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ADVERTISING.
511L L E DG E VIL L E, GEORGIA, TUESDAY, MAR C II 8, 1864.
NUilBER 42.
address of congress.
to the peopll
OF THE CONFEDERATE
STATES.
In c!o-ia g the la’.'o sof the First Perma
nent C ongress, your R
fit occasion to
it a
Representatives deem
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| and tne '.uties incumbent on every citizen
address sue
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A^pli'-uti ai tor Diamissidu from AduiinLtiatur-
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ws, innst be
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!of counsel and
; times demand.
I ^WHp-encd by a long series of oppres
sive r.uu tyrannical acts, culminating at
mst m the Sfdectir.n of a President and
\ ice 1 resident by a party confessedly sec
tional and hostile to the South and her
institutions, these States withdrew from
t:;e former Union, and formed a new Con-
i*iterate alliance, as an independent Gov-
eminent, ba.-eu on the proper relations of
rtibor and catdtaj. This step was taken
re.uctantly, ty constraint, and after the
exhaustion of every measure that waslikely
<to secure us from interference with our
property, equality in the Union, or ex
emption from submission to an alien gov
ernment. The Southern States cl
otny the unrestricted enjoyment of' ttie.j tiiJu.
’. igi.ta gti-'nantied by the Ortiialjtution.—-
linding, bv paiufuj an
fend 2,000 miles of seacoast, and an in-
D.nd frontier ofeqnai extent. If we bad
succeeded in preventing any successes on
the part of our enemy it would have been
a miracle. What we have accomplished,
with a population so inferior in numbers,
and means so vastly disproportionate, has
excited the astonishment and admiration
of the world.
1 be tear in which we are engaged was
wickedly, and against all our protests,
aud the most earnest efforts to the contrary,
forced upon us. South Carolina sent a
commission to Washington to adjust'all
j questions of dispute between her and the
l uited States. One of the first acts of the
Provisional Government was to accredit
agents to visit W asbington, and use all
honorable means to obtain a satisfactory
settlement of all questions of dispute with
government. Both efforts failed.. Com
missioners were deceived and rejected, and
clandestine but vigorous preparations were
made for war. In proportion to our per
severance and anxiety have been the obsti
nacy and arrogance in spurning offers ot
peace. It seems we can be indebted for
nothing to the virtues of our enemies.— 1
e arc obliged to ins vices, which enured j
to our 'strength. We owe as much to his
nned | insolence and blindness as
to our precau-
j j i I Re wager of battle having been tender-
nonce, that this was perktenriy denied! ■ ' VaS i:cc? f alac . rit - v with
1 v j winch oiu people new to arms is worthy
j X 1 ) all praise. '1 heir deeds of heroic dar-
Ordiaary for leave t<
Dul|]is!,<>',l for fwo months.
Citation* for letters of Administration Guardianship,
A mast be published 30 days—for dismission from
tdininistration, monthly six mo Kill s—for dismission
fru n Guardianship, 40 days.
Rales for foreclosure of Mortgage must be published
monll.lv /or four rnon'hi—for establishing lost pupera,
fir 1<c lull space of three months— forcompeliiugtities
fr,,m Executors or administrators, where bond has been
given by the deceased, the full space of three months.
Publications will always he continued according to
these.the legal requirements, nnlcssotherwise ordered.
For the Confederate Union.
lu.turncc of Etu'lj Traiunc:.
Messrs Editors :
We propose by your permission, to
draw a tew reflections, fr•un the abo\ e
cap iion.
Every intelligent mind will readily ad
mit, that the work of training the- young,
is fraught with the greatest importance, to
thefuturc destinies of our country. It is
a work that should not only excite, the
personal pride, and ambition, but the
patriotism, aud philanthropy, of all out-
people.
Old age, comfort, and consolation, the
honor of society, and the welfare of the
rising generation, are the motives, which
prompt me, in calling attention to this sub
ject.
That a system of training for the young
is absolutely neccessary,—that by this
method they are called to fill positions in
society, and the world, which they never
would be otherw'sc, is an unquestionable
iact. This maxim, is forcibly illustrated
even in the brute creation. The Dog,
the Ox, or Horse, are made to serve pur
poses. which they never would, without a
preliminary process of training.
wp detmmued { > separate from those ene
mies, who had manifested the inclination
i!! ; l l ability to impoverish and destroy us.
