upon this proclamation withi
bavins; ins mind immediately drawn in il .-
probable consequences ofnucba measui
. d'eetive iu any degree.
in my own mind I u»n only liken it lo
hat description of warfare which consists
in ibe poisoniug ol wells] hut i am sure .i
will l e a skii- foe . - j|0, ,
d,in reflecting upon tbe I ardshipe I.
gono through, and o all Southerners
tit. in red. ding upon the raftering
ivnich their country l.a pass if bi ugi .
to recollect tbst a great sna permanentgoo I
mid gam will remain through ail falors
lime, of which this has been the caise.—
Then-cannot he a doubt on the irind of
any Englishman here pr. seit Unit i\„,
South as a people wert unkiowi t. M a
ew years ago.
They are unknown to us now (Hear,
tear.) We wcie apt to judge of them by
b»oks, many of them romances which hail
produced an impression upon the public
•r.irid. The men of ihe South wero descri-bed
as an idle and luxurious raoe; the
women of the South as effeminated and
still more idle and luxurious; but tbe man-*
nerin which they stood forth to fight for
i heir rights the succocs which bas attended
their efforts, and the, manner in which the
women as well as the men have vindicated
tbe blood and the race from which they
l-scend, i think will have raised them to
an clevat on in the new position which
they take amongst tho nations of tbe
world, which will bo worth even the »erri-ble
cost of the hardship and suffering which
they now endure. (Applause.) Nothing
more is noi-essary on my part, for I feel
quite sure that you will all cordially res-pond
lo the motion.
The motion was carried by acclamation
and the meeting scporaicd.
" DISAFFECTED'' RAKDOLPII.—In a lste publica-tion,
by C'npt. Garrett, of the contributions to our
troops, it is stated that the OSrd regiment of Raa-dolph,
Col. Worth, contributed at ono time Jif
yards of wool cloth, .'i.'i blankets, 10 quilts, 23 shirts
13 pants, l'J drawers, 3 towels, 1 west, 110 pair of
socks, cash $C2 80. Tbe-e things were contributed
by tbe pople within tbe bounds of tbis regiment Yet
'liese are the people who are said, by the Kalrigh
Register, to he 'disaffected" to tbe government.
These are tbe people who, in the opinion of the
Richmond Enquirer, are not "patriots." That
paper wants the "patriots" of tbe State to speak
out against tbe "disaffected" in our midst Let
tbat paper l.iok to its own State. There are thou-sands
of traitors in Virginia to one in North-Caro-lina.—
Standard.
Gen- Van Dorn in his attaok on Holly
tigs, Miss., captured o»tr twenty three hun-dred
prisoners and paroled ibem, aud destroyed
>ver three million dollars worth of Federal prop
erty, burnt one thousand bales cotton, I our- i by
the Yaokess. took a thousand army revolrers.
dvo thousand siaud email arms, dve !.uu isd
Dorses and mult a isige am. unt ■.! Ota*
props ty. He di not ^.o to Men-phi-. »« •■ -■ .1
si '"g y feruled, sad avoided B livai M
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w K.-ii ail i lilroaj.s which we - rj In
ilj-a line of couin.uiiiraiioii. ii id oas wa-> oal/
• hiny men. Van Dorn's whole foics did no' «x
cecd twenty se»en buudredsnd fifty men
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