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Awake to Danger and to Duty!
The year upon which we have just
entered is destined to be big with the
late of the people of the Confederate
States. No thoughtful man can sur
vey the field from our present stand
point without being conscious of an
overwhelming sense of the momen
tousness of this crisis. Our pathway
through the year just begun is beset
with dangers, which only the wisdom
of true men can encounter and over
come. Blunders in the Cabinet and
blunders in the field will be fatal; and
yet, thank Heaven! t there are, broad
cast around us the elements*of salva
tion which a master hand could gath
er up and grasp and
crowning chaplet of
From the nettle, of danger the flower
of victory can be plucked by the hand
and the mind equal to the undertak
ing.
And what is our greatest peril ?
Clearly the apathy of the people, them ,
weariness of the trials and privations
of the tremendous struggle; and, un-«
fortunately, this lagging of energy,
this relaxation oflabor, supervenes at
a moment when our circumstances de
mand a last arid supreme effort. If
now we could see around us the pa
triotic spirit which burned so brightly
two years ago—if now, as then, we
saw the recruiting flag waving for
volunteers —the drum beating to arms,
thq old men buckling the sword upon
their sons, the women enthusiastic in
the war, and plying their needles and
exerting their talents and accomplish
ments in equipping companies for the
field and presenting them with battle
flags under which to march against the
enem}' —if the universal aspiration as
then, was now, to the field, to the
camp, to arms, instead of what it is,
we should have no misgiving of the is
sue, and would proudly feel that we
already had the right to exclaim, “ I
arn a Confederate citizen.”
The Congress of the States is moving
with an energy equal to the crisis, but
its acts are a dead letter, unless breath
ed upon and inspired by the spirit of a
patriotic people. If that spirit had ex
isted there had been no necessity for this
stringent legislation. If the conscrip
tion age is extended beyond its orig
inal limit, and if the man who has fur
nished a substitute is now called to the
field, as a measure of overruling pub
lic necessity, it is because of the decay
in the patriotism of the people. If our
men and women had continued to
glow with those sacred fires which
marked the early period of the war,
our armies had not dwindled to a
point which made its recruiting by ex
traordinary means necessary to the
public safety. And this for the reason
that, if the skulkers from camp, the
feigned sick, the cowardly deserters,
and without leave, were all at their
posts, our Generals would be strong
enough in the spring to drive Grant
across the Ohio, and Meade into his
fortifications around Washington.
Just before Gen. Bragg yielded his
late command, but forty-three per
cent, of his enrolled strength was
present for duty. Where were the
rest —more than one half of his army ?
Let public opinion at home answer the
question —let the relatives of deserters
who have helped to hide them from
duty and the search of authority an
swer. Let the Surgeons who give
facile certificates of disability, and al
low the hospitals to be encumbered
with “ old soldiers ” feigning sickness
—let the weak parents, whose natu-
BLAKELY, GEO, JANUARY 37. 1804.
ral affection for their sons overcome
their sense of duty to theii country,
and the wives who urge their husbands
to come back from the field—let the
young women whose smiles are ready
for the recreant officer who spends
his time in cities, while his brothers
are enduring the hardships of camp
life, or' bleeding in batttle—let all
these answer the question. The truth
must not be disguised-*-there is demor
alization among the people—a gener
al disposition to shrink the dangers
and responsibilities which belong to .
all alike, and to trust to “something
to turn up ” to save their souls and
bodies from the deep damnation of Fed
eral subjugation.
And this people had better consid
er their position at once. Freedom is
a plant that grows nqt without pain
ful cultivation. It is hardened'by titfal,
and must be watered with the blqod'of
the brave and the tears of the inno
cent. ll‘ your piles of Confederate
notes, which you are massing with so
much pains, are worth more than your
personal liberalities, and the honor and
independence of your country, then
go on to amass them—the year 1&64
will find you a slave to a Yankee mas
ter, and your gains not worth the pa
per on which they are printed. You
have it in your mower to save both
your country and your property, btit
you can only do it by giving your
thoughts, your labors, your prayers
and your arms to your country.
Arouse, men and women of the
South ! Arouse to breast the storm of
danger which is rising to break upon
you in the spring campaign! Show
that the warlike spirit, the boasted
chivalry of a sunny land, supposed to
breed high-toned men, born and fitted
for freedom, is not all an empty dreanv *
—that your manhood and your woman
hood have not been worn out and ex
hausted in three years struggle, and
that your eight milions of the descend
ants of sires of 76 can maintain a
struggle for priceless liberty at least
half as long as these sires did against
the first power of the earth. Think of
your country, your dear country, your
native or adopted land, where you
were born and have lived, and been
nurtured, and then contemplate it un
der the iron hoof of the oppressor.