We fell back upon the right for which the
colonies maintained the ^ar of the revolu
tion, and which our heroic forefathers as-
s it ted to be clear and inalienable. jfiio
unanimity and zeal with which the sepa
ration was undertaken and perfected, finds
no parallel in history. The people rose j
<n masse to assert their liberties and pro- j
tect their menaced rights. There never
was before such umvei'-aiily of conviction ■
among any people on any question involv- j
ing so serious a fid so thorough a change of I
political tnd international relations. This \
grew out of the clearness of the right so to j
act, and the certainty of the perils of far
ther association with the Noi th. The j
change was so wonderful, so rapid, so con- |
tv ary to universal history, that many fail i
to sec t!.a‘ all has been done in ilie logi
cal sequence' of principles, which are the
highest testimony to the wisdom of our
f athers, and the best illustration of the
correctness of those principles- The Gov
ernment is a child of law instead of sedi
tion, of right instead of violence, of delibe
ration instead of insurrection. Its early
life was attended by no anarchy, no rebel
lion, no suspension of authority, no social
disorders, no lawless disturbances. Sov
ereignty was not for one moment in abey
ance. The utmost conservatism marked
every proceeding and public act. The
object was “to do what was necessary, and
no more , and to do that with the utmost
temperance and prudence.” St. Just, in
in his report to the Convention cf France,
in 179.1, said, “a people has but one dan
gerous ebemy, and that is Government.”—
We adopt no such absurditj-. In nearly
every instance, the first steps were taken
legally, in accordance with the will and
prescribed direction of the constituted au
thorities of the seceding States. We were
not remitted to brute force or natural law,
or the instincts of reason. The charters of
freedojri were scrupulously preserved
And if the brute, so vastly inferior, can
be trained to perform feats ol labor, often As in the English Revolution, of 16SS, and
of the most marvellous character bow much
more reasonable is the conclusion that
man, the highest order of intelligence, ean
be trained to answer the most worthy and
noble objects of his cre.it ion.
Cyrus, the Persian General, political
redeemer of Israel, and terror of the na
tions, won his military fame by virtue of a
well trained Soldiery.
From early life Cyrus, and the Per-
fVi youth were iuured to hards!,ip, and nantc
toil.—exposed to climrti-c influence,—
throughly instructed in Military tactics,-*-
with f e8 access to the Gymnasium, ana
all exercises -calculated to develops their
mental and physical energies
So with the armies off’ Alexander the
great.
They were trained from their youth for
the feats of battle which distinguished
their leader with world renown.
The superiority of their Generals, and
their armie-,, over all cotemporary nations
of the earth, evinces forcibly, the virtue
and etficcicy ofjudiciotis training.
History, revelation, and experience,
teach us that training is omnipotent in its
influences, for good or ev il.
The habits and exorcises, of the young,
ours of 17 7t>. there was no material altera
tion in the laws beyond what was necessa
ry to redress the abuses that provoked the
struggle. No attempt was made to build
on speculative principles. The effort
was confined within the narrowest limits
o* historical and constitutional right.—
The controversy turned on the records
and muniments of the past. We merely
resisted innovation and tyranny, and con
tended for Tmr birth rights and the cove-
of our race. We have
had our Governors, General Assemblies
and Courts ; ihosapie electors, the same
corporations, “the same rules for proper
ty, the same subordinations, the same or
der in the law And in the magistracy.”—
When the sovereign States met in council,
they, in truth and substance, and it1 a con
stitutional light, did'not make, but pre
vented, a-revolution.
Commencing our new national life under
such circumstances, we bad a right to ex
pect that we would be permitted, without
molestation, to cultivate the arts of peace
and vindicate on our chosen arena an
with the selected type ot social charac
teristics, our- claims to civilization. It was
thought, too, by many, that war would
not The resorted to ”bv an enlightened
P ] .
ing, patient endurance, ready submission
to discipline, and numerous victories, are
in keeping with the fervent patrotism that
prompted their early volunteering. Quite
recently, scores of regiments have re-eu-
hsted for the war; testifying their deter
mination to fight until their liberties were
achieved. Coupled with and contributing
greatly to this enthusiastic ardor was the
lofty courage, the indomitable resolve, the
self denying spirit -of our noble women,
who, by their labors of love, their patience
of hope, their unflinching constancy, their
uncomplaining snbmissiomto privations of
the war, have shed an immortal lustre
upon their sex and country.
Our army is no hireling soldiery. It
comes not from paupers, criminals or emi
grants. It was originally raised by the
free, unconstrained, unpurchaseable assent
of freemen. Ail vocations and classes con
tributed to the swelling numbers. Aban
doning luxuries and eomfoits to which
they had been accustomed, they submitted
cheerfully to the scanty fare and exactive
service of the camps. Their service above
price, the only remuneration they have
sought i3 the protection of their al
tars, firesides and liberty. In the Nor
wegian wars, the, actors were, every
one of them, named and patronymically
described as the Iving’s friend and
companion. The same ' wonderful in
dividuality lias been seen in this war.—
Our soldiers are not a consolidated mass,
and an unthinking machine, but an army
of intelligent units- To designate all, who
have distinguished themselves by special
valor, would be to enumerate nearly ail
in the army. The generous rivalry' be
tween the troops from different States has
prevented any special pre-eminence, and
hereafter, for centuries to come, the gal
lant bearing and unconquerable deviation j
of Confederate soldiers will inspire tue
hearts, aud encourage the
st
t
For three years this cruel war has been
waged against ns, aud its continuance lias
been seized upon as a pretext by T some
discontented persons to excite hostility to
the Government. Recent and public as have
been the occurrences, it is strange that a
mi
of
therefore, be sacrificed, and to ensure its
destruction, war was determined on.
