Western sentinel. [volume] (Winston [i.e. Winston-Salem], N.C.) 1856-1886, 1862-08-29
Col. Vance's Specch.

COb. VGRce>S hSDeccA.
We make the annexed extract from the
speech delivered at Raleigh on Saturday night
last by Col. V ance, and published in the Stand
ard Of the Doth inst His policy, as foreshad-
owed will De approved by every true South
ern man.
Col. l. B Vance, the Governor elect Of this
Safe. arrived in this City on Saturday last
and took lnd nings at the Marlborough House. -
\. night :: large number of citizens sponta-
neousiv assembled, waited on him, aud called
Cor 4 speech. Though fatigned BY travel, and
not ia as robust health as usual, owning TO the
hard ships of camp service, be new verhe!ess re-
spond ID in his best manner, and tor some tWeu-
" mirutes entertained his audience with
snarks which elected the most enthusiastic ap-
prevail and applause.
IL thanked his fellow citizens for the COM
pliment implied in their call upon him. We
j,ad Just passed through somewhat excited
election. The people bad taken their own at
fairs INTO their own hands, aud had given
naior,ty for the Conservative and for
him. which for magnitude was like the d deuge
whAn compared with all subsequent risings
aud overf"wings of the waters.
But seriously, said Col. Vance, we must for
get if possible the character OF the late po-
litica campaign, and the unfounded charges
with which his friends and himself had been
assailpd. lie wanted she people to feel as he
tet, that the great. the absorbing purpose now
should be to beat back invaders and estab'
lish the independence Of this glorious Confed-
Grafton OF States. He desired to forget even
that it had been charged that he and those with
whom he acted were for return to the old
Union. Such charge struck him as monstous.
Was it for this THAI North Carolina sol
emny dissolved her connection with that gov
IF ~ -, ~ b,l<,
ICED nearly sixty regiments, and had poured
out her treasure and the blood Of her sons like
water on every battle field from that of great
Bethel to the GRO Rning victories below Rich ;.
mond w as It for this that our people were
submitting cheerfu!ly to all kinds Of pcivations
at home while our brave boys were daring ls.
ease, and wounds, and captivity, aud death in
the face of the enemy? Was it for this that
ou~ women and children had contributed of
IT, ir household goods-the work Of their del>
ecate fingers uncounted stores Of provisions
for troops, encouraging those who were al.
ready the field, and bidding others go to
their aid Was it for this that many of these
women and children, on hundred and hund reds
OF farms, were tolng day by day i'll the burn
ing sun, with barefeet, following the plough,
handling the hoe and the axe, that they mioh
produce and gather the harvest for sustenance
while their husbands. fathers and sons and
oroCners were engaged IN the night! NO, salcS~
he, gentlemen, our people are properly and
terribly in earnest. Their eyes are fixed on
the goal of independence, aud they will reach
1t, happen what may and | want you, and
want all the people OF the State to aid me with
all their energies all their means, and all their
confidence in this struggle, until the Confeder@
ate States shall stand proudly among the na>
tons, free and Independent. He would not
charaeterize the charge made against his friends
and himself of being reconstructionists. The
people at the polls had done that The peo-
Pie had been unit from the first in their resis
tance to Northern Government, and in their
termination to establish their Independence
ihey were a unit now. He forgave those who
mad thus assailed him, as he hoped his friends
would and he would forget it, if he could.
i1e hoped God would forgive them4or such .