The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1861-05-10
The True Snirit.

| We cheerfully comply with the request of
| "a Subscriber" and publish the substance OF
| a speech delivered by Rufus Barringer, Esq ,
| in Concord, N. c., on the Goth ult:
| MIR. Barringer after recitng the condition of
| affairs at Washington, in Virginia and Mary
| land, and in the middle and eastern parts of
| the State, went on to say that ne hoped the
people of Cabarrus, intelligent prompt and
| public spirited, would do their whole dutv in
| the present crisis. All who were able 10 fight
| should be prepared to do So All who we're
| blessed with abundance, should be ready and
| willing 10 aId the State in supporting her
| forces. We at last see the toh0te North united
| against as. This had been predicted wears
| ago 1t was now painfully true. Those not
| already and long since aoolitionzed were at
| once crushed under the iron heel of Black Re.
| publican rule. Talk OF the free North free
| SOIL, q tree press and free speech 4 friend
| from New York has just described to Mr. r .
| Il mob OF 5000 Republicans, on Monday, the
| 10Th inst, marching from house TO house
threatening the rights OF property, the free
| dom OF the press, the liberty of speech, and
| the lives OF helpless women and children -
| The most ultra and most copfiding Union man
| must now admit that Mr.. Lincoln has been
| guilty OF the very basest treachery and false
| hood, and that a wild, eowardly fanaticism
| (bold only in numbersJ rules the entire North
| Trembling in their shoes and dreading the
| united South, they shelter themselves be-
| meath the forms of the Cons titu ton and seek
/ TO turn the whole power and patronage of the
| Government against the South. The sword
| OF Il broken Constitution and the chains of A
| military despotism are suspended over us
| the army which we have helped 10 establish
| the navy which we have helped to build and
| the treasury which we had helped to fill have
| all been turned against US by n fanaticaI Gov
| ernment, indiscriminately crushing its friends
| and foes. We have no alternative but To fight
| and us Chief Justice Ruftin remarked the
| other day in the streets OF Raleigh, 'We mus,
| fight To the death-the bt0odter the fqht the
| quicker peace" We must let the NoT1h see
1 a W ha xyh holo
| try in blood, rather than give up her righ ts-
| rather than have her people submit TO DO cor
| rnpted by patronage or conquered by power.
| Convince them of this and the slave
| ry question is settled forever faith
| and friendship will reign between us
| through all time TO come; we will not
| even need a police corps on the border line
| But never without the seal OF blood will there
| be peace between US God knows We have
not desired war, but now that the North has
| forced the alternative upon US, we are for war,
| and war TO the knife. If the Northern horde
| ventures to invade our soil, it will be with an
| army of five hundred thousand men. If they
| come at all, they will come TO exterminats
| We must prepare to meet them on the thresh-
| hold. IL is idle 10 talk OF home guard. That
| Is not the proper spirit. There Is now no dan
| ger TO our homes. Let all able bodied men
| who Gan leave at all-yooag, Old ana middle
! aged-rich and poor, prepare 10 go whenever
| duty may call. Let companies be formed In
every captains 8 beat; let them be ofiicered
| and reported To the Governor at once. Let
| all men spare time enough TO drill. Arrange
| your business SO as to leave at a momen Z 3
| warning. Save the State and your self all you
| can; but spare nothing necessary 10 our COM
| mon defence. Virginia and Maryland are as
| dear 10 US now oar own people. A common
| interest, fellow feeling and a generous ssnti-
ment, all inspire us to stand or fall together
| We may still talk about the old Stars and
Stripes. We may look toa middle Confederacy,
| or we may turn to yonder glorious banner now
| floating victoriously 10 the breezs bat IL we
| hight to eonqu We must all fight togethsr,--
| The man who now sits down to calculate
| where he will go when the victory is lost or
| won, or under what particular banner he will
| light the battles OF the South, has half way
made up his mind not 10 fight at all, " he can
| Aeip 1t. Such men doubt our cause and dis
| trust our arms. Our appeal TO you is TO unite,
| To arouse and 10 rally. DO your duty and
| trust the result to the God OF battles, To
| ARMS TO ARAsti and strike in defence OF the
| land Of your birth !; the peace Of your homes.
| The honor of your name. and the green gra yes
of your sires.
MIR. Is. then proposed 10 raise, forthwith, q
! third company of voiunteers, or he would
join As n private any company gotten up by
others. ass N@f -