The mass of the Northern people were
not privy to, and sympathized in no.such
design. They loved the Union and wish
ed to preserve it. To rally' the people to
the support of the war. its object was pro-
'claimed to be the “ restoration of the
Union,” as if that which implied voluntary
assent, of which agreement was" an indis
pensable element and condition, could be
preserved by coercion- It is absurd to
pretend that a Government, really desirous
of restoring the Union, would adopt such
measures as the confiscationof private prop
erty, the emancipation of slaves,systematic
efforts to incite them to insurrection,
forcible abduction from their homes and
compulsory enlistment in the army, the
division of a sovereign State without its
consent,and a proclamation that one-tenth
of the population of a State, and that
tenth tinder military rule, should control
the will of the remaining nine-tenths.
The only relation possible between the
two sections, under sjach a policy', is that
of conqueror and conquered, superior and
dependent. Rest assured, fellow-citizens,
that although restoration may still bo used
as a war cry by the Northern Government,
it is only to delude and betray. Fanati
cism has summoned to its aid cupidity and
vengeaqce; and nothing short of y’our
utter subjugation, the destruction of your
State Governments, the overthrow of
your social and political fabric, your per
sonal and public degradation and ruin,
will satisfy the demons of the North.—
(Jan there be a man so vile, so debased, so
unwoithy of liberty as to accept peace on
such humiliating terms.
It would hardly be fair to assert thaj all
the Northern people participate in these de
signs. On the contrary, there exists a
powerful political party, which, openly
condemns them. The Administration has,
however, been able thus far, by its enor
mous patronage and its lavish expendi
tures to seduce, or by its legions of “Hes
sian” mercenaries to overthrow the mas
ses, to control the elections, and to estab
lish an arbitrary despotism. It cannot
be. possible that tliD state of things can
continue. The people of the United
States, accustomed to freedom, cannot cou-
! sent to be ruined and enslaved in or
der to enslave us. Moral, like physi
cal, epidemics, have their allotted peri
ods, and must sooner, or later, be
exhausted and disappear. When reason
returns, our enemies will probably reflect,
that a people, like ours, who have exhibit
ed such capabilities, and extemporized
such resources, can never be subdued ;
that a vast expanse of territory, with such
a population, cannot be governed as an
obedient colony. Victory would not be
conquest. The inextinguishable quarrel
would be transmitted “from bleeding sire
to son ” and the struggle would be re
newed between generations yet unborn.—
To impoverish us would only' be fo dry'up
i some of the springs of Northern prosperity
—to destroy' Southern wealth is to reduce
: Northern profits, while the restoration of
j peace would necessarily re-establish some
commeicial intercourse. It may not be
amiss, in this connection, to say' that at one
! tijne it was the wish and expectation of
many at the South,to form a treaty of amity
and friendship with the Northern States,by
, 11 "‘V ! which both people might derive the bene-
bopes, and .. ,. 1 f.. ° ,
1 1 fits of commercial intercourse aud move on
trengthen the faith ot all who labor to ob- , e
o . . side by side, in the arts of peace
am t leu ree om. an d civilization. History has confirmed
be lesson tanght by Djyine authority, that
each nation as well as each individual,
should seek their happiness in tiie pros
perity of others, and not in the injury or
ruin of a neighbor. The general welfare
oath of allegiance to a hated Govern
ment. The cartel for exchange of pris
oners has beeji suspended and our un
fortunate soldiers subjected to the
grossest indignities. The wounded at
Gettysburg were deprived of their
nurses and inhumanly left t perish on.
the field. Helpless women have been
exposed to the most cruel outrages .and
to that dishonor which is infinitely
worse than death. Citizens have been
murdered by' the Butlers and McNeils
and Milroys, who are favorite gener
als ofour eneni'es. Refined and deli
cate ladies have been seized bound
with cords, imprisoned, guarded by
negroes, and held as hostages lor the
return of re-captured slaves. Unof
fending non-combatants have been
banished or dragged from their quiet
homes to be immured in filthy jails.
Preaching the gospel has been refused
except on condition of taking the oath
of allegiance. Parents have been for
bidden to name their children in honor
of “rebel” chief*. Property iias been
confiscated. Military governors have
been appointed for States, satraps lor
provinces, and Ilayuaus lor cities.