Think that no man may call his roof,
however humble, his own and his home
—that no arm will be strong enough to
shelter the woman he loves, or the
daughter of his heart against the insults
of the conquerer. Think of your dead
—the precious blood that has been
drunk up by your soil, that that soil
might be consecrated to your freedom.
Think of anything else but submission*
Think at all, and if there is a drop of
manly blood to warm your souls, it
must bound towards efforts to be free,
and must freeze in horror at the pos
sible danger of being slaves.
Mobile Advertiser & Register, s th.
Negro Preaching down South.
Many ludicrous chapters might be
written on the scenes that are of eve
ryday occurrence in churches where
the congregations are all negroes, and
the preachers are untaught and un
sophisticated Ethiopes.
' In New Orleans, just before the war
broke out, having heard that a revival
was going on in the Fourth District
African Church, I attended.
In company with a friend-1 entered
the church, and the seat nearest the
door being vacant, we quietly occupi
ed it. Preaching had already com
menced, and we did not learn what
portion of the scripture the reverend
minister had selected as a text. The
Holy Book was spread before him, tho’
it was evident that he did not know
how to read, but depended altogether
on his memory for his scriptural quo
tations and references, most of which
were so horribly mixed up and gar
bled as to render it difficult to decide j
what particular scripture he was try
ing to recite.
Whenever he mentioned the Sav- |
ior, he. used the expression “ Massa !
Jesus; ” but when he referred to one j
of the disciples he spoke of him as i
“ Brudder Peter,” and “ Brudder Mat
*■ thew,” &c.
In the course of his sermon he re
lated the following, which he said
could be found “In de third book of
Brudder Matthew, on de right hand
side ob de page : ”
“ Den, when de people all up dar on
de top ob de mountain, Massa Jesus
tell Brudder Peter to go down to de
ribber an catch a fish. Now Brudder
P,eter hab no bate; but.he hab faith
m de Lord, dat What he hab. And
now you see a part of de miracalus.
He go down and frovv in, de ho6k-.. no
sooner touch de water dan he hab a
bite, and pull out his*knife a;nd cut de
shad open an take out a piece •bb*p»pn
ey; an he say to Brudder Peter,\yti,ose
hed am dison dis peAney>?'* 'An Brffd
der Peter answer an/ say Ajjjito'.hirri,
dat am Caesar’s hed. Den he say # gib
unto Laesar de things dat
So, ob course, Peter go an gib* dejpen
ny to Ceasar. But he take an
feed de great multitude ; an' d£y leath
er up de fragments, inore‘da&eiiuf £>£ •
dar supper an breakfast >next learn
ing. Dar, my brudders.ana sijsters,
you see de hole ob de mfeacalus ! ”
The sermon,.being ended.nfe,congre
gation struck up the hfmn/<?ofnmenc
ing , . \ •
“O, for a mansion in the«by.” . .
t % *
They sung the hymn in different voi ;
ces: for instance, jvhen those who .
led off had sang thewords “O, for a*
man —” other voices would keep off.
The third line of the verse reads
“ Send down salvation from on high,"
and a few moments after commenced,
one-half of the congregation were cry
■ ,ing at the top of their voices “O, for
a man,” wTiile the other half were
chiming in equally loud, “ Send down
sal!”
Confusion was worse confounded,
and your correspondent and his friend
left, almost splitting our sides with
laughter.
■ ♦ ♦ • i
Speed of Bail Hoads.
The Great Western Express to Ex
eter, England, travels at the rate of
forty-three miles an hour, including
stoppages, or fifty-one miles an hour
without including stoppages. To at
tain this rate, a speed of sixty miles an
hour is adopted midway between some
of the stations, and, in certain experi
mental trips, seventy miles an hour
have been reached. A speed of sev
entv miles an hour is about equivalent
to thirty-five yards per second, or thir
ty-five yards between two beats of a
common clock. All objects near the
eye of a passenger traveling at this
rate will pass by his eye in the thir
ty-fifth part of a second ; and if thirty
five stakes were erected at the side of
the road, a yard assunder, they would
not be distinguishable one from anoth
er ; if painted red, they would appear
collectively as a continuous flash of
red color. If two trains with this speed
passed each ether, the relative veloci
ty would be seventy yards per second,
and if one of the trains were seventy
yards long, it would flash by it in a
single second. Supposing the loco
motive which draws such a train to
have driving wheels seven feet in di
' ameter, these wheels will revolve five
times in a second, the valve moves and
the steam escapes ten times in a sec
ond —but as there are two cylinders,
which act alternately, there are really
twenty puffs or escapes of steam in
a second. The locomotives can be
heard to “cough” when moving slow
ly, the cough being occasioned by the
abrupt emission of waste steam up the
chimney, but twenty coughs per sec-,
ond cannot be separated by the air,
their individuality then becoming lost.
