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m VOL. XXIV. GREENSBOROUGH, N. C., JANUARY 15, 1863. SO. JL232. M PUBLISHED WEKKLT, BY S. SHERWOOD, KUITOR AND PROPRIETOR. Aiphssis W. Ingeld, iuiiUst Editor. TIEMS, «2.00 A TXAS IK ADVANCE. Rates or Advertising. One dollar per square, for the first week, and twenty-five ctnt» for every week thereafter. Twelve lines or less, make a square. Deductions made in farer of standing matter as follow* : 8 MOUTHS. 6 MOSTHS. 1 mi. On* Square, $8.50 f6.60 $8.00 Two Squar 7.0© 10.00 14.00 Three Squares, 10.00 16 00 30.00 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. — 1 m m 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 >y 1. _■! 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 ... -.• d - royedrailroad bi dges >•& l ti 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 JEFF. TBOHVSOS.—This famoss partisan fight. er has turned up agsin. li'- n rted Is Oei Mo mi ■ ... --v. i r'.h of 1 . h» ■ ... UM - I -. - ...-■• j': ■* I WS ' • ' " •' } !N I ■ r n\ - <i?.i .-»!»■ t.i Female Nentlimr} — .l'j ib; i sxl leseion ot thi- los'ii no me sees i nasdsy, .Unuary wu, in. i horses' :o, me se nen will b , above • .r.:-HUt .at*8 For admission apply lo RICHARD STERLINO. 29-4w Greensboro > C. \ KM IMSHTUI
Object Description
Title | The Greensborough patriot [January 15, 1863] |
Date | 1863-01-15 |
Editor(s) | Sherwood, M.S. |
Subject headings | Greensboro (N.C.)--Newspapers |
Place | Greensboro (N.C.) |
Description | The January 15, 1863, issue of The Greensborough Patriot, a newspaper published in Greensboro, N.C., by M.S. Sherwood. |
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Original format | Greensborough [i.e. Greensboro], N.C. : Newspapers |
Original publisher | M.S. Sherwood |
Language | eng |
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Newspaper name | The Greensborough Patriot |
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Object ID | patriot-1863-01-15 |
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OCLC number | 871562309 |
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Title | Page 1 |
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VOL. XXIV. GREENSBOROUGH, N. C., JANUARY 15, 1863. SO. JL232.
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PUBLISHED WEKKLT, BY
S. SHERWOOD,
KUITOR AND PROPRIETOR.
Aiphssis W. Ingeld, iuiiUst Editor.
TIEMS, «2.00 A TXAS IK ADVANCE.
Rates or Advertising.
One dollar per square, for the first week, and
twenty-five ctnt» for every week thereafter. Twelve
lines or less, make a square. Deductions made in
farer of standing matter as follow* :
8 MOUTHS. 6 MOSTHS. 1 mi.
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Two Squar 7.0© 10.00 14.00
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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 |