These cruelties and atrocities of the
enemy have been exceeded by their ma
licious and blood thirsty purposes and
machinations in reference to slaves. Early
in this war, President Lincoln averred bis
constitutional inability and personal, un
willingness to interfere with the domestic
institutions of the States and the relation
between master and servant. Presiden
tial considerations may have been vailed
under concientious scruples, for Seward, in
a confidential instruction to Mr. Adams,
the Minister to Great Britain, on 10th
March, 1S02, said: “If the Government
of the United States should precipitately
decree the immediate abolition of slavery,
it would reinvigorate the declining insur
rection in every part of the South.” Sub
sequent reverses and the refractory
rebel.ionsness of the seceded States,
caused a change of policy, and Mr. Lin
coln issued hi-' .-elebrated proclamation,
a mere Itrufent fr/,c ;i, liberating the slaves
in the “insurrectionary districts.” On I
the 24th of June 17/6, one of the reasons
assigned by Pennsylvania for her separa
tion from the mother country was that, in
her sister colonies, the “King bad excited
the negroes to revolt” and to imbrue
their bands iu the blood of their masters,
in a manner unpracticed by civilized na
tions. This probably, bad reference to
the proclamation of Ducmore, the last
royal Governor of Virginia, in 1775, declar
ing freedom to all servants or negroes, if
they would join “for the reducing the colo
ny to a proper sense of its duty.” The
invitation to the slaves to rise against their
masters, the suggested insurrection,caused,
says Bancroft, a ‘‘thrill of indignation to
run through Virginia, effacing all differ- j
ences of party, and rousing one strong, i
impassioned purpose to drive away the j
insolent power by which il had been put j
forth.” A contemporary annalist, advert- j
mg to the same proclamation, said it was i
receive! with the greatest horror in the j
colonies.”
“The policy adopted by Dunmore,” j
says Lawrence in bis notes on Wheaton, j
“of arming the slaves against their masters, i
was not pursued during the war of the I
devolution ; and when negroes were taken |
by the English, they were not considered !
otherwise than as property and plunder.” |
Emancipation of slaves as a war measure |
has been severely condemned and dc- |
nounced by the most eminent publicists
unsuccessful eitorts, when sepa . ,
place to procure an amicable adjustment Until some evidence is given of a j private property, and for them, as such,
‘fall maters of dispute. These attempts change of policy oa the part of the | they have repeatedly received compensa-
at negotiation do not comprise all that lias Government and some assurance is re- | ^ on *J om " n oj an «- Aapoleon I waa nuv-
been done. In evory'form in which ex- ceiv^d, that efforts at negotiation wi H | ox induced to issue a proclamation for the
pression could begiven to the sentiment- fio ,/ be spurtie< l, the Congress are ot ! ^JjTsaid “ hlS ™ *' ltU
j" ofVhl^ne^ ' °I‘ i,,iou * lbal !U, y direct overtures for; .*l C ouId have armed against her a part
de fbr peace,'k/the uninterrupted .enjoy- , pence would compromise our self-res- 0 fher population, by proclaiming the lib-
lne.it of their rignts and profperity, has r i )Cel - ^ fruitless ot good, and inter-j e rty of the serfs. A gveatnumberofvilia-
preled by the enemy as an indication ges askea it of me, but I refused to avail
of weakness. ‘ We can only repeat the j myself of a measure which would have
desire of the people for peace, and our i devoti d to death thousands of families.’
readiness to accent terms consistent i tLe discussions growing out of the treaty
... ,, i i‘• . • , i • i i of peace ot iS14, and the proffered mcuia-
with l^e honor anil integrity and Hide- '■ 1 - - - - -
the nature of discipline enforced,—the in- country, except on the direst necessity,
tluenees, an 1 associations, to which they That a people, professing to by animated
ill l\r rMnisti'-n sentiment, and who ban ro-
been made known. Tne Fresident, more
authoritatively, in several ol bis messages,
while protesting the utter absence ol all
desire to interfere with the United States,
ox acquire any of their territory, has
a vowed that the “advent of peace will be
, j hailed with joy. Our desire for it hasuev-
er been concealed. Our efforts to avoid
the war, forced on us as it was by the lust
of conquest and the insane passion of our
foes, are known to mankind.”
The couise of the Federal Government
lias proved that it did not desire peace,
aud would not consent to it on any terms
uhl nossiblv concede. In proof
pepilence of the Suites, and compati
ble with the safety of our domestic in-
stitulions.
Not content with rejecting all pro
posals lor a peaceful settlement of the
controversy, a cruel war of invasion
was commenced, which in its progress,
lias been marked by a brutality and
disregard of the rules of civilized war-
tion of Russia, the principle was maintain
ed by the United States that “the eman
cipation of the enemy’s slaves is not among
the acts of legitimate warfare.” in the
instructions from John Q. Adams, as Sec
retary of State, to Mr. Middleton, at Saint
Petersburg, October Psth, 1S20, it is said :
“The British have broadly asserted the
right fo emancipating slaves (private projv-
erty) as a legirimate right of war. No
such right is acknowledged as a law of
ren:s, and guardians, of the rising genera- perfect right to do, and for reeving them
tion. oft.be incubus which, they professed res
in tliis exordium to what we propose to ted upon them by the association, was
write on this subject, wc take occasion to deemed almost beyond beliet uy many ot
state that we shall not deal in metaphysi- our wisest minds.
cal abstractions, or logical deductions,
but in a plain declarations of facts, the
only design of which is to do good. %
AUDI EL.
TlIGOEBRRVANn: OF THE SAUBATH.
HZIDQ'ltS AlllIY Hr' Non niF.RS V.Y., f
Feb. 17, I ~ul.
