Weekly standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1858-1865, 1861-07-17
Call them Out.

There are perhaps, from $50 to 200 men from this
city in The three Companies raised here, viz the
Raleigh Rifles, Oak City Guards and Ellis Light
Artillery. They are bearing patiently the priva-
tons of camp life, living hard, drilling hard, and
some of them sick from it, Yet we hear no COM
plant from them. All they ask is to be ted, and let
them fight for the South
1t has struck recently very forcibly, that there
at least $50 more of US here, who are not whit
better than they are, so worthy, who have no
stronger reasons to keep us here, than they had
What are we doing? Some are looking closely to
selfinterest making what they can out of the war;
Others doing nothing that the public can see.
Others are holding on to the otices-many Of them
young men, who ought to be in the field Some
two, three and four months ago. many of these were
dying to fight for the South. 1t was difficult for
cool, sober man to get along with them. They were
ready to pitch into late Union man. if he said pedse
They were hardly willing to wait for the war to
come; they would, it seemed, meet it more than
half way, and were ready to jump in head and shout
ders. Now they seem to be as cool as a cucumber.
Is it not strange! What is the matter with them !?
for it?
Call them out we say, all of them who ought to
be ready. Put them into the Militia if they won't
volunteer. Drill them until their legs get Timber
Stir them up. Blow the fife, beat the drum, do
something to rouse their latent courage if they have
any. Many of our brave boys are in the fight.
Coax and urge or drive all out who ought to go.
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can't forget some things. Last February when we
were in the canvass for the Convention we remem-
Der our friends Branch and Lewis were especially
fiery; the former if reports be true, fiery on both
sides. They could not brook a Union man. Mr..
Branch then feared that the Union men as spoken
for by the Standard, were vergins to unconditional
submission to Lincoln" We have not forgotten it,
nor quite forgiven him for it yet Had he staid in
the ranks when he in put himself at the head
of column to fight we should have forgotten it
long ago. Our friend Lewis was "spiling" for a
fight then. Every day he was ready "to fit, bleed
and die" for the South. We could hardly hold him
in, he was so bent upon whipping Lincoln. Our
friend Gen. Hoke has shown that he practices what
he breaches He took an Office when there was but
lttle prOSpeCI lOT uSHt3 ou1 III SolAe "eSnS nS
has been ready to 60 to the field of blood He takes
fighting commission and throws up his ~riting
one. He is the kind of man for the times. But we
do not hear such good news from friends Branch
and Lewis. When we get Colonel's or Majors
commission it shall be fighting one. Well not
hesitate then, about fighting, however much we dis
countenance and ignore, from principle, the duello.
Our well tried hickory will then be laid aside, for
the implements of deadly warfare
By the way, speaking of our friend Major Lewis,
it reminds us that the other day when in Virginia
the boys were looking for him and his bag Their
purses were nearly empty, anu they had looked and
looked for the Paymaster until they were ready to
give him out We hope to hear soon that he has
been down and settled off with the brave fellows
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w On cur way to Suffolk we had the pleasure
of travelling with Chief Justice Lumpkn, of Georgia,
who has seren sons in the army in Virginia. The
venerable and honored man was going, in vacation
of his Court with his wife, the mother Of the boys
to see them. His son-in-law, Hon. T. R. R. Cobb,
is on his way to Virginia in command of Georgia
regiment. $50
Dabney Cosby, Esq, Of this City, has ten grand
sons in the army in Virginia contendng for South
ern rights. 'eSt
| VOLUNTEERS FOR TIE Waive call attention
to the notice by Gen. Riddick, in the Standard to.