Such a locomotive speed is equal to
nearly one-fourth of a cannon ball, and
the momendum of a whole train, mov
ing at such a speed, would be nearly
equivalent to the aggregate force of a
number of cannon balls equal to one
fourth the weight of the train.
What is the best proof of a womans
insanity ? To see her admire another
woman more than herself.
English Philanthropy.
This is a hackneyed subject somes
what, yet it is not void of interest'un
der existing circumstances. Them
are many lacts connected with tho
slave trade which the “so called ”
Earl Russell and his apologists might
remember with interest:
I. Slavery was introduced in thia
country by Englishmen, acting under
the sanction oi the English Farlia
merit.
' *2. Iff 1708, thfe committee of tho
House of Commons reported : “ Tho
African slave trade is important, and
ought to be free.”
3. The same committee reported,
in-Hll, fhjat the “ American pi anta-*
tions ought, to be supplied with ne
groes at reasonable rates.”
4. hext year Queen Anne con**
grhtuljtUid Parliament upon her “ suc
cess,in Finding, in. Spanish America, a
• new market for'staves. I’* 1 ’*
5. In 1729, IP-grants
ed supples to. thV Afrfcan forts, for
the projection of ships .engaged in tho
slave jMiie*. ! •’ . f
'6. The-petition of the Liverpool
. Mierof/ants;,in-1748.'reads ; .“The Af
rican slave‘trade Ls-th 4 great pillar and
support of the plantations in
America.” • 'W'
l- 7. Between 1700 and 1750 the Brit
ish ports werfe filled with slaves. And
during this period of fifty years, over
. 1,500.000 negroes were kidnapped in
Africa—one-eighth of whom perished
on the voyage to America. The bed
of the ocean beneath the slaver’s track
has been paved with the bones of the
negro by Englishmen.
o. Under the reign of William and
Mary the House of Commons resolved
to open the trade in negroes. “ for the
better supply of the plantations in
America.”
9. The following sentence is found
in England’s Statute books : “ The
slave trade is highly beneficial and
advantageous to the kingdom and col
onies.”
10. England’s Kings and Queen*
derived pin money from the slavo
trade for more than a century and a
half, and royal decrees gave its sup
port for many years later. A full cen
tury of successive Ministers voted for
it and gave it support.
11. In 1727, iSouth Carolina mada
complaints against the vast importa
tion of negroes by English traders.
Governor Oglethrope notified the Brit
ish Ministry that “if the slaves were
brought into Georgia lie must leave
the State.”
12. In 1749, England removed tho
royal restrictions on the slave trade,
and it was opened to public competi
tion—“tor,” reads the statute, “ the
slave trade is very advantageous to
Great Britain.”
13. About the same period one of the
, highest civil tribunals known in the
English Code decided that “ negroe*
wVre lawful merchandise.” It is prop>
er to state that this decision Avas made
in order tha t England could have the
entire trade to herself, as stipulated in
I the treaties.
14. According to the Abolition Ban
croft, three millions of negroes were
imported into this country by the En-
I glish during the century previous to
1776; and two hundred and fifty
thousand were thrown into the Atlans
tic ocean while in-transitu. Only
think of it. British ship owners, act
ing under the authority of the British
Government, have thrown into the sea
more than half the population of Liv
erpool, in African captives ! This is
English “ philanthropy.”
15. President Madison once said,
that the “ British Government con
stantly checked Virginia’s endeavor
to stop the slave trade.”
Compare these facts with Earl Rus
sell’s late speeches, as inspired by Ex
eter Hall, and then admire British
consistency!
Columbia Sun.
Barney Williams, the Irish comedian,
was recently fined 81,000 in New York ci
ty for striking a man named Watson,
| account of worua disrepcotfully spoken
the latter.
isro. 15.