Genera’. Orders No. 15.
it was hoped, too,that
the obvious interest of the two sections
would restrain the wild frenzy of excite
ment and turn into peaceful channels the
thoughts ol those who bad but recently
been" invested with power in the United
States.
These reasonable anticipations were
doomed to disappointment. The red
„> nie of battle kindled at Sumter, dissipa-
fed all hopes of peace, and the two gov-
un, mu me sense oi 11s unpun;tuin nui, each ot tier. we cnurgvi-nv
» moral and religious dntv, but as eon- ,.. r v „ on tJ lC .United States. They
to the personal health airl well being <>j ./ fo, for flip blond and havoc
s. induces the Commanding G-neral to are accountable for the Mood and havoc
the organized mail
1-The attention of the army lias already been .P-— m.-, . . ... ~ t
ci: led to the obligation of a proper observance of ernments were arrayed in hostility ugguns
the Sabbath, but the sense of its importance not cac h other. We charge the responsibility
only as a moral and religious
tfibuting to
the troops, muuccs me oumlRiiiuiiii; v, ....... ... «..„ — — - . , .
iep»at the orders on diat subject. He has learned an d ru in it has caused, i' or sucti a v ai o
with great pleasure that iu many brigades couvgn
lent houses of worship have be^n elected, 'ind ear
nestly desires that every facility consistent with
'herequirements of discipline si.all be afforded the
oieu to assemble themselves together for the pui-
poso of devotion.
II. To this end he directs that none but duties
8 *rictly necessary shall be required to be perform
ed ou Sunday, and that tlio labor both of men and
aaima s which it is practicable lo anticipate or
postpone, or the immediate performance ot which
*s not essential to the safety, health or cuiuiort of
th-arinv, shail be suspended on that day.
III. Commanding officers will require the usual
inspections on Sunday to be held at such times as
n t to iuterfere with the attendance of the men on
flivine service, at the customary hour in the morn
ing.
They wil! also give their attention to the main
tenance of order aud q'
possessed in
H-tablislie.'' government. -, a y
tbe nucleus of an army ; credit abroad, j ;
and illimitable facilities in mechanical and
manufacturing power, placed them on
“tbe vantage ground.” In our infancy-
wo were without a seaman or soldier,
without revenue, without go.d and silver,
without a recognized place iu.the family of
nations, without exte-nal commerce, with
out foriegn credit, with the prejudice of
the wo,Id against us. Mff.ile wo —
sent to negotiate for softening the asperi
ties of war, aud their scornful rejection
of tbe offe*' of a neutral Power to mediate
between tbe .contending parties. If cum
ulative evidence Le needed, it can be
found iu tbe following resolution, recently
adopted by tbe House of Representatives
in Washington :
“Resolved, That our country and the
very existence of the best Government
ever instituted by man are impcrrilled by
tbe most causeless aud w icked rebellion
that the world lias seen, and believing, as
we do,that the only hope of saving this
country and preserving this Governmeut
is by tbe power o’f the sworu, we are for
tbe most vigorous prosecution of tbe war
until tlie Constitution and the laws shall
lie enforced and obeyed in all parts of the
Upited States ; aud to that end wc oppose
any armistice, or intervention, or media-
•idvanta-'ea j t * on > or proposition for peace, from any
I qua.i
i rebel in arms against tbe Government;
lure us stand out in unexampled b.ii- i war jjy writers who admit any limitation,
barity in the bistory of modern wars. J 'pj, 0 rightof putting to death all prisoners
Accompanied by every act of cruelly ; i u cold blood and without special cause
and rapine, the conduct of the enemy j might as well he pretended to be a law of
liasTjccn desjltuio ol that forbearance war. or the right to use poisoned weapons,
were not prepared. The difference in
military resources between our enemies
and ourselves, the imim.n. o f >pjni [ qatxitex, so long as there shall be found a
quiet aroond the pUceof wor- without manufacturing -
* ! 'V, and |ir< Libit anything that may lead to die- our wants our ports were blockaded ; we
tatb or iatan ^ t *elig»oas ^ neral Lad to grapple with » adversary, de-
establishe" governmen ,,a po ^ j^ aud . we ignore ail party names, lines and
issues, anil recognize but two parties in
this war—patriots aud traitors.”
The motive of suclr strange conduct is
obvious. --The Republican party, was
founded to destroy slavery and the equali
ty of the States,-and Lincoln was select
ed as the instrument to accomplish tliis
object. The Union was a barrier to tbe
consummation of this policy, because tbe
Constitution, which w'as its bond, recog
nized aud protected slavery and the sov
ereignty of tbe States. The Union must,
were
ies to supply
and magnanimity, which civilization
ami Christianity have introduced lo
mitigate the asperities of wa-, The
atrocities are too incredible for narra
tion. Instead ot a regular war, our re
sistance ot the unholy efforts to crush
out our national existence is treated as
a rebellion, and the settled internation
al rules between belligerents are ig
nored. Instead of conducting the war
as betwixt two military and political
organizations, it is a war against the
whole population. Houses are pillag
ed and burned. Churches are defac
ed. Towns are ransacked.* Clothing
of women and infants is stripped from
their persons. Jewelry and memen
toes of tbe dead are stolen. Mills and
implements of agriculture are-destroy
ed. Private salt works are broken up.
.The introduction of medicine is for
bidden. Means of subsistence are
wantonly wasted to produce beggary.
Prisoners are returned with contagious
diseases. The last morsel of food has
been taken from lamilies, who were
not allowed to carry on a trade or
branch of industry. A rigid and of
iensive espionage has been introduced
to ferret out “disloyalty.” Persons have
been (breed lo choose between starva
tion of helpless childten and taking tbe
or to assassinate.”
Disregarding the teachings of the ap
proved writers on international law and
the practice and claims of his own Gov
ernment in its purer days, Fresident Lin
coln lia9 souglit lo convert the South into
a St. Domingo, by appealing tc tbe cupidi
ty, ambition and ferocity of the slave.—
Abraham Lincoln is but the lineal descen
dant of Dunmore, and the impotent malice
of each was foiled by tiie fidelity of those
who, by the meanness of the couspirato’rs,
would only, if successful, have been se
duced into idleness, filth, vice, beggary
aud death.
But We tire of these indignities and
enormities. They are too sickening for
recital. History will hereafter pillory
those who committed and encouraged such
crimes in immortal infamy.
Gen. Robert E. Lee, in a recent battle
order, stated to liis invincible legions that
tbe “cruel foe seeks to reduce our fathers,
and mothers, our wives and children, to
abject slavery.” lie docs not paint too
strongly tbe purposes of the enemy or the
consequences of subjugation. What has
been done in certain districts is but the
prologue of the bloody drama that will be
enacted. It is well that every man aim
woman should have some just conception
of the horrors of conquest. The fate oi
Irelauffat the period ol its conquest, aud
of Poland distinctly foreshadows what
would await us. The guillotine, in its
ceaseless work of blood, would be revived
for the execution of the “rebel leaders."—
The heroes of our contest would be re
quired fo lay down their proud ensigns,
on which are recorded the battle fields of
their glory, to stack their arms, low er their
heads in humiliation and dishonor, and
pass under the yoke of abolition misrule
and tyranny. A hateful inquisition, made
atrocious by spies and informers; star
chamber courts, enforcing their decisions
by confiscations, imprisonments, banish
ments and death : a band of detectives,
ferreting out secrets,lurking in every fami
ly, existing in every conveyance ; the sup
pression ot fiee speech ; the deprivation of
arms and franchises, and the ever present
••ense of inferiority would make our con
dition abject and miserable beyond what
freemen can imagine. Subjugation invol
ves everything that the torturing rnauce
and devilish ingenuity of our foes can sug
gest. The destruction of our nationality,
the. equlization of whites *>nd blacks, the
obliteration of State lines, degradation to
colonial vassalage and the reduction of
many.of our citizens to dreary, hopeless,
remediless bondage. A hostile police
would keep “order” in every town and
city! Judges, like Busfeed, would hold
our courts.protected by Yankee soldiers.—
Churches would be filled by Yankee or
tory preachers. Every office would be
bestowed on aliens. Absenteeism would
curse us with all its vices. Superadded to
these, sinking us into a lower abyss of
degradatii n, we would be made tbe slaves
ofour slaves, hewers of wood and # dr«w'ers
of water for those upon whom God lias
stamped indellibly the marks of physical
and intellectual inferiority. Tiie past of
foreign countries need not bo sought unto
to furnish illustrations of the heritage of
shame that subjugation would entail —
ilaltimore, St. Louis,Nashville, Knoxville,
New Orleans, Vicksburg, Huntsville, Nor
folk, Newborn, Louisville and Fredericks
burg are the fir*t fruits of the ignominy
and poverty of Yankee domination.
Tbe sad story of tbe wrongs and indigni
ties endured by those States which have
been in the complete or partial possession
of tlie enemy, will give tbe best evidence
of tbe consequences of subjugation. Mis
souri, a magnificent empire of agricultural
and miueial wealth, is to day a smoking
ruin and tbe theatre of tlie most revolting
cririlties and barbarisms. Tbe minions of
tyranny consume her substance, plunder
her citizens, and destroy her pence. The
sacred rights of freemen are struck*down,
and the blood of her children, her maidens
and the old men, is made to flow, oul of
mere wantonness and recklessness. No
whispers of freedom go unpunished, and
tlio very instincts of self-preservation are
outlawed. The worship of God and tbe
rites ot sepulture have been shamefully
interrupted, and, iu many instances", the
cultivation of the soil is prohibited to her
own citizens. These facts are attested
by many witnesses, and it is but a just
tribute to that noble and chivalrous people
that auiid barbarities almost unparalleled,
they still maintain a proud aud defiant
spirit towards their enemies.
In Maryland, the judiciary, made
subservient to executive absolutism,
furnishes no security for individual
rights or personal freedom ; members
ol the legislature are arrested and im
prisoned without process of law or as
signment of cause, and the whole land
groaneth under the oppression of a
merciless tyranny.
In Kentucky, the ballot box has
been overthrown, free speech is sup
pressed, the most vexatious aritioyances
harrass and embitter, and all the arts
and appliances of an unscrupulous
despotism are freely used to prevent
the uprising of the noble patriots of
“the dark and bloody ground.” Notes
of gladness, assurances of a brighter
and better day, reach us, and the ex
iles may take courage and hope for the
future. "
In Virginia, the model of all that
illustrates human heroism and Belt-
denying patriotism, although the tem
pest of desolation has swept over her
fair domains, no sign of repentance
for her separation from the North ean
be found. Her old homesteads dis
mantled, her ancestral relics destroyed,
her people impoverished, her territory
made a battle-ground for the rude
shocks of contending hosts, 'and then
divided with hireling parasites mock
ingly claiming jurisdiction and author
ity, the Old Dominion still stands with
proud crest and defiant mien, ready to
tranip beneath her heel every usurp
er unu tyrant, and to illustrate afresh
her sic simper tyrunnis, the “proudest
motto that ever blazed on a nation’s
shield or a warrior’s arms.”
To prevent such effects, our peojile
are now prosecuting this struggle. It
is no mere war of calculation, no con
test for a particular kind of property,
no barter of precious blood tor filthy
lucre. Every thing involved iu man
hood, civilization, religion, law, pro
perty, country, home is at stake. We
tight not for plunder, spoils, pillage,
territorial conquest. The Government
tempts by no prizes of “beauty or
booty,” to he drawn in the lottery of
this war. We seek to preserve civil
freedom, honor, equality, firesides, and
blood is well shed when “shed for our
family, 1 or our friends, for our kind,
for our country, lor our God.” Burke
said “a State resolved to hazard its ex
istence rather than abandon its object,
must have’ an infinite advantage over
that which is resolved to "yield, rather
than carry its resistance beyond a cer
tain point.” It is better to be con
quered by any other nation than by the
United States. It is better to be a de
pendency of auy other power than - oi
that. By the condition ot its existence
and essential constitution, as now gov
erned, it must be in perpetual hostility
to us. As the Spanish invader burn
ed his ships„to mako retreat impossi
ble. so we cannot aiford to take steps
backward. Retreat is more danger
ous than advance. Behind us are in
feriority and degradation. Before -us
is everything enticing to a patriot.
Our bitter and implacable foes are
preparing vigorously for the coming
campaign. Corresponding efforts
should he made on our part. WiA-
out murmuring, our people should re-
spend to the^ laws which the exigency
demands. Every one capable ofbeai*-
: mg arms should connected with
j some effective military organization.
— ! The utmost energies of the whole
population should be taxed to produce
tbod and clothing, and a spirit of cheer
fulness and trust in the alhvise and
overruling Providence should be cul
tivated.
The history of the past three years
has much to animate us to renewed
effort and a firmer and more assured
hope. A whole people have given
their hearts and bodies to. repet the
invader, and costly sacrifices have been
Ihnadeon the altar o(,our country. No
similar instance is to he found of such
spontaneous uprising and volunteering.
Inspired by a holy patriotism, agaiu
and again, have our brave soldiers,
with the aid of Heaven, baffled the ef
forts of ou r foes.
It is in no arrogant spirit that we re
fer to scucesses that have cost us so
much blood, and brought sorrow to so
many hearts. We may find in all this
an earnest of what, with determined
and resolute exertion, we can do to
avert subjugation and slavery—and we
cannot fail to see in Our deliverance
from so many and so great perils, the
interposition of that ‘Being who will
not forsake us in the trials that are to
come. Let us, then, looking upon the
bodies of our lcved and honored.dead,
catch inspiration from their example,
and gather renewed confidence and a
firmer resolve to tread, with unfalter
ing trust, the path that leads to honor
and peace, although it lead through
tears and suff'erirur and blood.
Tlioina3 8, Eueock.
Speaki-r H. of It.
Walter Preston,
John AtifoTeen,
Charles W. Ifoaae'.l,
\V Lander,
A II Conroiv,
C J Munnerfyn,
1 hos. S Ashe,
O R Singleton,
J L Pugh,
A i! Arriuiton,
W K Staples,
A R Boteler,
Thos. J Foster,
\V K Smith,
Robt J llreekinridgo,
John At Martin,
Porter Ingram,
A II Garland,
E 8 Dargao,
D Fusti-n,
Tuos D McDowell,
J R McLean,
R R Bridgers.
G \V Jones,
B 8 Gaither,
Geo VV Ewiug, \
vV D Holder,
Dav W Lewis,
Henry E Read,
A J Davidson,
H H Macwillie,
James Lyons,
Casper W Bell,
R B Hilton,'
Charles J Villere,
J W Moore,
L J Dupre,
John C Atkins,
Israel Welsh,
Win G Sw;-n,
F B Sex'nn,
T L Burnett,
Geo G Vest,
Win Porcher Miles,
F Barksdale,
Charles F Collier,
P W Gray,
tV W Clarke,
Wm W Boyce,
Johu R Chambliss,
John J McRae.
JohnFeikins, Jr.,
K Johnston,
Jas Farrow,
W D Simpson.
Lucius J Gartrell,
M D Graham,
John B Baldwin,
1) M Bruce.
Thos B Hanly,
W P Chilton,
A H Kenan,
C M Conrad,
11 M Brnee,
David Clopion,
W B Macht u,
D C DcJameite,
li C Chamtera
ESTSAY NOTICE.
GEORGIA, Baker County.
Cleric’s Office, Inferior Court, February
16M, 1S64.
A LL persons interested, are hereby notified
that James T. Whitehead, of the'J71st Dis
trict, G M. tolls before David L. Parker, one of
the Justices of fo® I >eac ‘ for 8aid district, an £s-
tray Clouse colored Mare Mule, about sixteen
yotrs of age, valued by Joseph Scollay and F.
L. Jarrctt, ireebolders of said county and Dia-
irict. to be worth seven hundred dollars. Tho
owner of said Esttay is required to come forward.
We have no alternative but to do otir duty. Wo*
combat for property, homes, the honor of our
wives, the future of our children, tbe preservation
of our fair land from po.lntioc, and to avert a doom
which we can read, both in the threats of our en
emies and the acts of oppression, we have alluded
to iu this address. ,
The situation is grave, hut furnishes no just ex
cuse for despondence. Instead of harsh criticisms
on the Government and our Generals; instead of
bewailing the failure to accomplish impossibili
ties, we should ta'lier bo grateful, humbly and
profoundly, to a benignant Providence, for tho
results that have rewaided our labors. Remem
bering the disproportion in population, in military
aud naval resources, and the deficiency of skilled
labor in tho South, our accomplishments hero sur
passed those recorded by any people in the annals
of tho world. There is no just ressen fer hopeless
ness or fear. Since the outbreak of tho war the
South has lost the nominal possession of the Mis
sissippi river and fragments of her territory, but
Federal occupancy is not conquest. The fires of
patriotism still burn iinquenctmbly iu the breasts
of tboso who are subject to foreign domination.
We yet have in our uninterrupted control a terri
tory which, according to past progress, will re
quire the enemy ten years to overrun.
The enemy is riot free from difficulties. With
an euormous debt, the financial convulsion, long
postponed, is surely coming. The short crops in
jhe United States aud abuudant harvests in’Eu-
rope wi\\ h&»ten wlmt was oiUfecwiae iuev itabie.
Many sagacious persons at tlio North, discover
in the usurpations of their government, the cer
tain overthrow of their liberties. A large num
ber revolt from tbe unjust war waged upon the
South, and would gladly bring i: to an end. Oth
ers look with alarm upon the complete subversion
of constitutions) freedom by Abraham Lincoln,
and feel in their own persons, tho bitterness of
the slavery which three years of the war have
failed to inflict ou the South. Brave and earnest
men at the North have spoken out against the us
urpation and cruelties daily practiced. The suc
cess of these men over the tadicui and despotic
faction which now rules the North may open the
way to peaceful negotiation and cessation of this
bloody and unnecessary war.
in conclusion wo exhort our fellow-citizens to
be of good cheer and spare no labor, nor sacrifi
ces, that may be necessary to enable us to win
the campaign upon which we have just entered.
We have passed through great trials of affliction,
but suffering and humiliation are the school mas-
ters that iead nations to self-reliauee and inde
pendence. These disciplinary providences but
mature aud develop and soiiJity our people. Ws
beg that the supplies and resources of tiie coun
try, which are ample, may be sold to the Govern*
ment to support and equip its armies. J-et all
spirit of faction and past party differences be for
gotten in tho presence of our cruel foe. We
should labor to extend to the utmost, the produc
tive resources of tbe-country. We should econ
omize. The families of soldiers should be cared
for and liberally supplied. We entreat from ali,
a generous and hearty co operation with the Gov
ernment iu all brauches of its administration, and
with the agents, civil or military, in the perform,
auce of their duties. Morul aid has tbe “power
of the incommunicable,’’tad by united efforts, by
an all-compreheuding aud salf-sacrificing patrio
tism, we can, with the blessing of God, avert the
perils, which environ us, and achieve for ourselves
and children peace aud freedom. Hitherto tha
Lord has interposed graciously to bring us vict>
ry, and in liis hand there is present power to pre
vent this great multitude which come against u*.
from casting us ont of tbe possession which H®
has given us to inherit.
T. J. Sesjmes,
J. L. Orr,
A. E Maxwell,
Committee on the part of Senate.
J. W. Clapp,
. J. L. W. Curry,
Julian Qaktiihx>e,
JuU" (_to;>i)E, Jb ,
W. N. SMITH,
Coronvttee of H"use of Representatives.
